Right, it's band time!

No clarinets?

 

Big band drumming is horridly simplistic, unchallenging and boring, right?

...

Cause else I'd not meet the job description. :/

 

i'll be your drummer only if we get to pretend to play A Night in Tunisia \


darn just realized there was already a drummer.....as you can see by my choice of song i prefer jazz over big band anyways.....

 

I'll be your manager Saxy

 

Pretend to play it? Bollocks to that, we'll ACTUALLY play it!

Hooray, we have a manager. What are our tour dates?

 

Of course there'll be clarinets - played by doubling sax players, along with flutes and maybe even a bassoon on occasion.

 

I know a few bassoons Yeah yeah, bad i know

 

hey! i'm a bassoon, and a vocalist, and a pianist! grade 8 standard on all!

 

Well, looks like double bass and guitar are taken, but I can belt out a mean jazz voice if thats still up for grabs. "It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing!"

 

I suppose we could bring on a special guest vocalist on occasion, just as long as they don't try to make the band their own personal backing group, as a lot of singers do.

Looks like we've got a pianist. Only grade 8 though? Still, at least grade 8 shows potential and means you're better than I am on piano!

 

I can play latin percussion....I could twang occasionally....or I could be a roadie Can I be a roadie?

 

what about oboes?

 

Well I saw Pete Long the bari sax player doubling on Oboe with Jools Holland's band once, so there's no reason why not!

 

tis bad to judge talent in grades, but i was just trying to give some idea of how i can play. i can sightread really well and my jazz improv is ok!(not to sound up myself! )

 

Good good. I can't sight read on the piano these days - spent too much time playing single line instruments on which my reading is fine, but don't practise on the piano much and almost never with music in front of me. Re exams though, people who say they've got grade whatever are still beginners. Grade 8 is the last exam you take before you start approaching professional standards, but there's still a long way to go yet. Massive gap even between Grade 8 and the old Advanced Certificate (now Dip ABRSM).

 

I don't sight read for any instrument. My neighbor had a nice Steinway. I tuned it for them and they had to sell it. I recorded myself playing Imagine on it... Haha, I also discovered how to play This Love on it. I wish we still had an organ. We used to have a Hammond B3 that belonged to my great uncle (he was actually a homosexual baptist preacher and played in a rock/jazz/blues band on the side... as well as being the town doctor .)

 

Ah the B3, everyone give a big sigh in honour of it!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

i can play clair de lune and that famoose grieg piece and rachmaninov! those are past grade 8!

sorry that was out of order gloating:& tell me off!

 

Le sigh.

 

Ah well you're not just grade 8 standard then are you!

Can you play rach's third piano concerto? It's really cool!

Oooh now you've got me thinking of Eric Morcambe!