Author: johnt
Date: 2008-05-03 19:15
Learning to playing the oboe means being willing to perform repetitively enough for necessary actions to become internalized, or habits. Sometimes things have to be unlearned before they can be learned properly. There is no royal road to it. Discipline & focus help, daily. Reed work daily, practice daily, long tones daily, scales/arpeggios daily, & of course, don't forget musicmaking in the process of trying to master the vagaries of the instrument. We must become our own mechanics, our own fixers. Ensemble playing will help greatly in in this progress. Memorize everything. As Stevens Hewitt says in his infinite wisdom, the memory of how it feels is your only method. You work hard (& smart) & then you get lucky, not the other way around. Make music after each practice session, even if it's just a few bars of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Oh, & I almost forgot, don't beat yourself up over not being able to progress as rapidly as you would like.
Sir Winston Churchill during WWII to the British population: Never, never, never, never give up!
Best,
john, who picked up an oboe for the first time in October 1997 at age 59 & a reed knife several months later in March 1998
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