Hurry! It’s YOUR turn to PLAY! 🪈🎶
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- Hurry! It’s YOUR turn to PLAY! 🪈🎶 Wait, never mind! You need to wait. Okay get ready! Never mind, it’ll be 20 more minutes. 😒
Sound familiar? What do you do with a cold flute? How do you get ready to play when you can’t make sounds? If you try to play on a cold flute, you’ll experience some failures and frustrations. But, you can’t exactly play a scale on repeat right before it’s your turn to play!
Some tips I tell my students:
📝 Body heat is great for maintaining the slightly warm temperature a flute needs to simulate actual playing. In other words, it needs to be in a similar state to actual playing as close in time as possible to the actual performance. You can use your hands to warm up your flute. Just be sure not to crush your keys in a way that they are not meant to be compressed!
📝 Every few minutes or so, blow lots of warm air through your flute with all of the keys closed, in order to keep the temperature consistent.
Hope this helps you prepare to show your best self on performance day! And remember, a performance or audition is only one moment in your life, and does not necessarily represent who you are as a musician. The preparation and consistency that leads up to this special day is the real prize. Because, you can’t cheat that!
Until next time! Best of luck to you!
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Wish I would have known this a year ago in my band concert. The first song sounded muted because our grade had to wait for two other bands to finish in the 30 degree weather.
I think this is so tricky when it is so cold!!!
as a trombonist, playing a on cold mouthpiece is amazing.
@@amberseeleyfluteHow is 30° cold? Am I missing something-
@@Wingsofire13 they probably mean in Faraday, not in Celsius.
@@Wingsofire13prob Fahrenheit
That blowing air trick is exactly how I would keep my trumpet warmed up and in tune on cold days in band as a kid
Yes! And then my trumpet friends would all have to turn their horn upside down and shake out the spit periodically. Or was that the French horn? Haha
@@amberseeleyflute Probably French Horn 😂
@@amberseeleyflute Definitely French horn. Most trumpets have a "spit valve" that they can use to empty saliva, some horns have them as well but they are never very good so we still have to "dismantle" or instrument every now and then to empty the saliva. "Fun fact": usually you can see where we sit in the auditorium because after a while the wood floor gets wrecked from all the saliva ... 😂
@@SaraTheHappyOne i think its actually condensation from blowing warm air into a cold brass instrument rather than spit. If it is mostly spit, youre doing something wrong! Also when i was playing baritone (now on euph), i would have to turn the instrument around sometimes as the water would get stuck in the tubing. Its also common to use a ‘spit cloth/towel’ where im from so the floors dont get ruined
We obviously dont use the cloth for concerts/contests, just for rehearsals
I never expected there to be problems related to waiting too long to play for instruments without reeds (I had problems with my reed drying out), but hearing you blow through the flute with all of the holes closed really explains all the noises I would hear right before we went on stage.
😅 excuse my ignorant question... But why does an instrument with a reed need it to be wet?
@AntarticSiren it will crack and break, also tone quality won't be as good. Reeds are made out of cane, and whittled into a very thin flat piece that goes onto the instrument. Most reed instruments have a single reed that you can wet in you mouth, but there are also double reeded instruments which is two pieces of cane tied to gather with two openings on the ends. Double reeds need to be sat in a cup of water for about 30 seconds or more to be able to play on them. Also with keeping instruments warm, it's not just flutes it's all instruments.
@@notcoolman8864 thank you for your in-depth response! Never held any sort of instrument since I was born in basically the south pole and there were no teachers of any sort available outside of mandatory education haha so I'm pretty mind-blown by all this new information! Have a great week!
guess it was called warming up for more than one reason haha
@@Sanstorm09 That probably *is* why it's called warming up! It would make sense.
That, and with sport, where you're warming up your muscles so they move more easily and freely. Either way it would make sense as the origin of the phrase.
As a trombone player we suffer from cold instruments to. Usually all we need warm is the mouthpiece so if you take that off and put it in a pocket or between your legs for a little while eventually it's warm enough.
It’s a battle for sure! I always made sure to have a reliable beater instrument for outside playing.
yeah
Yeah, that works, unless it is too cold.
I live in Norway, and for christmas we always play outside. Last year it was so cold we had to put sanitiser (alcohol) on the slide so that it wouldn't freeze. Most of the instruments were frozen at least one time during those performances.
Normally we only get instructed to blow warm air through our instruments periodically, so it was a lot colder than normal
I played trumpet and I would sometimes hold my mouthpiece in my hand before practice
I play the tuba and because my tuba is made of unfinished brass I actually have to keep the whole of it warm to play well, so i sewed my tuba a lined jacket like thing and i'll have a portable heater blowing in through the bell in colder tempertures
Oh my God band camp makes so much sense now.
😂😂😂 So much mystery at band camp
as in "One time, at band camp..."?
@@MrXango2000 came here to make the same comment...
Here i thought I was the only one with that thought. Everyone is like wow great advice. Lol
@@jasonstclair6293 Never actually seen American Pie: Band Camp. But considering it is American Pie and called Band camp, I'm sure some reference was made to a particular scene in American Pie. You know the one...
Also, to the OP (amberseeleyflute): I apologize for my rude comments, you will not see me here again.
As a clarinet player, i was so confused what you ment by keeping the flute warm. So thanks for teaching me something I've probably would never have known.
it’s to keep it in tune! clarinets can actually be affected by temperature too! for woodwinds and brass instruments, the instrument gets too flat when it’s cold and too sharp when it’s hot! for strings instruments, they’re in a similar pickle, but in opposite ways. string instruments get too flat when it’s hot and too sharp when it’s cold!
hope it helps!
I'm a clarinet player too and I'm so sorry your clarinet tutor never taught you to keep your clarinet warm... Ever since I started playing my tutor literally kept telling me to imagine that I had garlic breath and I wanted everyone to know but could only breathe through my clarinet before performances...
Temperature affects clarinets too! If you have a wooden one, you also have to keep an eye out for changes in humidity which can also affect tuning. Even on a plastic reed, humidity can also affect your reed differently.
If you've ever had a performance where you warmed up in one place and had to walk outdoors to get to the final performance space, this is something to keep an eye on.
i also play clarinet and i had to learn this during marching band competitons when it was super cold out
clarinets should be kept warm aswell!
we used to loosen our reeds and blow warm air through them
As a violist, this was so interesting! Playing in the cold can be tricky with cold fingers, and obviously stringed instruments are delicate little butterflies, but it's so interesting that you need a flute to be warm!
Violins fall out of tune so easily when the temperature changes and are really fragile, delicate butterflies indeed. Also I agree with it being interesting flutes need to be warm, despite knowing 2 people who play flute I didn’t know that either(tbh I don’t get why, I might have to ask my sister or friend tomorrow or later)
Its not just that the sound won't come out either, if your instrument is cold it will fall flat! (hot sharp)
in the worst case wooden instruments can crack from sudden temperature changes, so that’s something to be careful about
As a pianist, cold fingers also suck for me when it comes to fast pieces. Since I need to travel for competitions and such (in the winter in CANADA), my hands get cold. I always either wear gloves or use hand warmers. And also, pianos are NOT portable (of course) and playing on a different piano of a different brand and model is tricky as well.
As a baroque recorder player, one of the reasons that a wind instrument needs to be kept warm is so that there’s not as much condensation forming on the inside of the instrument. Think about how a car’s windshield can fog up when a warm breathing person first enters a cold car. I don’t know if it’s exactly the same with the flute as with the recorder, but the condensation can make the recorder sound raspy or burbly, like it needs to “clear its throat.” Keeping the instrument closer to the temperature of the air that will pass through it can help to reduce some of the condensation issues.
Do I play the flute? No. Did I watch this entire video and take notes? 100% absolutely yes
I remember it was really cold during one marching band competition and we all would be like trying to blow hot air on the flute and stuff like that to warm it up, good times
Flute choir is today thanks for the tip 🙏
You bet! What are you playing in flute choir? Flute choir is so fun!
@@amberseeleyflute yup!
A flute choir would be so cool to witness. Never knew there was such a thing.
😂😂😂 I didn’t even finish the video because my mind is in the gutter 😂😂😂
Keeping a flute warm is importsnt
This one time at band camp...
My Inner Child started screaming "One Time at Band Camp" when I saw this.
@@johnmcgraw3568i just posted that entire line in a comment lol
I was hoping 😮😂
When the video began I immediately said blowing hot air with all the keys down. I was in marching band in high school and that's how we kept our flutes warm, especially at a marching contest that got unexpectedly cold 😂
Periodically blowing is always solid advice.
This brings back memories of cold marching band nights 😊
As a band kid (flautist) who has a concert next week this was much appreciated
Thank you for using the correct term! I cringed when she said "flutist" 😖
@@SeraButz same! It’s so annoying
@@SeraButz same, I'm so glad I'm not the only one
Fun fact about the blowing into it with warm air. If you do it at a slower pace then the warmth will go through more of your flute and you don't exhaust as much air before a performance!
I do the same for my drums. I lay on them, stroke them, and wisper sweat nothings to them to keep the pads elastic
Had to look it up because I got confused, but I now know that flutist and flautist are both correct ways of calling someone who plays a flute.
as a flutist, theres another way i warm up my flute, but i have a pearl flute, so i just put a hand over the place where the mouth goes, and i breathe warm breath into it, it does help Alot.
I always put it under my open coat, close to my body. 😊 If I'm outside of course.
Those outside performances! 🥶
As someone who’s never played an instrument, that’s very interesting to know. Didn’t even think about them getting cold and it affected the sound, but it makes sense.
Why did I watch the whole thing when I’ve never even touched a flute in my life💀
To see if someone commented one time at band camp 😂
I remember in 8th grade (i had been playing for 3 years by this point), getting ready for a performance and I had learned this from a high schooler.
Dude the realization that my flute would respond that well during a performance if I kept my flute warm was LIFE CHANGING.
Your Awesome!❤😊
Years ago I noticed flutists that looked like they were blowing through their flutes when they weren't actually playing and I had thought they were just anticipating their parts. Now I know they were warming up their flutes. Learned something today,. Thank you!
For wooden clarinets, if you blow through it to keep the inside warm, you HAVE to keep the outside equally warm or else it can crack (physics). We like to put the barrel and top of the upper joint under our armpit, the reed covered with the cap, and wrap our hands lightly around the body. It keeps it as warm as you!
As a violinist, this is very useful information
i haven’t heard “blow warm air” in YEARS. brings me back to cold night practices, football games, marching comps 😭
If you can hear the air that you’re blowing that means it’s too fast and it won’t warm up your flute like you need it too
I'm in a high school band and my directors taught this method early on and we do this at contests, concerts, and auditions. So glad to have the directors I do
Makeup tut? Your eyelashes are gorgeous omg
All the winds. Imagine keeping you fingers ready...❤
Floutists hands and bakers hands must never mingle
Yeah blowing does help!
She was SO GOOD in Orange is the new Black. And they're all hangin out for flute action in the clink!
I do a similar thing to the warm air thing with my French horn whenever I need to check if there is condensation inside the tubes, because if I play with condensation inside, it will make this weird bubbling sound when I try to play
I have played flute for 5 years now and i didn't know i had to keep it warm😂❤
After its assembled just put it in a tripod bag with some hand warmers in it too. Solves a lot of issues
Yes! We had to do this when I was in marching band in high school when we did competitions outside of Phoenix.
This brought flashbacks of marching band. We all had to blow hot air through instruments to make sure we weren’t gonna be playing in the wrong key while we were performing. All instrument had to be warmed before entering the field.
Flute choir was fun!
Top tip, keep blowing
I do this with my trumpet for marching band
I love seeing other folks with flutes ❤
I’ve been playing flute for 5 years now I love it ❤❤
yeah i play flute/piccolo and am in marching band. in the stands, especially in the colder seasons we would cover all our keys and blow warm air
I’m somewhat surprised that all flute players don’t know this. I’m not a flute player, but I saw all flute/piccolo players blowing warm air from their first year playing in grade school. It’s also true for brass players.
Shout out to those solo and ensemble rooms back in the day where we had to do this in a silent room full of students
The way this popped up when i have Solo and Ensemble tomorrow very helpful
And one time at band camp... said Michelle. That's where my mind went.
as a trumpet player i have no problems with woodwinds but i see brass with an absolute dub when it comes to maintenance.
as a ten year old this helps so much thank you!!
I miss my flute 😢
Thats why i use bamboo flute😊
I'm a drummer, no idea how i ended up on flutetube.
Anyway, drums are much the same way. The drum shells and cymbals will contract/expand with temperature changes which can lead to tuning problems and an increased chance of breaking something.
It's also useless to try and tune a cold drum because it'll just expand and change the sound as you go.
I appreciate your mentioning this about tuning drums. I play banjo, which is basically a drum-head that holds the bridge / strings in place, and I have to tune every 5 minutes (in general), but especially when moving from a warm environment to a cool one, or vice-versa.
I am a beginner flute player because this year at my school I started band class and I chose the flute. This is really helpful. Thank you
That's great!
Every flutists I’ve known had anemia but I wish yall luck and warmth anyways 🥲
i do this with my clarinet too! it works really well
I’m currently in a high school orchestra and there are plenty of songs I don’t play for a long time. This came just in time! Thank you so much
I also play the flute! 🪈
that help me make sense of things i seen before. Went to a orchestra and saw some people blowing on a flute but i couldn't hear the flute. Not all of them do it at the same time it was random i see like 1 or 2 people do it.
congrats!!!
Omg those beautiful eyes. Wow.
I learned the best way to keep my flute warm. Very easy trick.
This one time at abnd camp ...
I play trumpet and i’m grateful that i can just keep blowing some quite air through it to keep it warmed up
You sound like you’re in good shape. Keep up the good work!
This is why I do percussion
Nice, now I know about Fluteology!
Thank you I play flute In band and that helps so much we are having a lot of Performances and that help thank you
Okay but a room full of people nervously and frantically blowing into their flutes like they are trying to give it cpr is a little funny!
In marching band, we used to do parades in the cold, so we would wait after warm up we would just stick or flutes in our sleeves to keep them warm
When i was in band i would do all of these and it was very effective
Marching band geek, here!
Yep! Had to do that with trumpets as well!
As an harmonica player i know that pain
Used to use the blow warm air technique during winter time marching season
Omg trying to warm up before a marching band show is the worst
I played for 9 years and this never once crossed my mind
I never knew flutes needed to be warm,
My current, likely bad, guess as to why that is, its because it affects the tone, small changes in temperature lead to thermal contraction, which shrinks the sizes of the tubes.
Good guess. That’s part of it. Also, condensation issues arise when the air blowing through the flute is a lot warmer than the cold exterior. Think of the way a car’s windows fog up when someone first gets in on a cold day. The water droplets in the windway can create a weird hoarse/burbly sound, as though the flute “needs to clear its throat”.
@@curiositydrawsme9180 of course, it makes perfect sense, thank you for the explanation
Temperature also changes the tuning of the instrument. I remember when I was in band depending on the temperature we would have to adjust our tuning. Also i play the flute as well
As a marching band kid (alto sax), we do this alot. All instruments except front ensemble. Before the half time show, we blow into the instrument enough to her air through it but not enough to make an actual sound
I miss playing flute 😢
I’ve both played dnd and consumed a lot of dnd actual play media before playing bg3 and I was still feeling kinda overwhelmed in the beginning. With one game of previous dnd experience, Theo is doing PHENOMENAL. Not to mention that figuring out the whole streaming thing on top of everything is a whole extra layer of complexity.
I hope he doesn’t get discouraged or burnt out by the learning curve. He’s got such a chill and likeable presence. I can’t wait for more streams.
Wow, thanks for the tip 🤍
In marching band we had to do shows and parades in 30 degree weather. I just blew in it to keep it warm.
The blowing trick is the best thing ever. It’s how I warm up my flute before ensembles and band or just on a cold day.
The thing about keeping the flute warm makes me wonder if there couldn't be a way to implement, "heat pipe," near a grip point, to rapidly conduct heat across the surface. Feels like there's some potential there.
THIS ONE TIME AT BAND CAMP!!!!!
You're great❤❤
As a percussionists this is highly useful
In marching band, on really cold nights, we were told to keep it in our armpit. Obviously we had our uniforms on, which were usually REALLY thick but our band director always told us to do that.
Brings me back to my marching band days
I use the 2nd method. I prefer to blow warm air through mine. ❤
At cold marching band games i wod hold my trumpet mouthpiece in my hand and blow on it to keep it warm.
Wow I haven't seen a flute since I used to play one in elementary school...... man it's pretty cool people can play this instrument and I am some point somehow managed to play a little bit lol
First time seeing a flute do a cold start
Recorder usually just put our recorders (not the basses ofc) inside of our shirt lol! We may look stupid, but atleast they wont break😅
I remember doing this at states performances in high school just waiting for my part haha. Also during post warm up pep talks from my old band director lol. I would always channel all my nerves into being as in tune as possible on those first notes
I played the flute all through middle school and all through high school.
7 years
I did a couple all-state auditions on the violin. It's split into two rooms. The first time I did it it was a 1 to 2 hour wait between rooms.
this goes for every woodwind/brass instrument
another reason is because keeping your flute warm doesn't mess with tuning, the temperature of an instrument especially if changed drastically can change the tune.
I WISH I KNEW THIS WHEN I WAS IN BAND