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Wind instruments are a lot more complex than playing a piano, i would recommend anyone getting lessons from day one like i did. A piano you have none of the problems of playing in tune, embouchure, reeds, mouthpieces, ligatures – with a piano you can have bad posture, wrong chair height – the main problem is playing from sheet music, providing you…[Read more]

Leo the new sax sounds much better! Pro Sax’s do make difference compared to student sax’s – well played.

thanks for the info Leo!

Next time i visit my local sax shop, i’ll definitely try out the yts62. I haven’t played Tenor sax’s so i don’t know how well they work with fibre reeds, but i do know on my Alto i couldn’t find any fibre that worked well across all the notes, mid range notes were okay, higher range notes were rubbish and lower notes…[Read more]

i shall have one more attempt at trying out the Tenor sax YTS480 or YTS62.
I play ‘Fly me to the Moon’ in C Major on the Alto sax, i’m used to hearing it in played in C Major.

when i tried out two Tenor Sax’s, i played ‘Fly me to the Moon’ using the same Key positions as on the Alto C Major. When i got home, i realised that i should have played…[Read more]

Hi Jeff,
good to hear you are still playing the sax.
You’ll have to do some more uploads.

Hi Wayne,
i started learning the Alto sax 10 years ago, and i’m not as good a player as you are, i’ve listened to your 4 uploads on youtube, and they are well played.
Keep up the good work!

the guy who runs the shop, was telling me they often get new sample reeds to try out and thats how i got my free reeds. I think he said a few other shops had received a couple of vandoren reeds to try out, once they up their production, they should start supplying here. Thats a big step for vandoren as they were committed to only produce cane…[Read more]

seven years research to produce a synthetic reed by vandoren

https://vkreeds.com/en/

Hi Wayne, appreciate the feedback, but unfortunately i don’t have anywhere in my house that i can leave my stuff out.

When i record, I have to put my computer on my bed along side with a clarett 2 pre audio interface (it’s an older audio interface with thunderbolt connection and midi connection), i put the microphone stand next to the bed, then…[Read more]

when i play the sax, it depends on who is in the audience –
if it’s people with no musical background, then a lot of pressure is off, as half the time they won’t notice a lot of mistakes, in fact the only thing they will notice is if you are way out of tune.

if it’s people with a musical background, that play musical instruments – the pressure…[Read more]

To most people, we think we only have one brain, in fact we have 7 brains that work together. However 3 of these brains – frontal, Limbic and Parietal brains combine to form the psychological mind.

frontal brain – human (is you)
limbic brain – Chimpanzee (emotional machine given at birth and that thinks independent from you)
parietal brain -…[Read more]

Top Tips for Trad Musicians: Conquering Your Nerves & Overcoming Stage Fright

You’re dealing with overcoming Stage Fright which is a good article, where as i was talking about the problem of playing extremely difficult music sheets ex chopin piano music, pieces of music which tend to be played very fast, where it is very difficult to read the sheet, never mind play the sheet. For me it’s impossible to play these music…[Read more]

When you play a music sheet that is very very fast, it gets impossible to read and play the sheet at the same time.

you will notice a lot of top flight piano players don’t play from a music sheet, they play from memory. If they have a sheet in front of them …. then that might be there just to tell them where and when to play their parts in an…[Read more]

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