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Jan. 9th, 2005 03:19 pmBeen taking advantage of time alone inside today to clean up the house, get the studio kinda pieced back together, and practice clarinet.
( Musings of a former classical music snob. )
So, anyway, all things considered I think I'm doing pretty well to barrel through it and play anyway since there's no other way I'll get any better.
And I am getting better, slowly. It's pretty cool. And really strange. It's like being in a time machine back to my first saxophone lessons so many years ago, re-learning fingerings, refiguring where embrochure should be to stay in tune and have good tone, all that stuff that feel like I haven't used in so long. I can play a chromatic scale up to the c above middle c (not concert pitch) and not squawk, and the only thing that really trips me up is my automatic want to finger saxophone fingerings instead of the new clarinet fingerings. I imagine it's a slight bit similar to physical therapy retraining, or something.
( Musings of a former classical music snob. )
So, anyway, all things considered I think I'm doing pretty well to barrel through it and play anyway since there's no other way I'll get any better.
And I am getting better, slowly. It's pretty cool. And really strange. It's like being in a time machine back to my first saxophone lessons so many years ago, re-learning fingerings, refiguring where embrochure should be to stay in tune and have good tone, all that stuff that feel like I haven't used in so long. I can play a chromatic scale up to the c above middle c (not concert pitch) and not squawk, and the only thing that really trips me up is my automatic want to finger saxophone fingerings instead of the new clarinet fingerings. I imagine it's a slight bit similar to physical therapy retraining, or something.
