Hi Dr-GO,
Amazing isn't it. I often perform with two sax players and when we use SHI, it sounds great. Whenever we pull off an especially good motif, I'll say "Just like we rehearsed it" which of course we never rehearsed anything. It was all spontaneous

@Dr-GO said in Set lists:

@Dr-Mark said in Set lists:

Hi Dr-GO
..."If you play a wrong note or passage, do it twice. That way the audience will think it was intentional and you were just being
avant-garde"

That's EXACTLY what I do! That's EXACTLY what I do!

And then you write it twice, too, also.

@Vulgano-Brother said in Fun with Scales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur6GOoSNGN0&feature=youtu.be

Exhausting! I need a nap.

Jim 🙂

Wynton said something elsewhere very colourful and so true. "Everybody wants to be the hero but no one wants to slay the dragon". There you have it.

When I first started playing, a few weeks in, I had a similar experience with my teacher that Wynton had. He gave me a lesson one day for which I was unprepared. I'll never forget it. When we came down the stairs my parents asked how'd it go and he said matter of factly, I had to practice or it was "a waste of my time and your money". And he was fully prepared to walk if it didn't get better. He didn't care. Man, I practiced after that.

Wynton also says that "You have to practice". I think I've written it before, but Dave Liebman in his book on sax playing wrote, "Practicing isn't something you like or dislike. It's just something you do."

Likewise, in my wind ensemble, I have played Alto and Tenor Saxophone, French Horn and Trumpet depending on circumstances.

While I am not in favour of frequent, regular "challenges" for seating, a periodic evaluation by either the section leader or conductor seems to me productive. If that had've been done in my band, I'd probably still be playing alto sax, my first choice in wind ensemble.

But good-ole-boy expediency trumped skill over the path of least resistance from the director.

I enjoyed that. Thanks for posting

There may be two different threads saying much the same thing, hence a lack of fully-balanced information.

@Dr-GO said in Longest Layoff:

@GeorgeB said in Longest Layoff:

@Dr-GO
Thanks.
It's been 8 years, Doc, but you know, I never really got over it and probably never will. She was something else.

I truly understand. My wife is a cancer survivor. I remember those emotional days of surgery, radiation, chemo. I was there EVERY day to be by her side. She had an aggressive form of HER2+ breast cancer... AND A GREAT ONCOLOGIST. She is now 8 years out from therapy and remains cancer free.

So happy to hear your wife is cancer free, Doc. I can well relate to the emotional experience you went through. My wife had pancreatic cancer and survived for two years after surgery ( WHIPPLE ), and she lived her life as normal as possible. But there were so many side effect after the surgery that times were often hard. I put my own life on hold to be at her side and, as my family doctor once said, I became her personal physician.

@barliman2001 It is great to know that you were not homely enough - but someone else was qualified!

@administrator said in Guilty Pleasure Listening:
Was part of the "sound" of the Shaggs no sense of time?

They were just inept and forced into it by a father who must've lived in an alternate universe. You can google them. BTW, Frank Zappa gave them kudos.

@tobylou8 said in test post just testing:

TEST TEST TEST

A bit testy wouldn't you say!

I didn't mention that I have been wearing glasses for 59years, bifocals for 40. Transition back to single simple lens is difficult at best. My new glasses have a larger sweet spot, that allows me to sit at a comfy distance to play...I like between 40-45" when i can get it in a rehearsal setting, I havn't been able to real life test these new specks yet, but I can't wait!