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Author: sOmeone
Date: 2003-02-08 11:37
what do oboist usually practise as a daily routine?
how do you warm up?
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-02-09 19:43
Ah now this is an excellent question.
I personally am very particular about practicing. I believe a lot of how much you get out of practicing depends a great deal on regularity (i.e. you must practice everyday if possible) and consistency (i.e. you must practice certain fundamentals everyday). So this is usually how my practice time goes:
First I get my reed going and make sure it's going to work by playing a few notes. Then I take an A and do some long tones on it. This is important I feel to reaffirm everyday the concepts of emboucure and breath support that I have built up in my mind which are so critical to oboe playing. Then after a few long tones, I try it again with dynamic contrasts, starting really soft, going through a big crescendo to as loud as I can control, and then back down. Then I take a low D or something, start off really soft, then as I'm reaching the peak of the crescendo, slur up to a high E or F, decrescendo on that note, and then at the very end of the decrescendo, slur back down to the low D. When I'm doing that part, I'm always really careful to make sure I'm hitting those intervals as smoothly and as well in tune as possible. I guess after that I'm warmed up.
Next it's time for scales. I start on low Bb, go as high as I can comfortably reach, and then back down the scale to low Bb. So it would be from low Bb to altissimo G back to low Bb. Then I do the relative harmonic minor starting on low G, up to altissimo G, then back down as low as possible and back up to the low G you started on. So it goes from low G, to altissimo G, all the way down to low Bb, and back up to the starting G. I do this with every scale just moving up one note each time, playing first the major scale as far up and down as possible and then the relative minor. After that's over I take the scale of the week and do it in thirds all the way up and down. Then finally the chomatic scale as far up and down as I can go.
Then after that I play through the Salviani exercise I'm supposed to prepare that week a few times, and then practice a Barret etude. Then it's time to take break because all that usually takes up the first hour or so.
When I come back I play through the Barret once more, and then start working on orchestral excerpts and a solo piece. After that the oboe and I part ways for a little while, except later when it's time to make reeds... if I even have time. Isn't playing the oboe fun?
Remember though that how much you practice isn't as important as how you practice. If you hear something that isn't right, go back and try and figure out what you're doing. Anyway, hope this helps.
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Author: carebear
Date: 2003-07-25 19:33
so i just fot this back and forgot which is was an aflat instrument or bflat or which, i which to tranfer music to the oboe thanks
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