Intermediate Band – Oboe
Also look for the general Intermediate Band post from Mr. Dan.
Needed materials:
- Oboe swab (long, thin, usually silk cloth to clean out your instrument) – I forgot to check. If you have these ignore this.
· Minimum of 2 GOOD reeds
· Tuner (I prefer stand-alone [not smartphone/internet], chromatic tuners. Clip-on are fine.)
This Week’s Assignment:
Continue warming up with Essential Elements pp 30 – end, Especially p. 40 #1-6 – Continue to use these for warm-up/practice fingering facility.
Learn and memorize your scales up to 3# and 3b. Work your chromatic scale in a comfortable range. Add new notes one at a time until each is comfortable and easy to play.
Sight Reading practice: https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/app?instrument=Oboe. Pick your range and set any other preferences, key, time, etc. Do a couple per day to help with your fingerings and sight reading skills.
Rhythm a Week #1-6
Christmas Cameo
Adeste Fidelis
Patriotic Favorites – Battle Hymn of the Republic
Film Favorites – Pirates of the Caribbean
- For these, focus on style! Articulations, dynamics, intonation, phrasing. See if you can find recordings online to listen to.
Successful practice time:
- Quiet space
- All materials present
- Good Posture
- Warm up with deep breaths for 1-2 minutes (10 seconds in, 10 seconds out)
Successful music practice:
- Look for time signature, key signature(s), tempo(s), dynamics, and accidentals.
- Clap, tap, or buzz rhythm before playing.
- Silently finger/position through the piece in tempo.
- Play through the exercise.
- If you can play through it 4x without a mistake you have mastered it.