Oboe

[Louis XXIV]

Hey, does anyone here play the Oboe? I've been playing for a long time, but there is still a lot of things I don't know about it (specifically trilling). I'm wondering if anyone can help me out.

When I trill an A flat, what notes am I going between? Also, is there some easy way to do this at a fast speed?

Thanks

 

[MjM]

I play Tuba. No trills for me!

 

[Louis XXIV]

I suppose it would be even harder if you played Trombone.


Or drums...

 

[MjM]

Uh, what about buzzes? Those are kinda trills.

 

[I am the Future]

I played oboe for a year, hated it.

SO I switched to percussion.

 

[Louis XXIV]

So you took the easy way out

If anyone with at least general musical knowledge wants to refresh my memory, if I'm trilling an A flat, am I going between A flat and B flat (concert E flat scale)?

 

[Louis XXIV]

Hope for a lucky bump (only time, I promise)

 

[ybbor]

this is coming from a trumpet player-which doesn't trill- and I haven't played in *counts on fingers* 9 months but I think you're going between A and A# but I'm really not a definitive source

EDIT: wiki seems to think you would go between A and B, unless there's an acciedental sign

 

[vbraun]

Buy Rubank's Advanced Method books, they should have a COMPLETE fingering chart, and they give you some fun excersices to work on!

(You can always use more etudes )

 

[cegman]

I play oboe. I am thinking A flat and A but there must be a trill key for it on there somewhere. Dang i hate having easy music. I need a good reed do you have any tips where I can get them cheap?

 

[Louis XXIV]

Everything I've heard says to get reeds from a specialist. I used to have a private teacher who made her own reeds, and that's how I got mine, but that was a long time ago. Now I just buy them and quality reeds are hard to find (and, for the most part, they all cost something like $12).

For trilling, A flat to A isn't very easy. My initial thought was it was A flat to B flat, and that's about as hard. There has to be some trick that I'm overlooking, though, since its very hard to move back and forth like that. Unfortunately, the last 3 measures of the song I'm playing is trilling an A flat to end the song, so I can't exactly not play and let other people finish the song.

 

[Stuck_as_a_Mac]

A to Aflat or Aflat to B?

And yeah, buy a method book.

edit: bloody hell. i've missplaced my trill fingering chart.
edit2: found my old bookmark for my online one

http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/oboe/

(Download their software.. I still learn from it after 4 years)

 

[madviking]

I play trombone!

 

[Japher]

I played the bassoon for 14 years, haven't touched it in a while though. I use cheat on my trills, they could only pick it up if I had to solo, which was rare. I would double tongue while poorly performing the actuall trill motion. I was just too slow. Trill keys are great, if there is one for that note. Alternative fingerings can help too as they generally have a slightly different pitch and if you can make the switches quick enough.... anyway, I;ve never played oboe

 

[BCLG100]

im not even totally sure what an oboe is if im honest, i can play the piano adequatly though but im guessing there not that similar

 

[madviking]

Oboe is a clarinet except with a differnet reed.

 

[Stuck_as_a_Mac]

BCLG: Remember what I like to threaten people with in the chat room?

THATS an oboe.

and no, it aint a clarinet. t-uh-rust me.

It's a double reeded instrument. It is also older than the clarinet itself, with the first Oboes appearing in the 1650s in France, versus the first Clarinets in the 1690s in Germany.

The Wiki has some good information on the oboe (it's a link)

Hope this is of service.

SaaM

Your friendly neighborhod oboist.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Oboe is a clarinet except with a differnet reed.

Its also skinnier.

I've just started playing Clarinet and there are just as many differences as similarities (I'd have to guess that Saxophones and Clarinets have more in common, although I've only tried to play a Soprano Sax once).

Anyway, I figured out that I basically have to play the A flat and lift up the second finger on my left hand to trill it. Unfortunately, it appears all my good reeds have disapeared during this three day weekend before midterms and all I'm left with is some really terrible sounding reed that is too long and sounds really funny.

But, from what I can tell, the trill works reasonably well and I'll be able to get away with it in the song.

 

[dickie]

I can play Clarinet and Sax, and they are pretty similar. The fingering for the upper octaves are the same, and the sax lower octave is the same fingering as for the upper. So it's dead easy to switch between the two.

 

[Stapel]

The Oboe (haut-boit) has the finest sound of all instruments known to me!

I've played it for 5 years (1983-1988). The lack of easy music was what made me to decide to switch to tenor sax.

I can guarantee all of you that playing the oboe is a 100 times harder!
I was really struggling with the oboe. But when having switched to sax, I acheived the level of playing in a band that people would actually pay money for to listen to, within 2 weeks.......