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These activities last from the passed 10 years or so. I made a lot of compositions, arrangements and
more than 150 books with sheet music for flute, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, French horn
and tuba. Some of them are a method for learning to play. There's music for 1, 2 (duet), 3 (trio), 4 instruments (quartet), but also for band/orchestra. Many books have accompaniment on CD, so you can play along with f.i. an orchestra. You will meet all kinds of styles, like pop, rock, latin, jazz and classical. All this work was done with help of the computer so I've spend a lot of hours working with the bloody thing, writing music, editing the books, drawing illustrations, and making homepages. I think that the moment is not far away that I will stop doing this unhealthy work. I want to spend more time on playing, and walking in the woods. |
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The instruments I play most of the time are the flute,
trombone and trumpet. I played the Bbass in De Koninklijke Stedelijk Harmonie in Apeldoorn,
The Netherlands, and their jazzband (zie photos in the left menu). I play the trombone in the Diksie Street Jazz Band. This is a very cool gang playing original New Orleans style (see photos in the left menu). For several years I accompanied (mostly flute) the singer John Adams who lives in the US now. He made two CD's with John Denver songs and I'm also on them playing the flute and alto flute. |
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| In the nearby future I will spend more time playing baroque music on the flute more intensively. Years ago I played a lot of that stuff with flute and guitar, but one day the fun was gone. An important reason was that the interpretation of the bassa continuo in the existing sheet music wasn't able to inspire me anymore. | ||||
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For those not knowing the concept of Bassa Continuo here is a brief explanation.
Many compositions of the old masters only consist of a melody and a bass part with
instructions for the harmony. This part is called the Bassa Continuo. The harpsichord
player and / or other accompanists had to make up their own part based on this continuo.
You can compare it with jazz and pop where a complete band played only with the melody
and chords as a base. Properly working out the continuo is not always an easy job to do. Often you will come up with something fitting but not sounding well. In other cases you will have one brilliant idea after another, but none matches the composers instructions. Therefore you will often find interpretations which do not fully consider the Bassa Continuo of the composer. I do not like those. In my opinion a composer that can create such beautiful melodies is also capable to cook a nice accompaniment to it. So if one cannot find the solution then there is something wrong with him, not with the composer! So often I keep slaving away at a piece until I find what I was looking for. It is my discovery channel! |
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| I give private music lessons in flute, trumpet, cornet, flugel horn, trombone, French horn, tuba and bass tuba. | ||||
| The lessons are for all grades and all ages. So if you are looking for music lessons in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, do not hesitate to contact me. | ||||
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To me music is the same as food and that's only eatable if nobody has tampered with the ingredients and if it's cooked with love and craftmenship. Only then you can eat it without trouble. So in music there must be real sound and an interesting story. | |||
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| There are many musicians I like but Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Bunk Johnson on trumpet are the greatest. | ||||
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Well, that is it for the time being. Regular visiters will have noticed that the site has been moved and the layout has been changed to improve the overview. |
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