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Author: Trond.Bjarne
Date: 2012-08-30 21:04
I have now practiced oboe for ten hours and here are my view on the oboe.
I love to play this instrument and what it does to my life. There is so much work involved with my quest and i really like it. There's the get to know people wich I find exciting. All the reed work and ordering supplies, although i dislike my reed knife so very much. The studys I do also feels good to do. Practicing scales for several days in a row feels good and gratifying. Even physical excercises is more than ok, infact much appreciated afterward. It is all changing me toward a better person. A person able to give something back, namely musical experiences. And I like it a lot, and it helps me alot.
Before i started out playing oboe, when i first researched the oboe some two years ago, i knew the rewards of being proficient at playing oboe. But i did not know it could be so much fun and gratifying to learn the oboe. I'm thinking the period from start of learning to the level where I'm proficient at playing. I was hoping it would be ok, but the truth is that it's great pleasure to learn the oboe and everything that is involved in this type of quest.
Playing clarinet for nearly two and a half year prior to starting oboe really helped me speed learning. It allowed me to practice for thirty minutes a day in the begining having already formed some muscles in my embrouchure. And I'm lucky that i started out on the drums when i was a kid because the knowledge of counting is so crutial in playing. I had all, and more, of the knowledge needed to seriously learn the oboe on my own and it was perfect timing for me to start on the oboe.
Oboe community portals like this BBoard really helped me succeed. The wealth of online knowledge has been so important since noone nearby knows anything about the oboe except for misconceptions. Thank you all for beeing here on the BBoard, it really helped me alot.
In just two hours of practice with the oboe I had the same basic knowledge that I spent nearly a month learning on the clarinet. I belive i spent the first month on clarinet to learn how to learn, so now, two and a half year later, I'm really eficcient at learning.
The oboe is alot easier to learn than the people in my network belive.
I'm using the Rubank Elementary Method and have been dooing the scale in F for most of the time. I can now make the reed speak from Bb3 to C6. The reed responds satisfactory with only occational sqacks. I can do cromatic scale the whole range although slow. The scales i do are even and speak very vell, and i play scales faster than on my clarinet. I'm not playing in tune.
Possibly maybe i can attach an recording.
Thanks
Trond-Bjarne Klungseth Johnsen
Norway
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