yeah – compared to the rest of the plsyers i was out of my depth, felt i was among a lot of music
teschers & older university music players! To be fair the band was
formed from a lot of existing orchestra players who wanted to
start up a separate jazz/swing band.
But for me i feel that i entered at the right time, it gives me more incentive to get the timing right & the dynamics right for
a lot of the phrasing – when i do
my own practicing! I told my
sax teacher – so now he’s giving
me a harder time with getting
things right! lol
The left hand side of the band
had 5 rows of sax players – 2 alto
rows, 3 rows for tenors and bari’s. The right hand side had
3 rows of clarinets, and 2 of trumpets, not sure if trumbones
were there. as i sat 2nd row from
front! Really wierd – i though you
could sit anywhere – lol, everyone
else knew where to sit.
Next month – spending a day playing in a real orchestra – that’s going to be a chsllenge!
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