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Tony M
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Hello All,
New member Tony here. I've read a bunch of threads just by doing web searches and figured it's high time I joined. I'm looking forward to learning from all of you and chiming in where I can.
I'm new to the saxophone. I have been playing only about four months now. I have a great teacher locally and we meet occasionally. He has me concentrating on scales, different ascending and descending patterns of thirds interval patterns and long tones. He wants me to focus the majority of my time on these items with a little bit of time on song play for fun.
I'm in my early 60's and I have been playing drums (mostly rock and R&B) since I was a teenager. I have played drums in local bands for a long time, but lately have been wanting a change. Have you ever tried packing up a drum set at the end of the night? LOL. Whenever I see a sax player complain about having to carry their sax case and a whole extra bag for their other things I kind of chuckle to myself.
I played the clarinet as a kid because it was my father's main instrument and he wanted me to play it. I didn't have any particular affinity for the clarinet, but I do think the experience I had way back then has helped me get started on sax, which I am loving. My dad made his living repairing all kinds of woodwinds and as a young child I always found it fascinating watching him work on the instruments. He was a true craftsman. Meticulous. His shop was in the basement of our house in New York and the musicians came over to chat and to play their instruments when he was done. I met Benny Goodman and Illinois Jacquet a few times. There were other notables that came over, but I was too little to remember all of them. I have great memories of that time period.
Well, that's a little on me. Just wanted to say hello and thanks for having me!
Tony
New member Tony here. I've read a bunch of threads just by doing web searches and figured it's high time I joined. I'm looking forward to learning from all of you and chiming in where I can.
I'm new to the saxophone. I have been playing only about four months now. I have a great teacher locally and we meet occasionally. He has me concentrating on scales, different ascending and descending patterns of thirds interval patterns and long tones. He wants me to focus the majority of my time on these items with a little bit of time on song play for fun.
I'm in my early 60's and I have been playing drums (mostly rock and R&B) since I was a teenager. I have played drums in local bands for a long time, but lately have been wanting a change. Have you ever tried packing up a drum set at the end of the night? LOL. Whenever I see a sax player complain about having to carry their sax case and a whole extra bag for their other things I kind of chuckle to myself.
I played the clarinet as a kid because it was my father's main instrument and he wanted me to play it. I didn't have any particular affinity for the clarinet, but I do think the experience I had way back then has helped me get started on sax, which I am loving. My dad made his living repairing all kinds of woodwinds and as a young child I always found it fascinating watching him work on the instruments. He was a true craftsman. Meticulous. His shop was in the basement of our house in New York and the musicians came over to chat and to play their instruments when he was done. I met Benny Goodman and Illinois Jacquet a few times. There were other notables that came over, but I was too little to remember all of them. I have great memories of that time period.
Well, that's a little on me. Just wanted to say hello and thanks for having me!
Tony
