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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-10-01 15:48
Here's a really good article on practicing from Howard Niblock, the oboe teacher at Lawrence Conservatory. http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/dept/woodwinds/studio%5Foboe/philosophy.shtml
While the subject is oboe, almost everything applies to clarinet as well, particularly:
- balancing practice and social life
- focusing practice on small goals rather than large ones
- the importance of scheduling
- how not to use a tuner
For the advice on the Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto, substitute something that gives you trouble on clarinet -- say the third movement of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto where it goes into Ab minor, or the register-crossing bit at the end.
Obviously, you will spend less time on reeds than an oboe student, but I would still recommend giving a few minutes of attention to reeds every day.
Ken Shaw
[updated with new link]
Post Edited (2011-11-05 01:34)
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-10-01 20:25
My Reality of Practice:
- No balancing is needed between practice and social life: there is no time for
either.
- I focus on the small goal of finding some practice time somewhere. Large
goals will have to wait until the kids are grown up and finished with college.
- Scheduling my ten minutes per week of practice time is imperative, or it will
be pre-empted by something more important, like cutting the grass or taking
the garbage to the landfill.
- Tuner not required; my clarinet was tuned at the factory (like Paquito's Rossi)
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