Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-04-25 14:23
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My two goals at this point are:
1. The play a simple tune all the way through with reading ease and technical fluency, to the point where it can be *music making* and not mere mechanical activity.
Just wanna point out, before you have a chance to get disappointed, that a good part of all music-making IS [quote unquote] "Mechanical activity", which is to say, as I plod through an hour of etudes every morning, I'm not always conscious of [quote unquote] "making music", but more of simple "mechanical activity". It's like a ballet dancer working at the barre; you try to be graceful while you're doing it, but sometimes it's just a series of exercises that you have to get through in order to preserve that carefully-built-up musculature.
So there will be days when your practicing is just "mechanical activity" rather than "music making", and you shouldn't assume that it means "oh no, I'll never be able to play the oboe".
And I'm wondering if this is where you got off the bass-playing train, because playing bass tends to be even more "mechanical" than playing, say, lead or rhythm guitar. Did you perhaps just feel as if it wasn't very "musical"?
As for musical "talent", if you can carry a tune in a bucket, that counts as "not being tone-deaf". So you've got the necessary "talent" qualifications to play the oboe, so quit worrying about it.
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