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Buble horn players host clinic for young jazz musicians

TUNKHANNOCK: Country Music, a local music store in Sweet Valley, and the Conn-Selmer Corporation recently sponsored Michael Buble’s horn section to provide a clinic for young jazz musicians in the Tunkhannock School District.

Prior to their performance at the Mohegan Sun Arena, six members of the horn section provided a free clinic to students in the middle and high school jazz programs. Band members, Nick Vayenas, trombone and trumpet; Jake Saslow, tenor saxophone; Justin Ray, trumpet; Rob Wilkerson, alto saxophone; Josh Brown, trombone; and Jacob Rodriguez, baritone saxophone are all qualified clinicians for the Conn-Selmer Corporation. Conn-Selmer is the last major manufacturer of musical instruments in America and is an advocate for music education.

The musicians split up into three groups of two. One group worked with the middle school jazz band under the direction of Kevin Kreinberg. The other two groups worked with two jazz groups at the high school under the direction of band director Ryan Zellner.

Each director took his band through a tune and the Buble band members listened and demonstrated their own horns for the students, recommending improvements. The school students then played the improved selections. Members of the Buble band also conducted a question and answer session with the students.

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The key for alto saxophone is in E flat (or Eb). There are two main reasons as to why they are considered the best instrument for beginners or sheer beginners in saxophone playing. First, most musical and exercise pieces are written within the alto range. This means that the range or the key is the same as that of the alto saxophone. Hence, one may use them in playing exercise pieces without the added difficultness of adjusting the key or the range of the instrument or of the piece. This further means that people with these saxophones have more chance playing the instrument. This allows them more probability to exercise and more time expended honing one’s skill in saxophone playing. If it were for anything, the learning procedure is in truth quickened and reinforced given the availability of exercise materials or musical pieces.

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