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Re: Tuning expectations for beginner

Author: D
Date: 2008-08-13 18:48

'watch my tuning'...yes, I'm watching the little needle on the tuner indicate the NEXT note, not even the one I want to play! Perhaps what I need to do is listen, not watch!

I'm playing on Howarth Academy Medium reeds which seem fine to me. Teacher pokes at them a bit and some days they play, some they don't. I normally soak about three and then play each for five minutes. Then play the rest of practice on whichever is working best (at all). At the moment I don't think I get the reed in my mouth in the same place and I don't do the same thing to it each time. Therefore tuning is different each time I play. Not only that, But I'm not consistently sharp or flat, normally a mix of the two. Only light in this tunnel is that I am getting better at correcting once I realise I am wrong. I just wish I didn't have to play the bad sound first.

However, the actual tone is apparently not too bad. So maybe I would get away with dodgy tuning if I don't add duck impressions to it!

I shall persist.

I'd like to be good enough to play with other people. And that means dramatic tuning improvements!

Thanks for the comments. I will try not to be too despondent if I enter an exam this session and get those snide little tuning comments.

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