Should I try Clarinet or Oboe? *Please Help, I Need These Answers Soon*?

Spunky

I decided to start an instrument in band in school. Alto Saxophone was the instrument I wanted, but there were too many people already playing it and not enough instruments itself. Okay. I get that. Now I'm trying to decide which instrument to choose. Percussion is filled as well.
I have the options of a trumpet, a flute, a clarinet or an oboe. Trumpet and flute are out, I'm not interested in those.

Could someone please tell me the most significant difference between the oboe and the clarinet? Also, it would be nice to have a link or two to some solos comparing the two similar instruments. One more thing: What is your personal preference and why?

I'd really appreciate any help you can offer, I'm kinda stuck here. 10 points to best answer, remember. Thanks all for reading and responding!

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Go with the Oboe. For one thing- Clarinetists are a dime a dozen. Very few kids take up double-reed instruments (they're a little tougher to get a good sound on - so some kids are discouraged) but here's the thing -- because very few kids play them, you'll have lots more opportunities like District band, etc. -much easier to get in to stuff if you're the only one auditioning vs 100 other clarinets.

Oboes are a double reed instrument - instead of one reed against the mouthpiece, there are two small reeds lashed together. Oboes, English Horns, and Bassoons are all double-reed instruments. To me they sound much more like the human voice - very expressive - beautiful sounding if well-played. Fingering between a clarinet and Oboe are similar - neither is tougher than the other - the major difference is the "embouchure" - the way you hold your lips/mouth on the reed. It can be anything from a happy sound... to a very sad, almost wailing sound like a bagpipe (which BTW - uses a similar double reed, so it makes sense it would sound similar). In a big ensemble an Oboe can even sound like a French Horn or a piccolo trumpet ( brass instruments) . Very unique,versatile instrument.

Now the bad part - they are harder to play in-tune than a clarinet. You have to develop good "chops" or you'll sound kind of like a baby goat :-) But no worries, a little practice and you'll be all set.

Go to YouTube.com and search on "Oboe Solo" Oboe Repertoire, Oboe tutorial, etc. Mozart loved the Oboe and wrote quite a bit of solo material for it -- here's a good example . The soloist comes in around 1:13 or so.

http://youtu.be/DhygJyCvYeA
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My parents think I'm immature?

angrybirds

Hey, I'm a freshman in high school, almost a sophomore, and 15 and a half. My parents think I'm immature, and I don't get why. I have good grades, involved in extra curricular activities, and I'm not a bad kid. Here are some things that I do
I am in marching band, play flute, trumpet, piano, marimba, baritone, clarinet, any instrument you hand me I can learn to play
I am in drumline
I am on the lacrosse team
I am on the soccer team
I am in the school musical
I'm taking dance next year
I sing solos for school and outside of school
With everything that I do, I maintain an average in each class of at least 85

As you can see I am very busy. I have a younger sister who is 9 and a half, and she starts fights with me, and I get in trouble. When my sister starts fighting with me, it's always my fault my parents say and i don't know why. They know I respect kids in school, and know I respect teachers and adults, so I do not know why they think I start fights with my sister if they know I respect kids and adults. They dont believe me that it is not my fault and it gets annoying.
During the summer, I go to my grandparents house every day, with my sister. There are 5 little kids(oldest is in 2nd grade, youngest is a 1 year old) on the street. They are always outside. They ask my sister and I to go outside, so we do. Usually I watch the baby and the one that is in kindergarten, while my sister plays with the older one. My parents think that when I am outside there, I play with the kids and not watch them. I watch after them and make sure they don't get hurt, because their parents are not outside all the time. My parents do not believe me. They tell me to stop going outside. My grandma smokes, and I can't sit inside breathing smoke all day, because my lungs are bad, and I can not take smoke, especially with I am in sports, because I cant do as good with breathing smoke all day. So I go outside, and my parents think I'm immature because I go outside. They also think I am immature because they say if I was, the kids parents would ask me to babysit. The parents know I don't live there and know I am involved in a lot of extra activities, and don't have a lot of time to watch kids. I dont know what to do. They dont listen to me. They dont think I am mature because of this. I know kids my age who are immature. Any help is good. Thank

Answer
Read what you wrote here to them and ask the to explain why they think you're not responsible.

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Pregnant or not? Unprotected sex 4 times, 3 days before ovulation?

Live.Laugh

Me and my boyfriend had unprotected sex 3 and 4 days after my period. (Which would be the 4th and 3rd days before my ovulation date.) (I know this because I chart my period, Ovulation, etc, on my ipod.) I ovulated on the 27th, I had sex the 22nd and 23rd, twice each night. I read online that having sex 3 days before ovulation gives you a 75% chance of getting pregnant. I'm not ready to be a mom. I didn't know I was ovulating and fertile. We used the pull out method. He later told me he thinks he came inside me a little bit because he felt a little come out. He doesn't know how much though. We also didn't realize pre-*** has sperm in it. He knows for sure pre-*** came out numerous times each night. He now thinks I may be pregnant. It's been a week since we had unprotected sex. Yesterday I had lot's of cramping and stomach aches, cravings, I was moody, and nauseous. Today I have a slight headache, majorly increased appetitee, moody, nauseous, and I couldn't sleep last night at all. I was wondering when I could take a pregnancy test and it be accurate. My periods not due for 11 more days. What are my chances of being pregnant, When can I test, and What are some other symtoms to expect? Any advice will help!.

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What do you call pull-out method users? Parents. Haha! I'm just kidding. ...Okay, not entirely, since that's largely true. But still, all good-natured teasing aside, let's see if I can calm you down any:

Since you're freaking out and looking for symptoms, I can easily predict the biggest two symptoms you will experience: paranoia and hypochondria. You should also be warned that the body can do an amazing thing when you're panicked: It can actually produce REAL symptoms just by you worrying about those symptoms. For example, if I told you that craving the smell of clean bed linens were a pregnancy symptom, there's a reasonable chance that you would focus on it so much that you would actually start to want to change your sheets constantly. The same process can give you very real headaches, stomachaches, nausea, cramps, cravings, mood changes, and so on.

So, Step One: Stop looking for symptoms. It's a waste of time and is guaranteed to stress you. A very large number of women never experience any pregnancy symptoms at all before their first positive pregnancy test. Many other women claim they experience all kinds of pregnancy symptoms shortly after implantation, but they really can't firmly prove that these symptoms weren't just normal symptoms that always happen to some degree in their cycles that they just never noticed before. Looking for symptoms is just a highly stressful and highly ridiculous waste of time.

Step Two: While you're waiting to test, go back and look at your iPod again. I think it's really cool that you're interested in charting. But I do have some quick question about your app. There are two kinds of ovulation-charting apps. One of them can be trusted pretty well, and the other one is not particularly accurate at all. The trustworthy kind requires you to input regular daily information, most notably your waking temperature and your cervical fluid (aka vaginal discharge). The untrustworthy kind just asks you to enter the date when your periods start and nothing more. If your iPod app is the first kind, then, yeah, you probably ovulated when it guesses that you did. If your iPod app is the second kind that doesn't require daily data inputs, then there's a very reasonable chance it's wrong if it doesn't actually have the right information about what your body is up to now.

Step Three: In the past week or so have you noticed very wet feelings in your vagina, or noticed any clear, slippery, fluids that strongly resemble egg-whites? If so, then you were definitely fertile and are at high risk for being pregnant. If not, it doesn't necessarily mean that those fluids weren't there-- you just may not have noticed them. However, if the fertile fluids really weren't present, then sperm dies within a few hours inside the normally-hostile environment of the vagina without them. So if you have more information on your vaginal fluids, you would have a better idea of how safe you are. (I recently had unprotected sex 4 days before my ovulation day, mostly because ovulation happened earlier this time, but there were no fertile fluids, and my period is arriving right when I knew it would today.)

Step Four: You can expect a pregnancy test to be accurate on the day that you expect your period. While there are a large number of "early response" pregnancy tests out there as well as a large number of stories from women that got an early positive, it's actually not that common to get a positive too much before the day you miss your period. Several studies have confirmed that the majority of woman who are indeed pregnant do not get their first positive pregnant test until about two weeks after ovulation, which basically coincides with the the first day she might expect her period. So wait until then to test if you don't get your period.

Step Five: I think you would find Taking Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler. You're already interested in tracking your fertility. That book will tell you everything you want to know and more. I've actually successfully avoided pregnancy for 2 years and 9 months now, even though we only use condoms about 20% of the time. Feel free to message me if you have more questions. I'm an old hat at charting questions.

Possibility of being pregnant? no protection 3-4 days before ovulation?

Brooke

So, my boyfriend and I didn't have sex for almost 4 months because he was at Marine Corps bootcamp! The first time we had sex was on Feb 14, the day my period ended. I was suppose to ovulate about 3-4 days later, we didn't use protection so we didn't do it for very long, and he didn't come. But he probably had precum since he was gone for so long & we fooled around before that! So would it be possible I got pregnant? What would be the LIKELY of it? I'm not stupid, i know I could get pregnant. But I want to know how likely it would be. 3-4 days before I ovulate & he didn't come. I can't take a test yet, it's too early. & It's obviously too late for a Plan B (those are the two answers I got last time.)

p.s. im not on Birth control

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You do not ovulate 3-4 days after period ends, it is 12-14 days after it ends although the medical sites tell us we can get pregnant any day of the month including during your periods so there is nothing you can do but wait and see if period is late but to get an accurate result wait till it is 7 days late but meantime stop stressing as that can cause a late period, Good Luck

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