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 Re: I'm A Pre Oboe Beginner
Author: ohsuzan 
Date:   2006-10-12 22:42

<<I haven't even opened my oboe case yet. Trying to
get up the nerve. This is a big deal for me.>>

Yeah, I know what you mean. And sometimes I get s-o-o-o-o frustrated when I can't do what I think I *should* be able to do -- especially at lessons.

However, maybe it would be better if you don't completely psych yourself out about this. Letting your self-esteem depend on your becoming an overnight sensation on the oboe -- or even learning to play "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" in the first six months of trying (inside joke for Dutchy) -- is setting yourself up for a fall.

Three years ago this month, when I first got an oboe, I spent several months struggling mightily to learn to play a few Christmas carols (all lower register) without having any of the notes break, fail to sound, or squawk.

And today, three years hence, I just got up from a tone-development practice session on those self-same Christmas carols. They are starting to sound really luscious. And *that's* progress.

(No, I have not spent three years playing only Christmas carols, but I keep coming back to them, because they are just great little lab animals for testing technique.)

Susan
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