Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-08-09 22:40
Tony - Possibly I've misunderstood your comment.
I understood you to be saying that I should stop getting above myself and try to just produce anything resembling a decent tune at all, which I thought quite strange, as the video was not intended to be musical.
Is that what you meant? Maybe if you could clarify, we could start again.
If you know me from my previous posts you will know that I am friendly and hard working, and I spend a ton of time playing "tuneful music tunefully". I am well on the way through Grade 4 as an adult learner. I also play violin and piano, and used to sing in big choirs, with productions like Handel's Messiah, so I'm really okay with carrying a tune.
In case context helps, I'm an adult learner, age 46, now trying to come back to playing after an 8 month gap with long covid lung damage. In my post-covid state, my embouchure hurts a lot, and the video was of me messing around with different embouchures to try to find one that doesn't hurt. It was a deeply unmusical video, and I hoped you would realise that it was not my usual style, but maybe you didn't.
In the weeks since I posted it, I've switched to double lip and I'm very happy like that. I now find it very odd feeling if I switch back. The change means going right back to the beginning with my technique, but I'm actually really enjoying that.
I'm working through Learn as you Play by Peter Wastall, and finding it lovely and relaxing to start right from scratch again.
I've also started emailing videos of my technique to my teacher between lessons, instead of asking on this forum, and I think that is really working well. I pay for email lessons as well as zoom lessons now, which is very 2021!
Does that help clarify a bit?
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