OcTalk! - How to play Sharps and Flats on Ocarina
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2015
- In today's episode of #OcTalk, I show you how to play the chromatic notes on your ocarina, including alternate fingerings that pros use. Check back every Tuesday for new episodes of OcTalk! ⬇LINKS⬇
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I have been trying to find a video for flats and sharps lately. thanks for making one~
Hey David, I stumbled across your ocarina lessons, and I have been practicing as much as I can. You videos are VERY usefull for me to learn, especially already having musical backround. I was wondering if you could make a video showing the sharps and flats on your board and the simplest method of playing the note?
+Mason Beach Nevermind. I just dont think I understood correctly. Thanks!!
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Thanks so much, you really help me out!
@Aiden Cristiano no problem =)
Luv ur vids man! U r almost mystic with ocarina magic u got going on there. Teach me your ways master!
Seriously though keep up the great work i am gonna download some of your charts on patreon.
Awesome! Excelente trabajo, me gusta, saludos de Colombia
Very useful, thanks again !
Wow like a few days ago I wanted to learn black keys and you helped a lot thank you
I think the silver play button was well worth it been subed for so long didn't even notice the sub count and yet I didn't stop at ur booth at ACEN 2014
If you add the left thumb to the high C#/Db, is that an alternate for high B? I came across that when accidentally mixing up my fingerings while trying to learn a song.
Hey David, you are a big inspiration to me! I've watched so many videos of yours and I have grown quite found of ocarinas :) I now want to be as good as you are! I already got my first ocarina, it seems off tuned though (Could be that im not blowing in it hard enough, or too hard) So, for my birthday Im going to get a nice plasitic ocarina from one of the better ocarina sellers. Do you have any recomendations for the plastic ocarina, or do you know any books that would be worth my time? Thanks for being so awesome David!
The plastic alto c blue Zelda ocarina that you sometime use I have that but how do you make it sound so good
Tanks!
WHERE!?!?
RUN FOR IT!!!!
OH GOD NO!!??
I am watching this for knowledge about ocarina. And destressing.
Can you think of any tone quality differences between the traditional and alternate fingerings?
Hi! I'm new to playing ocarina but I am a violinist. Is it possible to play accidentals on stl's harmony ocarina "ivy", and if so how?
so if I have a C ocarina I can play the same songs as a D ocarina? btw I love your channel, you made me interested in the ocarina again after desperatly trying to learn it, with your tutorials it's much easier :)
Thanks for making it look easy XD
My I ask where you got your ocarina? I would love to purchase one and learn to play.
my ocarina sound like the bird from banjo kazoooie am i doing something wrong??
Spiral of Sound it's just a bad ocarina probably
I have the Hobbit Ocarina, and I can't tell if you are covering both the main hole and the little hole at the same time or just the little hole?
I just ordered my first ocarina yesterday. Its a 12 hole one that's handmade in Korea. My question is, can I use saxophone and recorder music books with it?
You would be able to recognizably play the music but it wouldn't be in the right key. So you wouldn't want to play it with others unless you transpose the music books. (At least sax isn't in C but recorder might be).
I have that ocarina, but i can't make it sounds at high notes that beautiful like you. I'm doing everything exactly the same, but i can't get rid of that annoying ocarina squick.. Is there any other method than blowing harder and putting head down?
Is there a way to get a vibrato with the pitch instead of the volume? Like by wiggling your finger or something like a guitar?
+Uta Yamato First, the term "vibrato" actually refers to changing pitch. Tremolo is the volume effect. If you can listen closely, the tremolo David is using actually is a slight vibrato at the same time, as blowing faster increases the pitch slightly. You can create a glissando or vibrato by sliding your finger very slightly off a hole or onto another hole, which at first will sound like a clean pitch change but if you practice you'll be able achieve a "bend" of the note like on a guitar
Alright, so I'm using a Focalink ocarina. A little plastic soprano one, and whenever I try to play a D sharp, it sounds pretty much exactly like an E, regardless of fingering, is there perhaps a second alternate fingering I could use to get D sharp?
D# is the same as Eb, so they’re very close together notes. Just work on your intonation.
Cool video, David. I liked all the alternate fingerings you showed us. Can you tell us, when your Ocarina will be available for us? I really want to have this one :)
BeggProductions Cool, thanks!
Hey, David. I'm a new ocarina player and I've been finding your videos extremely helpful. However I've been learning with the handy cap of not having much of a background in music, and only just learned how to read sheet music. From your videos in fact. Because I'm not all that familiar with music, I have a question about the notes you showed us in this video. I recognize the traditional notes we've been over, like D, A, and F, and I assume the # sign means it's a sharp, but what is the deal with the Db, Bb, Eb and so on? I've been trying to follow your finger movements and I still can't figure it out. I know they are probably the letter manifestation of the sharps and flats your playing, and I know you might have already explained it somewhere, but I honestly don't really understand them. Are you playing a D and B simultaneously or something, and why is the second letter lowercase? What does that mean? And if your playing the sharp of the D#, A# and so on, why do the notes not have a D or A in their (code? e.g. the D# is an Eb and the F# is Gb)? I'm sorry, my brain can't process the reasoning behind it I need help xD Help from other commenters would be appreciated too.
Hi there! I don't know if you still need this info, but here's a simple way of explaining, I hope.
Okay, so to clear up the lower case letter confusion, the notation in music for a flat note in sheet music looks a lot like a lower-case "b" so when typing with a standard keyboard people will use a lower case "b" instead of the flat. So an "A-flat" would be typed "Ab".
So let's start with explaining "steps" between notes. So when you're playing a scale there's two types of distances between two notes: A "whole step" and a "half step". The notes sound closer together when there's a half step and farther apart when there's a whole step.
Now let's talk about sharps and flats! If you look at a piano, you'll see that there are black keys and white keys. The black keys are the ones that are sharps and flats and the white keys are the plain notes. Each of those black keys have a sharp "name" and a flat "name". The sharp name comes from the key to the left because sharps mean that the sound is a half-step higher than it's plain note. The flat name for that same black key comes from the white key to the right because the sound is a half-step lower than that plain white key. So for example C# and D-flat are the SAME NOTE! Hope that makes sense.
The next layer of understanding is scales and keys. Any major scale follows the same pattern. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do. All the steps between those notes are whole steps except between Mi-Fa, and Ti-Do which are half steps. This pattern makes the major scale sound "right". Now if you're on a piano and you start your scale on a C note, you won't hit any black keys because there are no sharps or flats in a C major scale. Now try any other note and you'll have to use black keys so that the half steps fall in the right spot. All a key does is make it so you can write music easier. It's like a shorthand so you don't have to write in every single sharp or flat on the sheet music.
Hope that didn't confuse you even more! Good luck with the ocarina!
Hey
My ocarina has only 9 holes.
2 in the back 3 for left hand and 4 for the right hand. I can‘t find any videos for 9 holes ocarinas 😕 plase help somebody 🙈
I cant tell what notes hes playing in the chromatic scale..can anyone?? It looks the same as theb diatonic scale! Can amyone tell? David can you please respond.
my ocarina doesnt sound right , if you blow strong it shifts the tone, is it bad ocarina??
Spiral of Sound try using a tuner to see if it’s in tune
What is the ocarina in the thumbnail? (The red one)?
Rotter C3. Pretty hard to get outside of Austria, as they don't ship overseas.
Nice nice !!! Hope you're fine David.
Jorel.
Miss your videos!
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Music Theory 101 Part 1...
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Hey David! I got my first ocarina today. It is a 12 hole Alto C.
Any tips?
I am having a little trouble with making ocarina tabs and it is very late for me to try and make sounds, but I am trying to make a tab for Xion’s theme from Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, and there’s this one part that’s giving me trouble. I have a 12 hole ocarina (tuned to C)
Here is the video. ua-cam.com/video/el_-VGhquSQ/v-deo.html
(1:30-1:45 is where I’m struggling.)
never played any wind instrument, but man, the sharp and flat note form in ocarina is nonsensical -_-, its really hard to memorize
Why is ur camera have a bad quality
It's just not the best camera :( The money from my supporters on Patreon is going to help me get a new camera. Patreon.com/docjazz4
Why does my throat hurt after playing?
just drink some water
Could be a cheap ocarina made with bad material or it could be someone with the flu is secretly playing when you're away.