I make such a CHEAP beginner's sound like all the other 7th & 8th grade flute players at band. It makes this airy sound, like you can hear AIR when I play. How do you make the tone sound sweeter and more professional? By the way, I have braces and that just makes things worse!!! AHHHHHHH
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Hi!  don't dispair!  Braces are not the end of the world.  I have had several very successful students with braces and a variety of other mouth gear.  There were many good ideas in the previous answer, i am hoping to add a couple things.  Take a look at your mouth when you play.  When you put your flute up to your lips, be sure you are not doing the kiss and roll thing (when you do this your flute rests on your lip).  Your bottom lip should rest on the lip plate and you should bring your top lip down to focus the air across the hole.  Look to make sure the hole in your lips is centered on the tone hole.  You should not be smiling, it is almost a frown, you are bringing your top lip down almost like you are making a bunny face.  Grab a straw or a pencil, put it in your mouth and pull it out leaving your lips exactly like they were with it in.  Use this as a guide for the size of the hole in your lips you are trying to achieve.  Now on top of all of that closing, you have to open everything else up.  Open your mouth on the inside, so you have a nice round inside, almost like it would seem if you were taking a bite of a crunchy apple.  Leave the inside open and relaxed, but close the lips and form your embouchure.  Does this help?  Give some more information if you still have questions.  good luck!\n\n\nare you talking about the high C 2 leger lines above the staff or the super high C above that?   For the C 2 leger lines above the staff, make sure you are holding your flute steady and you are not rolling in or something because you have so few fingers on keys.  For the super high C, see if you can find someone who plays better than you (maybe like a really good senior or something) to play your flute to see if he/she can play the super high notes.  It may be that your flute has a leak somewhere that is giving you problems or that your flute may not play that note well.  Sometimes beginner flutes just don't have the capacity to play the reallllly high notes well(mine didn't, so many years ago).  Also make sure you have the correct fingerings.  Good luck, let us know how it goes!
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Trumpet sounds a blare. String instuments like a guitar reverberate when strumed. Drums rat a tat tat. When refering to sax its mellow jazz tones. Flutes are fanciful airy toots and whistles. Oboes make deeper hollow tones. Does that help?
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Do you mean "nasard"?  That's an organ stop and a type of flute sound that is more harsh and is actually created by combining several ranks of pipes into one sound - five pipes sounded for each note pressed.  \n\nIf that's what you're talking about, it wasn't an actual flute.\n\nI had a graduate course in the history of musical instruments and that's the only thing that comes to mind.
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I am 25 and have been singing since I was in kindergarten and the one thing I have learned is to never strain to get out of your range, it hurts and to be perfectly honest, it probably doesn't sound as good as you think it does.  Remember this visual:  you always want to be soaring on top of that note, not struggling to touch it from underneath!  I would have a Dr look at it to let you know b/c contrary to one of the afformentioned answers you can, in fact, damage your vocal chords.
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I think its a trumpet sound kind of messed around with studio equipment.Like techno music
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French Horn.  It takes a while to get a good tone when playing and it has a huge range.  I once heard a fellow play almost 4 octaves on one.  Flute, Clarinet + Sax have a set range of about 2.5 octaves and alot of fingering combinations to remember.  Your sound depends on the type of reed and bite you put on it.  Tuba requires alot of wind and a good sized mouth as the mouthpiece is huge.  French horm and trumpet need taut lips, breathing skills and an ear because to actually hit the various notes you have to kind of sing in your head.  Drums require good hand coordination.
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Try saying brrrrrrr...over and over...as in "...brrrrr it's so cold!" Say it without sound first....feel the vibration it produces....not burrrr....it's brrrrrrrrr....over and over....without sound then add sound when you feel it tremble- feel it tremble I tell ya!...you can do it! Learning how to whistle is the same.....keep at it...until all of a sudden - voila! You did it!!!!
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#1\nbut, you can take out the "a" to make it sound better.\nWhich gum has longer lasting flavor?\n( capatilize the "w" in which, too!)
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Listen to the masters.  Listen, listen, listen.  It drills a lot of good technique into your head.  Practice your scales in all different orders, play them along to music to get a feel for the best notes.  Then, just improvise as much as you can.  It's amazing how much improvising in a group can help with your quality.  Oh yeah, that's another thing, no matter what you're playing, keep your sound quality up.  Good breathing and a strong sound will stand out no matter what notes you're playing.
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Your aperture (hole in lips) may be too large and you may be directing the air down too far.  Try placing the head joint upside down on your upper lip and get a sound.  Keep your lips in that position and return the head joint to your lower lip.  BLow the same way and adjust the position of the flute until you get a sound.  Fast focused air will get it.
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You've either got it, or you don't.  I can hear a tone, and tell you what note it is, with about 80% accuracy, and no matter how much I try to teach someone else to do it, and no matter how hard they try, not everyone can do it.  Just like, if you play me a random note on any instrument, I can play the same note on the keyboard almost immediately.  I've never learned to do this, I just can.  I think it is genetic, because my uncle's a band teacher, and my father is a musical genius.  There is no way to learn how to be not tone deaf.
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Wow! you are preach-in to the choir! same thing happened to me. Well if you're new to it then i say give it some time. I did and now i love that i can just sit down at the piano and play a song. But if you've tried for more than a few years then i agree with Theresa.
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Is that anything like getting tromboned?  Both sound uncomfortable.
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You should play with every recording that you like, over and over and over until you have great strength and good callouses built up. Learn to 'walk' a bass line. Think of it as a percussion instrument- if you mess up don't stop playing, that will really stand out...just find the right note and keep going! Good Luck!
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Okay, kind of rough but here you go.  This is starting with the F# that is 3 ledger lines below the staff.  The numbers are telling you what valves to push.  When you see 0, that means no valves are pushed.  There are other ways to play some of the notes but here are the standard fingerings.\n\nF# - 123\nG - 13\nG#/Ab - 23\nA - 12\nBb - 1\nB - 2\nC (1 ledger line below staff) - 0\nC#/Db - 123\nD - 13\nD#/Eb - 23\nE - 12\nF - 1\nF# - 2 \nG - 0\nG#/Ab - 23\nA - 12\nBb - 1\nB - 2\nC (3rd space C) - 0\nC# - 12\nD - 1\nD#/Eb - 2\nE - 0\nF - 1\nF# - 2\nG (on top of the staff) - 0\nG#/Ab - 23\nA - 12\nBb - 1\nB - 2\nC (High C, 2 ledger lines above staff) - 0\n\nPlease do not think of tightening or loosening your lips to play trumpet.  That will hurt your playing a ton.  Check out www.trumpetherald.com or www.trumpetmaster.com\n\nI still see someone saying tighten and loosen because some people told them.  I have been playing trumpet for 15 years and have taught trumpet for about 9 years and I am a music teacher and a professional trumpet player.  If you tighten your lips it will pinch off your sound and loosening them will cause other problems.  Whatever you do, do NOT tighten and loosen your lips.\n\nThis should get you started
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I'm not good at "playing by ear" since you have perfect pitch it should be good. Try well known child-like songs to start off with-\nlike twinkle twinkle little star, and well known christmas songs.
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That's normal. I'm a French horn player too.\n\nYou will always have that mark after playing the horn. It will go away in about ten minutes or so, depending on how long you've played. \n\nTo lessen the pain, don't jam the mouthpiece into your face. Hitting high notes comes from using more air from your lungs, not by applying more pressure with the horn. If you use pressure, you'll only get a constipated sound.\n\nYes, and chapstick is always a good thing to carry around in your pocket if you are a horn player.