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That is great news! I'll be waiting to see how it all shakes out.
My son is working hard at being a saxophonist. He's in band, jazz band, the music teacher's TA, jazz lessons, & a jazz improv class. He made his stage debut last weekend at a local jazz bar, got to play a couple songs with his improv teacher's band. He was cool as a cucumber & sounded great.
We're not sure where this is all going. He just turned 14 & has been playing about 3 years. We are saving for college & he gets excellent grades. I have a coworker whose daughter (a violinist) graduated from an expensive private college a year ago & works at a music store. She had scholarship money, but still has a big debt. Our plan is to get him through college debt free & then retire.
I don't think he realized how blessed he is until he started to help younger students as a TA. The sax came to him pretty easily. He played one year of percussion & asked for an alto sax toward the end of the school year. I got him a cheap China sax & he sounded pretty good from day one. Less than a year later, I got him a intermediate level tenor & the best local instructor.
Last summer there were a couple of jazz camps, intermediate (improv), taught by his jazz teacher & beginner, taught by his future improv teacher. His jazz teacher told him wasn't quite ready for the intermediate class & that motivated him to do what it takes to get good enough (mostly scales). He worked hard & broke through a couple months ago. I hoped that once he was creating his own music, his motivation would pick up & it has.
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Paul
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