Broomsticks And Owls

by **Vivian Borgin** » Sunday 27 July 2003 12:32:05am

I've played the piano for 14 years, the alto and tenor saxes for 10, and the bass for 9. I'm trying to go back to school for music; but it'll depend on whether I can get in and afford it at the same time. I was in a band last year. I'd like to be in one again, at least part-time for now.

The bass is a great instrument, Hermione. It takes a lot of work at first, but you'll have so much fun at it that you'll be glad you played it. Best of luck with it!

by **Lolita Banana** » Sunday 27 July 2003 9:59:40pm

sing and play the piano. I actually want to be a music teacher. My dream is to portray Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera. I am currently Lola in my high school musical of Damn Yankees. (Hence the name guys.)
I LOVE MUSIC!!!! hugs and kisses :grin:

by **Meg Boyd** » Monday 28 July 2003 12:41:19am

Go D*mn Yankees!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

by **Albus** » Monday 28 July 2003 2:46:49pm

I play the keyboard since I was 11 (now I'm 20)...
I've learned by myself, so I'm very very far to be as good as a piano player... Anyway, my dream is really to have a piano some day...
It wonderful be wonderful... Even if there are great keyboards, the sound of a piano is something superb...

by **zledm007** » Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:07:12pm

Marcus Baker wrote:
zledm007 wrote:I play the saxophone (well, 4 of them soprano, alto, tenor and baritone) and am planing on pursuing a career w/ the sax! i loove it so much. it's so much fun!

wow, thats cool. I play sax (well just alto, tennor and baritone, not soprano) and it is WICKED!"

yeah, i love palying the sax. it's the best thing to do ever. it doesn't matter what kind of music i'm playing as long as it's music you know? (althpugh jazz does have its up sides) i play it in my school band and jazz band and pep band/marching band and in a windensemble at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. and i also play wherever i get the chance. i was in a punk/emo/alternative rock band on the sax for a while and that was a blast. i just love music!!!

by **Marcus Baker** » Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:09:27pm

im also in the school jazz band and concert band for alto. Its really cool. I love to improvoize, it makes you feel so free. Just humming jazz improvazation is cool....

by **zledm007** » Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:13:06pm

anything jazz, and you're right, improv rocks (or, jazzes i suppose) but yeah, every once in a while i'll find myself just huming or singing something i've never heard before, and it sounds kinda cool cause it's jazzy. or, when i'm playing the sax, i just go off on a tangent and come up w/ something really cool, but then i forget it and can never play it again. but it's just so much fun.

by **Meg Boyd** » Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:17:09pm

Never come up with that again, huh? Hmmm, I have the problem a lot. Remeber that really wicked improv solo I had in Jazz Band that one day this summer, and then after that I just sounded like two cats going at each other...

the frusrations of being a meteokre (sp) Jazz musician...lol

by **Marcus Baker** » Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:19:30pm

To improve my improv, i buy CD's with background accompinements, and i just play to that. It can improve your licks and style, instead of just playing the same thing over and over, and its lots of fun

by **Meg Boyd** » Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:30:00pm

thanks, good idea! Now to find a saxophone...

zledm007, can I borrow your alto again??? :lol:

hee hee hee, just kidding...

I can jam out on that nice six foot contra bass clarinet in my living room

by **zledm007** » Thursday 31 July 2003 4:20:30am

if you'll come and get it, sure, i have no use for it. that's a really good idea marcus. i've actually got a charlie parker book thing with a cd that has the tracks like that, with just the background. it's a lot of fun!!

by **HuffleDuck** » Thursday 31 July 2003 4:39:42am

there's this piece of music that i really like and have history about it, but i don't really know what's it about though. anyone ever heard of

1812?

by **zledm007** » Thursday 31 July 2003 4:41:05am

the 1812 overture?

by **HuffleDuck** » Thursday 31 July 2003 4:53:10am

yeah that one.. in American history, there was 1812 war or battle, but i never read the American history book and never actually pay attention in class :razz:

by **Meg Boyd** » Thursday 31 July 2003 1:36:57pm

ahhh....memories of the 1812 Overture...hee hee...

When I was a sophomore our band went to the UW_Madison Band concert (awesome!!!!! the coolest ever) and it appeared that it was over. So our percussionist (who was obsessed with the 1812 Overture) left, to get a good seat on our bus. Well as an encore, the UW band played the 1812 overture, and our percussionist missed it...hee hee...the band even shot of fireworks inside for the cannons and everything, and their director was "flying" around the hall while directing. He was on those really cool fly line harnesses!!!

Ok, that was off topic...

But The 1812 Overture was composed by a Russian composer, Tchaikovsky, so the title had nothing to do with the American-British war of 1812. It has to do with a battle in Russia! I don't know details, I just remember reading that in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into History

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