Author: vboboe
Date: 2006-10-24 02:01
...now you're into Key 3-flats (and later, more flats) forked F's are worth it
Personally i find right A-flat handier in Key 4-flats (Ab) and at the moment it seems easier ascending rather than descending, still assimilating how to rocka da key onto Gb (Key 5-flats)
hope your oboe has F resonance key to make life a lot easier -- otherwise you'd have to learn how to include E-flat as resonance key to brighten stuffy X F's in elegant adagio sequences ...
... now, now, no lifting that 2nd finger skywards doing X F's! Keep it nice and curved, hovering, just release the E cap, up and down like a piston -- heh heh heh! (easier said than done)
talking of step thirds in Key 3-flats, left low Eb to right low C is lotsa fun in cross-pinky fingering, and it's all hell in Key 4-flats, on intermediate oboe anyway
Just realised the Essential Elements band method book uses weird notation (as in, different from what i learned) for forked F (X) -- they use F for this, which means Basic F to me
So, does anybody else do forked B-flat on sequences with A-flat, that is, on oboes not fitted with the Ab-Bb optional trill key to help out?
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