Author: Ted Donaldson
Date: 2002-07-24 15:10
Ok... Here I am, A 13 year old kid, that truly enjoys music. As I look back on my accomplishments, I notice something. Sure, I was first chair all county. The other two bass clarinetist, were a year older than me. Yet, they sound like they have been playing for one year. This happens everywhere I go. And I know what is causing this.
I think it is completely and very much so wrong, when a conducter or band leader, switches his weak 3rd chair clarinets to bass. Sure, Bass clarinet parts aren't always that challenging, But once in a while, you get a really nice, melodic, hard part. Then these kids that a 3rd clarinet part would suit them, go bananas. They cry about having to play sixteenth notes. They cry about having to play eight notes!
I know this may come across as sounding cocky, but that is not at all what I am trying to accomplish here. What I am trying to say, Is that kids should switch to an instrument by choice!!! I believe that playing bass takes tons of skill.
I believe there is a website that mirrors what I have said, about free choice.
So now that I am off my soap box, what do you think about no choice switch overs?
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