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Right on man. I think more time with long tones is all you need to really break through any road block you feel like you might have. Nice work.

That IS impressive, honestly you do get a real horn sound, however rough, out of the instrument. Not an easy task after only three months with no previous brass experience.

Ok im a french horn player myself in Top band for my school and this sounds pretty good man for only 81 days! But I have some warmups that might help these notes are not concert btw 1. Go from c ,e,g,e,c,g,c 2. Try getting a clear sound on notes that are harder by starting with c and playing that not 3 times then going to e then g and so on hope this helps on your French horn journey

Trombone players have to contend with all three major clefs; the bass clef is the most common in concert/military bands and big bands (with the bass trombone pretty much always being blessed with this most superior clef, fight me), the treble clef (specifically Bb treble clef) being used in brass bands, and the C clef, most often in the tenor position, being very common in orchestras and solo pieces. There are some classical pieces that use the alto clef for the trombone, and we curse them under our breath on our seats in the back row. I've also often had to read the Eb treble clef whenever I've had to cover for a saxophone, and the C treble clef (the normal one) is nice to know for things like jazz lead sheets.

Suprised you didn’t encounter transposition it’s really common and I’ve played stuff in Eb, D, A and a bunch of other odd transpositions

This editing is fantastic and the explanation is useful and simple. As a singer and pianist i always wanted to learn tabs so i could transcribe guitar solos for piano when im playing piano voice solo and your explanation was great! Thank you

very nice and high quality video considering the view count !!! love it <3

5:30 The guitar is upside down, i.e. the bottom line of TAB is the lowest string in pitch.

great video, simple and informative! one nitpick though, you put the guitar neck upside down relative to the tabs. the top line corresponds to the high E string

As a long time musician, sometimes I forget that this stuff isn’t common knowledge. It seems so obvious to me but it isn’t to everyone. Great video Btw

Thanks, this really helped me out! I really enjoy all the videos you make.

I've been subscribed to your channel for quite a bit and I love your editing style. It's amazing!

Alto clef is objectively the best clef since middle c is in the middle but it will never be widely adopted

As a singer that’s never played guitar, that TAB “clef” explanation blew my mind. It makes so much sense

Nice video. As musicians, sometimes we forget that music theory (no matter how basic) is vital to our understanding of music. Personally, I liked how you explored the uncommon clefs and described them by their indication rather than their position (G clef vs treble). 10/10

My way as a horn player is to get up, take a breather, then explain to my mom why I threw my French horn out the window

Wow! Your improvement between days17 and 18 is remarkable! The process works.

You mentioned that European and American oboists hold the instrument and their chins at different angles. Does that affect the sound quality?

Regardless of whether that was a recorder or flute or whistle, I love that you played some Nacho Libre for us! That also makes me think...and I hope you don't mind if others know that you do some volunteer work...maybe next time you go on a service trip to an orphanage, you could bring a suitcase full of instruments for the children to try out. They would have so much fun learning some basics in the universal language of music.

By any chance do you go to BYU?

i noticed in week 2 things sounded honestly very out of tune, but by week 3 it sounded MUCH more in tune! good job!!

Remember not to put your pinky under the keys. A bad habit like that can affect your dexterity!

Hey Tutti, I kinda started learning the flute after finding one second hand! I didn't think it was gonna be easy, needless to say I still underestimated the flute lol

That's a fipple flute of some sort, but otherwise has nothing in common with a recorder. Do yourself a favour and get a Yamaha 300 or 400 series, or an Aulos 500 series (even 300 series). These are very inexpensive plastic recorders which have the same capabilities as professional handmade instruments and professionals often use them to save wear and tear on their wooden instruments. I'd recommend alto recorders over sopranos, alway, but you can also get both, and you can even get a full set of all sizes for the same price as one "normal" instrument like a trumpet, violin, or saxophone.

any dislikes are from the Recorder Community 💀

Hey I'm the guy you met last week at our dad's work! I've been on a similar journey to learn a bunch of instruments for most of my life. I'm a music major right now studying education and my primary is trumpet. I've got a bit of a collection of other instruments like bagpipes, an accordion, an alto sax, clarinet, trombone, and even the little frog thing you showed a picture of in this video. That's just a few of them and if you ever want to try any of them out or feature them in a video feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to help. Anyways, keep up the good work, I love the videos. It's super cool to see someone learning about all this stuff with fresh eyes and you point out things that I've forgotten about learning instruments. Keep it up! Ps the ukulele should be on this list

"The Recorder" *proceeds to show whistle*

I just want to clarify for anyone, as a harmonica player, while the harmonica can be cheap, and is certainly easy to get a good sound at first because of how they are often tuned, it is just as difficult as any other instrument to master. Also to be clear, if you want to treat the harmonica as an instrument you should be looking at instruments in the at least ~50usd bracket as things less than this are usually made as toys not as instruments. I recommend the Hohner special 20 as a great starter harmonica, or if you're fine with ordering online and would like something a little more affordable instruments from Easttop are also great. Thanks for another great video Tutti!

i agree that recorders are cheap, but i genuinely find them harder than clarinet. recorder is actually extremely hard if you wanna play anything advanced, the fingerings are crazy. and YES YOU CAN PLAY CHROMATIC. that's why they're so hard. the chromatic fingerings are very hard. if recorders were modernized and had keys I'd call them the easiest, however i genuinely find them to be one of the hardest woodwinds. the only easy part is you don't need an embouchure. check out the team recorder youtube channel, or lucie horsch, or Tali rubinstein if you wanna see some very advanced recorder playing!

Excuse you Boomwhackers are not just for children! 😂

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Flutes are pretty cheap. (Also first)

Without a doubt, orchestral string instruments are the most difficult instruments to learn how to play. Please recognize that these instruments, from the deepest sounding double bass to the violin, have no finger or fret markings on them whatsoever. Shifting positions on the fingerboard is difficult to learn. Keeping relative note positions with corresponding pitch is difficult. (Having perfect pitch does help.) Then there is the matter of mastering bowing and bow technique. You must be able to get to the correct note positions on the fingerboard AND, at the same time, perform bowing that will enable the corresponding pitch to sound. Its like learning TWO separately distinct instruments at the same time. All in all, string instruments have a very deep learning curve if you want to play these instruments so they sound reasonably well.

Good luck with Learning the oboe. I play clarinet with a little bit of experience with other woodwinds. I relate to struggling with low notes because I learnt the saxophone recently and I found the low notes quite awkward. It really made me appreciate how well the low notes respond on clarinet.

Gotta love the Grieg represent in the beginning 🇧🇻

Good job ! The oboe is my first instrument, and I learned everything I needed to play the other instruments. Air support and pressure, tone attention, pitch precision, vibrato, and finger position. The single reeds are basically the same thing as the oboe (albeit with less pressure, but then again there's no instrument that requires more pressure than the oboe). You've already learned the brass embouchure with the horn, although it'll become very different with the low brass section. Now the last thing you'll need to learn to master all the wind instruments, is the flûte embouchure... And that one is months of work 😢 Good job on the oboe, impressive progress for a week's work. But then again you impressed me with the horn. I'm really happy we got to hear your first sound ! The oboe will only start sounding nice when you figure out how to relax your embouchure. It's always about the balance of lip pressure: too little and it will sound loose, too much and it'll sound nosey. Keep practicing your low register, and aim as a goal to play forte on a C ; that's the lip pressure I'm talking about. You may have heard your low D wants to jump to the middle register, that's because you're still bitting too hard, with not enough air support. Last advice, explore the tone of your instrument while using different lengths of reed in your mouth. The perfect amount doesn't exist, it will impact the pitch, and the dynamics. A good player moves the reed around to get the color they want.

I play the saxophone, the simplest of the woodwinds IMO so I admire you and I'm very curious to learn what you'll learn playing this beautiful instrument. Double reeds are a mystery too me! If you continue those weekly videos (I agree, I prefer it that way too), you should film yourself horizontally. You'd still be able to cut some vertical content from those horizontal videos.

Oboe is a fantastic instrument and it seems like you’re doing pretty well. I just have two quick tips for you. 1.) From what I can see, your fingers are getting to far away from the keys when you lift them up, especially you ring fingers and pinkies, so I’d try to work on making sure your fingers stay as close to the keys as possible: this will help with all woodwinds moving forward. 2.) If you’re not doing so already, make sure you’re soaking your reed in a cup of warm water before you start playing, keep it in there for like 2-3 mins and then blow out the excess water before you start play. This helps you play for longer as opposed to just using saliva. The same principle will apply to Bassoon as well. Hope this helped!

Congratulation! After 5 days having acquired two whole registers… very nice! 👍🏼 I play the clarinet and after more than a decade, I begin being confident and pretty fluent in the highest of the three registers. ;) So you‘ve already come far! ☺️

Do you plan on sticking with any of the instruments once you finish your goal?

I learned flute this year for college and coming from horn, being able to play whatever note I put my fingers on was really nice for once 😅. Good luck with oboe!!

Keep practicing horn, otherwise you’ll forget it

I started woodwind with oboe a couple months ago but you have more time than me so you’ll pass me probably next week

Literally just got my harp (rental) today!!

I would disagree about oboe being the most difficult woodwind, as someone who plays all of them, Bassoon is significantly more challenging. Oboe is still incredibly difficult but bassoon is so incredibly complex. I wish you luck on your oboe journey and I suggest you slightly lower the angle of your oboe! You're doing great for a beginner!

This is so inspiring! I’ve been waiting for the next installment of your journey and can’t wait till you get to trumpet 😉

A tuba is called a Bb tuba because that’s the note that sounds when no valves are pressed. A trumpet player reads that note as a C, but for some reason bass clef brass is notated in the sounding pitch, making them non-transposing (and also making the fingerings differ ). In British brass band music, the same tuba would read music in B flat and use trumpet fingerings-meaning the same instrument is transposing after all.