Young Ensemble, Mature Music..??
ok, were a young ensemble, mainly in age..our state of mind towards music for the most part is mature..we do have a piece of sh*t bari player, but the rest of our bass section makes up for it..
were playing a lot of great tunes..omaha, you and me and a lot of others that ive mentiond (yardbird suite, after youve gone)..
we have a lot of seniors in our jazz band...both tenors, our lead alto, 2 bones, 2 trumpets..so we have the experience..
my question is, we dont blend..the altos blend with altos, the bones blend with bones and altos..our drummer doesnt know what hte word blend means..and our trumpets dont blend..the problem is that our trumpets either dont think they dont blend, or just dont care..they sound soo terrible and theyre bringing the rest of us down.. they tend not to listen to me because i used to be real arrogant and now im finally starting to be able to back it up, but i still have hte history of it..
how do i tell them they "suck" when they wont listen to me..i want to get better but i cant with the trumpets..the whole ensemble gets brought down..they have the mentality of "well, its good enough" and they just leave it..
in our band our instructer tries to instill the idea of "its never good enough" and theres no such thing as good..theres trained and un trained..he wants us to be trained..
help me
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