Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-02-24 14:32
The biggest problem with learning to play classical music is that of stamina. At the beginning your embouchure just gets tired so fast that you can only play a few measures at at time. But as long as you can reconcile yourself to the fact that it'll be a while before you'll have the stamina to be able to play whatever piece it is all the way through, without having to stop and rest your embouchure, go ahead and get the sheet music, and putter around with it. So you have to stop every couple of measures and rest, so what? There's no sense in depriving yourself of the pleasure you'll get out of learning "real" music, and I'm here to tell ya that "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie" and "Up On The Housetop" get real old, REAL fast.
I've got Beethoven's Seventh and a Mozart Divertimento that I get out and putter around with when I get tired of "Reading Skill Builder Number 1".
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