Isnt It A Bummer When....... Options

[A.U.K]

I am oooh so dissapointed in myself...My usual two weekly slot had to jump forward a week as holiday plans were getting in the way. I had knuckled down, learnt all three movements of this Oboe Sonata in under a week...(it wasn't particularly difficult) so I thought "yes thats not bad in 6 days", "all the notes are there and its ornamented"..."I take it along and play it"...well Lordy Lordy Go tell it on the Mountain, did the wheels ever fall off (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Apparantly rythmically I was correct but my trills were starting half a beat to early (all of them...wretched Baroque trills). Add to that I was, for some bizzare reason accelarating in the runs which as we all know is absolutely spankable (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) and simply not the done thing...What was I thinking I have no idea, what was I doing...I thought I had nailed it but NO, quite the contray. yes I had the notes I knew the piece but I broke the rules from a Baroque standpoint and my performance was undone...It was very frustrating. My teacher was lovely about it but as she said "Rules is Rules" and particularly in Baroque they are pretty rigid...

So there you go, tongue in cheek rant over...I thought I had done quite well...but as we all know "Pride cometh before a Fall"...

Hey ho...

Andrew

[itchy1]

Hard luck Andrew, I know the feeling. You want everything to go right, and then your fingers get tangled up...I think in all the lessons I've had, I've only ever had one piece where my teacher said he had nothing to say...this time round, I made plenty of mistakes, but he reckoned I played my chunk of Bach reasonably well and the last note was great...Now back to Haydn. I have to learn about bravura "in your face"/"look at me, I'm fantastic" oboe playing... it's not my natural style! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)
Still, it's all good in the learning process, at least your teacher thinks you're worth pushing on and up for some hard work. Every time I'm pushed to get things just right, it always pays off, simply because it's easier next time you have to play the piece.

[A.U.K]

Hard luck Andrew, I know the feeling. You want everything to go right, and then your fingers get tangled up...I think in all the lessons I've had, I've only ever had one piece where my teacher said he had nothing to say...this time round, I made plenty of mistakes, but he reckoned I played my chunk of Bach reasonably well and the last note was great...Now back to Haydn. I have to learn about bravura "in your face"/"look at me, I'm fantastic" oboe playing... it's not my natural style! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)
Still, it's all good in the learning process, at least your teacher thinks you're worth pushing on and up for some hard work. Every time I'm pushed to get things just right, it always pays off, simply because it's easier next time you have to play the piece.

It was soooo frustrating I made the silliest of errors which I should have known better...twas all my own doing...and in fairness my teacher did seem fairly stunned that I had tackled the whole sonata in just under a week but I wanted to have the bare bones ready for the lesson so I could fine tune it and memorise it over the next few weeks...As for the bravura well I think I had just the tincey weensiet bit too much of that and ended up with egg on my face (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) it never hurts me to be pulled down a peg or two...adn when it was mentioned that I handled the hemiolas nicely I just said thank you with not a single clue what a Hemiola was...am still none the wiser (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I just saw the notes and the rhythm and played the wretched phrase, Hemiolas included at no extra charge... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

As I mentioned the notes were all there but I didn't stick to the rules for Baroque music and my fingers were getting faster and faster in the runs....my poor tongue was having one heck of a job matching the speed it must have looked and sounded a bit frantic rather like a duck landing on a frozen pond... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Anyway we discussed my next couple of weeks work and then my teacher said "Oh just for some light relief could you sight read the Cimarosa for me now" so out came the music and I read the 1st 2nd and 3rd movements...for her. You can't really say I was sight reading, I have heard this Concerto many times so that always makes things easier but at the end of a nearly two hour lesson it was one heck of a blow...

Never mind we always have a cup of tea and choccy biscuits afterwards and that always makes me feel very spoilt... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

It's interesting though when we think we have something correctly established to watch the bridges come tumbling down... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Also its vital that we get brought to task about our playing...no one is perfect...(except AmandaL and CarolPiano) and a gentle reminder that we don't know it all does nobody any harm whatsoever...

Hey ho...feeling perky...

Andrew