How To Play Flute Passages

Honestly, if I was able to start playing (not terribly well mayhaps, and with a little huffing and puffing in between) a jazzed-up "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," I can't conceive of the flute being that hard to play. Now trumpet, there's something I couldn't quite figure out...

The Gabriel parts are pretty straightforward, if memory serves. With a flute, and a decent set of earphones, you should be able to figure it out. 

Slartibartfast wrote: Blow in one end and move your fingers up and down the holes.  Next, how to cure the world of all known diseases...

^ Seriously.

Flute is basic enough that I would think only a little time spent tinkering around with it would produce the proper results you seek, Canprog.

Then again, I tinker around on all instruments, and that's how I write music. Perhaps I'm just conditioned to approach music in that way, and in fact flute is much more complex than I'm giving it credit right now. If that is the case, my apologies.


Edited by p0mt3 - October 29 2009 at 15:07

At least it's legal to post bollywood actress photos. 

There are MIDI files (*.mid) or PDF files all over the Internet. The PDF files are readable, but for the MIDI files you need some program that may turn them into written music. Any sequencer or notation program will do this, but they may need a lot of cleaning before being usable. I've got most of them, but I haven't checked them properly, and they are not cleaned up.