sxpoet

I’ve kept my list in a ‘checklist’ spreadsheet, where i have tick boxes in the left hand side rows, to keep track of songs i bought over the years.
Then i just copy and past the list of songs to this forum.

the advantage of using a spreadsheet, is you can add new songs to the bottom, and just resort the list.

you don’y know me – should be you…[Read more]

apologies for any miss-spellings

if you have good hearing, then you should listen to the same note played on a dark mouthpiece and then played on a bright mouthpiece. On a dark mouthpiece you wont hear as many harmonics in the pitch as you will hear on a bright mouthpiece, as other pitches try to compete with the main pitch.

In fact when a Pro Sax player changes to a different…[Read more]

depending on the ligature you use can transform your overall Pitch from a Mouldy to a clear pitch sound, and also can transform the your overall Tone from a Dark to a Bright Sound. So there are 2 factors to listen out for, getting the balance right between both factors makes a hell of a lot of difference to how you sound in your head when you…[Read more]

The other thing you can’t see in the photograph.

i’ve cut large rectangle holes out of the sides of the rovner ligature, so if you were to look along both sides of the ligature, you would see the sides of both Vamp stock reeds.

Cutting large rectangle holes out of the sides of the ligature has not weakened the holding strength of the ligature,…[Read more]

check out the photo, you can see the two Vamp Stock reeds on the left and right hand side inside the ligature, they are both touching the base sides of the vibrating reed.

on top of the vibrating reed, is another hard Vamp Stock synthetic reed.

As you can see from the photograph, the ligature is way too fat for the mouthpiece barrel

I don’t…[Read more]

hi jeff
any mouthpiece i would buy, would be based on the tip size, similar in size to my alto king mouthpiece.

Wow – make sure you have some good guard dogs outside 24/7.

if you’re starting out on the sax – checkout all gear you will need

look at the height of the finger positions
look at how relaxed the body frame is
look at breathing, this guy doesn’t appear out of breath at the end of each sheet

quite interesting to see all the articulations played on the sheet and how they should sound. A lot of it is just recognising a lot of common patterns of notes (identical group combination of notes) that are repeated over and over. If you can play any of the combinations in time just by practicing a few solo etudes, it can speed up playing as you…[Read more]