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From a while back. (It's a fuckin' rock.)

why can't I motivate myself anymore?

don't think about replicating it but surpassing it instead, give yourself a blank slate.

why can't I motivate myself anymore?

'coz you'z playin' it small.

A fox... with antlers?

*gam recieves 10000 C&D's from the reference image copyright holders.*

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over 15 years >_> I don't have a flute so I can't check if I still can but I remember how I did it. My teacher spent at least 30 minutes in the first lesson just making sure I could get this part right - using only the mouthpiece section of the flute until I could get it to make a sound :V once I had that down I moved on to using the whole thing.

I don't wanna be misleading but something I remember thinking back then was that it was almost like blowing into and across the flute simultaneously rather than just across it?

(It's not entirely similar to whistling but it shares enough in common with how you have to balance airflow/resistance/pressure for it to be a workable example)

edit: also I wouldn't worry about being *slightly* breathy early on - flutes often do have a somewhat airy sound and you can kinda vary your resonance vs airiness of tone at will when you get the hang of it - but yeah, you definitely don't want it to be super airy.

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you're probably exhaling too much air because of blowing across the instrument rather than into a mouthpiece? You need to provide your own resistance with the embouchure along with a consistent level of air pressure coming from the lungs. You don't actually have to use a lot of airflow from the lungs at all so long as the pressure is right? I don't know if that helps.

You basically have to bottleneck the reservoir of air at the lips and provide support from the diaphragm in order to get the airflow/resistance balance right I think.

You should see if you can make a glass bottle make a clear tone or not - or whistling, it's kinda similar to whistling in a way >_>

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I played the flute for a while as a kid - It gets easier to get a sound to come out of it, it's more about the lips/face (called "embouchure") than it is about exact positioning? I'd say. - if you can make a bottle hum/whistle by blowing over the top then you can play the flute (assuming western concert flute, no idea about the wooden/bamboo type, I assume it's pretty similar though).

As for breathing, the usual wisdom, if I recall right is to try "breathing from" the abdomen/diaphragm rather than your chest/rib muscles (this is kinda innacurate because all breathing uses the diaphragm - but it refers more to where you are forcing the air from and how the breath expands your lungs/chest/abdomen). Point being you can store more air for longer if you breathe "abdominally" rather than shallowly.

Also when in doubt; youtube tutorials.

PS - I personally found the ocarina impenetrable, weird hand positions and incoherent notes/tone quality all over the place.

A fox... with antlers?

good going boneman.

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The distinction is very, very important, actually. Because of the nature of the oppression that both groups receive due to the very misinformation you're rallying against. This is not "dictionary thumping" it's a very important detail I'm surprised somebody who claims to care so much about the topic would omit in a forum he clearly aims to educate people within.

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You've repeatedly referred to mental illness in this discussion despite the fact that both learning disability and developmental disorder (things both often referred to as mental retardation by people who are probably pretty out of touch) are considered entirely separate entities to mental illness by every relevant entity. It casts more than a little shadow of doubt on your claim to authority on the subject, to be honest.