Don't Lose Your Embouchure

So, you are not the best pianist in Brooklyn, you can't ride a bike all that well and you are still having a lot of problems deciding why Twitter is all that important. Still, you keep on, why? Because you don't want to lose your embouchure.

For the uninitiated, that is the exquisitely difficult mouth position wind and brass players, especially oboists working with one of the infamous double reeds, must achieve to play their instruments.

 

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Hard to achieve and hard to retain. In Sunday's New York Times article, "Is Music the Key to Success," Woody Allen tells us that, in order not to lose his embouchure, he must practice his clarinet "every single day to be as bad as I am." And what does this have to do with you and me?

Simply, that though we may be as bad at riding a bike as Woody is at the clarinet, we need to keep at it--giving up is not an option; it leads to a bad place--losing your embouchure.

So, continue to master the Argentinian tango,

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learn to tweet

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and keep trying to train your dog.

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He may be old but he can learn new tricks.

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