Hi folks,
A follow up on my earler posts, Ive only been playing now for a couple of months and have had sax lessons with a teacher as well. My biggest problem like most beginners is lacking rythm. My teacher said now its not to bad and Im progressing quite nicely. My problem is that Im trying to feel the rythm but I guess Im just guessing the note lengths does that make sense. I can play out simple songs like jingle bells with minims crotchets and semi-breves ect no probs, but Im really guessing the lengths when I dont use a metronome. Now Ive been playing songs with simple quavers and thats no problems but when I get songs like snake charmer ect where you have to do large finger changes on quaver notes with slurs like for example c to high e then back to b and c again, I completely loose my beat and the quavers sound like a crotchet or even a minim. My instructor has told me to slow down my other notes eg crotchets to even a slower time so that way my quavers dont sound out of tune, but that just makes the whole song sound stupid and gets me out of whack even more. I know the notes and I now the fingerings confidently but I just end up getting flustered during these bars. Now if it wasnt for the fact that I notice most decent sax songs are written in quavers then I wouldnt be to fussed, but this is obviously a very important thing to conquer.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated
Steve
A follow up on my earler posts, Ive only been playing now for a couple of months and have had sax lessons with a teacher as well. My biggest problem like most beginners is lacking rythm. My teacher said now its not to bad and Im progressing quite nicely. My problem is that Im trying to feel the rythm but I guess Im just guessing the note lengths does that make sense. I can play out simple songs like jingle bells with minims crotchets and semi-breves ect no probs, but Im really guessing the lengths when I dont use a metronome. Now Ive been playing songs with simple quavers and thats no problems but when I get songs like snake charmer ect where you have to do large finger changes on quaver notes with slurs like for example c to high e then back to b and c again, I completely loose my beat and the quavers sound like a crotchet or even a minim. My instructor has told me to slow down my other notes eg crotchets to even a slower time so that way my quavers dont sound out of tune, but that just makes the whole song sound stupid and gets me out of whack even more. I know the notes and I now the fingerings confidently but I just end up getting flustered during these bars. Now if it wasnt for the fact that I notice most decent sax songs are written in quavers then I wouldnt be to fussed, but this is obviously a very important thing to conquer.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated
Steve