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LISTENING AND PLAYING 103 |
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about 12/- per lesson. The School also gives postal tuition in musical theory, harmony, guitar and piano ; and it will also advise you on the choice of an instrument.
Self-tutors
If you live away from London, you can make a perfectly good start by getting hold of a simple tutor that shows you how to produce the various notes on your instruments. Paxton and Co. of 36-38 Dean Street, London, W.l. produce a series of excellent tutors for most instruments—the price is about three shillings each. When I started at the age of about 11 by picking up a second-hand alto saxophone for £5,1 got my Paxton tutor and picked out the notes from the little chart in the beginning of the book. When I knew how to blow all the notes, I followed the players from radio and records, copied their style and phrasing as best I could. Within 3-4 months, I had assembled enough kindred spirits to form a group called the Rhythmic Eight. The resultant noise was probably atrocious; but we got quite a lively beat and had a lot of fun—and it was the right way to start.
One final word: you may be disappointed that, in attempting to give a bird's-eye view of the complex subject of jazz, there is much left out of this book. This is, in a sense, deliberate: I repeat what I said at the start—that jazz is music, that music has to do with the ear rather than the eye, and that you ought |
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