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Summary: Learn how to play the second note in an F major scale on the flute from an expert flutist in this free video on musical instruments and music theory.
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Kiely Griffin Kiely Griffin is a third-year music management and jazz flute student at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, CT. She has previously served as vice pre... read more
The 2nd note in the F major scale is G. Let's look at it in the staff this is G. To play a G on the flute let's look at our fingering chart we have the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and thumb key in the left hand. We have the pinkie key in the right hand. Here is how a G sounds. Let's review how to play G on the flute; we have the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and thumb key in the left hand. On the right hand we have only the pinkie key. If you notice going to F to G we have our first whole step and you can also notice in playing the flute it is easy to facilitate because all you do is lift from F to G. Lift up one finger. Here is G one more time. Now I'm going to play now out of the scale that we have learned so far we would start playing from F to G which is a whole step.