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 Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:59 am
Mr Seek Hey there. I plays the oboe. And another great oboe moment. New World Symphony. beginning of mevement 3 if I'm right. Yup, oboe is an awesome instrument isnt it. So how long have you been playing seek? What kind of oboe do you play on? Do you go to school?
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:13 pm
Quote: Yup, oboe is an awesome instrument isnt it. So how long have you been playing seek? What kind of oboe do you play on? Do you go to school? Senior in high school. I've been playing for about 7 years now. I started learning how to make reeds last summer. I play on a wood Yamaha and I love it. More great oboe = "Six Metamorphosis after Ovid." <-oboe solos. Amazing. I started learning how to play those a while ago but then learning how to make reeds became more important than learning solos for the sake of learning them.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:13 pm
Mr Seek Quote: Yup, oboe is an awesome instrument isnt it. So how long have you been playing seek? What kind of oboe do you play on? Do you go to school? Senior in high school. I've been playing for about 7 years now. I started learning how to make reeds last summer. I play on a wood Yamaha and I love it. More great oboe = "Six Metamorphosis after Ovid." <-oboe solos. Amazing. I started learning how to play those a while ago but then learning how to make reeds became more important than learning solos for the sake of learning them. Yeah learning to make reeds is... yeah... special, and important. I just started doing so. I play on a Loree, its like my own child. I named him Sullivan. Im actually playing a game of catch up with oboe. Im an odd case, I started halfway through my junior year of high school. But I didnt go right into a university music major, because you cant really get into a university with only a year and a half experience. I stayed at home and continued to take private lessons (to catch up). Im in a community college as a music major now, and i've been playing for 6 years, im in the orchestra in town too. I think im about ready though so Im going to try and transfer to FSU next fall. Im working on the auditions, and im taking lessons from the professor there as well. I have actually never heard Six Metamorphosis after Ovid. But I will definately look it up. I love hearing of new music, especially if it has awesome oboe solos.
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:04 pm
Yeah. My Yamaha doesn't have a name (I need to name it) but i know what you meen when you say that your oboe is your baby. I s**t bricks the first time my Yamaha got a crack in it. The crack ran through the octave openings and the company said that they were only going to put plastic inserts in instead of replacing the wood. I set them straight though. It was a pretty poor piece of wood and cracked within 6 months of buying it. I've been taking private lessons since I started because it was a requirement if I wanted to play oboe at my school. What did you play before you started playing the oboe?
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:25 pm
I started on flute, but I got sick of it because everyone and thier brother plays flute. We had like a million, plus it got boring to play after a while. (No offense to flute players) When I first heard someone play the oboe I truly thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. So I kind of spontainiously switched one day.
From what I understand your supposed to be like uber careful with new oboes. My teacher just got a brand new loree, and she'll only play it for like 10 min at a time so it wont crack. If it changes temperture to fast when its new it will crack. You have to break them in slowly so they dont crack.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:23 pm
Yeah I hear that about the flutes. When you say everyone you mean everyone and it's not just your band.
Yeah, for about the first 2 months I had it I only played for ten minutes at a time twice a day, and never within four hours of the last ten minutes. After that though I switched to 30 minutes and gradually built up from there. It wasn't a problem with the practicing method, or care for, so much as the the top piece itself. There was already a really strange looking grain to the wood and my teacher said if it cracked anywhere, it would be at the octave holes.
I saw on another thread that you just preformed a Marcello Concerto. I actually just went to a sheet music supplier to get a copy of Marcello's Oboe Conceto in D Minor because I'm going to play that for a solo contest this year. Yeppers. It's 7:23 now so it's almost time for an evening practice session.
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:48 am
Awesome, the Marcello is a fun one to play. I performed it for the first time in a recital friday. Im going to do it again in a competition at the end of January along with a Howard Hanson piece. Because I have to have two contrasting period pieces.
My "Marcello in D" is actually written in C minor... xp go figure... That was just the particular copy my teacher had, and she didnt even notice untill I was like... Whoa.... I have NEVER seen or heard that song in C minor, I dont know if you have or not...
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:50 pm
Actually I have, go figure. My teacher actually told me to get the C Minor version but I got the D Minor one instead (stupid me). Oh well, it really doesn't make much of a difference. I was just listening to a recording of the piece preformed in D Minor earlier this evening and it sounded the same to me.
Ooh... What Howard Hanson piece are you playing?
Something, something, something.... I forgot what I was going to say.
It'll come to me eventually.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:19 pm
hmmm I wonder which is easier then. Im curious as to why your teacher would want you to get the C minor instead. Its 3 flats vs. 1 flat... You would think the D minor would be easier. confused I dunno...
Im playing Pastorale for Piano and Oboe op.38. It's interesting... I didnt like it at first but its starting to grow on me. Im also working on Bach's Cantata #12 for auditions at FSU.
I really need to get ALL my scales down though... I despise scales, but who dosn't really. O_o rolleyes I dont mind practicing, but its hard to sit there and do scales when you could be doing something else. I like to complain about them if you havn't noticed...
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:37 pm
For some reason 3 flats seems like it would be easier to me but that's probably because my teacher started me off with Bb major, then C, then Eb, Ab, and I just kept adding flats. I was taught about flats more right away so I guess I'm just used to them.
That's okay, I complain about scales too. If you have trouble finding the willpower required for practicing scales alone, then you should check out a book called Gekeler Method. Its got great exercises in it and it really helped me out a lot with my scale proficiency.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:39 pm
I guess its all in preference then because I have an easier time with sharps.
You'll never guess what my teacher handed me today....
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid... im a little creeped out.
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:35 pm
Harharhar. (that's what I sound like when I laugh. Yep. I sound like a manly pirate.... but not really. ~sighs~)
Now that's funny. You'll really enjoy the piece though. The last one was always the hardest for me because i picked up the pieces when they were a little bit out of my range. It used to bother me so much that I couldn't play the last one but I can now so woo. Sorry. I streamed my thoughts for a second there.
Anyway... My favorite it either Pan or Baccus. I love these so much. Trust me so will you.
... it is kinda creepy though.
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:30 pm
I've been playing oboe for about a year now! I really like it. An oboe player I worked with in Boston told me that I had really good tone and understanding of each pitch after I had only been playing for four months...so that made me happy. =D I'm hoping to get lessons soon, the closest I've had to anything like one is just that oboe player giving me tips and stuff. I'm playing English Horn for a piece in concert band and in pit orchestra, too...I love it!
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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:25 pm
Right now I play Bassoon, but I'd actually like to take on the English Horn sometime soon. Yes, that's right. The English Horn. It just sounds so much more mellow than a regular old Oboe. The Oboe is too high pitched and shrill for me! sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:37 pm
I really like english horn, even though I don't sound too great on it (and I have so much trouble reaching the Db when sitting down...stupid small hands xd ). Professional english horn sounds so cool! I really like lower range oboe, so that's probably why I enjoy english horn more, too.
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