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He said that a sax can not practice for a month and then pick it back up and sound like nothing had changed. I'd say that's absolutely not true. There is no instrument that you're going to play as well a month after a month off as you did before you took that month off of practice. And even if ther...

no.. i ordered it from winds and brass or w/e... they shipped one with a bad cork and sent me another that was better... thats what i like about them... got my gem. upgrade flute from them as well... (def wont get pro there... actually want to see and play it first!!) You probably mean Woodwind & B...

I just got done acting in footloose so I know what you mean. We hadn't even gotten through an entire act by opening night. It was really scary because if you know the show it is a lot of dancing! I was Ren and I'm not the best dancer in the world. The sound and lighting had a very difficult time, an...

It probably isn't the same idea but I do that when I'm singing. In a musical you have to have astounding diction, so I end up slobbering everywhere!:shock:

I wouldn't personally worry a lot about it. Perhaps trying to coordinate times when you can swallow in your music?

My band director always said, "Put your dumb kids on sax."! :shock: It is pretty simple. When I read this I laughed. I don't find it mean, it is just one of those stereotypical band jokes. One thing our director always jokes about is if a kid can't play the trumpet, you give him drumsticks. If he c...

I practice the oboe about two hours a day. I do longtones with a tuner for the entire range of my instrument, then I do some warm up type exercises. All my scales in major and the three minor forms with a metronome. I start and end on an 8th note with sixteenths in between, I do this at 60 beats the...

On oboe it comes in handy on long solos with few places to breathe. It is really hard not to end up with useless air in your lungs, so instead of having to let out air at one rest, and breath in again at the next breath you can circular breathe.

Thanks a lot for the advice. On oboe and various other instruments it is very easy to circular breathe without causing anymore than a minute difference in sound. On the flute however, I could very rarely even continue the sound much less have good tone. Thanks again!

I can circular breathe no problem on oboe, but I can't on flute. My director says you can on flute, but puffing out my cheeks wrecks my flute embouchure so I can't inhale. Is it possible on flute? Any tips?

I use a wooden head on a metal body. They aren't the nicest head and body combination because I don't have a lot of money, but I love how it plays.

The wooden embochoure is different than the metal one because it doesn't have a lip plate. I think that marching should have metal piccolos or plastic with metal heads. I prefer the warmer sound of a wooden piccolo for any other type of playing. It is more difficult to get used to, but has more pote...

If they are youngish I would suggest accent on acheivment. (the book). They will recognize almost everything in it (which can make learning an instrument very fun and rewarding for a new player) and it is written in very easy terms. Some other books are difficult to understand with no musical backro...

Making reeds can be a ton of fun!... sometimes. Othertimes you spend 3 hours getting a reed perfect and then accidentally move the knife the tiniest little bit in the wrong direction and the reed is ruined. Also, a reed has about 1 good week of playing in it and about two weeks devoted to breaking i...

im actually considering learning oboe, or something as rare as it. Then ill be a shoe in! :D flute has SO SO much competition. its like.... wow, hard, to get in. I don't want to deter you from trying if that is what you wish but you should keep in mind that playing the oboe is never ever a shoe in....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyaL6BG6OU

I really love that video. You think "jeeze, twinkle twinkle little star? thats for little kids". However, he makes it really cool.