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Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 03:08 AM

I don't know what you mean by the first question, but I can answer the second. I usually think of the line - not the individual notes but what the whole sounds like. The only time I go note by note is when I'm first learning a piece.

dessertdesiert 05-02-2012 03:33 AM

how many instruments do you play/know how to play?

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 03:37 AM

My primary instrument is the clarinet, but I theoretically know how to play all the instruments in your normal wind band. In practice, I can get a good sound out on all of them, but I'm most comfortable playing trombone, bassoon, alto saxophone, and piano. It's part of the requirements for a band director. You have to know the fundamentals of how to play an instrument before you can teach it.

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 03:43 AM

I used to play the clarinet. I could play four different clarinets.

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 03:45 AM

Which ones? I prefer bass clarinet myself. It's actually what I auditioned on to get into the music school.

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 03:47 AM

Bflat saprano, eflat saprano, eflat alto and bflat bass. Bflat bass being my fav.

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 03:53 AM

Yes! Bass for the win! I've never tried the alto or the Eb though. I've never been asked to, but I'd like to try them. I also want to try out some of the others like the C or D sopranos just to see what they sound like. I really love the sound of the A soprano clarinet. It's a lovely dark sound.

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 03:55 AM

Eb is small. And what pissed the fucking hell out of me about it is that I took the thing home, bought reeds, practiced for a solid month and I didn't get to play it in band. Why? Because I wasn't first chair. When I played the Eb alto I got to play the sax parts and sit with them. It was so freaking awesome.

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 03:58 AM

Yeah, Eb is really hard to play. It's the piccolo of the clarinet family.

Saxophone and the players are generally pretty fun. Today was my last day student teaching at my first placement, and some of the students I'm going to miss most are my saxes. For the most part they were a bunch of sweethearts. Them, the horns, the trombones, the tubas, the clarinets, the . . . Okay, all of them! XD

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 03:59 AM

And the first chair clarinet player sucked at playing it. I got seriously good at it.

LOL. I miss being able to play.

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 04:05 AM

I hate it when the first chair person gets to do all kinds of things even when they're not really qualified.

Is there a community band you can play with? Or a university ensemble nearby? Or is it because you don't have access to an instrument?

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 04:06 AM

I can't play any more because I'm so out of practice. I have my old Bb soprano clarinet. I can't play it worth a damn anymore though.

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 04:12 AM

I see. It's what we've had to bang into our students' heads about practicing. You don't keep up, you'll get behind. Although, if you had the time, you could probably get back into practice. It would just take awhile.

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 04:13 AM

Yeah, and new cork on my instrument as well.

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 04:17 AM

Gah, cork. I swear, I've had to work on more instruments in the past three months than ever in my life, but I am so glad no one needed me to fix a cork. I hate when those go wonky.

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 04:19 AM

Mine have most likely gone wonky through disuse.

Ga In 05-02-2012 04:22 AM

Hewwo! o_O is everyone talking about music? for me music is like a one-sided love, seriously, i love it so much but it's so hard to understand, like reading music sheets is hard for me.

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 04:22 AM

I am currently the director of my churches chimes choir.

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 04:24 AM

It's unfortunate that wind instruments get crappier with age while strings get more valuable.

Chimes? I used to love playing handbells. My grandmother's gift to my church after her death was to give the seed money to buy handbells. My brother, aunt, and I used to play with the choir.

@Ga In: Hard how? Confusing?

Ga In 05-02-2012 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Kin-Akari (Post 1770680010)
It's unfortunate that wind instruments get crappier with age while strings get more valuable.

Chimes? I used to love playing handbells. My grandmother's gift to my church after her death was to give the seed money to buy handbells. My brother, aunt, and I used to play with the choir.

@Ga In: Hard how? Confusing?

I don't know how to tune instruments and read sheets. T___T I attempted to learn but I didn't understand. There are so many terms I don't know.

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 04:29 AM

Yeah chimes. http://www.stpaulschurchchatham.com/...and-chimes.jpg

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 04:32 AM

@ Kirin: Yeah, chimes. We had a set of those too. I'm just more used to calling them hand chimes. ^^

@Ga In: Perhaps you just need to take it at your own pace, and go slowly. Any specialty can be overwhelming when you looking at all the stuff you need to know. When did you try learning? Was it in a band class or something?

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 04:33 AM

I call my chimes choir my chimers. *giggles*

Kin-Akari 05-02-2012 04:34 AM

Better than the nickname one of our smart aleck members came up with - the Ding Dongs. XD

Kirin Rosenbaum 05-02-2012 04:35 AM

Or the dingalings. There is a young gentleman in the choir who is autistic.


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