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Re: Student suddenly can't play?

Author: Funfly
Date: 2014-04-17 20:45

As another student I can vouch for the ability to suddenly not be able to play anymore.

I have a section of a piece where my clarinet just looks at me and blanks!
I can play the notes in other pieces but this section looms up like a brick wall and the sound stops.

In my case it's tension - tension on the fingers and in my breathing. The more I try the worse it gets and it's driving my tutor mad, as soon as she checks my fingers my breathing goes, as soon as she gets me breathing my fingers jam. In fact sometimes I actually forget to breath and it's a wonder I don't drop down dead!

I honestly believe that with patience on my part and my tutor's part I will get through this. If it was golf we would call it the 'yipps' maybe there should be a word for it in woodwind.

So maybe its just a question of removing the growling tiger that sits on the sheet of music at 'that' point.

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