chris13
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I've got a couple of books (and Pete's excellent DVD) and I'm finding that most of the music that's provided is quite tedious; I know it's there to get you progressing, but I would like something more interesting than playing notes which don't seem to get anywhere. I have no problem with playing scales and arpeggio's and long notes; boring, yes, but they also help you improve your playing, but some of the music seems utterly pointless and sometimes beyond dis-encouraging. Has anyone got any favourite music they had when starting out that can be played by a novice (crotchets are the fasted I'll be going for the time being).
I can currently play Merrily We Blow Along, Cor Blimey, This Land Is My Land and I am getting to grips with When The Saints... (still can't get it right all the way through yet, I'm still working with indisciplined mis-functioning fingers who go off and do their own things at times!) and I've had a go at Beethoven's 7th Symphony: Second Movement; maybe keep coming back to that one a few times over the coming months (I don't know the keying to all the notes involved quite yet); I'm also starting on Little Egypt, very slowly to begin with, still can't recognise it, and hopefully I can nail it in about a month or so.
Is the flute in the same key as the alto sax. A few years back, I borrowed my sisters flute (I had it for about 4 months before she took it off me and gave it to one of her friends), and I still have the book I got to learn from. I would quite like to play A La Claire Fontaine and Lightly Row, but am not sure if it would need transcribing.
As a beginner, I'm still not sure which musical direction I will be taking, but by the end of next year, I would like to be able to play Watermelon Man off by heart, pretty competantly.
I will master as many scales, arpeggios and the tracks that I like playing off by heart, improve my tonal balance and accuracy of keying, and maybe by the start of next year I will be good enough to buy some sheet music to get my teeth into
Many thanks
Chris
I can currently play Merrily We Blow Along, Cor Blimey, This Land Is My Land and I am getting to grips with When The Saints... (still can't get it right all the way through yet, I'm still working with indisciplined mis-functioning fingers who go off and do their own things at times!) and I've had a go at Beethoven's 7th Symphony: Second Movement; maybe keep coming back to that one a few times over the coming months (I don't know the keying to all the notes involved quite yet); I'm also starting on Little Egypt, very slowly to begin with, still can't recognise it, and hopefully I can nail it in about a month or so.
Is the flute in the same key as the alto sax. A few years back, I borrowed my sisters flute (I had it for about 4 months before she took it off me and gave it to one of her friends), and I still have the book I got to learn from. I would quite like to play A La Claire Fontaine and Lightly Row, but am not sure if it would need transcribing.
As a beginner, I'm still not sure which musical direction I will be taking, but by the end of next year, I would like to be able to play Watermelon Man off by heart, pretty competantly.
I will master as many scales, arpeggios and the tracks that I like playing off by heart, improve my tonal balance and accuracy of keying, and maybe by the start of next year I will be good enough to buy some sheet music to get my teeth into
Many thanks
Chris
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