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[equinox]

Im trying to teach myself how to play flute. Surprisingly i can get a good sound out of it, but only on one note (middle C). I can barely go up to the C#, and thats it. Why is that? Should the embouchure change for each note. I'm pretty sure im doing the right fingeringd. It's pretty frustrating.
Help is appreciated

[Gordon (NZ)]

I'm not sure what you mean by "middle C" and I am not sure that you are even blowing the note that the fingering might suggest.

It would probably be impossible for a beginner to get what is called 'middle C' on the piano.

If you are playing C-in-the-third-space-of-the-staff, and it is indeed that C that is being produced, then C# and B, Bb, A should be easily produced with exactly the same embouchure etc.

From my experience of teaching 400 beginners on flute, self teaching for even the first few minutes, means an uphill battle to undo the incorrect notions already established. For flute especially, get an ACCOMPLISHED FLUTE teacher for at least one lesson!!!

BTW - a long shot.... Are your teeth interfering with the air-stream? The ends of your front teeth should be snugly against the lips so that they do not make the air turbulent.

And lips need to be sufficiently relaxed against teeth so as to retain decent lip thickness, enabling as much windway LENGTH (between the lips, from back to front) as possible, to enable a non-turbulent airstream. Few (if any!) clarinetists trying flute do this. Consider the long windway a recorder has in order to reduce airstream turbulence.

[Tully]

GET A TEACHER (or at least talk to a really good flute player in person)!!!!!! That is probably the best thing you could possibly do. I know from experience that old habits die hard. I played flute for one week before I had my first lesson, and my technique was already deplorable.