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

[A.U.K]

Hello Petrat, Notmusimum and Oboecop (intriguing name there)

It was so funny/irritating at the same time...there I was all confident that I could play this Sonata albeit not to perfection but I had it "Down" and would fine tune it over the next couple of weeks, it was still so fresh I was actually reading the score whilst I was playing, I hadn't committed it to memory as of yet, well not all of it. My presto should not have been Allegro, the Siciliano should have had more depth, it definitely lacked soul..and my Largo was a tad fast...the runs in the Presto went "Hoofing" along with most of the articulation but not all which is hardly a great surprise and my teacher looked fairly stunned as I played the entire Sonata...( I do a lot of practice a minimum of 3 hours a day) and in fairness she was very complimentary about my playing/control and tone but as I mentioned I fluffed (forum speak, it won't let me say what I want to say (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) ) the trills etc...I thought they were ok, I accentuatued the note above etc, tongued in the leading note and trilled for all I was worth, but apparantly I was puting an extra note in which was naughty and was far too interprative at times...I was way too caught up in the actual performance of the piece (Bach G minor BMV1030b) and ingnored the most basic of rules...Somebody stand me in the corner right this minute! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) It was all my own doing no one to blame but myself I just got carried away, caught in the moment and made twit of myself....and I might add not for the first time...

I'm not downhearted about it, it's happened, its done, I learn't from it and I WILL NAIL IT but correctly when next I see my teacher, who by the way is beyond fabulous, she never clock watches with me I am only meant to see her I guess for an hour but we always end up doing nearly two (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)...I suspect this is because I do practice a lot and get a lot done...but to my mind, why waste my money and her time...if I am going to do this then I had better put the work in...also I did hear about another pupil of my teachers who was doing post grad studies...she only lasted a month simply because she didn't put the work in and I have no intention of being asked to leave...I wouldn't know what to do...it doesn't bear thinking about so I knuckle down and work my socks off...

I wasn't having a serious moan just a tongue in cheek "well that'll learn you" type laugh at myself...it keeps me perky and upbeat and makes me work even harder...but I could have kicked myself yesterday...


Regards

Andrew

well Lordy Lordy Go tell it on the Mountain, did the wheels ever fall off (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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Sounds to me like you've done well despite this set back. And your teacher will point you in the right direction with technicalities. Don't be too hard on yourself. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Thanks Daisy...I am not going to beat myself up...its one of those things but at the time it was so frustrating and funny at the same time...

[Oboecop]

the name was my friends idea who's a euphonium player so I had to obey (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
In my oboe lessons no matter how well I play my teacher will always find something to improve on if she didn't there would be no point in going to see her, I don't go to my oboe teacher to get told how brilliant everything is (which is just as well!!). If lots of things were very good about it then surely a week of practice with no input from your teacher is really good. (I know I'm basically just reitterating what everyone else has said and your probably over it now anyway but I thought I'd give you my opinion - I'm meant to be writing an essay!)