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Re: Advice for an adult beginner

Author: Ronin614
Date: 2013-04-30 12:52

Thanks again for the responses everyone.
As for the whole concept of oboe being "hard", that kind of thing doesn't really register w me. I (at least TRY) to follow the Asian philosophy that nothing is hard or easy. It just "is". If something is hard for me to do (like the low notes) that's just an indication that I'm doing something incorrectly or that I'm not putting in enough time. Once it's corrected, it won't be hard anymore. :-).

Plus I have great inspiration in the form of my daughter. No one told her it was hard, so she just did it. When people tell her that they are impressed that she plays oboe because it's so difficult, she responds "No, it's really not." She isn't being arrogant, she just wasn't told early on that it was supposed to be difficult, so it wasn't.

Or maybe I'm just clueless and/or dense and it's going to kill me. :-)

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