MellowD
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Hello folks. Advice required please.
I've been approached to consider playing this little ditty with a band on New Year. Cough cough cough. I've been away from the sax over a year, though I'm back to practice from today.
My only experience of playing in a band has been Swing and Big Band style, so I've always been given the dots for my part. Other than that, any music I've played has been from books for sax, and pretty much they always play the melody itself, instead of the incidentals - example in mind, Isn't She Lovely: Stevie Wonder, gives the song dots but not the marvellous sax solo.
So I'm putting myself in the firing line here to ask:
How do you guys in bands do it?
Do you listen and learn the sax piece by ear?
Or is there a place you go to get the dots for the solo sax?
I KNOW I don't have the skills as yet to go off and take part in this offer if I need to learn and copy this piece by ear. Yet I would love to take up the opportunity if I can.
What's you view or experience please?
I've been approached to consider playing this little ditty with a band on New Year. Cough cough cough. I've been away from the sax over a year, though I'm back to practice from today.
My only experience of playing in a band has been Swing and Big Band style, so I've always been given the dots for my part. Other than that, any music I've played has been from books for sax, and pretty much they always play the melody itself, instead of the incidentals - example in mind, Isn't She Lovely: Stevie Wonder, gives the song dots but not the marvellous sax solo.
So I'm putting myself in the firing line here to ask:
How do you guys in bands do it?
Do you listen and learn the sax piece by ear?
Or is there a place you go to get the dots for the solo sax?
I KNOW I don't have the skills as yet to go off and take part in this offer if I need to learn and copy this piece by ear. Yet I would love to take up the opportunity if I can.
What's you view or experience please?