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 Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:02 am
so, i'm going off to my first college band "retreat" (band camp) in exactly a month (no school till the 19th of sept lol) but the problem is, i've been in guard and not in band for all of high school, and my college doesn't have a guard, even if i'd wanted to continue it. i do still have my old clarinet, but i've had it since 4th grade and it wasn't even supposed to last through middle school. so it needs a lot of work and its a piece of poop. some of my HS band friends have offered to sell me their old marching clarinets, but at this point idk if i even want to play clarinet anymore. it seems...not me i guess. i guess i've always thought french horn was kinda cool, but i like woodwinds, so that kinda limits me to sax and....sax...because i'm not a flute person. (but my roomie played clarinet and is switching to alto so i'm like i don't want it to look like I'm copying her...bad first impression ya know?) so....any ideas on what i should do? should i just stick with clarinet even though i suck from not playing for 4 years? rawr.
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:44 pm
i went from playing the viola for 2 years to the double bass then after 3 years of that to the clarinet for all of high school and i hated that... then when i went back to the double bass the last semester of my senior year.
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:28 pm
As a Horn player, I feel like telling you you should definitely give horn a try, but really, it's what you want. Just see if you feel confident behind whatever you try and with that, you'll succeed.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:36 pm
If you think you're gonna end up sucking on clarinet, why not go for something else you'd rather play? :]
Learning new instruments isn't THAT bad. A lot of jazz band people double instruments all the time (particularly woodwinds), and woodwind players pick up brass or percussion in order to do drum corps and winter percussion.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:02 am
Some of my friends have gone from Calrinet to Sax. It's not a particularly hard switch, since they're both reeds and everything. So if you think that you're not going to want to be a clarinet, I would switch (Plus, I personally don't think switching is all that hard. I did flute to sax and got it realitively quickly).
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