Wonderful tips even for someone like me who’s been playing oboe for years! Do you have any tips when learning some of the big orchestral excerpts for auditions, such as Tombeau or Scala?
Glad you like the series! I have lots of tips on both of those, but either video would be longer than what I could fit into a minute. For Scala, I do have a double tonguing clinic video ready to launch soon. For Tombeau, it's so much easier to play with the rest of the ensemble, so most of my approach to it has to do with imagining the lovely context that surrounds it instead of treating it like a technical test. Of course, then there are also details like on-beat grace notes and articulated C# mechanism. Do you have specific questions on either?
Wonderful tips even for someone like me who’s been playing oboe for years! Do you have any tips when learning some of the big orchestral excerpts for auditions, such as Tombeau or Scala?
Glad you like the series! I have lots of tips on both of those, but either video would be longer than what I could fit into a minute. For Scala, I do have a double tonguing clinic video ready to launch soon. For Tombeau, it's so much easier to play with the rest of the ensemble, so most of my approach to it has to do with imagining the lovely context that surrounds it instead of treating it like a technical test. Of course, then there are also details like on-beat grace notes and articulated C# mechanism. Do you have specific questions on either?