Author: Dutchy
Date: 2005-04-14 18:55
Okay. I will now stop worrying about germs on my reeds. Thank you to everyone for humoring me. I'm actually not as paranoid about germs as my question probably made me sound--but in the light of endless media stories about ghastly heretofore unknown infectious icky things that folks come down with, which gets them 2 minutes on Good Morning America ("Joe Smith was just an ordinary high school football player until, one day..."), I just thought I should ask.
Today was the first day that playing the oboe actually sounded to me like "making music", instead of merely huffing and puffing my way through a collection of notes. I managed to play 6A, 6B, 7A, and 7B all the way through, including the evil "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie", with only minor stops for rest periods, and my hand cramped up before my embouchure gave out. Which is definite progress.
I also discovered I don't *have* to breathe every two measures like the breath marks in the book says to. I'm assuming the Hal Leonard Company is pitching their lessons to the average 10-year-old, but as an adult already used to singing from the diaphragm for lo these many decades, I already "get" the idea that ya gotta stop and breathe every so often, and phrasing and stuff like that. So, yay for me--I get to feel smugly superior to a bunch of 10-year-olds...
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