Virtual flute lessons?

YouTube Lessons for Beginners

Lessons from Danman's School of Music, given by Dan Lefler, are available on YouTube. Lessons from this school are also available at danmans.com. Covered topics in one of the first videos include how to make your first note and how to detach the head-joint from the main body of the instrument, among other things. Later videos discuss how to play pieces of music like "Amazing Grace." The lessons appear to be geared toward the beginning player. Although there is good instruction, one drawback of the videos is that because you do not have an instructor with you to watch exactly how you are holding the instrument or executing a passage, you are not getting any feedback on your playing. A benefit of the videos, though, is that you are at least being taught some basic playing techniques.

For Advanced Students

For more advanced players, YouTube videos are available which teach particular techniques to improve your flute playing. For instance, Manhattan School of Music faculty member Linda Chesis has a video in which she teaches a short section of a classical piece to a student. The video is a section of an actual flute lesson and so viewers are able to see and hear the techniques that Ms. Chesis is describing. Videos are also available featuring the famous Irish flautist, Sir James Galway. In this recorded masterclass, he talks about techniques like vibrato, breathing, articulation and embouchure, or the positioning of the mouth when playing the flute.

Like the lessons for beginning students, the videos do not provide an opportunity for an instructor to correct your particular technique. Therefore, if you are doing something incorrectly, just seeing it being talked about may not help some advanced students. For other students, however, seeing and hearing the technique being described may be of benefit. The fact that the instructor is an established and respected artist also lends great credence to the teaching.

Flute Lesson Website

Other websites are available which also teach beginning flute players how to play the instrument. Mark Shepard maintains a site in which he provides fingering charts as well as pictures and descriptions on how to make a note on the flute. The site also features books he has written on the flute. A downside of this site is that it does not give much detail. The site content is composed of excerpts from his works. His books give more instructions. On a positive note, though, the fingering chart and pictures may help a new player learn some flute basics.

Try cyberflute.com!! She has a few free beginning lessons (but I don't think you are beginner) and you can also have online flute lessons with her for 5$. There are a lot of videos and information on her site that you might find interesting, and you can even ask her direct questions that she will answer!

Online lessons are a poor substitute for personal instruction, and even Nina Perlove would tell you that at best, they are an adjunct - you need a LIVE teacher, weekly, if you have nay serious plans at all. You might have to look deeper and wider, and even commute for a 2-hour lesson every other week - but you need to do this if you are serious.

you may find someone who can give you lessons over skype. I play the flute too and it is definetely not an instrment worth quitting

check with

The High School Band teacher

The nearest Community College

The nearest college

nearest music stores.

Don't give up your search quickly.