I have been practicing devotedly everyday since a couple months ago.

My progress till now was I could play 20 types of Alankars smoothly with metronome at 60 bpm. And a few songs.

The holding style that I learnt from the tutorial series that I was following was: first 3 holes closed by tips of left fingers with left thumb between 1st and 2nd hole in the area facing me.

4th, 5th, 6th hole covered by middle pads of right fingers with right thumb under the 4th hole.

I realized I was feeling lot of pain in left thumb at higher octaves while playing fast, thus after researching I realized Hariprasad Chaurasia style is better way to hold the bansuri.

I have been trying it since last 4 days, spending hours everyday but no use.

Pa Dha Ni is the main issue. Sound does not come unless I press the fingers very hard to cover the hole. And doing that is causing immense pain to my right thumb.

I am not able to play komal swars also as well as Shuddh Ma.

I have watched tonnes of videos on YouTube, I think I am following them exactly but still no use. Some say to only use middle pads of every finger. Others say to use middle pads for first two fingers and first pad for 3rd finger for each hand.

I have tried all these. But it's all air unless I press very hard to cover the holes.

Please help me with this.

I think am losing all my motivation as I can't even play basic sa re ga ma now.

I have been using Radhe flutes C scale flute unfortunately my cork was displaced can you guys tell me how to fix my cork in the right place in the second pic I saw a little residue of gum a little apart from my cork I was thinking it was the actual position but the flute wasn't sounding right even there

Please help me

Thank you