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If so, I'd love to talk about our experience of it and maybe trade a few tips. :thu:

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I played in the orchestra back in HS but thats been to long ago.
btw;this is cool
:thu:

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this too

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Thanks Happy Hours for the response. The links don't work.:( Are they clips of your playing?

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:lol: I played in the orchestra back in HS but thats been to long ago.
btw;this is cool
:thu:
Happy, it looks like you have one too many http://'s in your posts. :)

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Thanks Happy Hours for the response. The links don't work.:( Are they clips of your playing?
nope,they're your clips :)
good stuff.:thu:

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nope,they're your clips :)
good stuff.:thu: :lol:
Thanks!
(still couldn't open them). I presume it's some of the jazzy stuff on my soundclick page.

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:lol:
Thanks!
(still couldn't open them). I presume it's some of the jazzy stuff on my soundclick page. that would be the correct assumtion.

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I played in the orchestra back in HS but thats been to long ago. Same here. In the 10th grade I was a clarinet player put into the beginning woodwind class so I got my hand on a tenor sax. In the 11th grade our bands strenght, the sax section was lost to graduation so I played second tenor and the trumpet section took the lead. Senior year the lead alto was good, he has released a few albums since then. The trumpets were hit by graduation so that one saxman and our bones took the leads and solos while I played the first tenor parts.

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I played in stage band in college, but I sucked at it. They plopped Tommy Tedesco charts in front of me with 4 jazz chord changes per measure at 130 BPM.:eek:
Then my horn band did a concert about 9 years ago with the Gonzaga University big band. They learned a bunch of my songs (the band director happened to be the alto player in my band!) and it was so cool having like 12 horns behind me!
Then I got to be a guest artist with the Spokane Jazz Orchestra for a 4th of July fireworks show in Riverfront Park. That was fun, about 10,000 people right before the fireworks.

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I played in stage band in college, but I sucked at it. They plopped Tommy Tedesco charts in front of me with 4 jazz chord changes per measure at 130 BPM.:eek:
Then my horn band did a concert about 9 years ago with the Gonzaga University big band. They learned a bunch of my songs (the band director happened to be the alto player in my band!) and it was so cool having like 12 horns behind me!
Then I got to be a guest artist with the Spokane Jazz Orchestra for a 4th of July fireworks show in Riverfront Park. That was fun, about 10,000 people right before the fireworks. Wow. That's great! :thu:
I know what you mean with four chords per measure at fast tempo.

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My old bass player plays in the local symphony orchestra. For fun he and some of his Juiliard trained orchestra buddies have a big brass band they play in. They needed a guitar player and asked me to sit in.
These guys had a playbook with over 1,000 songs in it. Everything was charted for the different instruments. Somebody would just call out a number and off they'd go like they'd played it 100 times before. Talk about over my head. I couldn't even begin to keep up. Playing with 30 seriously trained professional musicians was a very humbling experience.

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I used to do occasional hired gun guitar player gigs with a big band in PA back in the 1970's and 1980's.
It was fun reading off of charts, especially when they stuffed 12 chord changes into one measure. I usually simplified and nobody ever noticed the difference.
One weird part was that the singer didn't sing in the same key as the charts, so when the vocals came in the whole band had to transpose to the new key, and as soon as the vocals were over, we switched back to the original key. :freak: I always thought it sounded kind of strange, but, like they said at Nuremberg, I was only following orders.

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I used to do occasional hired gun guitar player gigs with a big band in PA back in the 1970's and 1980's.
It was fun reading off of charts, especially when they stuffed 12 chord changes into one measure. I usually simplified and nobody ever noticed the difference. back in the 90s I used to 'fill-in' for a friend (when he was out of town) with this wedding band (pastel tuxedos, stands and all that). The band generally was any where from 12 to 20 pieces...(lots of horn players, some were guys from the Doc Severinsen Tonight Show band :cool: ). Like MDL, I would scan the charts ahead of time, and shortcut the changes...
The leader at first didn't like me showing up with a strat and pedalboard (and on the last two gigs a Marshall amp :eek: )...but after the first gig, where I was able to pull out a couple of requests, and talk the band through it, he seemed to tolerate me...and the $ was always excellent! ;)
The real trick I learned was, in that kind of setting, you are part of the rhythm section, and you can pretty much 'fake strum' at zero volume and no one really notices you ;)

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I played in stage band in college, but I sucked at it. They plopped Tommy Tedesco charts in front of me with 4 jazz chord changes per measure at 130 BPM. Now I'm scared to sign up fore highschool Jazz band. Oh well, don't think they'll be playing stuff quite that hard.

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Now I'm scared to sign up fore highschool Jazz band. Oh well, don't think they'll be playing stuff quite that hard. its only hard if you don't know it... ;)
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