I have a short-to-mid-term goal of playing flute in a prog band

>>74229647
stick it up your ass and play it instead

>>74229794
Stick what up my ass? The $1 recorder I have now that sometimes gets stuck in the second octave even if you're completely covering the thumb hole, the chinese-made 'silver-colored' flute I may buy, the $20 dollar recorder I may buy instead, or the Captain Beefheart box set I'd buy with the money I save?

>>74229647
i dont know much about buying one but i do know that being good at recorder doesn't translate to flute.
whenever you do get one maybe you should try checking out this channel for practice. although the videos are a bit awkward, i think she's a good teacher

>>74229852
The idea for the recorder is that I could gain practice sight reading, translating notes to fingerings so that when I pick up the flute I don't have a problem figuring out what note is three lines and a space above a G or whatever. Is that a good idea?

>>74229955
i think learning on a keyboard or a melodica would be better if you have access. im no recorder expert but im pretty sure it doesn't have all 12 notes on it, and can only play in one octave. Although im sure you can make some improvements with learning how to read on recorder i dont feel its the most efficient way. i know it sounds dumb now but when i was younger i used "every good boy deserves fudge" and "F A C E" to learn notes on the staff and it really helped.
also as a heads up the fingerings on flute might feel really complicated at first to learn so you might want to find a fingering chart in a beginners book or find one for free online to get to know them.

and the link i forgot to put
https://www.youtube.com/user/LearnFluteOnline/featured

>>74230079
I concur with this. You'd be better off as a musician to learn keyboard/piano. Learn recorder if you must, but know that it is a really shitty instrument and it basically is useless to learning flute.

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>>74229647

>>74230079
The recorder absolutely can play a chromatic scale, as long as you learn the fingerings, which often involve leaving holes open when the adjacent holes are closed. At least that's what I picked up when I tried to play something past hot crossed buns on my dollar one before I found out it was unplayable.
I could try learning piano too, but this 61-key casio keyboard I have is just the kind of instrument to make one hate playing an instrument.