anyone else bored with school band music?
i`m in 7th grade and the music is sooooo boring. i play the bari and the alto. i go online about once a week trying to find sumthing more difficult. i never do. any1 know any good sites or music that i can print offline?
if u know of anything, email me at eddy1812@excite.com
it doesnt even have to be sax music. i dont mind transposing.
thanx for help,
*eddy*

umm... i hate to sound crabby or anything, but if you notice from the other subjects on this forum that they TOO are bored and they can`t find anything that there prolly isn`t any music... but to help you, i found some music like "somewhere over the rainbow" at some of those angelfire places... in tenor that is, and then you hafta fool around on word and stuff... but yeah... and they do have sheet music here, so yeah.. you prolly already knew that... but yeah... good luck!!!

Hey, I know. I`m in 7th too and the school band music is so boring. But luckily I`m also in the jazz band and that`s really awesome. Try getting a private lesson if you`re bored with you`re music.

ya i hav 2 admitt 2. skool music stynx. they treat us like we dont know how 2 play our instrument. by the way..... does any 1 go 2 east naples middle skool?¿

I know what you mean, i play the tenor sax and i have the low parts of all are songs. It sucks. I really havent found any good places to find music ethier-so i make it up. I have the awesome computer program called noteworthy composer. It has tons of instuments tones and the possibles are endless. I have the demo which you can download here http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/composer/evaluate.htm

I HAVE TWO WORDS FOR ALL OF YOU!!!!!



Jazz improvisation!!!!!


go get an abersold and start playing it!

ok ok! just 1 question.......... wats a abersold. and wat do u mean by "jazz improvation" or wat ever?¿ cause i play tenor 2. and theres this 1 song called "marines hymn" and through the whole song all im playin is low c d g & f. only twice i get 2 play i regular b a & c. stynx hugh?¿ do yall hav sheet music like that 2 or r all of yall in symphonic?¿ oh by the way...... i hav a concert tonight. PRAY 4 ME! tanx.

what about some ska? it`s rather easy to play... problem is I suck at harmony since I ain`t in no school band... all my friends play alto sax as well and it sux cuz we need like only 2 altos and a trombone/baritone + trumpet... anyway I think you won`t have problem playing along Save Ferris or Reel Big Fish songs or whatever... peace! have fun

Ska, i tried to be in a ska band once, ska is not jazz, therefore ska is inferior.


ok, an aebersold is just a book out of like 110 that jamey AEBERSOLD makes, improvisation means you play and make up music on the spot based on chord changes.

Yes, ska is not cool. Jazz is, though.

I don`t think the joy of improvisation can be matched by much, no distorted guitar hammering out the same chords over and over, nor some vocalist singing the same notes...it`s in my opinion, the true meaning of music, where an artist can most freely express himself.

Yea jazz band is tight!!!! I love it, lead tenor gets alot of good parts and solos.HEhehehe. If you have never played in a jazz you haven`t lived.

Band hasn`t been boring in a long time. Our band music is pretty cool to me. Mainly because the altos have the majority of the melodies in our songs along with the clarinets. And in jazz band, I have most of the solos on my tenor. So that`s pretty fun. Of course, my instructor chooses solos depending on what instrument I`m playing. Well, hopefully I`ll be able to dump the tenor after this year is over and stick to the alto in jazz. Hope you find more challenging music.

Our teacher at ben franklin gives us the cool music in 8th grade. Im in 7th and play bari+alto...I dont mind playing bass line...marines hymn is a good song if u ever fully play it. We kicked that song out the door months ago. We can play it perfectly/. Right now were doing te ET theme and im a beleiver...aztec celebration and some other thing. he 8th graders get to play march militaire and stuff.

I`m in the 7th grade and our songs are kool.We dont have a Jazz band but the normal band stuff is awesome.Persession of the Nobles is cool but the football music is the most fun.

Ska really isnt that bad if you look at it in terms of soloing. There are plenty of ska bands that do totally instrumental cd`s and songs. Check out Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (Japanese Ska Band). They took, tin tin deo and made an absolutely wonderful rendition. Although, Ska is a lot easier than jazz is. With the harder jazz, you will have inverted chords, and you have to know your scales...with ska, basically to start off all you need is a minor scale and upbeet rythm section. Both are great to expand musical intuition.