The next best way to relax, is to put on a harmony backing track, not a melody backing track, get the sax out and meditate just playing notes that sound great with the backing track. Completely forget all the theory rules just play stuff that sounds nice tootle away.
It’s a really powerful way of playing sweet spot in tune notes, it develops projection of expressing feeling in notes, it’s not like long tones but better. The reason being you’re not under stress of playing a note correctly like when you are playing from a music, it gives the chance to play beautiful sounding notes. notes that take your breath away….
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