Oboe – A Clean Technique Break (Musicians)(Psychology)(Pain)(Strain)(Injuries)(Posture)(Alexander Technique)(Albuquerque)

This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Oboe Technique, is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to create the accurate oboe technique you want without sacrificing your body.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
YOU CANNOT CONTINUE TO DO WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON THE OBOE, IF YOU’RE AWARE YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL OF A VERY EFFECTIVE WONDERFUL TECHNIQUE.
I’m making an assumption here that you can give yourself the gift of a month or more off from performing obligations, so you can make the leap to a new technique, or modify your existing oboe technique, so you’re finally in loving control of the oboe.
What does loving “control” of your oboe technique look like?
It means you take the steps to do what you need to do on the oboe here and now, so that you can play the finest oboe music with ease.
I’m also making an assumption that you know what needs to be done, by yourself, with the help of an oboe teacher, and/or the help of an Alexander Technique teacher.
As obvious as the above sounds, it just isn’t so obvious for many oboe players. Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN GET TRAPPED CONFUSING WHAT YOU KNOW NEEDS TO BE DONE PHYSICALLY ON THE OBOE WITH DOING WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, BUT NOT DOING IT.
I know this may be a bizarre sounding statement. Let me use the example of a person who calls him or herself a perfectionist. It is a very different thing to call yourself a perfectionist, when you’re practicing hours each day, and are not satisfied with your oboe playing, and calling yourself a perfectionist, when you’re avoiding practicing, because you aren’t happy with your playing. The former is not happy with what he or she is doing on the oboe, but the latter isn’t even making it to the oboe.
YOU CANNOT MAKE A CLEAN TECHNIQUE BREAK AND GET ON WITH REALIZING YOUR POTENTIAL HERE AND NOW OR EVER ON THE OBOE, IF YOU KEEP CONFUSING PLANNING FOR A FUTURE OF BEING AMAZING ON THE OBOE, AND NOT TAKE THE STEPS HERE AND NOW ON THE INSTRUMENT.
There is clearly that moment on the oboe, after years of doing what you’ve done, believed what you believe, where you simply must do what needs to be done, YOU MUST DO WHAT WORKS!
At this point there is a real shift in your consciousness, because this is such a conscious decision. You’re making the decision as an adult. You’re not the child doing what the oboe teacher told you to do without question, right or wrong. You have finally gotten to this place in your oboe playing, where you’ve gathered enough of the truth, to trust yourself to create an oboe technique that will not let you down.
Again, the final piece in this puzzle is not mistaking KNOWING what needs to be done with actually DOING what needs to be done.
What is it about knowing that still keep you from taking the necessary steps? It is what we do often in the Western culture. We confuse understanding for experience. The most obvious example for me is confusing knowing who God is, for the experience of experiencing God. Intellectually knowing who you think God is NOT the same as experiencing God.
So, if an oboist knows what needs to be done to clean up his or her technique, this can become a trap. Why? If every time the oboe player sits or stands to play, and can’t do what is needed to play with ease and facility, he or she is confronted with the truth the oboist hasn’t brought TRUTH TO REALIZATION.
If this continues, possibly the oboist will practice/perform less and less, because it is extraordinarily painful to know what needs to be done and not do it! So, you’re confusing knowing the truth for taking the steps in thought and action, and are not allowing and doing what is necessary to demonstrate your potential on the oboe.
I said ALLOWING and DOING. Why? Allowing means you fuse the joy of knowing what is necessary to create a wonderful oboe technique with pure physical technique changes, so that you don’t reduce your oboe technique to only athletic changes to your playing.
IT IS THE JOY OF THE TRUTH OF A TECHNIQUE THAT WORKS ON THE OBOE COMBINED WITH TAKING THE STEPS NECESSARY NOW FOR AN AMAZING OBOE TECHNIQUE, THAT ELEVATES YOUR PLAYING TO SOMETHING POTENTIALLY SPIRITUAL IN EXPERIENCE.
DO IT, ALLOW IT, AND LOVE IT!

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Ethan Kind

AUTHOR, TRAINER "When you change old habitual movement patterns with the Alexander Technique, whether in playing a musical instrument, running, weightlifting, walking, or typing at a computer, you create an ease of body use that moves you consistently into the zone." - Ethan Kind Ethan Kind writes and is published extensively on all of the above activities. He teaches musicians, athletes, and computer operators how to stop hurting themselves, by showing them how to use their bodies with ease and coordination. He brings a unique perspective to his work, having been a musician and athlete all of his life. After training for three years at the American Center for the Alexander Technique (New York, NY), Ethan received Professional Certification credentials.