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 Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:56 pm
All of the instruments I had to switch through were just me putting it out there that I had some deficiency in my skill.
It may not be the same for the others but... long story made short, I started on trumpet and I didn't practice much during my middle school years, nor did I put much thought into actually concentrating and being a perfectionist, so come high school my deficiency starts showing. Instead of actually realizing it for what it was I thought that switching might "cure" me and make me as good as the rest.
Silly, silly me. However, I have to say that I was never meant to be a trumpet player. Even though I know that my reasons for switching were not the best, there was really a lack of caring about the instrument deep inside. I am a woodwind, and I am a bassoon player. Not a brass/trumpet player.
But the truth is by switching instruments I was looking for the wrong solution to my problem. So yes, it was bad.
But on the bassoon I am better. I care more, and I have more incentive to practice. Plus it has brought to light my deficiencies, and I am working to finally overcome them. I wouldn't have ever if I had stuck to trumpet, I would have just quit.
Sorry if that isn't directly on topic. But it just might be that there are others out there like me that struggled a little bit and they might have that "grass is greener on the other side" mindset and that might be why they're going through instruments like crazy.
Being a bassoonist, I will have to play another instrument to march again. Ironically one that I don't really play at the moment. rofl cry
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:40 pm
ClarinetGoddess koolkat104 ClarinetGoddess I wil probably never master trombone. I did not really enjoy playign it, or see myself ever managing to maste rit because of this fact. No offence to trombone players. I guess it kinda helps i have short arms, so 4th position was torture and above that was near impossible. I was the exact same way when I tried. I could barely reach 6th. Haha yeah. I nearly broke my window te first note i played, because i overblew really bad and mad a horrible mixtue of squeak and fart that my entire houe shook and the neighbors called the police... Then i nearly broke my frinds head with the slide...oopsXD Hahahah!! I sat behind the clarinets, and our chairs were strangely close due to the gong we set up in the back. I conked the person ahead of me on the head once, then hit his chair a few times.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:48 pm
I've play, and performed, with 4 I think. I started off with Flute, my main, and then as the years went on my middle school had a Jazz Band afterschool, so I picked up the Sax. Then more years passed, and I decided to take Concert band along with Symphony Band, and I play Bassoon for that. And now I am learning Trumpet for the Jazz Band. I can say that I'm decent with Bassoon, but only because I'm much better at Flute and Sax. Sax mainly being because most of the fingerings are the same. I learned more instruments mainly because the opportunities appeared, and I took advantage of them.
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