Hey everyone, my name is Throstur and I'll be 20 in August. I'm from Iceland and started exploring the world of music* about three or four years ago, when I started taking private lessons on the Piano. I only took about two winters of lessons once a week so I'm not that great, but I can do some basic grooving in C minor on the pentatonic scale which sounds pretty jazzy and I can also almost play Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart but I run into some difficulties with hitting the right notes in time, maybe I'm just out of practise.
* I was in the choir in 5th grade and in high school and I do have some singing capability but I like to disregard those entirely.
I also have an electric guitar (Squier Strat) but I find that learning the guitar by myself is really, really, really boring. I was able to mimic the lead of "Sultans of Swing" but the second solo wasn't really up to speed and none of the tabs that I really wanted to learn were available on the internet so I haven't really been giving my axe much love recently. (Jefferson Airplane's "Have You Seen the Saucers", for example, the part Jorma plays)
I was forced onto the recorder like pretty much everyone else who went to middle school but fortunately we all got to have a go at the Xylophone too so I'd say I'm pretty competent on those instruments... at least compared to the average joe! The recorder is pretty much the reason why I wanted to learn how to play the sax...
Which brings me to my horn, it's an EM Winston 455LX Alto and I've only played it once. If you youtube "Hilarious first attempt on Sax" you'll find me blowing wind into it in my mother's purple T-shirt (which I have officially commandeered as my own).
I have high hopes of playing the sax and my dream is to play on bridges and tall hills in the middle of the night, Bleedin' Gums Murphy style... It'll probably never happen, but no matter, dreams will always be dreams! :welldone
So that's me, typical 90's kid on the road towards software engineering with a smooth love for jazz...
* I was in the choir in 5th grade and in high school and I do have some singing capability but I like to disregard those entirely.
I also have an electric guitar (Squier Strat) but I find that learning the guitar by myself is really, really, really boring. I was able to mimic the lead of "Sultans of Swing" but the second solo wasn't really up to speed and none of the tabs that I really wanted to learn were available on the internet so I haven't really been giving my axe much love recently. (Jefferson Airplane's "Have You Seen the Saucers", for example, the part Jorma plays)
I was forced onto the recorder like pretty much everyone else who went to middle school but fortunately we all got to have a go at the Xylophone too so I'd say I'm pretty competent on those instruments... at least compared to the average joe! The recorder is pretty much the reason why I wanted to learn how to play the sax...
Which brings me to my horn, it's an EM Winston 455LX Alto and I've only played it once. If you youtube "Hilarious first attempt on Sax" you'll find me blowing wind into it in my mother's purple T-shirt (which I have officially commandeered as my own).
I have high hopes of playing the sax and my dream is to play on bridges and tall hills in the middle of the night, Bleedin' Gums Murphy style... It'll probably never happen, but no matter, dreams will always be dreams! :welldone
So that's me, typical 90's kid on the road towards software engineering with a smooth love for jazz...
you will get plenty of advice on here and it's free :welldone that is until we have a trip to Iceland then you have to pay up 
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