Sandra Downing's Oboe
technique doctor can be used alongside any tutor book. Oboe
tutor books only teach music. They don't show you how to play
your oboe properly. If they do try, many of them get the basics
completely wrong.
Above all, Oboe tutor
books NEVER tell you what to do when things do go wrong.
The Oboe Technique Doctor
does.
We show you how to hold
and play your oboe effortlessly and correctly.
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on the picture
No
matter whether you are a beginner or an old hand, we cover basics
from developing a good Oboe embouchure from the first sound to playing
top notes. Low notes, middle notes, high notes with great
tone and easily.
All this
in a handy pocket size book.
Do you recognise any of these problems?
1. I can't get any notes below
G in the bottom register.
2. My sound is very thin and weedy, particularly
in the middle and upper registers. My family says I sound like a
mouse in a match-box.
3. My sound is very loud and raucous, particularly
when I have been playing for a while and I'm always being told that
I play flat.
4. I can't get the sound to start exactly when
I want it to. I am always two or three beats late in the orchestra.
5. I keep getting high squeaks when I am playing,
particularly when I am playing solo. It is very embarrassing.
6. My right thumb and lower arm hurt after
playing for a short while.
7. I
get out of breath and out of time when playing staccato passages.
8. I cannot play scales evenly - there are
often extra little notes in between.
9. I have difficulty reaching the alternative
E flat key.
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on the picture
10. I can't play wide intervals downwards -
the notes just jump up the octave. If I try wide intervals upwards,
the note stays low.
We explain fully and clearly
and simply, without meaningles jargon, how to form and develop a
good oboe embouchure; how to do legato and staccato tonguing; selecting
a reed.
Whether you are a beginner
or an old hand, you will find the book a great help in getting you
playing better.
The author, Dr Sandra
Downing and editor Peter Moore have both been victims of poor teaching
and understand fully the problems of overcoming faults.
Follow their advice and you will
ENJOY your playing a lot more.
"I have read the Oboe Technique Doctor with
great interest; I only wish
a publication like that had been available when I was playing and
teaching the oboe some years ago; I'm sure it would have been a great
help in reinforcing my own teaching on my unsuspecting students. May
I
be bold enough to add one point which I think might be considered
for
the "Hot Tips"? It really applies to female oboe players,
though in
these unisex days one never knows! I have found that lipstick is one
of
the worst destroyers of a reed, and it's really better if it's not
applied before playing, or at the very least, well removed. I hope
you
don't mind my mentioning that.
Very best wishes,
Jenny Hutchinson
Scarborough"
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