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  • @vesper2136segway This is Roland Kirk's "Serenade for a Cuckoo, a short jazz tune written specifically for flute (not too many of those out there) and later covered by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

  • What is this song called?

  • @DylanKershawStudios if you practice the flute youll probable be better than a person who doesnt with instruments there is no room or time for advantages and disadvantages it only makes a difference if you practice and Rob Christian practices alot :]

  • @adamhunterbrewer You are correct Adam, practice does make perfect. When this video was filmed all I could play was flute, now I play sax, piano a bit of guitar, and try to sing. It takes a lot of practice to be any good. I'm 22 years old now. (Can't believe people still come to this video.) Cheers everyone!

  • the flute is hand-down my favorite jazz solo instrument. this recording could have been better-edited -- the first third is garbage adjusting mics. the performance was worth it, he didn't need the accompaniment, it held him back.

    As for those discussing gay or straight? Who cares? SH. Listen.

  • Oh um rob one question where do you get your sheet music/where d you learn it.,Thank you if you answer.

  • @ElChele1300 there are certain websites you can go to to get sheet music try (dot)flutetunes(dot)com

  • Ive been playing flute 4 years now.......So this is what jealousy feels like :D lol

  • Im starting to play the flute! :D

  • Cool!

    I'm a sax player. Been saxing for 8 years.

    Just started playing the flute.

  • wow ive never seen a guy play as well as he does amazing!

  • Wow. He is superb.

  • 2:54

    

  • How is it going now? Have you recorded your own album yet. i found this to be inspirational and moving. Thankyou very much.

  • i wanna learn so badly !

  • wow,super good!!

    

  • it takes them one minute to set up the freakin mic.

  • he's a boy.

  • @mygrlrox101 not anymore 

  • What notes were you playing 2:59? The notes sounded cool when you where going back and fourth. I really want to know I need to get better at my flute solos for my schools spring concert.

  • very nice :)

  • Seranade too a CucKoo ......Jethro TULL 1968 !!!!!

  • wow this is amazing i have to learn this piece you had such good tone (:

  • dude where u get ur flute im goin into concert band and i need one

  • Dude you're amazing for 13. I'm a guy flute player who's 14 and probly couldn't play jazz like that for another couple years at least. But I rock at classical haha. Keep on goin, you've got a huge future in head of you!

  • @thunderfoot43 hes like 20 now or something, even more amazing

  • I'm a flutie at my skool band!

    I have to say frist it's really hard, but once you learn all the basics it's really easy!

  • Which is easier, flute or sax ?

  • @Crishaana I play flute, and from what i've been told sax is the eaiest to play but the hardest to master. When I started to play flute in the 6th grade I couldn't get a good noise out of it until like 2 weeks. Now I play Flute in marching band and it's a blast. My friends can NEVER make a sound on my flute meanwhile they are teaching me different notes on their instrument xD My Friend Madie has been trying for 2 full months now and still can't... but that's a clarinetist for you xD :)

  • Dude you're awesome!!!

  • there is nothing worse than getting up to play and having some lame ass roadie mess around with your mic stand for 3 hours

  • Well....good.....but.....just blues scale?

  • i'm 13 and i play flute so don't dis the kid

  • @jewel349 that doesn't make sense

  • wel hellllllllooo(;

  • the title should be changed to "Rob Christian Jazz Flute 13 years old + 1 minute of mic adjustment + 30 seconds of tunning"

  • AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

  • very good i play flute,sax,french horn,clairinet,sax,trumpet,bar­itone,and tuba(::

  • @Lilmoon205 woopty fucking do!

  • @Lilmoon205 good

  • that was really nice!

  • Song is named Serenade to a Cuckoo originally performed by Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Later by Jethro Tull with Ian Anderson on the flute.

    Really nice for a 13 year old!

  • dang..nice job ^w^ im 15, and i've been on the flute for five years almost. and i couldnt do that for beans..okay, maybe if i as reeeeaally hungr, but still, you win my friend

  • Nice playing. I love the Jazz flute.

  • I can say it in English words.. even in Russian though)))) very great.

  • Excellent.

  • yo you are it my friend. I love jazz and you DEFINATELY got talent

  • whats funny is im a flute player and next year im going to switch to sax (alto)

  • omg, nice playing!

  • anyone know the name of the song?

  • wow rob know i must go master that flute thank you for ur awsome gift thank you for sharing this with us and ur brother is also an awsome piano player calmingwing

  • that is amazing. i play the flute to and i dnt kno if i cud play that.

  • Guess diplomacy for publicity isn't your thing. Stick to the flute and hire a publicist.

  • awesome jazz improving on flute

  • it's improvizing but yeh I agree

  • hate the hair, but love the music :D

  • forget about them dude, theyre cunts....i remember my first improv on sax, i was super nervous, i rocked it, surprisingly. i was in 4th grade, so it wasnt THAT awesome, but dude, i have envy of your jazzflutebilities

  • haha that's pretty cool dude!

    thanks for letting me jam with you in the beaches a couple years ago!

  • ahh was he in hong kong...??lol

  • Ur really awesome!

  • Chris Botti better look out!

  • Such little jazz flute around. Totally amazing - try and keep it up :)

  • tra poco posterò un bel vide odi risposta

  • You think that's gay? I think it show's character, appeal, and money-making potential. Anyway, he was 13 back then, and I recently saw him playing jazz sax as an adult. He's got chops! God bless him...You could learn something from a trendsetter like this guy. He's a leader with his own style...not a follower. He'll be rich AND choosing from lots of women who want to marry him. Not gay at all.

  • I totally agree...

    Accept musicians dont get paid much.

    ^^

  • Ottimo

  • serenade to a cocko by roland kirk

  • Could you send me the sheet music if i give you my email adress pleeeease? :)

  • TRUMPET PWNS ALL HAHA!!!

  • hell yeah!

  • Jeez dude, learn how to adjust a mic stand. It took you forever.

    Nice playing kid.

  • lol very nice!

    theyre tryin to get me to do jazz flute in college but no way lol

    keep it up!

  • whoaaa awesome!!!!!!!! I LOVE UR HAIR!

  • Oh my.... I will quit my school ... xD

  • **** yeah!!! Another awsome BOY flute player. I myself am a boy flute player too! The world could use more boy flute players.

  • what about us girl flute players?(Hahahaha) anyway all flute players area awesome

  • I agree with the equal bit but then you go on to say that women are better. Women may be better at multitasking and they can concentrate better on 2 or 3 places at once. Men naturally have more muscle and can move faster, and that includes every part of their body (except inner thighs, women have more muscle there). Men also have better natural timing. This is all proven. Men and women both have the ability to play well, and they both have advantages and disadvantages, period.

  • men have a greater lung capacity

  • Yes that is also true : )

  • @DylanKershawStudios i disagree with u. not to be rude though. some of the worlds most well known and best flutists are men.for ex: James Galway,Jean Piere Rampal,and Marcel Moyse. u shud look them up.theyre very talented people

  • @DylanKershawStudios Only thing that is proven in what you just said is the muscle part.

  • @bubbleteacraver101

    Guess no one told you about Distribution of skill. Women tend to be more middle of the road, men tend to be all over the place, making a lot more stupid men. Much better to have the group with high risk and high payoff have more variability, then the other way around like in a hunter gather society, and so things tend to merge like that. Although women are as good as men, that is why single women and single men now make about the same amount of money.

  • wow...i'm thirteen too and i play the flute too, and just, wow. I can't believe you were 13 when you played that! u are probably really good by now! lol

  • holy crap.

  • good job but watch ur left hand pinky (small finger wat ever)

  • rob ... greetings from Peru ... it would be very interesting if you get this item (yours version) recorded in the living room ... but ... to listen .... clearer that the arrangements they have made is good .. felicidades ... ..... still triumphing...bye

  • dang!

    you're really good!

    your notes are so clear!

    =DD

  • hey did u use any sheet music? cuz i've heard this song played differently by others (like Ian Anderson) but i like yours the best

  • Ha. I know an Ian Anderson. xD

    Flute was his first instrument.

    Now he is one of our marching band instructors.

  • he is good

  • wow i play the flute and im not close of being that god x].....and yes i no he is older

  • tocas con madre cabron

  • basketbal4lifex3

    you know this kid is a lot older, right?

  • so amazing ... you were so good and at just 13

  • rob ...saludos desde Peru...seria muy interesante si subes este tema (version tuya )...pero grabado en sala ...para escucharlo mas nitido....por que los arreglos que han hecho es bueno.......felicidades ...sigue triunfando

  • dumb question i think its just your shirt but your flute mouth piece looks almost blue

  • nice i want to learn how to do tht on my flute funny in tht video ur playing jazz and ur 13 im now 13 and trying to play jazz =)

  • one whole minute and nothing happens, that's some bullshit.

  • very good and very cute xD

  • ¿como se llama este tema? ...el titulo de la cancion?...gracias

  • The song is called "Serenade to a Cuckoo" and was originally done by Roland Kirk.

  • cuando suben mas video de ROB.............

    SUBAN MAS VIDEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­O

    GRACIAS

  • ugh... stop thinking about the music, just play. Don't read off the book, you gotta feel that shit in your soul. You keep looking around like the answers are out there, there not, they're inside

  • What book? I don't see a book? What are you talking about? This is a kid playing quite well. What are you saying?

  • He looking out in the sky imagining the sheet music. In his head his playing what he is seeing.

  • WONDERFUL! Makes me wanna pick up my ol' silver stick again. lol

  • AMAZING....

  • i luv u<3

  • Hey Rob ChriSTAIN 5/4

  • this is crazy improv on your part, especially for when you were 13.  i've been playing 10 years and am barely at the level of improv you are here

  • WOW U HAVE POTENTIAL =D

  • wow!!u play amazing!!im gonna b in j.b next year for keyboard and try2 get used to the jazz rhythm bt it's so hard!!But on flute??cant even imagine!!!X(

  • i love u marry me

  • i am going to start playing the flute, what song is this?

  • The song is Serenade to a Cuckoo by Roland Kirk. I do not have the sheet music.

  • see the problem i hav eis memorizing the pieces

  • u play beautifully

    and im not trying to brag or show off or anything bu try doing that sight reading and trasposing...thats hwat i have to do in my jazz band (no flute parts)

    but yeah ur amazing

    keep up the great work!

  • Pity the sound was so mushy. And it could be editted better.. there's almost 90 seconds of nothing at the start.

  • ur point?

    first of all, do u not notice the mic? and the edit

    big whoop!

  • SO hot. RC Cola.

  • Nice performance! You play beautifully; I hope you still keep up the flute.

  • Damn, I wish I had a fraction of your skill.

  • cool

  • Wow, you're truly talented.

    What's the song?

  • dude you are AMAZING! Don't stop just because people make fun of you! tell all the people that make fun of you that you would like to see them play the flute... and I bet they would NEVER be as good as you! keep up the good work! good job! Are you going to put another video on?

  • well to presume that people make fun of him is rather insulting, my brother. You say it as if it were a standard to do so, and if it is such to your knowledge, then i advise you to not speak of such, for there are many more things to say.

  • you have mad finger skills!

  • Great

    talent

  • You're an amazing flute player. I've been playing since I was 11 and I'm 16 now and I'm nowhere near good as you.

  • beautiful

  • woah mad skills!

  • very nice, I enjoyed it. thanks for your posting.

  • very nice =)

  • The flutes not girly. I know plenty of guys who play the flute and who WANT to play the flute.

  • im 14 and i play that song with a band of 18 guys...its a really good song..

  • what? you changed to a sax? Why?

    God is a God of Wonders

  • Its not a jethro tull song. Its a Roland Kirk tune that Ian Anderson covered.

  • Nope, It's a Jethro Tull song.

  • Is this a Lloyd McNeil song?

  • I'm a Jazz floutest as well I love it to death it is so much fun!

  • lovely sound!! great song! keep up the good work!

  • 13? you were good...plus i like ur hair

  • i am also 13 i play flute i love jazz but a end up playing classical never had a chance to play jazz at all nice work wish i can play like you

  • hmm. this is a song i could learn.

    strange coincidences...

    i'm 13 years old

    i'm a jazz flute player

    i love performing

  • i want to perform, but i always just get so nervous...

    can you give me some tips??

  • imagine everyone was only wearing underwear.

    (quote from barney in the simpsons)

    lol

  • just think that everybody came to relax and listen to your beautifull songs...and try to go on the stage with a good impresion about what will happend. think you are going there to have fun not to be nervos. or imagine everyone on the toilet...haha..it really works..take a deep breath and go performing.

  • lol. thanks standfordDude and senjijazzmin!!

  • you welcome! anytime

  • me???

    you want my help?

    1.focus on the accompaniment(if u have it) as well as your part - make the song flow together

    2.try songs like "some of these days" if you are inexperienced

    i'm pretty experienced, i've played flute for years and i'm also in a jazz orchestra

    3. practise improvised solos, they help give you confidence

    rach x

  • i guess it is hard to set up a mic for flute

    LOLZ

  • Jesus, it takes that guy ages to fix the mic!!! Ha. Great playing though!! Just starting to learn flute myself. I can play C, ha ha. Long way to go!!

  • Roland Kirk said that on his axe

  • flute boy

  • Perfect I loved it. I've been playing for 5 years now and I don;t even think I could do that as well as you did. AMAZING!!But I would listen 2 Antoniobuster12 because those were the only things I could find too.

  • omg. get this kid a record deal

    jesuusss christt :D

  • very nice sound. i'd love to hear some more.

  • Just because you are so good Im going to pick at you. :)

    OK starting with your left hand pinky, yes it moves fast enough to hit your Aflats and Eflats but it really does slow down your technique. Even when you are not using it keep it close to your ring finger and not below the key.

    Sound does not come from the head joint but rather from the tone holes. Next time you should position the mic at the keys and I think you will like the results. I will leave it there because you may have it fixed

  • that is unbelieveable... you were 13!?!?!?!? wow, thats incredible... im in shock!

  • wow does flute go up to grade 12?

    i though it only went to grade 8!

    ive just done my grade 5 but ive only ever played classical. id love to be able to do some jazz improv. =)

  • You were pretty good for 13! I'm 13, and I've been playing for almost 3 years now.

    How long had you been playing in this video? Did you take lessons?

  • great feel and technique for such a young player. you should definitely study music in college. and its never too late to pick your instrument back up again

  • Dude, you were really good for a 13 year old. How long had you been playing?

    Only thing I really noticed about it is that you had really weird tecnique. You know when you see a trumpeter playing flat fingers? It was just like that. But if it works(ed)for you then whatever.

  • Good god why did you quit? You are amazing! If other people knew how good you were, they wouldn't say anything. If they do know, and they still give you crap... they're just jealous.

  • Two things I am a male flute player and i'm made fun of on a day to day basic but i don't care. The girls in my flute class are horrible just bcasue I can't get a brand new flute doesn't mean i"m not good. I'm the best in my class the badn director he made it so I would help the other girls.

  • i thing that the flute is a male instrument