Newbie: how to alternate F and C?
Hello!
I work as a clarinet and bassoon teacher and I'd like to help develop oboe back in the city where I live, as there are basically no oboist here. No oboe player means no teacher, which means no oboe player...
That said, I'll take some private lessons with the principal oboe of the symphonic orchestra in the main city two hours away, but I feel confident enough to learn the basics, and that my own teacher will correct the less obvious things, that I should be able to solve myself.
After two hours on the oboe, I'm facing a challenge: how on earth do you alternate F and C as in the example? Both fingerings don't work very well and I kind of have to glide my ring between the F and the D keys. The alternate fingering with the F+D+Eb is even slower.
I'm used to both alternating fingerings as on the clarinet, and gliding as on the saxophone, but this is new to me, as both feel very wrong.
Dear Masters, what is The Answer? :-)