jeremyjuicewah
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Wonder if anyone could give me a pointer. I have never played alto in the band. We now have a new guy who is really a beginner and I think is not sufficiently developed to be playing in a band, but he is and it is more or less coming down to me to help him along, which up to a point I don't mind because frankly when I first played in a band I don't think I should have been allowed either, but people let me learn on the job without being nasty. But he plays alto. I have only ever played tenor in the band. All music from Minnie the Moocher, Easy Babe, Honky Tonk Women, Van Morrison, cant really type the output, and I work the tenor in to most of it and sit some out when I think I have nothing really to add. I cant see the alto playing the parts I play but maybe it can. At the moment he is playing rubbish, long monotones that sound a bit bovine, all in the lower octave which seems to me to be a waste of a lovely instrument. Got to be stopped in his tracks and given something to do that is musical. Normal fills, or is there another role that the alto takes in the (ha ha) horn section? I don't really have time to teach the guy nor do I feel obliged to or really want to, but would like at least to point him somewhere and help us all out a bit.
By the way, check out that ad in yard sale that is headed Bargain! Did I spell that word correctly or should it have had a double f?
Heh heh.
As always
Thanks
Mike
By the way, check out that ad in yard sale that is headed Bargain! Did I spell that word correctly or should it have had a double f?
Heh heh.
As always
Thanks
Mike