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I’ve been playing over 10 years on the Alto.

One thing i’ve noticed is lower strength reeds are harder to keep the HIGH notes in tune, they are very thin sounding and unsteady and continually go in an out of tune and its harder to play a steady strong long note.

I also have metal and non-metal mouthpieces. i’ve noticed that metal mouthpieces have a clearer pitch sound if thatʼs what you are aiming for.

Finally, my only advice is waste a lot of cash trying out different reed brands and reed sizes, until you find the type of reed that sounds the best on your mouthpiece – they do make a difference to your sound. Before you start frittering away large amounts of cash on different mouthpieces.

Look after the reeds and the mouthpieces will take care of them selves.

One other thing, get your saxophone serviced – i did and the it changed from a dull sounding instrument into clearer sounding instrument – i couldn’t believe the difference in having all the pads replaced with new pads.

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Should have bought a Rocking Chair then you could duck every time a heavy object comes your way while playing the sax, and divert your mp3’s into out-ter-space.

saying all that, if i release one of my mp3’s, it’s that bad it might turn everyone tone deaf….

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well done! Good to see you’re still motivating yourself by uploading.

I was going to throw something heavy, but i couldn’t lift it.

Do you play behind a Net like in the Blue’s Brother’s movie?

I keep getting bogged down with colds and what not, so my practice routine is somewhat random this past year.

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Hi @Jeff
did you manage to try out Legere reeds?

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Hi Jeff,
What’s the next tune you’re working on? looking forward to your upload!

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hi Jeff, the daw recording has improved!

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cheers Jeff
i’m a professional crap player. lol

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working on a new backing track…

rock

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Thanks Leo!

The timing and wrong notes, meant i couldn’t record it properly using Johnny’s backing track. So i just stuck a drum track and organ track with the sax. Used a ‘Hall effect’ reverb on the Sax to make it sound played in a hall. The wonders of DAW’s can transform the sax to sound differently in many ways.

No matter how well you play, the way instruments are mixed and produced can make or break a final master recording.

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first recording using my Selmer Alto Sax, loads of errors as usual…

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