Sax Trio

Putfile - Sax Trio

We have to create a piece for our small ensembles project in band and I wanted to get some comments on this. The end's not finished so I threw a random extremely dissonant thing in the last few seconds that's not really going to be there. :blink:

Any opinions will be greatly appreciated.

I've listened to this twice... I like it... and it seems to have alot of energy. My concern would be how playable this trio is going to be in realtime with live players. You had best hope your sax players are top notch, and good sightreaders. Otherwise with a tune like this - one mistake -would fry the overall performance. Its a great effort. I'll listen to it again when its completed.

Thank you. About the practical aspect of performance, I guess I should mention that I am in the top band at my school so everyone in my group is a very talented player. It will certainly take some practice but I think it should work out.

Putfile - TRIO 42

I worked to get an actual ending on now. The tempo changes aren't quite as smooth as I'd like but I think that problem would be much easier to fix with real musicians.

Putfile - TRIO 42

I worked to get an actual ending on now. The tempo changes aren't quite as smooth as I'd like but I think that problem would be much easier to fix with real musicians.

I just took my third listen Steve - and I'm in agreement with you. You're going to have to sit down with the musicians you have, perform this piece and see how it presents itself live. Thats one advantage a live performance has over a sound card generated MP3 file. You've put forth a good effort though. Being a sax player myself for many years, I'm sitting here stuck in this groove with thinking once you hear it live - you'll be looking at reworking some elements in this piece.

One noticable problem I see occurs between 1:00 - 1:08... it doesn't lead back into a seemless transition that one would expect. Instead its abrupt... almost like downshifting from third gear into first gear at 30mph.

Putfile - Trio edit

I tried changing that part a little, do you think it works better?

With all the damn AP classes I'm taking I never really had any space to take music theory so I can't really think about it in an objective sense. But it seems to have a more gradual slope now.

great piece. spectacular.I think it doesn't need much because in the stance of point of view it's modern.So your dissonances are very accepted. I wrote a quintet for my school band. I am presenting the score tommorrow saturday or sunday in the morning to see what the master of choir thinks. I am excited and thrill to have someone like you in YC. Pleasure to meet you. Talk to you another time.

It was fun. Do the Ricci Adams music theory course online(its free). It will give the 101 on alot of stuff, that you'll need.

It sounded great. Can you get a recording once its played, I'd be thrilled to hear it?

Pretty jumpy piece, it's waving somewhere between a Yngwie Malmsteen Solo and composition by Miles Davis in his latter years, not sure if that's what you wanted to hear but I do mean it as a compliment, and I personally love how they build tension, leave the alto (Is it the alto?) all on his own and then go insane, now that's character.