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If your school is not mainly a school for music, then there probably wont be too many people in the class, which will make for a more intimate teaching/learning atmosphere. I took AP music theory in my junior year of high school and there were only four of us in the class. If there are a lot of people in the class then it might be harder for you to have access to your teacher's brain for picking. If you know how to read music already then you should be fine. The amount of practice that you'll get from studying theory an hour a day 5 days a week will get your mind going and will make the class a lot easier. Good luck and if you have any questions or problems, then im sure the musicians on this website would be willing and probably eager to help you.

Thank you for posting this video. Really really good stuff.

Also my favorites. Got to see Mark play live with the Masada String Trio and Bar Kokhba at the Zorn residency in San Fran. Havent seen Carla with Tin Hat, but many times with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Cool tune man. It reminds a bit of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - hope that doesnt offend you. I think its the banjo and the "world" music influences in your song that reminded me. I dig the artificial harmonics on the fretless-unless that's something else that im hearing, but it sounds like artificial harms. Peace.

The recording is a little quiet, so you might have to turn up your volume to hear it well, sorry.

Scuba Diving On Acid This is the first "song" ive posted. I used quotations because this is not really a song. What you are about to listen to is the first ten minutes of my friend and me jamming. I am playing the trumpet on this track, and he is performing on electronics, saranghi, and squeaky chair. The recording is not high quality at all-just one mic in the middle of the room. There was no preconcieved idea for what kind of noise was going to come from either of us. We just decided to play what was inside of us and our reactions to our sonic surroundings at that moment. We are both big Zorn fans. My trumpet playing is not all that great right now. Ive just recently started playing it often - in the last few months -after putting it down for a few years. Like i said this is not really a song, but at the same time it is, but that depends on your perspective. This piece's title came about the first time we listened to the recording. I posted this to see what some peoples reactions are. Comments are welcome and encouraged - good, bad.......antything. This is a long piece, and some people might not have the attention span to listen to the whole thing. It takes a certain mindset, even for me, to listen to this whole thing. So, if you cant stand anymore of it right now, come back to it later. I posted this in Jazz because of its experimental and improvisational nature. Peace. MP3- 01 Scuba Diving On Acid.m4a - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

Yes, more info and elaboration please. This is awesome.

I have a question to pose to all of you about the subject of this thread. How much of an effect does money have on perpetuating or maintaining this divide between jazz and classical, or any other kinds of music? Is music marketable if it doesnt belong to a genre, category, or style? And are these categorizations a hinderance on the development of new and original music? (sorry that was actually 3 questions) Peace.

Currently my favorite thing to listen to is the traffic passing by my house about 100 yards away, which is randomly interrupted and overpowered by the trains that pass right behind my house.

Its a hard one to get out of your head once its in there. And you cant help but dance to it. Hilarious.

I agree. From my own experiences as well, the divide is greater on the classical side.:thumbsup:

Very true.

Its hard for me to say who is underappreciated as a composer, since Ive encountered so many different people with different outlooks on music and composers of music. From my personal point of view I have to agree with a lot of the composers named before this post. Many of these composers are held in high esteem in certain arenas of discussion and thought, while they are left out of the arena of being a "great composer" by the general public(of composers and musicians). And some of these composers I had never heard of before reading this thread - which is cool for me. I think that a lot of jazz composers are underappreciated by some "classically minded" musicians, and vice versa - a lot of classical compsosers are underappreciated by "jazz minded' musicians. That, of course, is a generalization that is to be taken with a grain of salt. This might be biased, but I think that John Zorn is an underappreciated composer. I think that a lot of poelpe pass his music off as weird, or just as annoying noise that anyone could make. He is one of the strongest forces that is moving music in a new direction. I usually dont have an opinion very often, but that is my opinion. Also, a group by the name of The Residents. I think that the list of underappreciated composers is an endless one, especially since it depends so heavily on who you ask, and when you ask them. Peace.

Yes! Good stuff man. This was a really good idea. The audio samples give this song a great vibe.

Funky seven at the beginning. This is f#@king sick. On which program was this done?