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| Graham Isn't Creepy At All | Ren: Why do you always sit up here, Graham? It isn't optimal for sound!
/ Graham: No, but here I can watch the musicians. I can see every little move and twitch... / {{(He's always watching...)}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=598 |
| Apostrophe | My Hobby:
/ Leaving the apostrophe in front of " 'cello" to make people think I am pretentious. / Ren: The 'cello is so sexy!
/ Person: The apostrophe makes it THAT MUCH MORE SO.
/ Bassoonist: What about the 'soon? / {{Sadly, it is impossible to make the bassoon sexy.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=600 |
| Goldilocks | Ren: This reed is too hard! / < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=602 |
| Edwin Outwater 2 | < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=606 |
| Request | Nate: Can you make me a character? I want to be in a comic or something!
/ Moy: No.
/ Nate: Please?
/ Moy: No. / Nate: Oh come on! You draw people all the time! Why can't you just draw me?! PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE?PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEEEEAAAASEE??? / Moy: FINE! / [[Arrow pointing to a big pile of poo that reads "Nathan Bassoon"]] / {{THERE. HAPPY NOW?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=621 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Middle of the Night… | [[Dick is lying in bed. On his nightstand is a can lamp, a can pen, and a phone made of cane. Oh! and glasses and a clock.]] / phone made of cane: < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=623 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Pets | narrator: This is Ren's dog, Carl.
/ Carl: Orff! Orff!
/ narrator: This is Ren's cat, Darius.
/ Darius: Milhaud.
/ narrator: This is Ren's chicken, Johann Sebastion.
/ Johann Sebastion: Bach! Bach! Bach!
/ narrator: This is Ren's Parrot, Nikolai.
/ Nikolai: Rimsky-Korsokov? / {{title text: This is Ren's umbrella, Antonin.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=625 |
| Buttercup Festival Tribute | Ren: What are you doing with that rock?
/ Buttercup Festival Guy: Making a reed. / Ren: That will never work. Rocks don't vibrate easily.
/ Buttercup Festival Guy: This one will. * scrape* / Ren: How?
/ Buttercup Festival Guy: With the POWER of LOVE. * scrape* / Buttercup Festival Guy: *FWEET* / {{Doodly doodly doo}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=673 |
| XKCD Tribute | Asshole: You've been blowing faggots for years! / Asshole: Oh, you LIKE playing with long, hard instruments, don't you. / Asshole: don't you guys get it? It's funny...You get it, right?
/ Bassoonists: Yeah, we get it.
/ Asshole: No you don't! You're not laughing. It's funny! “Faggot”, you know, like a bassoon. Or a gay. / Black Hat Guy: * swing* * slice*
/ Asshole: AAAAAAAAAAAH / {{What have we learned here today? (The Black Hat Guy is a closet bassoonist.)}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=675 |
| Toothpaste for Dinner Tribute | Toothpaste for Dinner guy: someday i am going to play oboe in a doom metal band! an idea no one has thought of but me. / {{There is totally a guy in Sigur Rós who plays oboe sometimes. Do they count as metal?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=677 |
| SMBC Tribute | Father: You are going to be a carpenter! You are NOT going to be an oboist! Oboes are for PANSIES! / But I'll still spend my days covered in shavings! / {{I have the bad habit of brushing shavings off my knife onto my sleeve. Even when I’m wearing short sleeves. Which I proceed to forget about and walk around covered in bits of cane.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=681 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Nathan Poo 2 | Nathan: Dear scary, obsessive, Oboehemia fans, I just wanted to point out that I did NOT beg Moy to draw me. I asked politely. She said yes. Got it? Got it Moy? Hmph. / [[big lump of poo with flies swarming around and an arrow labeling it "NATHAN BASSOON"]]
/ Nathan/poo: I hate you. I hate you so much, Moy. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=683 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Success - Erin Brophey and Dick Dorsey | Erin: My audition went terribly...
/ Dick: Did you throw up?
/ Erin: Well, no... / Dick: SUCCESS!! / {{I've got nothing...}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=685 |
| In the University Forgery... | Julie: Oh yeah, I forged this mouthpiece just yesterday. It could use a little more out of the edges, but it sounds okay.
/ Graham: You FORGE your mouthpieces? / Graham: Guys, did you know Julie forges her own mouthpieces? Isn't that CRAZY? / Heather: You know she's kidding, right?
/ Graham: She was?
/ Heather: Yes.
/ Graham: Oh. / {{I heard she had Graham convinced for three weeks or something.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=693 |
| Serial Composers | Fleeting thought:
/ Sometimes I can't control what my brain hears. / Professor: Today we're going to talk about serial composers like Schoenberg and Babbitt.
/ Ren's thought-bubble: Coming soon—Messiaen O's! Also cereal!
/ CEREAL COMPOSERS!
/ Essential vitamins and retrograde canons!
/ Chock full of 12-tone rows!
/ Excellent source of Webern! / {{This is an alternative to saying “But what did the cereal do to you?” when people talk about serial killers.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=695 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » The Charge | Bach wrote 6 oboe concertos.
/ They were lost.
/ Shortly thereafter, 6 violin concertos were "found." / Beethoven wrote an oboe concerto.
/ It was lost.
/ But, lo and behold, there appeared a violin concerto. / Tchaikovsky wrote an oboe concerto.
/ It, too, was lost.
/ Guess what we have, though? A violin concerto! / It is time to take back what was lost.
/ It is time to be vindicated! / It is time to reclaim to oboe's rightful position as king of the instruments! / It's time for... / REVENGE OF THE OBOE / {{Mozart's oboe concerto was lost, too; appropriated by the flutes.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=775 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Margaret Atwood, Stephen Harper, and Why I’m Confused | Many of you know about the election in Canada, coming up on Tuesday. I’m confused about who to vote for! Do I vote wisely against the Conservative government–that would mean voting Liberal because they have the best chance of beating the Conservatives–or do I vote for the candidate I want to in my riding–that would be Cathy McLellan, the Green party candidate, she has impressed me the most–or do I vote for the party I want to–the NDP, since I feel their platform best aligns with what I think (although I am not a particularly political person). There are issues I seriously, seriously don’t approve of with the Conservative government–the cuts in arts funding is probably the major one (read the article below: Margaret Atwood is a genius). Does Mr. Harper seriously believe that “ordinary people” don’t want the arts to exist? What about the many, many writers, artists, and hey, musicians that were given the opportunity to pursue their work better by the government? Is Canada’s rich arts community and culture to be demeaned so? / In Composition Seminar on Wednesday, Glenn Buhr (my prof) was telling us how many of the Canadian Composer competitions have been cut, and how we are in danger of not getting grants for our work–and it occurred to me a while ago, too, that the loss of the CBC Orchestra cut another source of employment for my friends, and another cut in possible commissioned works for me. This is serious business! This election is the first one I’ve been involved in that has had serious impact on me and my work, and my friends, and the future of Canada’s *culture*. / My brother, who is quite the little Harper fan, dug up the actual statement. Which, specifically, said that ordinary people don’t like going home, turning on their televisions, and seeing elaborate galas, subsidized by their taxes, in support of the arts in which elitist artists whine about cuts when their funding has actually gone up 8% during the past couple years. / May I say–if these artists are elite, they won’t be whining about cuts for themselves, but for students and the struggling artists who need it. The artists who work jobs like everyone else most of the time, often jobs they don’t like, so they can do what they love as a hobby. Quick note–what they love is actually the building blocks of Canadian culture. Do people really think that it is so wrong to provide some of those artists with the money to do what they love full time for a little while? Businesses get plenty of funding to do what *they* want, and it does not do a whole lot for Canada culturally–except in what they hand down in the form of grants that then get their name and logo plastered all over them. It’s my opinion that arts should never be cut, ever. I think it is one of the most important parts of Canada’s government to help create Canada’s culture. / I’m willing to pay my taxes, when the time comes. I’m willing to pay taxes to subsidize smokers’ healthcare, even though it will cost much more than my own, and I do not support smoking. I’m willing to pay taxes to improve our military–although I certainly begrudge that, and think it’s useless. I’m willing to pay taxes to give money to businesses that I have no interest in, and don’t think are important. Heck, I’m even willing to pay taxes so that the government can subsidize Canadian athletes. (Speaking of which, why aren’t people up in arms about that? Why is funding an athlete’s chosen way of life okay, but artists not?) Why am I willing to do all this? Because it will be my turn, eventually, to get something from the government, and that something is more than likely going to be an artistic grant to fund a period of time in which to make music. To make history, maybe! / But there exist people like my brother, and the many naysayers who clearly don’t have children in the arts, people who think the symphony is for the elite, and so clearly have never been…people who don’t understand why art, music, literature, film, and all the things that go along with them are important. People who say, “If the arts are so important, they can surely take care of themselves.” People who say “supporting the arts is a luxury”, “At least the auto industry and farmers and other industries produce something I want,” “I don’t want the products these so called artists produce. Most of it is garbage I wouldn’t waste my time on,” “I’m tired of my tax money subsidizing these whiners who waste my money producing junk. They should go get a real jobs or at least finance their own pet projects. Or go get a real life.” / Here’s a comment on an article that I can only hope was sarcasm: “Anyone who thinks there is more to Canadian culture than Molson Canadian, Tim Hortons, and the Air Farce is nothing but a pretentious bore anyway.” / I am concerned. / The following is an article by Margaret Atwood about the recent cuts to arts funding. / What sort of country do we want to live in? What sort of country do we already live in? What do we like? Who are we? / At present, we are a very creative country. For decades, we’ve been punching above our weight on the world stage - in writing, in popular music and in many other fields. Canada was once a cultural void on the world map, now it’s a force. In addition, the arts are a large segment of our economy: The Conference Board estimates Canada’s cultural sector generated $46-billion, or 3.8 per cent of Canada’s GDP, in 2007. And, according to the Canada Council, in 2003-2004, the sector accounted for an “estimated 600,000 jobs (roughly the same as agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, oil & gas and utilities combined).” / But we’ve just been sent a signal by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that he gives not a toss for these facts. Tuesday, he told us that some group called “ordinary people” didn’t care about something called “the arts.” His idea of “the arts” is a bunch of rich people gathering at galas whining about their grants. Well, I can count the number of moderately rich writers who live in Canada on the fingers of one hand: I’m one of them, and I’m no Warren Buffett. I don’t whine about my grants because I don’t get any grants. I whine about other grants - grants for young people, that may help them to turn into me, and thus pay to the federal and provincial governments the kinds of taxes I pay, and cover off the salaries of such as Mr. Harper. In fact, less than 10 per cent of writers actually make a living by their writing, however modest that living may be. They have other jobs. But people write, and want to write, and pack into creative writing classes, because they love this activity – not because they think they’ll be millionaires. / Every single one of those people is an “ordinary person.” Mr. Harper’s idea of an ordinary person is that of an envious hater without a scrap of artistic talent or creativity or curiosity, and no appreciation for anything that’s attractive or beautiful. My idea of an ordinary person is quite different. Human beings are creative by nature. For millenniums we have been putting our creativity into our cultures - cultures with unique languages, architecture, religious ceremonies, dances, music, furnishings, textiles, clothing and special cuisines. “Ordinary people” pack into the cheap seats at concerts and fill theatres where operas are brought to them live. The total attendance for “the arts” in Canada in fact exceeds that for sports events. “The arts” are not a “niche interest.” They are part of being human. / Moreover, “ordinary people” are participants. They form book clubs and join classes of all kinds - painting, dancing, drawing, pottery, photography - for the sheer joy of it. They sing in choirs, church and other, and play in marching bands. Kids start garage bands and make their own videos and web art, and put their music on the Net, and draw their own graphic novels. “Ordinary people” have other outlets for their creativity, as well: Knitting and quilting have made comebacks; gardening is taken very seriously; the home woodworking shop is active. Add origami, costume design, egg decorating, flower arranging, and on and on … Canadians, it seems, like making things, and they like appreciating things that are made. / They show their appreciation by contributing. Canadians of all ages volunteer in vast numbers for local and city museums, for their art galleries and for countless cultural festivals - I think immediately of the Chinese New Year and the Caribana festival in Toronto, but there are so many others. Literary festivals have sprung up all over the country - volunteers set them up and provide the food, and “ordinary people” will drag their lawn chairs into a field - as in Nova Scotia’s Read by the Sea - in order to listen to writers both local and national read and discuss their work. Mr. Harper has signalled that as far as he is concerned, those millions of hours of volunteer activity are a waste of time. He holds them in contempt. / I suggest that considering the huge amount of energy we spend on creative activity, to be creative is “ordinary.” It is an age-long and normal human characteristic: All children are born creative. It’s the lack of any appreciation of these activities that is not ordinary. Mr. Harper has demonstrated that he has no knowledge of, or respect for, the capacities and interests of “ordinary people.” He’s the “niche interest.” Not us. / It’s been suggested that Mr. Harper’s disdain for the arts is not merely a result of ignorance or a tin ear - that it is “ideologically motivated.” Now, I wonder what could be meant by that? Mr. Harper has said quite rightly that people understand we ought to keep within a budget. But his own contribution to that budget has been to heave the Liberal-generated surplus overboard so we have nothing left for a rainy day, and now, in addition, he wants to jeopardize those 600,000 arts jobs and those billions of dollars they generate for Canadians. What’s the idea here? That arts jobs should not exist because artists are naughty and might not vote for Mr. Harper? That Canadians ought not to make money from the wicked arts, but only from virtuous oil? That artists don’t all live in one constituency, so who cares? Or is it that the majority of those arts jobs are located in Ontario and Quebec, and Mr. Harper is peeved at those provinces, and wants to increase his ongoing gutting of Ontario - $20-billion a year of Ontario taxpayers’ money going out, a dribble grudgingly allowed back in - and spank Quebec for being so disobedient as not to appreciate his magnificence? He likes punishing, so maybe the arts-squashing is part of that: Whack the Heartland. / Or is it even worse? Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they’re a mouthy lot and they don’t line up and salute very easily. Of course, you can always get some tame artists to design the uniforms and flags and the documentary about you, and so forth - the only kind of art you might need - but individual voices must be silenced, because there shall be only One Voice: Our Master’s Voice. Maybe that’s why Mr. Harper began by shutting down funding for our artists abroad. He didn’t like the competition for media space. / The Conservative caucus has already learned that lesson. Rumour has it that Mr. Harper’s idea of what sort of art you should hang on your wall was signalled by his removal of all pictures of previous Conservative prime ministers from their lobby room - including John A. and Dief the Chief - and their replacement by pictures of none other than Mr. Harper himself. History, it seems, is to begin with him. In communist countries, this used to be called the Cult of Personality. Mr. Harper is a guy who - rumour has it, again - tried to disband the student union in high school and then tried the same thing in college. Destiny is calling him, the way it called Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese emperor who burnt all records of the rulers before himself. It’s an impulse that’s been repeated many times since, the list is very long. Tear it down and level it flat, is the common motto. Then build a big statue of yourself. Now that would be Art! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=787 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Handel Was a Badass | Handel would've preferred the modern oboe. He'd have been all "Throw those Baroque oboes into the SEA."
/ {{title text: Why can I only hear Handel speaking like he is from the street, yo?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=808 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Washington McClain | To quote one of my favourite bloggers and composers, Nico Muhly, “I am the worst blogger in the world! I have been remiss. I have been absentee.” / And I am sorry. Hopefully there will be new and exciting comics in the days to come, but lately I have been feeling singularly unmotivated–about everything. It is depressing, not being able to get past a few Barrett studies makes me dread lessons and practicing. RARGH. / However! Last night, renowned Baroque oboist Washington McClain came to Laurier to give our studio a masterclass on Baroque oboe and how to play Baroque music on the oboe. / He spent the first hour essentially lecturing–although I suppose it was technically a Q&A. He answered questions like, “Why is the ball on the end of the English Horn?” (There is no reason for it, the Cor Anglais used to be a tenor oboe, then people complained that it was too big to reach, so they bent it, but there is still to reason for the ball.) / october_151.JPG / He told us about his interesting brand of vibrato called “finger vibrato,” which I suppose is a fairly common Baroque Oboe technique. It appeared to me like a trill, but not to a different note. He told us that there was no vibrato the way we think of it until 60 or 70 years ago, and before that it was strictly an ornament used to colour the ends of important notes. / He talked about phrasing, too. “Strings run the orchestra,” he said, ” so the way they play phrases is the way we have to play phrases.” For example, in a short phrase, the last note must be clipped a bit because the tip of the bow was much lighter than the frog back in the Baroque era. This feature of the bow also led to the up and down bow markings: they evolved from the letters M and V, the first letters of the Latin words for “good” and “bad”. (Quick note: I am not sure which words he said, but they sounded like “Mobilus” and “Vibilus”.) In other words, when we play Baroque music, we have to keep in mind a system of “good” and “bad” notes, in order to emulate the strings. / october_148.JPG / We finally got around to playing for Wash (as Jim called him), and Gwen began with the Marcello Concerto in C minor. He told her that she should get the D minor version, not to play, but so she could see the skeletal version that Bach ornamented for her version. He also told her that she should play with less vibrato, to use it only on the important, structural notes. / october_146.JPG / Aimee played a Handel sonata, and he told her to remember that everything she plays is based on gesture. He told us that in the Baroque era, rhetoric was taught in schools, and that everyone used it, so certain gestures always mean certain things. He suggested we watch some period theatre to get the feel for it, that a simple fist in the air would mean revenge, and a performer would just hold that one pose to illustrate the meaning, rather than moving all around. / He also got Aimee to group her articulation more clearly–not the way indicated on her music–in a way that also supported the bass of the accompaniment. / Danie played the Sonata in G Minor by Bach. Wash told us that the bass line was all that existed originally, and someone thought it was for oboe because of the key it was in, but in fact, it was out of range for the oboe of the time. He said he likes playing it as a Trio Sonata, though, with violin and continuo. / He also talked about the oft-argued “ornamenting Bach” question. He said that he is not opposed, but that Bach usually wrote out all his ornaments directly in his music, so not much ornamentation is needed. He told Danie that she had a good feel for how to ornament the music, but that since the first movement of the sonata is very repetitive, she should save most of it for later in the piece. / october_150.JPG / Wash gave us three points to remember about playing Baroque music. / 1. See the original, to learn what the skeleton is, and to see the original articulation. / 2. All 17th, 18th, and early 19th century music is based on harmony, not melody, so find out where the harmonically important moments are, and apply vibrato *there*. / 3. When you ornament, understand what you’re dealing with. They played and notated in different languages back then, so the only way to do it, really, is to understand what you are trying to say. / It was a great masterclass! I have to recommend that if you get the opportunity to sit in on one, or hear Washington McClain play, DO IT. / Still to come: I took a couple of videos of some interesting parts of the masterclass; about 15 minutes worth. They are currently uploading onto YouTube, and I shall post them (in all of their seasick-wobbly glory) HERE. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=813 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Insignificant Details | Person: What's wrong? / Oboist: I got a "you're not living up to your potential" talk from Jim in my lesson today. / Oboist: Now I'm feeling depressed. / Oboist: And, I mean, I'm making pretty good reeds, it's just my playing that's not going well. / Person: A tiny, insignificant detail. / {{What kind of professor would ask you to *play* in your lesson, anyway?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=827 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » My Peeps! | Shout out? / My reeds have been going really well recently! I made 6 blanks earlier this week, and *four* of them turned out well! I am psyched, guys. Good reeds mean that I actually enjoy practicing, and enjoying practicing means that I will actually practice, and that my actual practice will sink in. My playing was suffering (I think because of my reeds, but probably that is not the whole problem), but now I am feeling much more confident! I’ve been stuck on the last few articulation studies in the Barret. I don’t know why! They are were eluding me. I guess I must have put up a mental block about them. BUT I will conquer them this week. Practice is going well! I have been playing Schumann’s Romances, in my Beth Anns (accompaniment rehearsals/coachings), and they are fun! It is a challenge to get through all of them without dying, of course, but it feels like a long time since I have played something long and lyrical when I can really get into my tone and phrasing. / ICE (Improvisational Concert Ensemble) is going well too! Jim has some very pointed views on improv as an artform (in that he doesn’t think it is on par with studies or interpretive ensembles like orchestra or band), but I think I disagree. Improv is a creative art, rather than an interpretive one, but that doesn’t make it any less of a skill! I think it’s helping my oboe playing and musicianship, too. In ICE I don’t have sheet music to distract me from listening closely to the other musicians, and playing in tune and with the best possible tone. It’s so cool to get into that space where I’m in a zone with the music with no distractions and can really focus! I wish I knew of some other oboists who do improv; I’d love to hear it. / There should be a blog coming soon by bassoonist Adam Romey about the Sue Heineman masterclass that happened last week. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=828 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Oh man! | I have been a bad blogger/comicker. So bad. So lazy. So…running out of ideas. Had a crazy oboe experience? Tell me! I’ll probably turn it into a comic. Someone say something in your lesson which amused you? Tell me! I might turn it into a comic. Come up with a terrible pun about double reeds or music in general? Tell me! I will *totally* turn it into a comic. / Anyway. I am going to see what I can fish out of the idea pile for the next little while. The problem is that I keep jotting my ideas down on little scraps of paper during masterclass, and then they get lost…I’m sure I’ve got a bunch in my various clipboards and notebooks. Oh, how I wish I were more organized! / But yes. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ideas! / What is new…in the non-oboe parts of my life, I’m writing a duet for trombone and trumpet. I’m using Ragas, but trying to not make it sound like Indian music! It is going to be fun and bouncy and probably called “Scoot”. I’m also starting work on a piece for orchestra. The KWS comes every year and does a reading of student composers pieces. Peter suggested that I do one, so I am! I am expanding my string quartet from last year, “Internet”, into a longer, more complex work. Man–Peter was doing his best at my last lesson to intimidate me. “So which instruments do you want to have playing together? And what will they be doing? And at what dynamic? Who should be in the foreground? Where do the others sit? What mutes/techniques should they use? Okay, next bar.” Thanks, Peter. Theter. So I am a lot more nervous than I was–and I was already pretty nervous. Less so about the actual writing, since “Internet” is pretty minimal, but…I mean…JIM will be playing. Jim will be playing my music (and he has never heard my compositions) and he will almost certainly be judging me. Uh oh! And Edwin Outwater will possibly be conducting! UH OH. / That said, the reading is not for a couple of months. / DID YOU KNOW that in Waterloo it is legal to park on people’s lawns if there is no “Private Property” sign posted? Did you? These construction workers have been parking in our yard every day for a couple of months now, and every time we call bylaw, they just say, “We can only give them a warning.” Now a van has taken to parking directly in front of our door, which is a safety hazard! What if we were to have a fire and emergency vehicles weren’t able to get in? Anyway, I am contacting people like crazy and leaving notes under windshield wipers and hopefully something will be done. I hate construction. They have also torn up the sidewalk on both sides of the road so that it is impossible to walk anywhere but down the centre of the street, and even then I get all muddy. Yeesh. / P.S. You guys, Nico Muhly’s blog is the greatest. You should check it out. Peter keeps hinting that NUMUS might get him to come to KW for Open Ears which would be super-exciting! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=831 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Oboesexual | [[Figure]] Doesn't it suck having your boyfriend live so far away? / [[Figure holding oboe]] Not when you've got an oboe like mine? / {{Title text: My oboe can't hold me tight}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=841 |
| OBOE BAND | OBÖE BAND
/ Monday, April 7, 8 PM
/ Room 318
/ [[Everyone looks hardcore]] / {{BE THERE}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=638#comment-914 |
| Vibrato | Lesson 3: VIBRATO / Dick: Try pulsing once every 4 beats. / Dick: Now twice every 4 beats. / Dick: Now 4 times every... / Dick: Now 8...and practice on your own. / 8 pulses
/ 16 pulses
/ 9 pulses
/ 7 pulses
/ 13 1/2 pulses / Dick: Why does your vibrato sound like "Shave and a Haircut"? / {{Not quite traditional, but seriously cool.}} http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/13/vibrato/ |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/15/the-fire-department-must-never-know/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/15/the-fire-department-must-never-know/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Smoking Reed | Ren: Hey Lora!
/ Lora: What? / Ren: Don't smoke reed!
/ Lora: ... / Bad pun ninja: *swoop* / {{The Bad Pun Ninja strikes again!}} http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/17/smoking-reed/ |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/20/shawms/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/20/shawms/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/22/reed-destruction/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/22/reed-destruction/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/29/that-dude-is-a-killer-oboist/">http://oboe-comics.com/2007/03/29/that-dude-is-a-killer-oboist/ | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
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