Oboe Secrets

Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Practice Strategies
Secret 1: Accomplish a Challenging Task in Small, Gradual, and Successful Steps
Secret 2: Practice for Good Intonation
Secret 3: Drones Are Your Friends
Secret 4: What Do You Want?
Secret 5: Intervals!
Secret 6: Rhythm First
Secret 7: If You Are Not Enjoying Yourself, Something Needs to Change
Secret 8: Beginning / Middle / End
Secret 9: Fingers?
Secret 10: Rhythm for Response
Secret 11: It's Always about the Air
Secret 12: What Do You Mean by "Slow"?
Secret 13: An Entirely Different Kind of Slow
Secret 14: In the End Is the Beginning
Secret 15: Metronome on Second, Third, and Fourth Sixteenth Notes
Secret 16: Know How It Goes
Secret 17: Slurring: The Short Route to Mastery
Secret 18: Contemporary Music with Big Leaps
Secret 19: (??? )

2 Tone and Rhythm Strategies
Secret 20: Clap and Chat
Secret 21: Reed Alone
Secret 22: Find the Pre-tone
Secret 23: Use the Pre-tone
Secret 24: First Finger, Left Hand Agility
Secret 25: Rhythmic Virtuosity Is a Habit
Secret 26: Patterns
Secret 27: Vibrato Flexibility

3 Reed Strategies
Secret 28: There Is Only One Question
Secret 29: What Is Your Angle?
Secret 30: The Most Neglected Spot
Secret 31: Clip!
Secret 32: Crows, Not Squawks
Secret 33: It Is Not Mood Lighting
Secret 34: Don't Try It; Play It
Secret 35: 100 Percent Consistent
Secret 36: Quality Control
Secret 37: Make the Back as the Final Step

4 Health and Strength Strategies
Secret 38: Are You Shouldering the Oboe?
Secret 39: Are You Forcing?
Secret 40: Oboe Yoga
Secret 41: To Play High, Go Low
Secret 42: Step Away from the Oboe!
Secret 43: Alexander Technique and Body Mapping
Secret 44: Scheduling Practice for Good Endurance
Secret 45: Think Your Way to Good Endurance
Secret 46: Embouchure Endurance Exercise
Secret 47: Pre-performance Breathing Exercise

5 Simplifying Strategies
Secret 48: Just Say No to Reed Drama
Secret 49: To Gouge or Not to Gouge
Secret 50: Wood Plaques
Secret 51: Leaving Blanks Unclipped
Secret 52: To Fake or Not to Fake?
Secret 53: The Mrs. Jones Test
Secret 54: Airtight?

6 Equipment Strategies
Secret 55: Adjustment Skills You Need to Know and Use
Secret 56: Clean Your Reeds
Secret 57: Clean Your Oboe
Secret 58: Clean Your Bocals
Secret 59: Crack Prevention

7 Sundry Strategies
Secret 60: Your Foot Does Not Know Best
Secret 61: No Reed Making
Secret 62: Is the Pulse a Plus?
Secret 63: Good Manners
Secret 64: Phrase as a Question
Secret 65: High Note Fingerings
Secret 66: Giving the Tuning A

8 English Horn Strategies
Secret 67: A Little Flat = In Tune
Secret 68: Avoiding Injury
Secret 69: Where Does the Embouchure Hold the Reed?
Secret 70: The English Horn Needs More

9 Expanded Techniques
Secret 71: Double Tonguing
Secret 72: Circular Breathing
Secret 73: Flutter Tonguing
Secret 74: Glissando
Secret 75: Whistle Tone

Further Resources
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