jeepmammouth
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Good day eh,
I apologise in advance for my english typo's,
i'm a French Canadian from the province of Quebec. 46 year old (Damn where has time gone !?!?), married, 3 kids (14, 18, 23) all still at home if you can believe that (bunch of slackers ;-)).
There's no sax teacher around my area I'm gonna have to self-teach myself. Since i'm not sure this is gonna turn out that great I purchased a reasonably OK (wouldn't use the word 'good') student sax and didn't go 'all broke' on it.
It doesn't have fancy make name like most people I see here, it's a cheapy Dixon brand. Had the guy and a friend play-it and it sounded fine enough for the 1st two years or so. If I get good enough that I outgrow-it, well, there's always time to get another. The only thing we changed is I got a better mouth piece.
We tried many sax under the $850 range (that's what... about 475 GBP for you guys in the UK, give or take a few) Anyway, when they played-it with the new mouth piece, it sounded plenty fine to me and (according to my buddy) that particular model is mecanicaly sound. Ok-doo-k, one dixon purchased (Hey, what do I know).
So there you go.
I've played the flute when I was younger and I got a good musical ear so i'm already 'tooting' some lowbie tune (Ex: All of me). I play a lot be ear but I can read (decrypt is more like it) sheet music.
I'm working on re-learning to scales and producing a good tone. As it is, I don't squak and can produce a reasonable (if someone flat) sound for a good 30 minutes. I play all note accross the instrument except that last base key and the 1st two high key's. Can't seem to get those half the time.
My greatest hurdle has been the lack of playing buddies. I'm gonna get some play along CD/DVD this weekend, that will probably help.
So there's me, looks like a nice place here, hope to be here a while.
I apologise in advance for my english typo's,
i'm a French Canadian from the province of Quebec. 46 year old (Damn where has time gone !?!?), married, 3 kids (14, 18, 23) all still at home if you can believe that (bunch of slackers ;-)).
There's no sax teacher around my area I'm gonna have to self-teach myself. Since i'm not sure this is gonna turn out that great I purchased a reasonably OK (wouldn't use the word 'good') student sax and didn't go 'all broke' on it.
It doesn't have fancy make name like most people I see here, it's a cheapy Dixon brand. Had the guy and a friend play-it and it sounded fine enough for the 1st two years or so. If I get good enough that I outgrow-it, well, there's always time to get another. The only thing we changed is I got a better mouth piece.
We tried many sax under the $850 range (that's what... about 475 GBP for you guys in the UK, give or take a few) Anyway, when they played-it with the new mouth piece, it sounded plenty fine to me and (according to my buddy) that particular model is mecanicaly sound. Ok-doo-k, one dixon purchased (Hey, what do I know).
So there you go.
I've played the flute when I was younger and I got a good musical ear so i'm already 'tooting' some lowbie tune (Ex: All of me). I play a lot be ear but I can read (decrypt is more like it) sheet music.
I'm working on re-learning to scales and producing a good tone. As it is, I don't squak and can produce a reasonable (if someone flat) sound for a good 30 minutes. I play all note accross the instrument except that last base key and the 1st two high key's. Can't seem to get those half the time.
My greatest hurdle has been the lack of playing buddies. I'm gonna get some play along CD/DVD this weekend, that will probably help.
So there's me, looks like a nice place here, hope to be here a while.
