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Review: The Woodwind Player’s Cookbook
I’ve been reading The Woodwind Player’s Cookbook, published last year by Meredith Music and edited by Charles West. It’s a collection of 57 pedagogical essays by a pretty impressive roster of woodwind folks. You can download the table of contents here to see the authors and titles. Most of the articles deal with technique fundamentals …
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Just like tying my shoes
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in MusicianshipI like to use shoe tying in my teaching, as an example of what regular practicing—even just a few minutes every day—can and should accomplish. Playing a woodwind instrument involves a number of complex physical actions: coordinated finger movements, a delicately balanced embouchure, well-timed breathing, and more. And musicians mostly need to execute these physical …