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Re: The Soul of a Clarinetist

Author: LonDear
Date: 2007-06-27 02:31

You might be surprised at how active of a playing schedule you can keep if your soul can enjoy the playing of Santana (and Stevie Ray and many more) and can play an A clarinet through guitar effects. You just have to tolerate people coming up to you and telling you how great that "little black saxophone" is. Or at the very worst, "those sound Amazing! - what are they? (A/Bb/C/Eb set)" People that hear a clarinet playing pop/rock/blues sounding like a guitar then tend to be VERY receptive to hearing a traditional jazz, smooth jazz, klezmer, swing or gospel number mixed in with the typical pop stuff. Anyway, diversity of styles is good for my soul. And I don't feel that I've sold my soul, since I'm having fun. It just gets a little too loud compared to classical music, but classical never paid the bills for me. I still play classical on an amatuer level just to relax (soothe the soul rather than excite it).

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