Chords for Flu-torial #7: Demonstrating Native American-style Flutes in Gm Pentatonic

_ Hello YouTubers and Native American flute players in particular.
I'm Bruce,
also known as PewDieAjushi over here in Chuncheon, South Korea, _ and I'm going to
be demonstrating _ two different flutes [Abm] today.
Both of them are in the key of G
minor [Ab]
pentatonic.
The first one is a High Spirits Redtail Hawk in Eastern
Aromatic Cedar, _ and the other is a Laughing Crow G minor pentatonic flute
made out of Tiger Maple, which is a hardwood.
_ _ First the Redtail [E] Hawk. _
_ _ If [Ab] you watch the video of the A flutes, _ this one _ has some pretty similar
characteristics, being that it's the same maker.
_ It's a single piece of cedar
bored out.
_ _ This time this one has the direction hole in it.
This is
actually carved all the way through.
It's [Fm] burned with [G] a laser, I guess, all the
way through.
[Ab] This is used for tuning.
It's a very nice little design.
_ _ _ It has
the trademark flat _ mouthpiece that High Spirits likes to use.
It's very useful for
doing effects with your tongue.
You can put the flute right up against your
mouth flat, _
[G] and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ it _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ helps you to be able to move your tongue around
without having the pointy end of [E] the flute in your mouth.
_ _ This is supposed
to be a reasonable facsimile of a Redtail Hawk, I suppose.
Kind of cute, eh? _ _
This _ _ little leather tie is a feature [Ab] of High Spirits flutes, and the purpose of
this is for [E] when people are starting out playing and playing the pentatonic scale. _ _ _
If you remember, when you're doing that, this fourth hole up from the bottom
should remain closed at all times.
For people who are just [Ab] starting out, having
this nice little leather tie here is a very helpful thing, because it's easy to
forget _ before you're training your fingers.
_ [N] It's easy to forget and lift
that finger accidentally.
This keeps it covered for you and does a little of the
work.
It's really, in effect, like having a [Gb] five-hole flute as opposed [Abm] to a six-
hole one.
What you can do later, if you decide you want to expand and put
some sharps and flats or play different scales, you can just [B] slide that back.
_ _ [Eb] This other tie here is just [Ab] ornamental.
It looks like elk leather. _ _
_ Eastern Aromatic Cedar.
Let me toot on this one more time for [G] you.
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Cm] _ [G] _ It _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ [E] _ [Ab] has a lovely, _ resonant tone, a very woody sound to it, _ being that it's made [E] of wood.
_ _ _ This one sells for _ _ [Fm] _ $165. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The [Abm] _ comparable flute to that [G] from Laughing Crow,
made of the same kind of wood, Eastern Aromatic [Ab] Cedar, sells for $170.
They're virtually the same.
_ However, this _ _ particular flute that I have here is made
of Tiger Maple, which is a hardwood.
It's a kind of specialty wood.
_ I'm hoping you
[G] can catch the effect.
I might not be sitting correctly in the light here,
but it's quite beautiful.
[Ab] It's appropriately named.
_ It looks like tiger stripes.
This flute is routed out inside.
It's split, which is the traditional method,
and then glued together.
It's flared on the end.
This is a Laughing Crow trademark.
_ _ The coating on the outside is actually urethane.
It's quite durable.
The whole idea of that is to
protect from ultraviolet rays.
There's also a carbidgeon here for [E] decoration.
_ _ _ [Ab] You'll notice the Laughing Crow mouthpiece is tapered.
_ _ The mouth hole is slightly smaller
in diameter than the High Spirits flute.
Let me show you the difference.
Can you [E] see? _
_ _ _ [Bb] Some people who play High Spirits flutes [Abm] will _ say that [N] because of this larger hole,
that can lead to problems with moisture and what's called wet-out.
When you're playing the
flute, the moisture from your breath _ causes _ [Gb] the wind mechanism here, [Ab] the sound hole, to become
blocked.
What you do in that case is you put your finger in front of the hole and _ _ _ blow out,
and then you [B] shake the flute out like this on the ground to get rid of the excess. _ _
Now, Odell Bord says that a way [N] around that is to play the flute _ _ _ against your lip,
and your upper lip covering _
_ [Ab] _ half of that hole.
In effect, you're closing it off.
[G] _ _ _
[Ab] _ You _ _ don't hear any noticeable difference in the sound, but it's _ _ reducing the airstream a little
bit, and thereby the idea is _ it's reducing the potential for the wet-out.
Wet-out is a problem
with any wind instrument.
[E] _
_ Back _ [D] to this. _
Let's listen to what [G] it sounds like. _ _ _
[D] Pretty _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ lovely,
eh?
It has a very round sound to it, very clear and round.
Let's listen one more time,
and I'll try to give you a direct comparison here.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] And [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [Fm] the [B] Red [E]-Tailed Hawk. _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ You notice when _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [B] _ _
I'm
_ [G] whistling, _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ it's a little crisp.
You can hear it.
I do the same thing with this flute. _ _ _
I _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [Ab] _ did exactly the same thing on this flute that I [Gb] did with the Red-Tailed Hawk, [Abm] and you don't
so much [Gbm] hear the articulated notes.
This one has a very smooth, very round tone to [D] it. _ _ _ _
[N] Those are the _ _ two G flutes that I have, the High Spirits Red-Tailed Hawk and the Laughing Crow,
Tiger Maple _ flute, both of them in G minor pentatonic. _
Tiger Maple is _ $195.
The same
thing from Laughing Crow in Aromatic Cedar is _ $170.
The Red-Tailed Hawk is _ $165.
I'm not really here
to sell you any of these flutes, just to give you a sense of what they sound like and what
their differences are.
Thanks for listening.
Coming soon, F-sharp, the magical key.