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  • #93136
    Pete
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      Brilliant.

      #93155
      john
      Keymaster

        nice sound mike.
        way to be productive! I’m getting out one a week too…feels good.

        #93227
        Mel
        Participant

          Yeah!

          #93303
          Mike Potter
          Participant

            Thank you all! I’m working on How Sweet it Is this week, hope to have it dialed in enough to record soon. Being locked away has really helped in me understanding how to use the recording gear I have, there are a lot of “subtleties” involved in recording that have an impact on the sound. Youtube is a huge benefit!!! Stay safe everyone!

            #93399
            john
            Keymaster

              good luck Mike. ya, How Sweet it is took me longer than I expected….Jr Walker’s version is not so-straight-ahead. But well worth the effort in the long run.

              #93428
              Mike Potter
              Participant

                Lol! Yeah it’s proving to be quite the challenge!!! I’m on take 78… I’m sure my neighbors hate me!!

                #93440
                john
                Keymaster

                  take 78?>….good Mike, you’ll be a better player for it!

                  #93765
                  Gary Deripaska
                  Participant

                    Very Very nice , love the growls you put in there. Great job

                    #93774
                    Leo Salu
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                      Hello Mike, I was thinking of buying this song “Something” but was a little afraid of that upper range,
                      but might give it a try after all, you did a great job on your cover. A little jealous of your Sax,
                      I use an old Selmer Bundy tenor and also have a new etude tenor, best I could do.

                      #93847
                      Mike Potter
                      Participant

                        Thanks Gary and Leo!! This was a fun tune, I’m still jamming around on it, I went out on the driveway the other day and played a few tunes for the neighbors using some backing tracks and this was the song they all liked the most. Harlem Nocturne is always my favorite but it probably scared the kids… ha ha!

                        Let, give it a go, I’m a bit out of tune above D3 but playing this song and working on How Sweet it Is has improved by altissimo range. Looking forward to hearing your version!

                        Oh and don’t be jealous, my other tenor is a Viking (made in Taiwan) I pretty much sound the same no matter what sax I’m playing, different mouthpieces do have an impact on how I sound, but overall not much. Bundy’s were used by a number of pros back in the day (Wayne Shorter for one, he played a Bundy Beuscher stencil on the early Miles Davis recordings he played on) new saxes are almost all good, I’m not familiar with etude but I’ve played on Jupiters, cannonballs, PM’s, Eastmans, Unisons and they all played nice. I’m fortunate that I was able to pick up a Mark VI at a great price otherwise and I have two grandkids who are playing sax in HS, I was hoping I could pass it on to one of them if they keep playing, a cool family heirloom. I still gig using my Viking, it’s a great playing horn once I had it set up and it looks pretty cool (it’s a brushed solid nickel silver body and bell with black nickel silver plated keys, black pearls). I had a Mark VI back in the 80’s in the same serial number range of my new one and I kicked myself every day for selling it, for me.. it wasn’t the sound but more the feel, I haven’t played a different model sax yet that feels the way they do when playing, hard to explain. Anyhow, I’m rambling. Like the old saying “it’s the player, not the horn”, it’s all good!

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