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 Re: Just as a rough estimate, how much oboe music is really written in Gb?
Author: johnt 
Date:   2008-02-09 13:11

Susan is right. If you practice all scales, especially the majors, every day, eventually these key signatures become user-friendly. It takes a few years. The best way is to go upwardly ascending, IOW start each scale on the tonic a half step above the previous tonic. Start out with C & move on up to seven sharps. Do the full range of the instrument, up & down. The following day, start with B as the tonic & work your way down chromatically. Also, always play the chromatic scale every day. Christopher Weaitt's Scales for Oboe (I think I got the title right) is an excellent book to vary the routine. He has a website.

John Mack never practiced anything until he had practiced the scale with the key signature in which the piece was written, a dozen or so times. This is true discipline. Sometimes you have to go right to the piece. But if time permits it is money in the bank to practice scales first.

My 2ยข

Best,

john
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