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Summary: Learn how to play the seventh note in a G flat 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 7th note in the G flat major scale is F. Let's look at F on the staff here is F. It is followed by going back to G flat pentatonic or the root which is repeated again but played up higher. Let's now look how to play F on the flute. F is played with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and thumb keys in the left hand. It is played with the 1st finger and the pinkie on the right hand. Let's listen. Let's review the fingerings 1,2,3, and thumb on the left hand. 1st and pinkie on the right hand. Let's play from the beginning we have G flat up a whole step to a flat. A flat up a whole step to B flat. B flat up a half step to C flat. C flat up a whole step to D flat. D flat up a whole step to E flat and E flat up a whole step to F. Then returning back to G flat or the root of the scale we change up to the same fingering as we had the lower octave but now you play it higher. Let's listen to the scale. F was our last note moving up to G flat the end note again this is how it sounds. The G flat major scale.