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Music should be fun, right?

Author: andrewsong
Date: 2010-11-08 21:26

I am quite sad. I realize that music should be fun and enjoyable and free for the musician to make an interpretation. But whenever I play clarinet, reeds just bother me. Not like an annoying mosquito that crosses your path. I want to be free to make music, but the reeds always always restrict me. Sometimes the reeds are too hard, sometimes theyre too soft, sometimes theyre are stuffy, sometimes they are not even useable. I know how to adjust my reeds and alter them, but they still give me trouble. I spend almost all of my "practice" time just messing around with them.

I'm not just a beginning student. I am a junior in high school and have played 7 years and made All-State and other things. But if I am too bothered with this reed aspect of the clarinet, should I move on to a different intrument? I'm not majoring in music, just an avid lover.

Or is it that with a serious emboucher re-haul, I can enjoy clarinet again?

Please give me some adivce~~~~~ Thanks!

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