To help you get started with your Native American style flute, we’ve gathered two wonderful beginner videos that work beautifully with Red Kite flutes.

The first is from Guillermo Martinez. For more than three decades, Guillermo has dedicated himself to reviving and crafting both Meso-American and Native American–style flutes. Red Kite flutes flute-making lineage traces back to Guillermo. His influence shaped the early design foundations that Red Kite later refined.

The second video is from Jonny Lipford, a fantastic modern flute teacher known for his clear, supportive style and helpful beginner techniques.

Together, these two lessons will help you build confidence, explore your sound, and start adding simple embellishments as you settle into playing your new flute. Enjoy, take your time, and let the music unfold.

Guillermo Martinez’s Beginner Flute Lesson

This lesson introduces the basic pentatonic minor scale typical of Native-style flutes, and shows foundation techniques for breath control and fingering.

Jonny Lipford’s - Five tips to dramatically improve your Native American flute playing

Discover five powerful tips that make a huge difference when learning the Native American style flute — from phrasing and dynamics to mouth shape and modulation. You’ll also explore note bending, vibrato, expressive phrasing, and the well-loved “pop” embellishment.

Tips for New Players

• Relax your breath — soft, steady airflow is key to a warm tone.

• Cover the holes fully — gentle finger pressure from the pads not tips gives cleaner notes.

• Practice little and often — even 5–10 minutes a day builds confidence and builds motor skills.

• Let it be intuitive — the pentatonic scale means most combinations sound beautiful.

• Use your breath to deepen your expression – Practice playing with your breath, expressing your emotions, you can do this by creating vibrato with your breath by moving your diaphragm in and.  Imagine the movement of the wind, the rolling hills by lightening and strengthening the breath, fading in and out.

• After each play slide the flute block upwards and remove moisture – do this with a cloth or tissue, you can also turn the flute over and blow hard to release moisture.  Higher and softer wood flutes will water out more quickly than the lower flutes and may require this moisture to be removed to continue playing.  Most Red Kite Flutes will play for long durations due to their enhanced design.

New to Red Kite Flutes? Here’s Why They’re Loved by Beginners and Experienced Players Alike

• Designed and precision crafted in the UK from sustainable sources
• Easy to play for beginners as holes are closer together compared to many other types of flutes
• Smaller breath hole rand inner coating which reduces mositure build up allowing longer playability and less chance of watering out
• Flute tuning is per block not flute, easily switch between tunings

Whether you’re new to the flute or returning to music, a Red Kite flute is a wonderful instrument to grow with — and these lessons will help you make music from your very first breath. Explore our collection here.