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Jazz has been a favorite of mine since I joined band 3 years ago. Does anyone else here like jazz also? It seems to be a dying genre even though in my opinion its one of the greatest music ever invented. Btw if you happen to have links for jazz albums, it'd be nice to know.:(h):

edit: One site you can visit:

http://www.trombone-usa.com/trombonesamples.htm

How long have you been in band? This is my 3rd year and I am also in a jazz band playing tenor sax while playing bass clarinet in the regular school band? What instrament do you play? I only listen to it when I need tips on how to play a song, such as when to bend, or when to use falls.

I've been in band since the 6th grade and I am now in the 9th grade, so 3 years, doing my 4th. I play trombone and I also was in the all-county jazz band for my area here in Miami. My middle school band was "great" for a middle school, scored straight superiors the 3 years I was there, I managed to get 4 of those FBA, as we call it here, competition medals. Thats not to mention how many other medals my school scored for the pass I think 10 years or so. We have a wall with over 20 superiors I think.

I really started to like jazz after I heard the infamous Take 5. We have a public jazz radio that plays mostly conservative jazz pieces, but is still pretty good. I used to play trumpet in jazz band in grade 9 but I stopped shortly after. I work at a studio where we get a bunch of guys that come in and record tracks. Some of these guys are really crazy. We had a quartet that bought only an hour of studio time (really ridiculous cause it takes 4 hours to make the coffee :p), they did their track in less than an hour. I swear jazz makes you retardedly gifted :D.

Lol, well jazz requires practice, so in a way, it can make you retardely gifted lol. I haven't seen one person at my school that plays jazz and is not in honors or advanced classes. Maybe its just a fad for the "smarter" kids lol. But yea, not many people are willing to learn a music so complicated as jazz.

There was seriously a staudy that proved music made you smarter. I have just forgoten what it was called.

From: noidea
There was seriously a staudy that proved music made you smarter. I have just forgoten what it was called.

Supposedly it would. I guess it has to do something with increasing your motor skills and/or memory. Music has so many tasks at once that the brain would have to adapt to it, like multi tasking.

From: zertunami
Supposedly it would. I guess it has to do something with increasing your motor skills and/or memory. Music has so many tasks at once that the brain would have to adapt to it, like multi tasking.

It basically turns your brain into SCAR, and what i mean by that is you write something down, it interperates it and does it :D

I played piano for 6 years (quit when i was 13) and am now taking up guitar (started yesterday lol)

I wouldn't mind music that made you good at SCAR lol:rolleyes: I've always wondered why people would take up an instrument like guitar rather than say, a woodwind or brass instrument. To me it seems a bit easier than a concert instrument, sorta takes away some complexity that music gives because there is no breathing or regulating and such involved. But that is just my opinion.

Guitars and other "rythem section" instraments have to remeber chords.

I suppose yes. I just never quite understood why people choose guitars over another concert instrument. Fad?

Well, I guess some of the people who join band are in it for the guitar. When they find out there is no guitar in band, they head out. I believe that is for the people with high hopes and dreams of becoming a metal head rockstar later in life.

From: noidea
Well, I guess some of the people who join band are in it for the guitar. When they find out there is no guitar in band, they head out. I believe that is for the people with high hopes and dreams of becoming a metal head rockstar later in life.

Perhaps. Btw, if anyone has a place where you can download jazz tunes or anything, please post a link here.

I have one nice place (especially for trombone) that has over 300 songs on a playlist!

http://www.trombone-usa.com/trombonesamples.htm check it out

From: zertunami
I suppose yes. I just never quite understood why people choose guitars over another concert instrument. Fad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1sAkZF7SCQ
That is why :D

From: rashid204
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1sAkZF7SCQ
That is why :D

Nice song. I always loved this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xWjYMGI3DM

Music = Good
Singing Style = Crap

That's honest ^^ :f:

[QUOTE=Dan's The Man;458171]Music = Good
Singing Style = Crap

That's honest ^^ :f:

Lol some singers are good (or there used to be :P), ever heard of Ella Fitzgerald?