Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-07-21 22:41
Learning oboe is hard irrespective of just about anything, including, but maybe a tad less so, having already played a wind, or woodwind instrument.
I don't think your clarinet embouchure, double a single, will make a difference.
If you can play clarinet with a double lip embouchure that's great. Don't switch to single unless you think it makes you a better artist. Run from teachers who insist on one way of doing things when no best way exists, or unless they seek to correct and improve your play, not make you play like them and all their other students.
Take up oboe only if you want to. But remember, your most precious asset (Kal Opperman) is your time. It will probably mean time away from clarinet practice.
Don't involve yourself in other players disputes; try to avoid getting them to try to change, even with good intentions, even if it improves their play and that of the ensemble. Become better at play only because you want to, and let your play do the talking.
Don't make musical choices other than the ones that make you happy.
If those kids get mad at you for taking their chai,r simply because you want to play oboe, and not to show them up or impress a teacher, simply because you play better: too bad for them. If you were to feel bad that better players beat you, know that good people often make good musicians and treat this player with the regard that you would want and deserve to have if the situation were reversed.
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