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Author: RKing
Date: 2019-05-08 02:54
It seems like we woodwind folks always get stuck in front of the trumpets and it's hard to hear yourself think, much less play sometimes. <LOL>
I will never forget my first night in a community band a few years ago. I was primed and ready with my sax, the music director lowered his baton - and the band took off at 100 miles an hour! I think I played two notes and was left in the dust. A few measures later, I was able to find my place and got a few more notes in before the band surged away faster than my brain could move.
Later, during a section that was Moderato, my brain connected with my fingers, and I was tooling along just fine. Then the section leader gave me the thumbs up as encouragement and this distracted me so much I lost my focus again! Arrgh!
Playing in a group can be a very humbling experience. You will eventually be able to hear yourself okay and you will be able to isolate your part in your brain and follow right along - even with the trumpets blaring behind you. It just takes time and experience.
Please don't give up! Everything will get better the more you do it.
Slightly deaf, but still trying,
Ron
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2019-05-08 01:59 |
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Re: AM I TOO LOUD?!?!?! new |
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RKing |
2019-05-08 02:54 |
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2019-05-08 03:00 |
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Ken Lagace |
2019-05-08 03:53 |
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2019-05-08 04:25 |
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