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 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:24 pm
What is/was your biggest obstacle in band? And how are you/did you overcome it?
I didn't learn how to tongue properly until ninth grade and I had been playing my oboe since sixth. That, my bad tone and terrible tuning were probably my biggest obstacles. I'm still struggling with the round, rich tone but everything else has gotten a lot better.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:15 am
I never learned to properly read music and still struggle with it on the page, even though I've been playing for almost 10 years. I just learned to play by ear, so if I hear it once I can get pretty close to it. In truth, I still suck at sight reading and try to avoid sheet music whenever possible.
Joining marching band was difficult, too, because I had duck feet and turning them straight made my knees face eachother, which made roll stepping darn-near impossible. But band actually corrected the problem for me: after 4 years of trying to roll step every waking moment, my feet eventually moved into the proper position for it and I can walk normally now.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:08 pm
Well the first biggest obstacle was teaching myself to read music properly, I used to play guitar but I never really knew how to read it on my own, I just heard and repeated. Now, it's learning how to double tongue. We play a lot of fast-paced pieces in my symphonic band and a lot of the time, the one and only tenor sax gets a lot of sixteenths that require double tonguing in order to sound good. It's just a matter of working up to it, really. Getting faster and faster and learning how to use the different parts of my tongue.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:27 pm
My biggest obstacle is key signatures. i tend to ust look at the music on the page, and don't note what notes are sharp or flat in the key signature. Thats only when sightreading though. When i mess up a signature, I mark all the notes in it and circle sharps/flats. when i dont have to look at the circles anymore , i erase them.
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:12 am
i could never figure out what rhythms were supposed to sound like. not like straight 16ths or something, but dotted 8th notes and 8th rests thrown in. i always had to hear it first. i could write it on the page like 1 e, a but actually figuring out exactly what that sounded like was difficult unless i'd heard it enough. (like in 8th grade, after playing since 4th, i could finally remember what a dotted quarter, 8th was supposed to sound like....)
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