Shake Rattle Roll (ratlle your bones)

[Anonymous]

i love the latest xmas backing track ‘sleigh ride’, has the fun (party) element that’s missing in a lot of depressing tunes.

[brother cavefish]

a little salty on the echo, honestly, in my humble opinion, a sax does not need echo,or much of anything, is it a pure instrument , it represents itself——— unlike an electrical guitar or synthesizer -food for thought

[Anonymous]

Absolutely agree with you there BC, i’ve played guitar since the age of 15 not to a professional standard, also practiced the piano for 3 years back in the 80’s, and then started sax playing 4 yrs ago. I rarely play guitar now, as that needs as much practice attention as a sax.

But every now and then i like to play outside the box, and throw convention to the winds, also my recording setup is trash.

[brother cavefish]

LOL yea i dealing with a crap guitarband app, i rarely record myself on the sax if any, i just play as the mood sets it, i used to do low whistle, and play and make NAF flutes, have guitar too, i love music but my time is about work, so the mood happens here and there, the sax is a sweet gig try some dark tenor MPs ben Allen makes some sweet darks, and they don’t cost much

[brother cavefish]

also older macsax “S” model rubbers, woodstone trad sweet

[Anonymous]

Interesting selection of mouthpieces. At present, i’m sticking with my current set up, la voz reeds and durga 3 blue art alto rubber, as its taken time to get used to it. I was thinking of buying a pro sax some time ago or a vintage model, as my current sax is only an intermediate model yamaha 480, but now i’ve resigned to sticking with it. My main reason now for playing the sax, is to keep the brain active, lungs active and not for entertaining
reasons. Mainly just entertaining myself.

[brother cavefish]

you need to get down low and greasy, tenor all the way, i used to do alto, did not do it,

[Anonymous]

i’d have to hire a tenor, and if it grabs me, then i’d have to sell my Alto, sell my Eb music books/cd’s, go through the hassle of buying the right tenor mouthpiece, ligature, reeds, buying replacement Bb music books/cd’s and get used to a tenor mouthpiece. I haven’t got the option of keeping 2 different sax’s (the wife would shoot me) , so it’s either one or the other. Perhaps if i got bored with the Alto. Also the wife and i have taken up water colour painting as something to do together in the coming years, as she isn’t musical.

To help with the water colour painting, i’m doing a year long ‘drawing and painting’ course, so that’s means less time on the sax.

Here’s a pen drawing i did yesterday of a page in my art course.

https://sxpoet.deviantart.com/art/Decor1-716095043

apparantly drawing is supposed to help with painting as painting is just drawing with a brush.

[Anonymous]

When playing with my friend on Tenor, my Alto sounds exactly the same as his Tenor, when we play the lower notes. I have to wonder how often those lowest five notes on Tenor come into play, as the Alto covers the singing range well. The more experience I get with my S80 MP the richer the tone is becoming. Perhaps a nice dark MP will scratch that itch? Ava thinks so too, but she’s been at that bar for quite a while now!

[brother cavefish]

wow that is a great sketch, i think you and the wife will have fun, i used to love to draw, frank frazzetta was a great artist in my days

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