I take charge of my ability to play the flute!. I am a believer in affirmations and have the following statements written on a post-it note that I keep on my music stand (I have no copyright on these – Please feel free to use them as well!): Write it down in a journal a few times before and/or after your practice session (5-10 times is ideal), repeat it to yourself at various times during your session, or simply keep it written on a post-it note stuck to your stand where you can see it while you practice. Select a phrase or two that resonates with you. That is a lot of self-criticism over a long period of time! Affirmations are an easy way to counteract any negative self-talk that may arise during your daily practice sessions. We are constantly working on our flute playing, focusing on the small details we can change to make our performances constantly better and more precise. It is easy to be live in the land of negative self-talk as a flutist (especially if you are a perfectionist). They don’t even need to be true – Just believable! Here’s the secret though – If you say them enough, eventually you will believe them to be true. There are no other keys that only focus on one note (not even the C# trill key – which actually has more uses than just the C# trill).Īffirmations are short, positive phrases that encourage us to think more optimistically about ourselves and our crafts. Harmonics, flexibility studies, high register exercises… The trouble I am having with this is that we have an entire lever focused on one note. There are other ways (that often help make many other notes sound just as great). I’m not convinced that a magic lever is the solution to playing a really great, resonate, but still fairly in tune, C4. 
In all of my years of playing perhaps one of the greatest lessons I’ve learned is that more air is never the answer. the increased speed of air, we actually have far more control over the quality of sound and pitch than we would if just focused on using more air. If we make the aperture smaller as we ascend into the higher register and use the pressure created by the smaller space vs.
Hear me out! There is so much that we can control with our embouchure. The overall effect is to achieve a brighter sound on one note that, in all honesty, we don’t play that often. It seems that the gizmo might be better suited closer to the Eb key. My pinky is a bit small and reaching for that gizmo key is quite a difficult stretch. So…here’s the thing… I don’t really use this key that much.
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