[Dixielandjazz] Playing w/o practicing!

[Randy Fendrick]

> I agree with Bob, sometime in your life you must pay your dues, that 
> is practice.  You don't get to be a good player without doing it, no 
> matter how much natural talent you have.  You must learn your axe no 
> matter what you play, whether it be a saxophone or zither, and people 
> with talent, who have paid their dues, in the woodshed are generally 
> the better players.  I remember what a very good trumpet player said 
> to me once, when  he was going through Arbans he couldn't wait to 
> finish.  When he got through the book, he asked his teacher, now what? 
>  You start again, at the beginning.  Just on a different level,
later,
Randy Fendrick
Southside Chicago Seven
Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra