Author: lucyw
Date: 2006-07-21 02:42
Hmmm... so I guess that I'll just keep experimenting...
I've been reading through some of the older topics and I've picked up a lot of information and ideas. I had never really thought about having practice reeds and concert reeds, although I had set aside a couple of favorite reeds to work with in June, when our band played (what was my first) concert. So, I guess part of that was just common sense.
Also, I've been rotating the reeds when I practice but I hadn't really thought about only playing on one reed for 15 mintues and then going to another one. I was rotating them day by day. Playing reeds for shorter time periods makes sense to me now. It would be less stress on the reeds and it would probably help strengthen my embouchure, as well, since I try to always be using a couple of new reeds, as well as reeds that are broken in.
Now that I'm thinking about more of these things, I'm realizing that there are a lot of questions that I have never asked my teacher regarding reeds. In our sessions, we ususally work on phrasing and dynamics. Now, I feel like I need to go back to square one and make sure that I'm not assuming things that obviously, I don't know. Sigh....
Thanks for the help and input.
lucyw
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