paul2610
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Hi All
After viewing my present alto collect dust for 2 years or more, I finally started using it a few days ago using the old 'tune a day' book. Must admit that apart from the old worn teeth feeling especially loose the feeling of playing and its joy (to me at the moment but probably not others!) is coming back slightly.
It all started for me back in the misty days of my youth when I played a flute in the school orchestra - so must of been above average - but at 16 or 17 can't remember a boy has other things on his mind and like an idiot I dropped it to persue these other things. 6 years later I'm in germany and pick up a tenor sax cause the rock bands there in the 80's (or the one I knew) wanted to try it out.
Unfortunatly I got as far as about 12 lessons and had to return to blighty and did not pick it up again until recently - of course at the great forty middle aged stage in this grand life, others may have decided to get another MG rather then a musical instrument by which to re-live their youth but being a daddy and aparently grown up now I thought best to stick to something my guitar playing teens would apprechiate (just as soon as it starts sounding like a sax!).
I guess thats enough for an intro - I look forward to chewing the fat with you all later
Paul
After viewing my present alto collect dust for 2 years or more, I finally started using it a few days ago using the old 'tune a day' book. Must admit that apart from the old worn teeth feeling especially loose the feeling of playing and its joy (to me at the moment but probably not others!) is coming back slightly.
It all started for me back in the misty days of my youth when I played a flute in the school orchestra - so must of been above average - but at 16 or 17 can't remember a boy has other things on his mind and like an idiot I dropped it to persue these other things. 6 years later I'm in germany and pick up a tenor sax cause the rock bands there in the 80's (or the one I knew) wanted to try it out.
Unfortunatly I got as far as about 12 lessons and had to return to blighty and did not pick it up again until recently - of course at the great forty middle aged stage in this grand life, others may have decided to get another MG rather then a musical instrument by which to re-live their youth but being a daddy and aparently grown up now I thought best to stick to something my guitar playing teens would apprechiate (just as soon as it starts sounding like a sax!).
I guess thats enough for an intro - I look forward to chewing the fat with you all later
Paul
Best beginner book I can recommend for adults is "The Jazz Method for Alto Saxophone" by John O'Neill (CD included - best price is usually on Amazon). Too many beginner books are understandably written for younger folks and can be a little infantalising, but this is a corker, and provides all sorts of help and challenges.
