Eddie is not only charming, warm and so personable, but also a brilliant musician and a superb teacher. I so appreciate his teaching efforts. Thank you, Eddie and BMS. Gary Silber. 65 year old amateur musician
Eddie is my friend & my idol! A great musician & a great guy. Eddie IS a great doubler! Great Clarinet, Sax & Flute, a major NYC studio musician. Bravo Eddie!
i'm no Eddie Daniels (at least not yet!) but I can say as someone with a degree in clarinet/saxophone and a masters in multiple woodwinds, it has taken me years to figure out he is exactly right. You have to make each instrument you play sound like your primary instrument and the only way to do that is to make it your primary instrument. I was a saxophonist trying to be a clarinetist without letting myself be a clarinettist! Of course, now i'm 100% oboe so we'll just have to see it through :)
Brilliant advice. That said, I go to an international school, and a lot of the people I know did learn multiple languages simultaneously. Often they'll have two parents who speak to languages, and then their friends speak another. Of course, everyone speaks a decent amount of English, but often they've learnt it and another, or two others, simultaneously right from the start. Just my 2 cents.
hmm perhaps it'd be good to hear from someone like him about the difference in embouchure and how learning one affects the other embouchures... I mean, the channeling of air would be pretty similar, but the ultimate(final) direction of air is verrrrry different and I wonder if it would be a problem.
How would you approach the idea of learning clarinet/flute/oboe/bassoon(currently clarinet but the others over time) as the primary instrument if your studying the saxophone, and thats the instrument you spend your time prepping ensemble music and etudes and repertoire for?
part 3: I think the actual dynamic involved in playing more than one instrument well is respecting the very fine differences from instrument to instrument, and not allowing yourself to simply call up 'similar' behaviors that 'more or less' get the job done that you learned on some other instrument. This can be done simultaneously or in series. So simply put, I respectfully disagree with your analogy.
part 2: There is considerable evidence that we are evolutionarily hardwired for language production (Chomsky), and though we may be hardwired for music as well, I can't speak to whether or not this applies to using our fingers in this way, or whether or not there is a cutoff window as with language.
he's not speaking for natural virtuousos, he's saying whoever wants to practice multi-instrumentalism. They aren't specially hardwired as they are the everyman
so i'm sure a kid under the age of twelve (average kid, not a virtuoso) can learn two to three instruments perfectly well of course? Multi-Instrumentalism is different from multilingualism because its a physical aspect in play as well instead of something like the voice which is practiced and honed at any given time
I'm confused on what he's saying. Is he saying that when you start practicing a double you should stop practicing your primary to focus on the double entirely? Because that doesn't seem right…
Unfortunately the analogy you use here doesn't really work. Many people around the world learn 2 or even 3 languages at the same time in childhood. This is generally considered by linguists as the most authentic form of multilingualism. There is a very specific window for reaching fluency in a language, and that is usually before age 12. Having a 'primary' language first, as you say, actually actually creates significant cognitive dissonance when learning another languages phonetics and grammar.
Eddie is not only charming, warm and so personable, but also a brilliant musician and a superb teacher. I so appreciate his teaching efforts. Thank you, Eddie and BMS. Gary Silber. 65 year old amateur musician
Eddie IS still a very good flute player - one of my favorites.
Great way of thinking about it and so true👌
Eddie is my friend & my idol! A great musician & a great guy. Eddie IS a great doubler! Great Clarinet, Sax & Flute, a major NYC studio musician. Bravo Eddie!
He was a surprisingly good flute player-good tone and control and made an authentic 'straight' sound not like a doubler.
i'm no Eddie Daniels (at least not yet!) but I can say as someone with a degree in clarinet/saxophone and a masters in multiple woodwinds, it has taken me years to figure out he is exactly right. You have to make each instrument you play sound like your primary instrument and the only way to do that is to make it your primary instrument. I was a saxophonist trying to be a clarinetist without letting myself be a clarinettist! Of course, now i'm 100% oboe so we'll just have to see it through :)
Brilliant advice.
That said, I go to an international school, and a lot of the people I know did learn multiple languages simultaneously. Often they'll have two parents who speak to languages, and then their friends speak another. Of course, everyone speaks a decent amount of English, but often they've learnt it and another, or two others, simultaneously right from the start.
Just my 2 cents.
One of my fav Eddie vids.. wish id done a bit more with flute
His comment regarding getting established and secure on one instrument FIRST is bang on the money :-) imo
hmm perhaps it'd be good to hear from someone like him about the difference in embouchure and how learning one affects the other embouchures... I mean, the channeling of air would be pretty similar, but the ultimate(final) direction of air is verrrrry different and I wonder if it would be a problem.
Sounds Familiar Eddie!!
How would you approach the idea of learning clarinet/flute/oboe/bassoon(currently clarinet but the others over time) as the primary instrument if your studying the saxophone, and thats the instrument you spend your time prepping ensemble music and etudes and repertoire for?
part 3: I think the actual dynamic involved in playing more than one instrument well is respecting the very fine differences from instrument to instrument, and not allowing yourself to simply call up 'similar' behaviors that 'more or less' get the job done that you learned on some other instrument. This can be done simultaneously or in series. So simply put, I respectfully disagree with your analogy.
is it normal for classical musicians to only know one instrument?
Absolutely
hey whats that scale or warm up that he is playing on the intro?
He basically ran major scales in multiple octaves and changed keys like 4 times :-)
The Klose scales
part 2: There is considerable evidence that we are evolutionarily hardwired for language production (Chomsky), and though we may be hardwired for music as well, I can't speak to whether or not this applies to using our fingers in this way, or whether or not there is a cutoff window as with language.
i would have never guessed he started on sax first.
he's not speaking for natural virtuousos, he's saying whoever wants to practice multi-instrumentalism. They aren't specially hardwired as they are the everyman
so i'm sure a kid under the age of twelve (average kid, not a virtuoso) can learn two to three instruments perfectly well of course? Multi-Instrumentalism is different from multilingualism because its a physical aspect in play as well instead of something like the voice which is practiced and honed at any given time
I'm confused on what he's saying. Is he saying that when you start practicing a double you should stop practicing your primary to focus on the double entirely? Because that doesn't seem right…
Its more about the mindset you have going into it
that's basically what he is saying.
Shouts to Joe Soldo
Too bad he won't ever read that
I'm not a doubler, but I play multiple instruments. Erm kay...
Unfortunately the analogy you use here doesn't really work. Many people around the world learn 2 or even 3 languages at the same time in childhood. This is generally considered by linguists as the most authentic form of multilingualism. There is a very specific window for reaching fluency in a language, and that is usually before age 12. Having a 'primary' language first, as you say, actually actually creates significant cognitive dissonance when learning another languages phonetics and grammar.