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Oboe Reed Boot Camp
$495.00 – $745.00UPDATE: As of April 10, we are FULL for 2023! Please check back in 2024 for our next event!
Oboe Reed Boot Camp is an intensive weekend experience that takes place in South Bend, IN, on the lovely campus of St Mary’s College. The EXTROBOE Experience is an enhancement to Boot Camp – adding masterclasses, chamber music, and oboe crafts to fill your weekend out with oboe education and fun. Reedmakers and oboists at all levels are WELCOME!
2023 Dates:
August 11-13, 2023 – EXTROBOE 9:00-12:30, ORBC 2-6PLEASE NOTE. This is a LIVE, IN PERSON experience. We will be taking COVID protocols and social distancing into account, but we will be indoors and this experience is group based and we will be playing oboes together. We strongly encourage only FULLY VACCINATED people to attend, and we will ask for proof.
Note: Advancing and Beginning categories address your REEDMAKING skills only. You could be an Advanced player but a Beginning reedmaker, in other words. Beginners will start with learning to wind, basic knife skills, and reed construction steps. They will move more slowly. Advancing Reedmakers will begin by making reeds, and will evolve and improve their existing skills over the weekend as they work with me, my Guest Master Reedmaker, and each other.
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Zero to Reedmaker
Zero To Reedmaker is an online course which helps oboists to easily make playable American Scrape reeds. I’ll DEMYSTIFY the process and help you through each step with a self-paced, rewatchable video course, a supportive Facebook group, and five weeks of live zoom classes to get YOU over the hump. At the end of this course, you should be able to make a playing reed from shaped cane in under 30 minutes – probably well under – and adjust it to your comfort.
Live classes begin May 4!!
Pricing:
Videos Only $200– Self-paced course. I’ll share all videos and handouts at the start of the program and you can take it from there! Cane and staples are an optional add-on. A private Facebook group will be open to you for support. (If you want this, you can access it at THIS link. Our main button this month is for the LIVE classes.)
Full course $500 – You’ll get immediate access to those videos and handouts, the Facebook group, AND five weeks of live classes where I can answer YOUR questions in real time, look at your scraping technique, demonstrate skills, and share encouragement, ideas, and reedmaking philosophies.
VIP version $800 – add on two 1:1 sessions with me, scheduled at your convenience, to work on your reedmaking or your approach to the oboe.
Classes will be Thursday May 4, and then Tuesdays – May 9, 16, 23, and 30 – all at 7pm EDT.
I hope to see you there!
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Warm Up Your Warmup
$59.00Inspiring Spring warmup sessions! Every day at 11 am EST, live on Zoom. We will go through some Long Tone Meditations, scale work, sightreading, and duets, all with modifications built in for the level that you are at. All are welcome. (APOLOGIES to my West Coast friends! I know it’s early. If you can’t join us live I can have replays in your inbox by 12:00 EST)
Next session:
March 6-10, 2023 -
Thinking about a Reed Business?
$19.00Are you a reedmaker? An oboist, bassoonist, or single reed player?
Are you longing for more money in your pocket every month? Are you feeling frustrated and limited by the gig scene?
Do you feel overwhelmed at the idea of selling reeds? Are your reeds even good enough? What will people think? After all, you came into this field to make MUSIC, not run a business…
I can help you.
In this 60-minute introductory webinar I’ll offer some structures and some helpful hints to EMPOWER you to get started!
You’ve missed the live webinar, Friend, but you can still purchase the replay right here.
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Reed Club
Social Reedmaking!
Reed Club is the Zoom version of your college reed room – or the reed room you WISH you had had in college! We meet every Monday at 7 pm Eastern so you can work socially on your reeds with a group. You can show me your reed, crow it, turn your camera so I can watch your scraping technique. I can lecture, or demonstrate, or we can hold Reed Hot Seats – whatever you need – and we can do it all with company but from the comfort of our own homes. It’s the next best thing to actual human contact!
Join us next Monday, or for the next three months, or a full year!
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Reed Repair Shop
$35.00 – $75.00Sometimes you just need some advice from a non-judgmental expert. Send me one or three reeds, and I’ll improve them and tell you how.