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| I was born with a sax in my hand! |
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:54 pm
Terra of the Lilies Okay, so at our last competition (at the Naval Academy- it's huge!), there was this shirt place set up by the concessions, with all these AWESOMELY AMAZING band shirts. One of them said, "I'm bringing Saxy back", two girls in my section got them. I wanted one reaaaally badly, but I didn't see the stand until we were leaving. :[ I hope they'll be there again for championships... dude!!! I wuz there mrgreen
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:02 pm
I just submitted my reason to join the guild hope to be a guild member soon hehe GO saxes ^_^
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:29 am
Gr33n Gummy Bears Terra of the Lilies Okay, so at our last competition (at the Naval Academy- it's huge!), there was this shirt place set up by the concessions, with all these AWESOMELY AMAZING band shirts. One of them said, "I'm bringing Saxy back", two girls in my section got them. I wanted one reaaaally badly, but I didn't see the stand until we were leaving. :[ I hope they'll be there again for championships... dude!!! I wuz there mrgreen
:O Really? What band? We didn't get to watch many bands there at championships, but on that day we got to watch a lot of them.
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:17 pm
Terra of the Lilies Gr33n Gummy Bears Terra of the Lilies Okay, so at our last competition (at the Naval Academy- it's huge!), there was this shirt place set up by the concessions, with all these AWESOMELY AMAZING band shirts. One of them said, "I'm bringing Saxy back", two girls in my section got them. I wanted one reaaaally badly, but I didn't see the stand until we were leaving. :[ I hope they'll be there again for championships... dude!!! I wuz there mrgreen
:O Really? What band? We didn't get to watch many bands there at championships, but on that day we got to watch a lot of them.what category are u in?
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:13 pm
I found an alto sax! It's the Yanagisawa 992 Bronze. I don't reccommend this for any other highschool students or under, unless you're gonna take it to college and major in the saxophone. It's beyond comparison; there is nothing that can even slightly notion to how awesome this sax is! It's extremely expensive, though; $4000. Don't get it unless you mean it. (I did!)
Yeah, now I'm testing out different reeds, and I'm on the Rico jazz and vadoren classics. They're O.K., but I've heard that the vandoren ZZ's and Java's are really pro material. Those are next on my list.
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:42 pm
we just had the worst concert ever. this year our school got a new band teacher and he picked music i could have played in the 6th grade (i'm in 8th)
then on top of that we had to play it with the 7th grade band...worst concert ever we sounded so bad
and a little off the point but i play the alto and teenor and i'm going to try the bari out tomorrow so any tips?
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:31 pm
Gr33n Gummy Bears Terra of the Lilies Gr33n Gummy Bears Terra of the Lilies Okay, so at our last competition (at the Naval Academy- it's huge!), there was this shirt place set up by the concessions, with all these AWESOMELY AMAZING band shirts. One of them said, "I'm bringing Saxy back", two girls in my section got them. I wanted one reaaaally badly, but I didn't see the stand until we were leaving. :[ I hope they'll be there again for championships... dude!!! I wuz there mrgreen
:O Really? What band? We didn't get to watch many bands there at championships, but on that day we got to watch a lot of them.what category are u in?
Woah, sorry, this is a completely late post. xd
We were in...uh, 3a or 4a, I think it's 4a for USSBA.
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:00 pm
supergoalie24 we just had the worst concert ever. this year our school got a new band teacher and he picked music i could have played in the 6th grade (i'm in 8th) then on top of that we had to play it with the 7th grade band...worst concert ever we sounded so bad and a little off the point but i play the alto and teenor and i'm going to try the bari out tomorrow so any tips? Yeah. I play Bari, and one of the things I noticed going from altot to Bari is A) MORE AIRRR and B) You have to drop your jaw just to hit an F#. so yeah. your neck will be sore in the beginning.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:01 am
Darlamonky supergoalie24 we just had the worst concert ever. this year our school got a new band teacher and he picked music i could have played in the 6th grade (i'm in 8th) then on top of that we had to play it with the 7th grade band...worst concert ever we sounded so bad and a little off the point but i play the alto and teenor and i'm going to try the bari out tomorrow so any tips? Yeah. I play Bari, and one of the things I noticed going from altot to Bari is A) MORE AIRRR and B) You have to drop your jaw just to hit an F#. so yeah. your neck will be sore in the beginning. yea i realized that too. my neck hurt for the 3 periods following band. it's a full octave lower than the alto so i'm still getting used to that
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:32 pm
I want to get my own sax so badly, but a good quality bari sax can cost upwards of eight grand, and my parents don't want to front that much money for an instrument that's so big... My mom still hasn't forgiven me for changing to the flute.
... now, though, she has to pay for the expenses of two band students, since my brother is in junior high now and he's joined band. I'm excited though, cause we're going on an actual tour this year! We're going out to Halifax, and that's got me excited because I've never been there!
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:02 am
Nutcraker Suit. Amazing piece of music. 8th movement the Waltz of the Flowers, terrible to play on alto.
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:49 am
this is an amazing topic! i play tenor blaugh but im only in school band stressed GO SAX
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:53 am
im currently attemting Theme from "green Bushes" dramallama pritty hard peice where i actually have the melody! xd
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:52 am
Ya! I can finally say I'm a saxophone player too! I got my first sax on Saturday (I'm a senior in High school and I play flute/picc in class, clarinet on side, and now sax on side too. I'm trying to get into two band classes next semester so I can play flute/picc in one, and sax in the other). Anyway, I'm not super good, but I have picked it up quickly because I play flute (fingerings are the same! ^-^). I've played it at church a couple times since saturday, and it's tons of fun. Oh, btw it's an alto sax (step-up).
For those polls I didn't answer before:
Type: Capital Edition Jupiter
Reed: Van Doren 2
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:09 am
i play the alto sax. and one day... i learned about the contrabass saxophone. and now i wanna learn how to play it.(it exists. google 'saxophone family' or go to youtube and type in 'saxophone'... it'll be there) HOMG ITS SOOOOO HUUUUGEEEEEE...!!!! biggrin its over 6 ft. tall!
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