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 Was my lack of improvement of my tone quality my fault or my teacher’s fault?
Author: Deranged Winner 
Date:   2020-09-19 03:14

I haven’t been playing the clarinet seriously since I didn’t do as well as I had hoped in an important competition and left my high school band. When I was in tenth grade, I hoped that the master class clarinet teacher who had multiple students make the TMEA All-State band every year would help improve everything about my fundamentals such as embouchure and air support. I didn’t do lessons in middle school, but there shouldn’t have been any excuse for him not to improve my tone quality. I went to him once every week starting in November to prepare for qualification into the All-State band. Of course, I didn’t make it. I stopped doing lessons until July before my junior year of HS. I don’t know if this was a big mistake. I didn’t make the All-State band again in junior year. Then I continued taking lessons from him for the rest of junior year hoping that my tone quality and technique would eventually improve. By the end of junior year, I still felt that my tone quality was garbage despite doing his exercises so many times in warmups. It did not make sense to me how I didn’t improve when he was known as a great clarinet teacher in the state perhaps. What went wrong? Do I have any talent for the clarinet? Should I go to another teacher or would I be wasting my time having no improvements?
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