passive aggressive gifts for flutists
noob-o Nuvo TooT ($24.99)
Perhaps this better suits your ability level.
*includes a Firstnote™ lip plate, which will help you blow into the flute successfully
Practice Book for the Flute Omnibus by Trevor Wye ($28.00)
Even your abysmal technique can improve quickly with daily practice (this means practicing every day) of these helpful exercises. Some of them are a bit challenging at first, so don’t be scared to play them as slow as you require. Eventually, you should be able to play them in every key, which can be a bit daunting at first (sharps are scary), but I’m sure you’ll get there.
Don’t worry, when I was five, I too had trouble staying in tune and in time. This handy little gadget will help you do the things that are sort of the minimum required of any musician.
Given your muffled tone and sloppy runs, it is possible that your saliva has leaked into the pads and mechanism of your flute. Don’t worry, this is easily fixable, just remember to actually clean out your flute after practice. Yes, it only takes a few minutes to swab out your flute and be like the big, grown-up flutists you look up to. This flute flag will especially help you to clean out the filthy unreachable areas in your headjoint!
Brannen Kingma System Flute ($22,780.00)
You’re itching to play some more experimental music, right? After all, why else would all your notes be out of tune to the point that they sound like quarter-tones?
I could have bought a car with this amount of money, but instead I’m investing it all in you. Consider it a blessing, because a starving musician like yourself would likely be in debt for the rest of your life if you bought an instrument of this caliber.
You’ll need some small amount of money to survive, some small amount of money to pay for an education at a conservatoire full of much more skilled people than you, transport to auditions which you always fail, and dry-cleaning for suits that you wear at gigs to create a façade of professionalism. At some point you may give up and just start teaching, passing down your crappy technique onto the next generation.
At least then you’ll be able to hold this masterpiece of an instrument in your hands and remember me, the person who had enough money to blow on all these passive aggressive gifts, but not enough decency to give you useful, constructive criticism.