Author: OboeAtHeart
Date: 2004-03-31 23:50
Hi everyone! I'm back after three months...
Well, it turned out the lower note problem and whatnot fixed itself as time went on; and I learned the REAL fingering for D and E; didn't know you had to halfhole the thing... (Heh, good thing I figured it out before districts.)
Okay, here's my current problem. I've finally gotten adjusted to switching between clarinet and oboe now, and I'm pretty comfortable and all that; but there's the problem of getting some massive bad blackouts while first playing. The less air I use, the more my tone goes kaput, but the more air I use, the longer I get dizzy. Problem..
Also, we're going to state festival(so excited! Our concert band got straight 1s at districts!!!)), and (thank god) somehow my intonation is good .
However, I'm having a problem with having a good tone for about the first 15 minutes of rehersal, and then it gets raspy and kind of shrill. And flat. Have I mentioned flat? I'm pushed in all the way on a medium-soft reed, and if I tighten my embochure quite a bit and put more air through the horn, it stays just a little under pitch. My band plays about +15, and I'm -5 or so, usually I hover around -3 to +5 though.
Oh, as to the person who asked who knows how long ago who taught me to play, no one did; I had to teach myself. My band director has NO idea how to play oboe, and basically told me to figure it out.
I love how people randomly throw instruments at me and tell me to learn how to play them in 5 months. :P
-Jen.
*~"The clarinet, though appropriate to the expression of the most poetic ideas and sentiments, is really an epic instrument- the voice of heroic love."~*
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