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  S.H.I. Spontaineous Harmonic Improvization
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  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

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  Set lists
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  @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.

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  Fun with Scales
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  @Vulgano-Brother said in Fun with Scales:

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

  Exhausting! I need a nap.

  Jim

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  Don Thomas an Unbeleivable Sound
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  Wynton Marsalis on Practice and Discipline
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  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."

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  Community Bands
  • fels  

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  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.