How To Play Saxophone | jeff gallo | Mentions https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/members/jeff/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning jeff gallo. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:45:07 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=11.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f262e29efd736b7d805342c3a1bcc1a6 sxpoet replied to the topic Jeff's recordings in the forum Recording Your Saxophone https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/jeffs-recordings/page/2/#post-125030 Mon, 12 May 2025 16:32:25 -0700 Hi @Jeff
did you manage to try out Legere reeds?

]]> 7f24e4e5607bff865d1d9b2e995e0333 saxomonica replied to the topic List of Johnny's songs in ascending order in the forum Saxophone Tips https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/list-of-johnnys-songs-in-ascending-order/#post-120245 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:15:36 -0800 Hiya @Jeff !

Are you the lovely gentleman that had posted a gorgeous air here on site just a few years back and i was really rude to you being at that time and i actually went so far as say to your song sounded tonally like, 3 Blind Mice?! Can you believe it. The audacity!

Please understand i still feel tragiclly upset about my unconstructive…[Read more]

]]> 2fe848e6b32ad8bfed0050c1fb959878 sxpoet replied to the topic What's your setup in the forum Saxophone Tips https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/whats-your-setup/page/2/#post-120070 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:32:53 -0800 hi @Jeff,
That’s funny about the clarinet ligature, weeks ago, i bought a new ligature for my Clarinet, and i when i got home, i compared it to one of my Alto Ligatures – turns out it is the same brand, same make and both are exactly the same. both are designed for classical mouthpieces.

Last year after 9 years of working through various practice…[Read more]

]]> e71304eea0e199b8af461ee538482565 sxpoet replied to the topic What's your setup in the forum Saxophone Tips https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/whats-your-setup/page/2/#post-119884 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:51:01 -0800 hi @jeff

xlr cables would be better, so yes, you would need an xlr mic

https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/USB-C/usb-cable-max-length

]]> 96e0af51170f3e3938014e8f0917cd90 sxpoet replied to the topic What's your setup in the forum Saxophone Tips https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/whats-your-setup/#post-119879 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:55:30 -0800 @jeff
my sister-in-law is back home now, she had nice time in SA

]]> 24b13b954739e84025fc92044ac0cae3 sxpoet replied to the topic What's your setup in the forum Saxophone Tips https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/whats-your-setup/#post-119833 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:15:14 -0800 @jeff
my sister-in-law is near to you, she’s on a safari tour. I should have given her some music books to pass on to you. never mind, a lot quicker than posting them.

]]> a27c2e621e18a23faf853201a23458ac sxpoet replied to the topic Altissimo G# in the forum Problems With Your Sax? https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/altissimo-g/#post-119490 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:36:40 -0800 @jeff
how is the sax playing going?

]]> ff4fd635244734a3a62617d1f54ad243 saxomonica replied to the topic Altissimo G# in the forum Problems With Your Sax? https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/altissimo-g/#post-116825 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 17:08:12 -0700 Hi @Jeff

see JF
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“Altissimo Course
This is the full saxophone course to guide you from the basic and essential fundamentals to the harmonic/overtone technique and finally the fingering positions for those really high notes we call the altissimo range”.

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]]> 300377658a927e6f318969749c75b7ff saxomonica replied to the topic Hello everyone in the forum Introduce Yourself https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/hello-everyone-4/#post-82804 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 14:53:26 -0800 Yo @rrbirdman I can relate to your problem with reading music and it would be great to have that skill. Did you see the vid, Silent Sax Practice, on Procollab topic? One or two back. Thinking this is a great way to creatively visualise the music too – viz b is mid staff, D bottom, g top. When I write the staff out I put a big gap before G on the…[Read more]

]]> 031138b323177212e2a204dfadbb6015 saxomonica replied to the topic ProCollabs in the forum General Questions https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/procollabs/#post-82771 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:53:45 -0800 yo @sxpoet
nope not me on the wikiloop track just one for the sake of example
yep noice hey

ya nice beatles track with saxy ad lib 🙂

so i’ve joined procollabs too
but like you, so much going on, i haven’t had a good bo peep as yet
wow it’d be great to hook up with @Jeff again, say

really appreciate your earlier idea to take all your varied…[Read more]

]]> cb0ca630d59e6a5bdd25b2dabd12a907 saxomonica replied to the topic Three transposed tunes in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/three-transposed-tunes/page/2/#post-73291 Thu, 05 Jul 2018 02:53:13 -0700 Geez everybody i confess i honestly feel just terrible and woesome about critiquing @Jeff ‘s 3 songs recently wherein our Forum, i was merely trying to be honest with him and i think i have really hurt his feelings and it is manifest he has now bailed, my sincere apologies. In retrospect it was very tactless and rude of me. “Explanations become…[Read more]

]]> 95b29f6d03561dc4d1bb5f31ef4c0a28 saxomonica replied to the topic Three transposed tunes in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/three-transposed-tunes/page/2/#post-73172 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:42:59 -0700 Yes, that’s right @sxpoet

You have touched the thing with a needle : you have hit it exactly.
Don’t forget about the free steak knives!

@Jeff your nose is outta joint and you may have temporarily bolted?
Don’t take life to seriously.
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

The tunes weren’t all to bad – but were a bit stilted,…[Read more]

]]> ea338f849e6a4331cb15f161acde71e8 saxomonica replied to the topic Three transposed tunes in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/three-transposed-tunes/#post-73155 Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:08:14 -0700 Hi @jeff and @sxpoet

yes @Jeff there is certainly improvement from your earlier Pink Floyd air, say, for sure !!
it grows as it goes
better projection
good to see you experimenting with transpositions, nice one mate
these airs demonstrate good technical ability and a growing improvement with your instrument’s range

@sxpoet insofar to your prior…[Read more]

]]> b6bed422c821985f75e34063fae94d7b saxomonica replied to the topic 3 Simple Altissimo tips in the forum Saxophone Tips https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/3-simple-altissimo-tips/#post-73096 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:27:57 -0700 You beaut @Jeff this is all very interesting stuff hey and really enjoyed the first video clip mate
Lip corners in tight, the E toungue thing high and taking in more mouthpiece with lower jaw hmmm
Man the fast talkin’ dude is doing it in great style / ‘the best sermon is a good example’

These things are similar to jamming with the blues harmonica…[Read more]

]]> 7fc19cfa4d3acf4ff6502a0d03cb7109 saxomonica replied to the topic D'you celebrate the day of the wooden chicken mimic?? in the forum Improvisation https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/dyou-celebrate-the-day-of-the-wooden-chicken-mimic/#post-73095 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:00:09 -0700 Whoo Hoo @Jeff #PluckingYaTailFeather sweet

]]> 17445607dbffca7526a6664ead1175ce Jose Luis Hinojosa replied to the topic Embedding Your Own Video in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/video-test/page/2/#post-72917 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:15:01 -0700 Thanks @Jeff! Old geezers like me need all the positive reinforcement we can get. Blessings 🙏🏼

]]> 5c77e7dd83fcb153fb2ca1262d366c0c saxomonica replied to the topic Johnny's music on youtube in the forum General Questions https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/johnnys-music-on-youtube/#post-72803 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 02:41:23 -0700 Nice one @Johnny.
Briller par son absence (Fr.), To be conspicuous by its absence.
Good work in the first instant @Simon & thanking you @Jeff.
Great job, team.
You beauty! 🙂

Excellent result.

Allud est punire, allud vindicare (L.), One thing is to punish, to vindicate is another. [Legal Term]

Aequm memento rebus in arduis servare mentem …[Read more]

]]> 61368066c262e987edc05fcff661faeb saxomonica replied to the topic Old time r&r in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/old-time-rr/#post-72402 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:09:01 -0700 Hiya @Jake and @Jeff @Johnny
and all you other guys whom play the sax much better than me, whom i hold in awe and great respect –

@Jake you took my feedback on the chin, and, hey i really respect you for rollin’ with it mate.
So. i played blues harp for a while in different bands in my twenties and early thirties;
Used to make a lotta noise and…[Read more]

]]> 3a88fa33a23fa5b019e2e9ed8df419c3 saxomonica replied to the topic Shotgun Improve Challenge in the forum Premium Access Membership https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/shotgun-challenge/#post-72227 Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:02:03 -0700 Hiya @Jeff good buddy i am playing very quiet haha because i am the shy, retiring type doncha know?

]]> 70efb5e4bba675b4cdfffe585426e767 saxomonica replied to the topic Shotgun Improve Challenge in the forum Premium Access Membership https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/shotgun-challenge/#post-72216 Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:24:01 -0700 So this arvo was practicing my Shotgun single note articulation and stuff being around the back yard when a coupla ‘roos came by to listen, i managed to get a photo capture over the crook of the sax but can’t cut and paste to to download it here; i saw an old post by @BrotherCavefish and @Jeff on how to post pix but geez i can’t Shuffle it onto an…[Read more]

]]> 8bfab09cb16143003ca9d6939577e8e5 saxomonica replied to the topic DIY Acoustic Panels in the forum Recording Your Saxophone https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/diy-acoustic-panels/#post-72147 Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:07:58 -0700 4 sure that’s very interesting @Jeff and i dig his exemplary scientific methodology. Nice garden too. Amazed at the towel efficiency!
Yes @William i’m practicing “Shotgun” lyrics being in good preparation too and working around my F# scales for some other fave tunes.
If i keep playing scales i’m guessing that all i am ever gonna be good at is…[Read more]

]]> 465ee76f782eea40e97a0a9ca1eb592e saxomonica replied to the topic New lesson Today - Reading 8th Notes in the forum Premium Access Membership https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/new-lesson-today-reading-8th-notes/#post-72067 Thu, 31 May 2018 16:30:52 -0700 HA ha ya crack me up pal!! Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Says Paul Whiteman, Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

Hey @Jeff i saw this earlier on FB this day, which makes me appreciate our very own in house Professor @Johnny…[Read more]

]]> a0df74c7305e031b467d84087a4ef0d3 saxomonica replied to the topic New lesson Today - Reading 8th Notes in the forum Premium Access Membership https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/new-lesson-today-reading-8th-notes/#post-72006 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:15:29 -0700 Haha @Jeff that’s a you beaut cracker mate 🙂

Anyways, on a more mundane and droll note –
Q. What do dead musicians do?
A. They decompose.

Something to look forwards to hey!!
lol

Looking back –

[FYI check out the vid below being about 2:40 – 3:00
Hey i guess ya mighta seen this before too?]

]]> 9b5756ade4a68a3768e56a8454ae5f27 saxomonica replied to the topic A touch of Frost in the forum Share a Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/a-touch-of-frost/#post-71558 Mon, 21 May 2018 09:58:07 -0700 Hi @Jeff for sure it is detectable it’s a very haunting tune indeed. 🙂
Very moving. Lovely. Sounds like it’s played on an alto?
Bought an as new Moller alto recently for my 11 yo daughter, Ella [whom i had late in life].
She doesn’t seem all that interested ‘though, sad to relate.
“For a thing unknown there is no desire.”

]]> 02dcd44f8a2eb162285c8e780f7e5747 saxomonica replied to the topic Shine On You Crazy Diamond in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/shine-on-you-crazy-diamond/page/2/#post-69638 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:37:41 -0700 So @Jeff here’s a little down under dance tune for ya alto that’ll maybe keep knots of marauding aussies beating a path to your door haha!
Used to play blues harmonica, later i switched to button accordion (melodeon) to keep the noise down, i’ve had mobs of ’em, 3, 2, single row, all press notes are same as blow on the harp, people still used to…[Read more]

]]> 11b98c94ef938f4e59b336db4392f1e4 saxomonica replied to the topic Shine On You Crazy Diamond in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/shine-on-you-crazy-diamond/page/2/#post-69623 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:00:12 -0700 G’day @Jeff
(Bm) hel-lo Is there an-y-bo-dy (A) in there? just nod if you can (G Em) hear me is there (Bm) an-yone at home?
Heck yeah it’s manifest the site pages are in the groove now, and Tech savvy with the new ‘Howdy whatsyaname’ top RHS being pretty handy.
Thinkin’ you’re so right it helps so much when you can break the tunes down and hear…[Read more]

]]> 210b589b39d646fc869860518b5d1ccf saxomonica replied to the topic Transcription of One of Johnny's Solos. Check it out! in the forum General Questions https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/transcription-of-one-of-johnnys-solos-check-it-out/#post-69485 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:30:47 -0700 Thanking you kindly @Jeff the Table is a beaut! 🙂

]]> 6cbc02b9be74ca9b5a30c8059216aeb5 saxomonica replied to the topic Transcription of One of Johnny's Solos. Check it out! in the forum General Questions https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/transcription-of-one-of-johnnys-solos-check-it-out/#post-69455 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:37:47 -0700 Hi @Jeff so i figure band is in E we gotta play one step above, being F# pentatonic scale
If you’re gonna rock it in D, you’ll need the E scales then
To practice C scales you’ll need a backing track in A#?

https://cantonhighband.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/5/1/17513401/blues-scales-tenor-sax.pdf

]]> 9cd549f284a048914d9d4a2eb9c4b1ce saxomonica replied to the topic How to develop lung capacity in the forum Saxophone Tips https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/how-to-develop-lung-capacity/#post-69395 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:03:21 -0700 Thanx @sxpoet i might try burbling the local billabong instead, you beaut ‘eh cobber. The toilet bowl has funny antipode circulation. No bullfrog blues either. Hey there, to build the lungs, and to have some power, whatta y’know this particular saxophonist (love him or hate him ‘eh @Jeff) has an underwater saxophone, and, well, now, anyway so he…[Read more]

]]> 12fae1af335d0644fd2b6638b68500e5 saxomonica replied to the topic From Russia with love in the forum Your Video https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/from-russia-with-love/#post-69355 Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:42:05 -0700 Yes, yes i really like it @Jeff i spy there is lotsa oomph and a harmonic passages here, for sure itsa lovely vodka drinkin’ song. Good track, suggest it’s probably time to take it to the streets now in your happy trails of musical intrigue and stop depriving the World of your talent; maybe like this guy, say? -…[Read more]

]]> 733764c926fd47d391b3bfa1c8469e2a saxomonica replied to the topic Lungpower in the forum Daily Practice Routine #1 https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/lungpower/#post-68993 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:21:41 -0700 Hiya fellas!
Sings Jimmy Reed, Bright Lights, Big City.
Wild @saxpoet that is amazing mate hey i got sleep apnea had machine about 6 yrs now, theory is as we age that we get fatter and fat collects in the throat, when we fall asleep the fat collapses in throat and as such blocks breathing. Remedy is akin to a stint in the heart where air is forced…[Read more]

]]> 8a3c9269a29c86a62509013164398dd9 saxomonica replied to the topic Lungpower in the forum Daily Practice Routine #1 https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/forums/topic/lungpower/#post-68946 Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:20:12 -0700 Whoo Hoo 🙂 Thanking you most kindly for the milk of human kindness [not watered down], youse blokes are the best!!
Shine on @saxjohmnny, @jeff + @sxpoet coz soon enough i’ll be able to huff and puff and blow the place down ..
Happy days

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