pickin' pluckin' etc. anyone play an instrument or 3?

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Started with alto saxophone in 5th grade band class. I learned clarinet to get in the youth symphony and it's my main one since then. The best group I played with is my local community band. Most of the people in it are older and everyone is there because they all want to play music together. We play a christmas concert, 4th of july, seasonal things, stuff like that. Our conductor is great. He lets the band learn the song ourselves during rehearsal and then gets picky. Other conductors will start off being picky and then ease off, which is an annoying way to do it. We learn how to play together as a band first. I'm not a professional or anything btw. Right now I'm trying to teach myself piano

That's a good way to do it, gradually improving over time. Starting uptight and letting off doesn't make any sense.

Does your community band have any drama? Ours had an usurper to the throne of Conductor and then a whole practice night was full of tears and arguing and waving around printed e-mails and Facebook screenshots.

How close are saxophone and clarinet btw?

I used to play double bass and I was the only string instrument in community band so I liked to joke that I was the string section. Nowadays I only play piano because I want to write music or else I have to <del>kill myself</del> watch Netflix like a good boy until my organs fail.

lol there was no drama that I knew of. Everyone was old. But since my last post it shut down for covid and it's unlikely to come back soon. And I moved out of town so I don't know whats going on.

Saxophone and clarinet are similar. I guess the main thing is that they are held the same way and the keys are shaped differently. The alto sax and soprano clarinet are in different keys so while the fingerings can be the same they don't make the same notes. Clarinet also has a thumb hole on the back that sax doesn't. The clarinet has a register key where the saxophone has an octave key.

Yeah you were the string section. In my high school band it was just this one fucking kid on bass guitar.

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HOW TO PLAY GUITAR
by David Fair

“I taught myself to play guitar. It’s incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play the high sounds, and the fat strings play the low sounds. If you put your finger on the string farther out by the tuning end it makes a lower sound. If you want to play fast move your hand fast and if you want to play slower move your hand slower. That’s all there is to it. You can learn the names of notes and how to make chords that other people use, but that’s pretty limiting. Even if you took a few years and learned all the chords you’d still have a limited number of options. If you ignore the chords your options are infinite and you can master guitar playing in one day.
Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier and skinnier as they go down. But the thing to remember is it’s your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different sized strings on it because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put all of the same thickness on so he wouldn’t have so much to worry about. Whatever string he hit had to be the right one because they were all the same.
Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. If you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place would be wrong. But that’s absurd. How could it be wrong? It’s your guitar and you’re the one playing it. It’s completely up to you to decide how it should sound. In fact I don’t tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they’re all about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all they don’t depend on body resonating for the sound so it doesn’t matter if you paint them. As also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction to effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the strings can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls.
The first guitar I bought was a Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it really doesn’t matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I’ve never tried one. I guess they sound alright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you’d feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn’t to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world.”