Is Your Native American Style Flute Trapped by Gravity?

Most melodies we hear on Native American style flutes end on the bottom note of the flute. One way to help your flute express different characters and colors is to change the center of gravity. This video discusses how to do that and how to make melodies on your flute that end on different notes than the bottom one (yes, musicians, we are talking about modes but without full on music jargon).


My concert flutes are crafted by Colyn Petersen at
http://woodlandvoices.com

Here are some topics timings for this video:
0:32 Intro
2:26 Flutie Tune
4:04 A tune with a different Center of Gravity
5:25 Important relationships in sound
9:30 How to establish different centers of gravity on Native Flute
14:00 Music Break
15:55 A useful outside fingering
18:48 Using the outside fingering to play different key flutes together
22:56 Practice tip for the outside fingering
24:22 Review

Links to previous videos in this series:
   • The Path Forward Episode 1: Decolonize You...   (Decolonize You Native American Flute)
   • The Path Forward Ep. 2 - Posture and Breath   (Breath With Me)
   • The Path Forward  - Ep. 3 "Begin to Make M...   (Making Music With Basic Scale)
   • Are you playing your Native American Flute...   (Are You Playing "In Tune"?)


Intro and outro music are from the track "Dance of the Sacred Crystal" from my Morning Star, Evening Star project.

"Jasmine" is from my Dancing the Full Moon project.

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My album "Many Roads Home" is here on YouTube Music too, but you may need to enter the album title and/or Aura Surey to find it (Aura Surey is Taino for "Morning Star", and was a short lived use of a band name instead of my own...)

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