Parents guide to an oboists reed crisis!
At the start of your child’s practice session do help them check the reed and prepare it for playing.
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20204 min
The joy of REEDS!
How are oboe reeds made? Hopefully this will show you a little about the whole process.
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20201 min
Top notes - you don't have to pull faces to play them!
To all my lovely students, When I teach you high notes why do you all pull odd faces while trying to play them and then look at me and...
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20204 min
You chose to play the oboe! Hurrah!!
In the past week or so you probably went to your first oboe lesson and came home full of all sorts of new information about how to put it...
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20207 min
Scales, they don't have to be boring!
I know, you've all gone yuck the moment you read the title. Well, most of you did. Believe it or not there are people out there that love...
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20203 min
Every piece of music tells a story.
Now answer this honestly... How many of you have actually thought about what the piece of music you are playing is trying the express? I...
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20205 min
Practise, not play through.
At the end of each lesson we ask you to practise. What many of you do is go home and PLAY THROUGH and I'm afraid this isn't good...
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20204 min
Listen, Listen and Listen again!
I've talked about this a bit in a previous blog post but it can never be said too many times..... Its all about the details and it really...
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Rachel Broadbent
Jan 5, 20204 min
Always be more Dynamic
Dynamics! We talk about them so often but what are they and how do we do them? They are the markings in the music telling us to play...
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