Final Test!!

  For me this was the hardest but yet the most fun part of the of this project. This part was picking a piece of music that I wanted to play on the ocarina and play it.
  The piece that I played was called Be Thou My Vision. I picked it not because it was easy or hard, it was because it sounded beautiful on this instrument.
  There was couple problems that I had with this project. One of them was that the last 3 videos had no music, so i could play it with all the different tempos i wanted. but here I had to follow him and the tempo that he followed. The second issue is tuning. With the ocarina you need a lot of breath support and when you let the support go so does the tone, so i had to make sure I was always sitting up straight and tonnes of support. Another problem was  because I'm a saxophone/piano player I can aurally here the music, but with the ocarina because it's such a new instrument for me I had to figure out where to put my fingers, which chamber to blow through, and how much air pressure I had to use to make the ocarina to work. Lastly and the most difficult was the octave jump. with saxophone the octave jumps you use the octave key, but with ocarina you use different chambers. So for ocarina you really don't use a steady embrasure for it, your embrasure is always moving.