shamba504424
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In fact just put it on there cheers
Sounds like my Sax teacher AFTER my lesson.......... he looked a bit pale and shaky and was quite grumpy.
Mr Anecdote just tapped me on the shoulder. I once made contact with a very famous (jazz) alto player and asked if he gave lessons. Sure he said, £5
So I arrived, he looked a bit pale and shaky and was quite grumpy.
He sat me down, and then just practised for half an hour.
He took the £5 and rushed off to buy a packet of what you could buy for £5 in those days.
Agree 100%. In all my years of teaching the students that actually listened to music with a saxophone were very few. Quite how they had any idea what it was they were trying to achieve was beyond me.
5? That would have been about 40 years ago! But seriously, advice. When a teacher pulls out an instrument and plays a bunch of impressive phrases, it's usually a bad sign in my opinion. It may even be better that a teacher doesn't have an instrument at all in the lesson, in order to focus carefully on the student. @Pete Effamy @Pete Thomas ?Mr Anecdote just tapped me on the shoulder. I once made contact with a very famous (jazz) alto player and asked if he gave lessons. Sure he said, £5
So I arrived, he looked a bit pale and shaky and was quite grumpy.
He sat me down, and then just practised for half an hour.
He took the £5 and rushed off to buy a packet of what you could buy for £5 in those days.
I wouldn't go that far. It's just something that demands so much immersion even at a humble level of achievement. This is unlike many things in life. But we all want things, yet lack the energy and application. Many people know that they should practice X and Y but they won't admit it to themselves.Anybody trying to learn to play jazz without listening to the masters has a personality disorder or a learning disability. Sounds maybe like some kind of controversial thing to say. Seems pretty obviously true and unavoidably true to me.
I wouldn't go that far. It's just something that demands so much immersion even at a humble level of achievement. This is unlike many things in life. But we all want things, yet lack the energy and application. Many people know that they should practice X and Y but they won't admit it to themselves.
I'd love to shed a stone in weight. Easy. Eat smaller portions and do a decent amount of exercise. It is easy. Straightforward. Done it before. Do I do it? No. And as such, this is also what makes a world class player. I have practised 10 hours per day. At some point, to be good, most have to. I only had the will to do this in a few short bursts at music college though, and it's why I'm not world class - because they carried on with that amount of practice - every day.
That's the hardest thing for me, the ongoing, un-wavering dedication.
I have a load of theory books which came with various horns and sometimes think about reading them but I know it would take me ages and I may not understand. My tutor often started explaining but I just want to play. Should I be "studying" so as to become a better player? If so, what?Many of my students have been "grade A" students, so a lack of intellect is certainly not the case. I think it boils down to two things: one is thinking that a purely academic textbook approach will nail it (as it has for them in mathematics, science etc) and the other is merely a lack of "proper" interest.
I had several students with personality disorder and/or learning difficulties.Anybody trying to learn to play jazz without listening to the masters has a personality disorder or a learning disability. Sounds maybe like some kind of controversial thing to say. Seems pretty obviously true and unavoidably true to me.
I had several students with personality disorder and/or learning difficulties.
Pretty unrelated with the music that they listen to.
We can also easily make a list of famous players that had clinically recognised one or the other.
Well I have just turned 70 so maybe I would be considered too old to consider giving lessons to so may just have to rely on the online stuff but will ask anyway