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Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?

Author: Dutchy  Date:   2005-06-15 13:12 I'm stuck on page 16B of Essential Elements 2000, where you learn (upper-octave) Db and Alt-Eb, and while after a week of wrassling with it I can now play Db, I'm having the devil of a time getting my fingers around Alt-Eb. Is it just me, or is this a hard note for other people to play? Mainly I can't seem to slide my left index finger off the half-hole, AND hold closed my left middle finger AND ring finger, AND reach the Eb key with my left pinky. My left hand just doesn't wanna go there. And no, I don't have any particular physical handicaps on my left hand, it's just not happy with being asked to do all this simultaneously. Do some people just have a left hand that's not "oboe-friendly"? Should I send the oboe back to the instrument rental place and get a clarinet instead? Sign me, EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED AND DISAPPOINTED

Topics	Author	Date
Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	Dutchy	2005-06-15 13:12
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	kelloboe	2005-06-15 14:02
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	d-oboe	2005-06-15 14:53
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	GMac	2005-06-15 16:15
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	d-oboe	2005-06-17 05:32
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	ohsuzan	2005-06-15 16:00
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	vboboe	2005-06-16 03:59
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	Dutchy	2005-06-16 13:22
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	vboboe	2005-06-19 22:26
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	Ken Shaw	2005-06-16 15:02
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	d-oboe	2005-06-17 19:03
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	GMac	2005-06-17 21:01
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	Dutchy	2005-06-17 21:17
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	vboboe	2005-06-26 19:56
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	Northreed	2005-06-28 17:54
Re: Help! Are Db and Alt-Eb supposed to be this hard to play?  new	vboboe	2005-07-02 06:04

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