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Re: Starting Again!

Author: vboboe
Date: 2004-12-18 01:46

Aflat Maj ... ah yes my "love-to-hate" band key! But, is it really any harder than four sharps with that C# to D# combo?

My toughie just now is hitting the low B and Bflat key without opening the left G# key!

... it helps me to use alternate fingering freely in Aflat Maj, depending on going upscale or coming downscale

FINGER DRILLS
... until you do them daily over and over again, you'll go stark raving crazy with the following suggestion ... nobody in their right mind plays oboe, eh? ... but after awhile when it all comes together, hope you like it

... my first oboe teacher umpteen years ago made me do dreaded-dreadful drills on forked F's using right and left Eb key as resonance, and forked Bflats using right or left G# as resonance, forcing those reluctant fingers to move together as one ... so now I find it's an ambidextrous bonus to be able to use alternate fingering in Aflat Maj (forked Bflats also in Eflat Maj)

... going up from Bflat or C to Dflat - try using the "forbidden" fingering of just closing the F# hole with all other open holes (this plays top C# or Db) instead of the standard fingering

... coming down, try left pinkie Eflat for top forked F and top Eflat, and use right pinkie Db (C# key) with half-hole standard fingering up top, or closed for low Dflat ... and do like the finger-drop method on the half-hole for those top to low octave leaps

... also find forked Bflats very useful in Aflat Maj (using right-side Ab/G# "trill" key as resonance going up, and left (standard) Ab/G# key as resonance going down) -- this combo very sharp in pitch though, lovely restful & relaxing split second for embouchure :-)

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