He’s been very, very busy working on Saxophone projects and getting ready to release a new song too. There’s so much work that goes on behind the scene to keep a great site like this going. Just with the backing tracks/sheet music we buy from him, that alone takes untold hours in work to make; they’re all professionally produced v.s generic and it takes a lot of work/time to make. That’s not even to mention the time it takes for him to work on those songs himself on his Saxophone to play them for video. Then there’s the time he needs to make the sheet music available, writing it out in Bb and Eb; playing both Alto and Tenor myself and I know that’s work involved. He also has lots of people doing private lessons with him too; I’ve done them and will be doing more. And like Sxpoet said, there’s the Altissimo course; still got a lesson or 2 to produce—but who is there in the Altissimo course that’s registered, right now, that can play as high/higher than Altissimo D or so? No sense in posting a video/lesson that no one is ready to work on until they can hit the last of those notes he has posted. There’s also stuff he does locally in the way of gigs where he’s paid to play for people/businesses where he lives. He also works in the world of professional recording, go to his site johnnyferreira.com and you’ll find the link to his site on home recording. He’s constantly doing Saxophone/music stuff–as a professional musician it’s their way of life.

So if he can’t get to answering our questions/watching our videos on the blog when we would like him to (there’s hundreds of us members and only 1 of him), we all do well to remember just how hard he works to make the very best backing tracks/songs available to us, all the lessons, courses, etc.. with the purpose of making us better. These things take so, so many hours of work to make available. Because as it says on his home page here…..this site he created is for our benefit to make us better. And he is very, very, very gracious in doing so! 🙂

I hear ya, here in Arkansas the heat is absolutely ferocious right now—we HAVE to run the air conditioning 24/7 in the house. Even come 6 pm afternoon when we like to go take our bikes and go ride at the BMX tracks, the heat is virtually “suffocating” so we have to wait till around 7:30 or so to go get some afternoon riding on the track. All the fishing for Big Flathead Catfish is at night, the truely large ones (40-80 catfish) typically feed around 2-4 am because that’s when it’s the temps. are coolest.
I appreciate everything you do here Johnny on your site, next month moving on in the Altissimo course to Overtones, it’s been working for me about 1 lesson a month or so to really make sure I’ve learned it well v.s. skipping/jumping around. I would rather it take me a year to really learn everything well v.s going over it in just a few months. But I think it would be a mistake to not continually work on the previous things we’ve learned like Chromatic Scales….been working on them for about 20 minutes or so day, almost every single day and I’m noticing an improvement, gradually, with fluid fingers. Thanks!

We do both; we do what’s called “selective harvest”. The larger 40-50 lb. fish we take a picture (don’t anyone thinking we’re telling stories when you get a larger one LOL) release with and harvest smaller one. These big females will Spawn anywhere from 150,000-400,000 eggs with about a 10% survival rate; meaning that if we harvest one large female we killed 15,000-40,000 other fish. Leave the large females to spawn, reproduce, pass on trophy genetics to future generations; remove them and you’ll find a decline of populations, etc.. In some areas where we live, the law by the authorities is catch-and-release fishing for the very reasons stated above. The smaller ones are better to eat too, they taste better.

I love Johnny’s little tune called “Sax in the Country”‘ it’s in the member’s videos on part 5….super cool song for our area! 🙂 Just wish there was a backing track/sheet music for it; folks here would really dig it.

Hi Johnny,

This may not be the proper way to address this one but I sent through payment for And I Love her and wondering how it arrives. I am guessing by automated email but not as yet. Hope you can help.

Cheers Dazza

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Dear Darren Boyan

I’ll do Johnny; I’m more than happy to pay you some $ for whipping up some sheet music for your playing in “Sax in the Country” wanna make things worth your time. If you’re too busy, at the very least let me know what key the backing track is in and we’ll see what I can do with it. Improvisation is going to become my main focus of playing within the year after I get a super-good hold on what you teach in Killer Blues. Learning songs is fantastic but creating music ourselves is super-cool too! I think knowing how to Improvise is simply a must if we really want to be a good Saxophone player. That’s one of the reasons why I want to start collecting all of the Honkers/Screamers CDs–the first one is scheduled to be here by Wednesday. I wanna really learn the how-to’s of what they do LOL
Speaking about the song above you guys are talking about, Jake and I are collaborating through Skype/youtube to make a duet of your song “And I love Her”…after I get the Alto serviced that is. We started working on the first half of the song till it changes in Key. He will be playing the Tenor and I will be playing the alto; he doesn’t mess with the Alto that much. It’s gonna be similar to how I did “Happy” by Pharrell Williams but it gonna look really cool to see 2 members, who live on 2 different sides of the country, be able to make an edit to put on the blog together 🙂 Stay tuned…..