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 Re: How hard is it to get into Curtis
Author: cjwright 
Date:   2006-11-07 08:58

Good question Judy.

I took 5 years off from the oboe because I no longer enjoyed it. I found myself practicing harder and telling myself "If you don't practice today, you're gonna slip. If you don't practice more, you'll never get that 'great job'. The difference between you winning that audition and the next guy might be the extra five minutes of practice time you put in now." Needless to say this drove me to an extremely neurotic, paranoid lifestyle. Once I injured myself with TMJ and had to put the oboe down, I realized how free I was, and I never picked it back up (not for serious play again at least.) Now that I've come back to it, and without a schedule, I had time to restart everything correctly (getting rid of my biting habit), blowing correctly and working on my fingers/technique slowly and correctly. Furthermore, as I enjoyed my "play without a schedule", I finally DID get a decent job with the oboe. Funny how this works?

I mention my story simply to offer insight, but I do think "mental games" and "self destructive behavior" would classify in a different thread and might have good discussion.

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