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@Pickles group

I have to play the A flat scale for a playing test in both octaves

very epicly fun time

I can play it now but I’ll be practicing over the break lol

Oh sweetie. Try C with 3 octaves. A flat is not that bad. Need any alternate fingerings? All this is coming from a high school junior who really doesn't have much of a life…

^^^ I can do b flat and c but not b natural

I know right?!?! What is up with B natural? Is it just like funky all the time?

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The fingering is so weird and I never remember it but there's notes above c and we found fingerings. Of course, I can't actually play any of them

I have a special flute it's like 4 inches longer, and has 2 extra keys. I can go all the way up to a third octave E flat, and first octave, below that already really low C, to A flat. It adds like 4 extra notes.

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That's REALLY special
I didn't know that was a thing wow

It's nice. It was really expensive, but my grandparents bought it.

But the best thing is an Alto Flute. It's amazing. It switches from Bass clef to treble clef

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uh thanks Winter but I’m quite ok. I have all the fingerings and stuff and I can play it relatively slow, but I just need practice with the octave change. I most recently got a new flute so the higher octave is a lot easier for me. I love Fhyll but he’s super old and just squeals whenever I try high notes. And i know the extent of our octave ranges and I know 3 range C is incredibly challenging because it's reaching all corners of our range.

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But the best thing is an Alto Flute. It's amazing. It switches from Bass clef to treble clef

Agreed

TIL to play the high notes, push your jaw out and press HARD against your face with your flute
Also that my tutor doesn't like my alternate fingerings even though it's mOrE iN tUnE

But the best thing is an Alto Flute. It's amazing. It switches from Bass clef to treble clef

Agreed

TIL to play the high notes, push your jaw out and press HARD against your face with your flute
Also that my tutor doesn't like my alternate fingerings even though it's mOrE iN tUnE

I feel that. My tutor is rough. She's like an old woman in her mid sixties, who's played professional flute for 45 years. God she'll beat the everloving mess out of you if you miss a note. She's a monster in all the nest and worst ways.

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So we had our playing assessment on the SECOND and just got our new seats today. The first five chairs stayed the same but the kid that doesn't even know how to read music OR any of the fingerings moved up two chairs and now my friend is last and she's beating herself up about it and she thinks that she's awful because he beat her even though he shouldn't have
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE I LOVE HER AND I WANT HER TO HAVE A GOOD CHAIR

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Respectful clarinet squeaks BIG OOF.
But, I was put next to my section leader last year, and I didn’t do any assignments. And yeah I found out it was for my health concerns.

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Respectful clarinet squeaks

I love that

@Relsey-TheElder

I have a special flute it's like 4 inches longer, and has 2 extra keys. I can go all the way up to a third octave E flat, and first octave, below that already really low C, to A flat. It adds like 4 extra notes.

SPutters You have a B flat Foot joint! I want one so badly, does it make the upper register more difficult to hit?

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Even though I’m a clarinet, I have to say the Flute is the most dominate instrument, but do you have a Squidward to your clarinet?

@Relsey-TheElder

We have James Galloway, we don't need a Squidward

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:’) but Squidward has a thick nose

@Relsey-TheElder

But James Galloway is a legend

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You aren’t wrong.
Both instruments have God’s, but flutes are superior.

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He kinda a dick tho

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we've done it, folks. The clarinets worship us

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Clarinets are usually intimidated by flutes.

@ShadeStar

Yes

@Relsey-TheElder

First the clarinets then the Trumpets…. Ok no that's not possible

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Also my clarinet friendo went up a lot and he's second chair now. now he can challenge and take down the dictatorship because the freshman that's first chair is rotten. I love her but she's stuck up and a bad leader

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First the clarinets then the Trumpets…. Ok no that's not possible

We're partly there. Some of them are scared of us. Onto the rest and then getting them to admit it

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Also my clarinet friendo went up a lot and he's second chair now. now he can challenge and take down the dictatorship because the freshman that's first chair is rotten. I love her but she's stuck up and a bad leader

All the freshman in my section are pretty friendly and laid back, all of them are pretty nice.

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There's only one freshman in the whole school that I genuinely like. Some of them are tolerable and can be fun sometimes but the rest… They keep getting worse

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And just so you know, reeds are the most annoying things. They’re fragile and small, you can’t make any sound without them, when the chip you have to give them up, A BOX IS SUPER FLIPPING EXPENSIVE, and like every year you need to switch sizes. I’m already at 3 1/2 and it’s so thick that to get used to it you gotta kill your lungs.

@Relsey-TheElder

We have one freshman in my section this year and I would one hundred percent die for her.