JakeBrownBass

[quote name='JakeBrownBass' timestamp='1332435682' post='1588393'] My first call sax player has a series III in solid silver & a matching alto, i'll try find a picture! Bilbo, why not rent one to see how you get on before shelling out? IIRC its generally about £50-70 a quarter! [/quote] Oops, make that a Selmer mk VI

[quote name='pst62' timestamp='1332423197' post='1588086'] Here's it tabbed too G--------|-------|-----------7-9-12-14-| D--------|-------|-----7-8-10-----------| A--------|-------|-8-10-----------------| E---5----|-1-----|---------------------| [/quote] Wrong, the first two notes are up an octave. If you can't hear that i really suggest you do some work on ear training. [font=courier new,courier,monospace]G--------|-------|-----------7-9-12-14-| D-7------|-------|-----7-8-10----------| A--------|-8-----|-8-10----------------| E--------|-------|---------------------|[/font]

How about this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqvnIalGgBk&feature=youtu.be

Aha, found one!

[quote name='spike' timestamp='1332433619' post='1588354'] This is the one you need Bilbo, very reasonably priced too [url="http://www.sax.co.uk/acatalog/Selmer-Series-III-Soprano--125th-Anniversary---Solid-Sterling-Silver-226135846.html"]http://www.sax.co.uk...-226135846.html[/url] [/quote] My first call sax player has a series III in solid silver & a matching alto, i'll try find a picture! Bilbo, why not rent one to see how you get on before shelling out? IIRC its generally about £50-70 a quarter!

[quote name='aboyandhisbass' timestamp='1332422335' post='1588063'] Hey guys, thanks a ton for all of your advice. I'm the sort of person that likes to jump straight into ideas but all of your feedback has given me a better idea of what I should be doing to improve myself as a musicians first, than just diving in at the deep end and making myself look unprofessional. I too had lessons at the very beginning but all he did was send me away with some tabs and for £27 it really wasn't worth it. It didn't help that he also had about 5 other students at the same time all playing different instruments.. Any tips on any good theory books or websites I could look at/study? I'm not really in a position to go to college/uni so the internet/books are the best bet for the moment. [/quote] The guy you describe in that is not a teacher. As for books, this will get you started. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/168191-your-must-have-music-theory-books/

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[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1332355631' post='1587273'] By my own admission, I am not a good student, but the (only, so bad was the experience) "teacher" I had was awful. Sure, he could play. Sure, he could read & knew his theory But he was [u]not[/u] a good teacher. [/quote] You are always going to get teachers like that, but if you feel that, don't go back.

Mono GS1 for me. Comfiest strap I've used!

Also, most teachers learn how to teach and what approaches to use by taking things that their teachers taught them!

You really should know your theory & reading IMO to be able to teach someone & make a living out of it.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1332332696' post='1586709'] I'm a tab fiend I use tuxguitar. I can read music on score when I fancy but I find learning quicker this way (I read the tab and the score simultaneously) [/quote] If your using the tab for the notes & the notation for the rhythms you are so close to just using notation mate. The smallest amount of work is needed there and will become just as quick for learning.

Out of interest, in what form are you writing them down to come back to later?

[quote name='Faithless' timestamp='1332235384' post='1585078'] The third Battles Show is up and running on Youtube, here's some stuff: [b]Beyonce - Rollin' On The River[/b] [b]Ce Lo Green - Crazy[/b] PS I'm more than proud to announce, that, during Final Live Shows we're gonna have a few cool guests on the show, that we're hopefully gonna play with: It's Marlon Roudette ("Mattafix") and "The Voice Of Holland" 2011 winner Ben Saunders among many others. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkDb8dAdqTc&feature=related[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p3lP3l6sro&feature=related[/media] [/quote] Lovely playing in 'Proud Mary' mate. I'm still not a fan of the singers though!!

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1332247378' post='1585437'] Inauthentic. [/quote] Stevie Wonder?

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1332245617' post='1585387'] Well, in my opinion, you simply have to be yourself to be authentic. If an artist is dressed up to create an image which was not their design, but then dno't make it clear that this is not their own image, that's not authentic. If an artist sings someone else's music with no creative input, but they give the impression that they are creatively involved, that's not authentic. just two examples, but to me it means a sort of "honesty" so if anyone is "faking" in any way, it's not authentic. [/quote] How do you take aliases then, artists that change there name for an image or marketing purposes?

[quote name='muttley' timestamp='1332243266' post='1585305'] Better quality than the grammar teaching, I hope . [/quote] I can't write to save my life. That's why i play music.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1332243102' post='1585300'] I always found that argument to be bullshit too. If you are rich, why would that stop you singing about OTHER PEOPLE's poverty and the injustice and pain, etc. Unless the artist is a dumb f***ing sh*t with no empathy or soul. [/quote] You see, that is actually one of the arguments. The Auteur vs. Reproducer. The auteur is the man thats signing about poverty because he's in it. The reproducer is the man thats singing about what the other man's going through. Why is the Auteur generally classed as being authentic while the latter is not. It's never ending circles of arguments.

I guess my begirding of this type of thing is that i feel it's all being over evaluated and everything seems to need a reason as to why some one did something or what they actually mean by doing said thing. It's a similar reason as to why i loved maths & physics in school rather than English literature, over analysing poems at books. Having teachers stood saying "the poet meant [i]this [/i]when he wrote that line" as appose to letting a poet write a poem without everyone reading too much in to it.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1332242416' post='1585273'] music is an artform - i don't see how you can study art without discussing its development and meaning. [/quote] I guess my point is that some things aren't relevant to developing as a musician, which is why i'd hope most people are here for. There are different ways in discussing its development and meaning.

How long are you teaching them for? I've found anything more than 30 mins with a child this young is nigh on impossible. They just don't have the concentration span for it. Start with simple things, how to hold the guitar, names of strings. Maybe begin with simple melodies on a single string. I don't whether it was just the kids i was teaching, but they were much more interested in knowing the names of different parts of the guitar than actually playing the thing at first. I've had a print out of a guitar before with arrows pointing at different parts of the guitar for them to take home and write the parts on. Seems to keep them interested at first.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1332241687' post='1585249'] Crap innit £9k a year to get asked 34 hours worth of complete bollocks. I hope the music teaching is better quality. [/quote] Ah i got in before the rise in fee's so not quite as bad. It's one of the best music schools in the country, the music teaching is definitely better quality. Every course has things that are deemed pointless but have to be there to keep the'establishment' happy.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1332241435' post='1585246'] This thread is completely mental. The essay question has nothing to do with 'authenticity', it is much more related to developing and maintaining artistic INTEGRITY, whatever that may mean. Just sounds like another music college ripping off their students with this bullshit instead of teaching them MUSIC, and letting them form their own philosophical approaches. FFS [/quote] Oh no, we get taught MUSIC. This lesson is just an hour a week of what i consider admin work to give the government some written work to look at.

Here's one guys rant on the matter, http://wtait.tumblr.com/ [quote name='Faithless' timestamp='1332240817' post='1585227'] This is just something I don't get about music tuition in colleges - I think, one is supposed to be a good musician, rather than essayist, and spend most of the time on practice. I bet it this sh*t must be driving you crazy, Jake. Take care, L [/quote] don't get me started on that!