Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-07-18 05:34
Whoa! Too much information!
That sounds an awful lot like a report card.
Here's the thing: the so-called "pro quality" sounds that I managed to make in Craig's presence are sounds that I have known how to make, and indeed have routinely made, from time to time, in my brief oboe playing career.
I just didn't know that that was the sound I was supposed to be making.
Seriously.
I can make all sorts of sounds on the oboe, and I can slice and dice the embouchure in sixty different ways. And, although Craig probably doesn't believe me, I can actually play a decent pianissimo and sustain it, swell it, tongue it, and taper it.
What has been missing -- and what Craig gave me -- is the personal and immediate feedback about what basic sound, out of all those myriad choices, to aim to make, and what sort of embouchure to do it with.
This sounds like a "Duh!" moment, I suppose. But this is the sort of input I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to wrest out of my teacher for the past year and a half. Which of these gazillion sounds that I can make in a gazillion different ways is the RIGHT sound? Or, closest to right. Am I getting warmer or colder?
Sounds like I must be deaf -- which I am not. Just confused. Too many options, not enough feedback.
But I am on the right track, tonally, now. And faithfully doing the exercises, Craig.
Susan
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