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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2004-07-17 14:00
Not saying that all tuba players are ignorant, but this one obviously was... Ignorant to all the time, effort, and work I put into my clarinet playing... We were having a conversation on AIM, and I was tellin' him how I wanted to beat out this girl for first chair next year... And out of nowhere he says, "I bet if I played clarinet you wouldn't beat me out"... That made me sooo mad, because he kept goin on and on bout how he supposedly learned to play trumpet in a month, and all this crap... Then he says, "Some people are just born with a knack for music".. and I scarcatically said, "like you?" because he was always reffering to himself... He said, " yeah, my parents think I can learn to play any instrument in a month".... I don't know about you, but this really really made me mad... And for some reason I'm posting this because I have a fear of people being better than me... He says he's "starting to play the clarinet".... Any comments on this to make me feel any better...
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-07-17 14:34
I think most people could form an embouchure and learn some fingerings in a month.
I think most people could learn to hold a violin, learn some positions and basic bowing in a month.
I think most people could etc.
That doesn't make you a clarinet player or violinist though does it? Plenty of musicians are arrogant, let it wash over you.
Anyone who has a desire to learn the tuba, hardly ever have a decent tune, have to carry the thing around and generally be bored, has a major problem in the first place! IMHO
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Author: William
Date: 2004-07-17 14:44
Some people are "born" with a special "knack" for music, but that is only proven when they put there horns where their emboucures are, so to speak. Until then, talk is cheap, and meaningless. Be content with your own accomplishments and keep practicing to achieve your musical goals and be happy with your own performance--and "listen even to the ignorant, for they too have their story".
Additionally, the enjoyment of music should not be a race to the finish line of "who is best", but simply the intrinsic, personal joy of its performance or of its hearing. If your only goal is to always be the best, than you will never be satisfied--or secure--because no one in the world of clarinetting is "the best". With our diverse levels of abilities and playing characterists, there will always be someone "out there" that can tongue faster, have a more appropriate sound, play a certain technical passage cleaner or more "musical", etc. The best any performing artist can do is to be happy with there own performance and not measure it by that of someone elses.
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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2004-07-17 14:49
I tend to do that a lot, measure my performance to someone elses... But you're right, I should just focus on my own playing...
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Author: idahofats
Date: 2004-07-17 15:03
Regarding William's post, look on the Web for a bit of philosophy called the "Desiderata." Sometimes it helps to just grit your teeth and bear with the "dull and ignorant." Also, keep in mind that adolecent males often use expressions of supposed superiority as a means of impressing females, something like gorillas beating their chests...it's a testosterone thing.
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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2004-07-17 15:10
Yeah well it sure turned me off, to say the least... IF he was trying to impress me, ya think he could do better than that... I took it as an insult...
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-07-17 15:14
My Ex husband is a tuba player.
Nuff Said.
Katrina
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Author: idahofats
Date: 2004-07-17 15:17
Tell him that you would be impressed by him as a tuba player if he could demonstrate on a simple piece like the tuba/oboe duet from John Williams'
score of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." And some guys struggle with how to communicate with others for most of their lives. Others are just stuck in that phase of childhood which associates girls with "things to be pestered."
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-07-17 16:09
If anyone thinks a tuba is easy -
Try listening to the Walter Ross or Von Williams tuba concertos ...
Each instrument has its own follies & foibles.
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