God Save The Blues

[irondawson]

Love this Thanks

[jonpalombi]

Very sweet playing, man. I admire you cool, fluid runs and tasteful note-bending. Your transitions between octaves is well timed and seamless. You've really got me going in a bluesy direction this morning! Now I'm off to break out my jumbo bass flute and get dizzy for a spell (it takes a lot of wind). Thanks for sharing, Brother!

[MexicanPiper]

oh Man! You are God! and You're Saving the Blues! ;)

Greetings

[jonpalombi]

Nice tone, beautiful phrasing, excellent fingering... a very fine performance. I like how you gradually build to wilder and more upbeat improvisational pace, without loosing the wonderful bluesy touch. Man, I aspire to play that well (sigh). Bravissimo!!!

[fjd100]

Hi Guentehr, sehr schoen dein blues! Gruss FJ

[incognito1951]

Technique is unique, that open hole slide down was awesome shit man! I heard a little of all the greats in your voice, Hubert Laws, James Moody, but definately have your own style. 5 stars ! Were you using any elec. effects besides the reverb?

[jazzflutist]

@incognito1951

He's much better than Hubert Laws. Or, any jazz flutist on YT for that matter. He's not even showing everything he's got.

Also, listen to his students. E.g. Silke playing Popp's Hungarian Rhapsody.

[zyruemusic]

Can U play some FUNKY Soul flute like the song"In the Bottle" by Gil Scoot Heron...Thats whats up!!!

[Chokkan41]

This is so chilling. Pure dopeness.

[aloilaloila]

What microphone do you use?

[Crander1962]

smooooooooooooooooooooooooth..­......

[divawalking]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[liamjazz]

Listen to some james moody!

[FeBlandMusic]

The tone quality or 'timbre' you produce is simply exquisite. You are a real Jazz Natural!

[Judashaolin]

VERY VERY GOOD!

Muito muito bom!

[divawalking]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[Jetztreichts1234]

einfach nur cool!!!! aber kann mir vieleicht jemand weiterhelfen wo man vieleicht kostenloses lernmaterial aus dem internet bekommt ich finde einfach nix und ich würde auch total gerne ma improvisieren thx.

[rafikcc]

Gunther ROCKS! What kind of flute are you playing on? Thanks for posting.

[HyperAndHappy]

Awesome! I love it! Make more videos!

[dirkojuchem]

hallo Günther-

wow, das ist ganz großes Kino!!!! Ich weiß nicht, wie man das besser machen kann - und mir fällt auch bei Hubert Laws, James Moody, Herbie Mann oder sonst niemand ein Blues ein, der besser gespielt wäre... großes Kompliment!!!

[angrykoopa]

Amazing, 5/5 + favorited....only thing is that there would be times i would expect a blue note only to get something else but that's jazz :P

[hashn00us]

damn...you are so damn good, perfect!

[swietyjurek]

Amazing Flutplayer

Imhave provisation very profesional!!!!I have seen you with Esfahan boysband

[handdrummer68]

A pleasure to listen to such good phrasing and sound.

[Suki40330]

Very nice. Cool jazz.

[cheezbawl2003]

Hey, I'd just like to say that it sounds cool, but more importantly... what setup do you have for recording? are you recording video and audio seperately, or is that a mike directly to the camera? Just trying to make some better captures of my stuff.

Nice blues though; people don't appreciate the difference between relaxed blues and intense jazz :D

[lazymusic92]

cool

[jetcarddude]

Waaaaaaaayyyy COOL.

[jonikasch]

Hallo Günther, so sieht man sich wieder... bei youtube. Jünger werden wir beide nicht, haha. Bin inzwischen in PS und KL. Wenigstnes hast DU musikalisch das erreicht, hast du dir vorgenommen hattest. Doch, das hat wirklich klasse!Rudi

[WernerPopken]

Thanks a lot for all your great videos!

I'm sorry there is no "Info here: guenther-j-schmitz dot am-kreativ dot de " - why? I do hope this will change soon.

[JSBHK]

2:50-3:00 is unbeleivably smooth!

[catatonicslamball]

it's all unbelievably smooth! haha. amazing tone

[ninaflute]

Gunther:

Your gliss really is awesome, so smooth. Bravo.

[robertojimenez204]

I use this video with my Flute students...Thanks a lot for posting, and keep on that nice playin!

[sinebar]

Hey can you tell me where I can get the sheet music to "God Save the Blues"?

[cunibertg]

how do you do to play that glissando in 2:50-3:00????

[fatpratmatt]

I'm presuming [unless he has some kind of amazing lip-induced pitch-bending talent] he's using an open-hole flute.

It still takes some practice to get it that good though - especially to go over the break like he does. =]

[lagrossemouche]

nice ^^

[tofutel]

Just plain beautiful.... nice improv!

[SeriousFluteMan]

Thank you!

:-)

[deathstix]

hey...really awesome playing there!

You are NOT reading notes off a page are you?!

I am always in awe of musicians who can improvise in the jazz idiom...

[SeriousFluteMan]

Thank you for your nice comment!

I am reading the theme and then still look at the page while improvising to follow the chords. Maybe not really necessary, but gives me more confidence.

[lietzen]

Incredible. Yes. 2:50-3:00 is so unbeleivable!

[rightboss]

thats great! one thing, try not to make all your phrases the same length!

[jazzflutist]

Doing some nice stuff there SeriousFluteMan.

[benofoz]

Very nice. I play bass, and flute is always fun to play along with. More fun than guitar solos, anyways.

[Frummer]

Incredible. Mind telling me what mic you're using? LOVE THE GLISS!

[crabman06]

Tried viewing on other computer; worked great. Nice performance there.

[crabman06]

Had trouble watching (load problem)this for some reason. Have you ever tried putting your thumb more behind the tubing under the F key? Your thumb sticks out too far and looks like the balance is off some. Then you won't need and shouldn't need the black gadget to hold it right. You should be able to push the flute away from you for better balance.

[SeriousFluteMan]

You are perfectly right! I looked at Sir James Galway´s and Hubert Laws´thumb position and that proved you right. Nevertheless I do not feel unbalanced and it would distract me too much if I would work on changing this. So if you don´t mind I will keep that position. But thank you very much for making me aware!

[dgilbertmusic]

Nice flute work and especially nice improv.... very jazzy

great technique...I'd like to hear more.

[SeriousFluteMan]

Thank you, Roland!

Best wishes to Cologne!

[lietzen]

very very nice, thx; looks like the youtube virus has got you now ;-)

What perfect chromatic fluent scale! Very impressive.

[SeriousFluteMan]

Thank you :-)

[qwizwizard]

Nicely done.