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 Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:34 pm
So, I have this problem. My BD asked me to teach this girl how to play the oboe. I'm only in my second year of playing myself.
I started out on oboe. She's switching from clarinet.
How do you go about teaching someone how to play the oboe?
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:36 pm
Heh. I don't know why I'm posting this, because I don't think it's possible. Oboe is the most f*ed up instrument in the history of instruments. It's hard to play, it's hard to make, the reeds are crazy, and I love it. That said, I've been playing upwards of five years and I don't think I could teach anybody more than a fingering. Heck, I'd be more confident teaching somebody flute than oboe, and I am terrible at flute. (I only play it for marching band.)
Go give your director a good poke with a nice sharp reed knife and tell him to teach her himself.
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:13 am
I would start her off probably the way you started off. Get yourself a nice method book that starts at square one and have at it.
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:59 pm
you're band director is crazy! i started on clarinet and switched to oboe and actually ended up playing both as well as a lot of other instruments. her biggest prob will either be... her inability to play vibrato, that she'll bite down on it for the first few days/weeks.. maybe months, and that she will absolutely wish that she'd never switched over. lol i love playing oboe but it's the worst and hardest instrument i have ever dealt with. i think that that girl's best bet is taking lessons from a professional (no offense to you because i'm sure you rock).
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:54 pm
I doubt she'll be expecting much. Just help her learn fingerings and scales, tell her tricks for dealing with a double reed, and basically just answer her questions/correct her mistakes. She'll do a lot of the learning on her own and improve as she learns her parts.
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