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Re: Student who wants to major in clarinet needs some help

Author: Fabian
Date: 2010-06-22 06:50

Thanks for taking the time to voice your opinions

I am currently using a setup which people would definitely say is definitely suitable for me right now. I'm using a Buffet Crampon E11 Silver wooden clarinet, with Vandoren M13Lyre. For my ligature, I was using a Rovner Eddie Daniels II ligature but yesterday upon reading the book "Clarinet and clarinet playing" by David Pino, I started trying out a string ligature. I use tradition vandoren reeds at 3/3.5size reed.

So far in this aspect of ligature, the string ligature is definitely working out for me good but I still do not know if it is suitable for me in the long run. It is definitely more responsive using my new string ligature, but it is harder to achieve concise staccato and altimisso notes...........but for now I'm just trying it out to see which one i prefer.

In singapore, I'm currently in secondary school (or middle-high/high-school) which is before college. I take clarinet outside through a music centre, and my teacher is there. My teacher is a freelance musicteacher/photographer. I'm very happy with him and I'm sure he would be able to guide me through grade 8...For now, each lesson is 30mins-40mins a week. I selflearn my theory at home and currently grade 4, having a little trouble with intervals (like perfect etc) and time signature conversion. But that's all and I'm all ready for grade five.

My family is generally acceptable with my clarinet learning but all of them wants me to study well for my national exam which is next year......which is also a issue because it'll be more stress for me during that year and I have to cope with grade 5 and 6 practical too. But i don't have a choice anyway.

I admit, I'm not someone who can do the same thing for long periods of times. Usually i play for 30mins at one day when starting but now I've started an hour, before leaving the clarinet alone for several hours before picking it up, therefore making my daily practice adding to 2 hours + nowadays as I need to buck up on practice but I usually find it tiring after an hour of practice.

If theres anything hard about this...it's about finding the motivation. I'm not in a band (i used to be), none of my friends my age have any definite plan on their future career like I do...It's like walking a path alone.

I'll check the videos up now and such. (:

- Fabian

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