Klarinet Archive - Posting 001077.txt from 2000/12

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Does this ever happen to any of you?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:28:14 -0500

In a message dated 12/20/00 7:37:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
phhomeowners@-----.com writes:

<< I never progressed far, but I think I had talent. Can anyone offer some
insight into how to progress accurately. I can already tell, I am getting
lazy with my counting, and pauses >>

Hi Jennine. :)

And welcome back! My best advice? Study! That is, with a teacher. You'll
know exactly what to work on, you won't get bored or stuck.

As an adult with a hobby, you can work lessons any way you want them, meaning
that you can spread them out to lighten the money as well as allow you time
to have a life along with your hobby. Most of my adult students playing for
a hobby come for a lesson about once a month, with long gaping breaks around
the holidays and around major life events. Ironically, this has not stopped
any of them from progressing, and in fact, I feel that it helps them keep
their fresh approach to the instrument.

Obviously, if you're more serious about it, you can study more regularly, but
honestly I haven't found it necessary. Adults are VERY good about
practicing, (sometimes too good - forgetting that it should be fun, not a
chore) so I am able to give them two week's or a month's worth of material
knowing that they'll work on it in the way they need to.

Anyway, just something to think about. I've always pursued my hobbies with
gusto, (playing clarinet was "just a hobby"... getting the music degree after
my first degree was simply a way to avoid the real world for two more
years...) so if it can be worked on, studied, improved, explored more deeply,
I say do it.

Oh, and I prefer the Vandoren B-45 mouthpiece for a good beginning
mouthpiece. It's a very cheap investiment to get a big beautiful sound from
the very beginning.

Now get blowing! :)
Teri Herel

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