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Author: PrincessJ
Date: 2011-01-01 03:54
What are yours?
My first and most important is to make more time for myself, and more time with my horns, in general.
Another is to take better care of my reeds, they deserve to live longer than what I've been allowing.
-Jenn
Circa 1940s Zebra Pan Am
1972 Noblet Paris 27
Leblanc Bliss 210
1928 Selmer Full Boehm in A
Amateur tech, amateur clarinetist, looking to learn!
Post Edited (2011-01-01 03:55)
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Author: RJShaw0
Date: 2011-01-01 04:42
Yep, I'm thinking the exact same things.
Especially reed care!
RJS
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Author: Maestro_6
Date: 2011-01-01 05:08
Spend more time enjoying the music and not worrying about reeds and equipment.
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Author: USFBassClarinet
Date: 2011-01-01 05:28
To spend less time on here and the computer in general, and more time in the practice room enjoying the music I make.
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Author: spage
Date: 2011-01-01 09:20
To be happy with playing as well as I can whenever I play.
For me this means accepting, and attempting to not stress over, the day-to-day variations and problems caused by the physical, and related emotional, state of the player.
I also echo the "enjoying the music" statements.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-01 13:51
The pro pianist with the group of musicians that includes my violin-playing husband wants to play sonatas for clarinet and piano with me. My resolution is to work up the nerve and overcome the stage fright enough to do it.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: PrincessJ
Date: 2011-01-01 14:36
Lelia, remember, just enjoy the music. ;^)
I've never had too many issues worrying about my equipment, until my neglect began to backfire.
I've always believed there's that little box of balance between taking care of the horn and reeds and enjoying the music, and when you're in that "box".
As in much of life, the best thing to do is "chill". That's another one of my resolutions, in agreement with spage's post.
-Jenn
Circa 1940s Zebra Pan Am
1972 Noblet Paris 27
Leblanc Bliss 210
1928 Selmer Full Boehm in A
Amateur tech, amateur clarinetist, looking to learn!
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2011-01-01 19:17
Last year my New Year's Resolution was to make no more New Year's resolutions, and so far this is the only NYR I have ever stuck to for more than a week. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
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Author: Bubalooy
Date: 2011-01-02 20:06
Leila,
When a great player asks you to play with them, you don't have anything to worry about; just give it your best shot and have fun.
When a not so great player asks you to play with them so they can show you up, the person is not worth your time.
It seems to me the pro pianist is simply asking you to play together with them to have a nice musical time. Don't worry, enjoy!
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-03 12:07
>>It seems to me the pro pianist is simply asking you to play together with them to have a nice musical time. Don't worry, enjoy!
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Yes, quite right. She's a friend and certainly not trying to show me up or anything negative like that. She made the suggestion a few days ago when I turned pages for her in a Mendelssohn trio she was rehearsing with my husband (violin) and another friend who plays cello. I often stay home and practice my own instruments when Kevin goes out for chamber music (he plays with three different groups), but I tagged along that time because the pianist needs a page-turner in that trio no matter what the edition -- there's no user-friendly place to put the page turns because the pianist is so busy throughout. Anyhow, I've turned pages for her before, but the only thing she really knows about my clarinet playing is that I can read music. Apparently she thinks I'm a good page turner (despite the fact that, in the Mendelssohn, I flipped two pages on her at once in the middle of an allegro...).
The problem is that, while she doesn't know my clarinet playing, I do know her piano playing. If I practice with her, she's going to find out the hard way that she plays piano way better than I play clarinet. I have stage fright from hell even when the only "audience" is someone I can hear walking past on the sidewalk when the windows are open. I'll probably mess up and I don't want to create an awkward situation with her.
Or I could send Leila. She's my imaginary evil twin. But she'd probably show up with a Tuner Toy instead of a clarinet.
>;-)
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
Post Edited (2011-01-03 12:09)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2011-01-03 18:09
Lelia,
Playing with musicians better than you WILL make you a better player. Don't know why it works, but every time I sit in with better musicians than me, I find I play better and a few weeks of it will help me STAY better. GO FOR IT!!!
My resolutions (musical ones) are to work on jazz, work on tonguing (including hopefully learn some basic double tonguing), and circular breathing. I figure a year is enough time to pick up and start solidifying these techniques.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2011-01-03 20:09
I want to get back into a SERIOUS practice routine, now that college andwork requirements are getting more stable. Being in one community band is fun, but much of the time I can get by without serious work on my clarinet. that has to change, if I want to get any better. I am working with a couple of small ensembles, now, and that should make a difference. More pressure on each individual to make a bigger contribution to the music.
Jeff
“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010
"A drummer is a musician's best friend."
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2011-01-06 01:37
More core exercises - Helps clarinet tone, and the singing too!!
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Author: davetrow
Date: 2011-01-06 02:30
Lelia, go for it. Don't hesitate.
I started working with a pianist a few months back and it has done more for my playing than anything I've ever done except one-on-one lessons, which I can't afford right now, and I'd rate its influence as just about equal. (We also work with a flautist on some pieces from Michael Webster's transcription of Bizet's Jeux d'Enfants.)
Our first (home venue) public performance is this Sunday, and I'm looking forward to it, even though I, too, tend to have a bit of stage fright.
BTW, just judging from your posts, I suspect you're a much better/more experienced player than I am, so don't worry about your skill level. You'll likely find that she enjoys your playing a lot more than you expected.
Dave Trowbridge
Boulder Creek, CA
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-07 14:43
>>BTW, just judging from your posts, I suspect you're a much better/more experienced player than I am, so don't worry about your skill level. You'll likely find that she enjoys your playing a lot more than you expected.
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You'v hit on part of the problem: When a person brags and struts, it's easy to assume (often correctly!) that s/he isn't as good as s/he says s/he is. But because I don't boast about my playing, people seem to hear the honest evaluation as false modesty. They assume I'm better than I say I am. The trouble is ... I'm not.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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