My name is Vicky Fairbank
and I have been playing the clarinet for five years now.
If you really practise
then you will become better and that would be my advice to anyone starting
out.
The reason that I like
the clarinet is probably because it sounds really good and I think that
it looks really cool too.
When I first started to play the clarinet I was only 10 and found it quite hard to play as it is quite a large and heavy instrument. When my dad first asked me if I wanted to play the clarinet I replyed...."What is a clarinet?"From someone who first of all didn't know what a clarinet was I think that I have come on a lot.
Some of my friends prefer
the saxaphone or the guitar and even the drums but I think that the clarinet
is a good instrument to play. I hope to carry on playing the clarinet
after I leave Dene Magna but I will miss Jazz Club and my clarinet teacher
Miss Stephens who is the best teacher ever! She makes the lessons really
fun and enjoyable and even makes leaning scales OK.
My dads friend Brioney first brought her clarinet around for me to look at. I thought that it was amazing and wanted to learn to play it instantly. Brioney taught me to play it at first.
I know through my own
experience that if you don't practise you can't get things right.I am
now on grade 5 having only done one previous exam which was grade 3. I
passed that but found it quite hard. I now know what it will be like to
sit the grade 5 exam, which means learning scales!!!
After I have done my
grade five I hope to go on to do grades 6 and 7 and join another Jazz
group or Band and prehaps get a brand new clarinet, although I do like
the one I have now as it is easy to play and looks really really nice,
acutaly I don't think that I want another one!
I wasn't that good at
first but as I said before as I practised more I got better and better.
Learning scales can be
so boreing but I think that it will be worth it in the end, even if i
only remember them for the exam!
To anyone thinking about learning the Clarinet i would say
GO FOR IT!