Do you adjust your intonation by raising and lowering your air stream, or by manually rolling in or out?
You don’t want to adjust intonation by rolling in or rolling out. The better way to adjust your intonation is with your mouth by changing the direction of your air stream.
I’ve certainly seen students rolling their flute or nodding their head in bands that I’ve directed, and in flute choir. While it does solve the problem at the moment, it also compromises your tone.
Put More OOH in Your Embouchure
For example, instead of rolling try raising your air stream. You do this my putting a little more “ooh” in your embouchure.
So, when you play a low note, and then you raise your air stream, you’ll hear the difference as the pitch goes higher. Similarly, when you play a note and then lower your air stream, you can hear the pitch go lower.
So, what you need to do is practice just raising and lowering your air stream and see how you can adjust pitch.
Practice this with a tuner right in front of you to see where is it that your air stream needs to be, to be perfectly in tune. And then, as you practice this with a tuner, you’ll get to know where your air stream needs to be on every note.
So, raise and lower your airstream. Don’t roll in and out.
Try this and let me know how this goes for you.
Have Fun!
DoctorFlute
Watch me demonstrate this: FluteTips 8 Intonation Air Stream
See Also:
FluteTips 7 Intonation Hole Coverage
FluteTips 6 Intonation Lip Pressure
FluteTips 32 Putting Air in Your Cheeks to Lower Your Pitch
