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GASP! i know how to pick my instruments choco!!! xP! :O yes love does hurt ninja I've read those blogs....

I myself hate those who go online for instruments or ask friends >_> its a rip off. Soo whenever I do get a new clarinet, I'll be getting it from RDG woodwind whee whee

anyways...

>_< I feel bad, I haven't practiced in like forever! two weeks to be exact, only like...7 not so efficient hours...I usually practice for 14 hours on average a week and its rather efficient too........ crying arghhh

razz i know how to look for my reeds, my teacher is picky when it comes to me and reeds anyways.

*sigh* even buying from magazines and companies, you won't get the same quality as you would having a professional seek things out for you. Virtually everything I buy, I buy from my teacher at very discounted prices and with absolute gaurantee, using it during lessons before I buy them, and he gets better products than the magazines and stores. They get their instruments and supplies from the distributors, but that takes time, and people on the inside, such as my teacher and many other professionals, they get to pick from every mouthpiece, clarinet, barrel, reed, and so on before anyone else. They also get to try out them the same way you would in a store, except their options are far greater. Just remember that everything the stores carry are leftovers, the best things have already been taken. I'm sorry that many of you don't even have decent music stores around, let alone an excellent teacher you can get things from. I'm still convinced that your Stuart Clark isn't being too great of a teacher for not giving you supplies and such directly. The only thing RIchard send me to ABI for is for reeds or common sheet music (he even sells me books). Btw, the 56 reeds aren't worth the extra money, you can just thin width of the base of the reed of a standard Vandoren to produce the same effect. Another benefit from having an awesome teacher wink Don't get me wrong, Stuart's prolly a great clarinetist, but he's also young, and he still seems to act more like a performer than a teacher. Technique wise, our teachers would probably be a tie, but I know Richard does much more for me per lesson than Stuart ever could. Btw, does he come to your house or what?

same here. except im usually louder on my wooden one, even though i try to be loud when im supposed to be.

I also just found out that the BD who student-taught at my school last year who has been going out with my cousin Erin since christmas proposed to her and she said yes and they're gonna get married this summer.

I'm gonna dress up as Link for Trick or Treat. (I'll keep going until I graduate high school.) I was gonna go in my band uniform, but my BD would kill me if I got anything on it, and I might be candy hunting in our rival school's area, and I don't want to start a fight.

I was sorta thinking like American composers, but at least I know there are some.

You seem to be obsessed with Japanese things. Were you planning to make the first two costumes, or buy them? I'm making mine. Well, not like buying fabric and stuff, but using some of the clothing me and my mom have, buying a plastic sword, and buying an x-large green T shirt and hemming it so it gets skinnier instead of shorter. If I can't find all the materials, I might be Mario or Luigi.

What are you going to Austria for? Some kind of music-related thing? Someday I want to go out of the country and experience other languages and cultures.

I knew I was forgetting to say something in my last post, but I remembered it now. My band and auxilary is going to the Penn State homecoming parade and the 9th grade class is the only class in the jr. high that went to it, so only we know how long and tortureous it is. my BD said he had to pull some strings to get us in there, and we're like the only outside band in it. it's us, the State College high school, the Blue Band, and the Alumini Blue Band. It's really cool cuz our rival junior high isn't going and neither is our high school.

Mr. Martin was talking about jazz band auditions today and he said the people who auditioned would have to play a piece of their choosing, play a couple of scales, and sight-read a piece. I was wondering what the point was of sight reading music, because they have time to practice the music for jazz band and such.

And the aptitude test today was weird. the first 130 questions we had to put how much we liked each thing. 2 delt with music, 5 were about art, 10 were about farming, and I spotted a few about working at a cash register and working at a gas station. They're probably gonna say that I should work at mcdonalds or be a plumber or something. then they had questions on verbal reasoning (analogies), numerical reasoning, patterns, and something speed and accuracy. I apologize if I have become incoherent.

I play the clarinet heart

I heart my clarinet! It's so fun! ...And it can be used as a torture device, lol. It's pretty surprising how far up the scale it can go. I can play about three octaves, plus a note or two. But that's it.

I'm also going to try out for All-State band. (I live in Rhode Island). I have to play two pieces of music, and memorize a few scales. It's going to be hard.

I've been playing for four years. I'm in eighth grade, and have been playing since fifth grade.

Who else likes using the high notes on their clarinet to torture people? mrgreen

God, I hate those so much. When I take them it feels like they are slowly sucking out my brain, making me good for nothing more than the menial labor that the career questions ask. ("Watching for forest fires?" ?! Do they want me to turn out like Ranger Gord?!)