One thing I was upset about when I submitted an audition video YEARS ago for YTSO was the fact that the PDF available with the music did NOT include the Bolero excerpt, and yet this Masterclass video talks about it. I got disqualified for not playing all the music...
That's a good question, and the answer is that it depends. For one thing, it depends on your practice habits. To learn any instrument and make actual progress, you need to practice often and well. For example, I practice half and hour to an hour a day, 5-7 days a week. I've been playing a little less than a year. I had trouble in the beginning and made slow progress because I didn't know how to practice effectively, but once I figured out what I was doing, I began to improve more steadily.
With a translation video feature one need not speak Cantonese to get excellent information to study the Eb Clarinet. A nice selection of recital material. 🥂Excellent!
Saxophone is more easy than clarinet. 2 raisons: the intonation is not so difficult and when you use the upper register its an octave higher instead of the clarinet whose diference is a quint. So, on the sax wyth the same finger positon you get the same note (with an octave of diférence) its change many things
Haha so this what an English Born Chinese sounds like? I'm a 22 year old Australian Born Chinese and I speak Canto with a pretty bad Aussie accent... I have to try really hard to not sound too Western :p but I have to say his Canto vocab is much wider than mine
In addition to good practicing habits, if you have good equipment (good reeds and a good clarinet, etc.) and good technique, then you will progress faster. If you already can read music, that's a good start. I guess I can't tell you how long it will take because it depends. I guess it takes a few years to get good, but even then, you spend the rest of your life practicing and perfecting. Good luck! :)
Ah, the baby clarinet. The bane of our existence, as clarinetists...why, oh, why, composers, do you use it?! We can go that high with more control on our Bbs!
