Your main weakness in general musicianship ?

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  • StephenO

    #16
    No problems with tempo or rhythm but I have an unfortunate, and rather odd, tendency to swap over the left and right hand parts so I end up playing the left hand part several octaves higher with my right hand and vice versa. Must be something wrong with my excuse for a brain!

    With the clarinet, it's forgetting to breathe and suddenly realising I'm in the middle of a long phrase with not enough breath left to finish it. Pant! Gasp!

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      #17
      Originally posted by StephenO View Post
      ...tendency to swap over the left and right hand parts so I end up playing the left hand part several octaves higher with my right hand and vice versa
      wow! - clever trick - I'm jealous!

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
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        • Nov 2010
        • 20570

        #18
        Originally posted by StephenO View Post
        With the clarinet, it's forgetting to breathe and suddenly realising I'm in the middle of a long phrase with not enough breath left to finish it. Pant! Gasp!
        Oh, I think we've all done that. But I've found, when practising the bagpipes, that all my years playing the oboe mean that I try to breath with the music, rather than keeping the bag fully inflated. So the sound stops.

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12797

          #19
          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          But I've found, when practising the bagpipes, that all my years playing the oboe mean that I try to breath with the music, rather than keeping the bag fully inflated. So the sound stops.
          surely that should be, "So the sound stops "

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          • mikerotheatrenestr0y

            #20
            If, when singing, I hit a wrong note, I will mostly pitch the next interval correctly from that wrong note. So, not just incompetent, but deeply incompetent. I must listen harder to Django Bates' Interval Song. I date my respiratory problems to not breathing during recorder practice in primary school. Since I understood neither the written music nor the fingerings, I knew I was bound to be playing the wrong note if I let any air at all escape. This state of affairs has never improved, and is unlikely to do so.

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
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              • Nov 2010
              • 20570

              #21
              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              surely that should be, "So the sound stops "
              The people around would agree with you.

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              • Tapiola
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                • Jan 2011
                • 1688

                #22
                Originally posted by Eudaimonia View Post
                Sometimes when I'm singing to myself as I'm tidying house, I'll throw in a key change between verses for no reason at all.
                Eudaimonia,

                I wouldn't call that a weakness in musicianship. I'd just call the Taste Police
                Last edited by Tapiola; 24-01-11, 16:46.

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