RockinRobin

Itms for a tutorial: Which Bb fingering is preferable B and F keys; Bis key; side Bb. Finger coordination e g barr 15; Eb D natural Eb Enat etc.

So I got it. “Take five” dotted half note gets three beats followed by 4 eight notes. So the count 123 4and 5 and so on. Dotted half note followed by four 16th note followed by a quarter note goes like this: 123 foureanna five and so on.

i use the sax seat all the time
William

Hi John,
I use the sax seat all the time when I’m practicing. I find that holding the sax on my right side with the bottom of the horn resting on its little pad works best. No pressure on my neck. Side D is easy to play. Holding the sax between my legs reaching Side D tends to move the horn. Right now I’m practicing “Long as I can See the…[Read more]

Inspired by Mike Potter to tackle “You never can Tell” for the zint number of times and again I put it away for later. I have it in many keys. Johnny’s is the best. So C’est la vie for another time
William

Inspired by Mike Potter I again checked out Johnny’s sheet music. I played it in D major; I played it in G major, F major, C major and I used Chuck Berry’s sheet music. In every key the last measure, last two measures never sounded right. The small solo parts were right. The song is in 4 parts. The 4th part in G major sounded right, ie the last…[Read more]

Nice one Mike. Looks like a rocking band

Re: the backing track. I can play the sheet music for “The Way We Were” but I can’t play the sheet music along with the backing track. I do better playing along with Dave Koz and Vanessa Williams and reading the music
William

I left the cane reeds some time ago and found the carbon onyx reeds to be reliable 100%. So now I’m playing Leanard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” using a medium soft carbon onyx reed with my Guardala King mouthpiece. Cheers

William

In about a year I might have it. I’ve been working on it since November 2019

Well I recorded my song about 25 takes this morning. Every time I would screw up one note so start over. I’ll get there in abut a year
William

Thanks for the encouraging words. Sing it and play it. Something that Aebersold would say. Well I’ll play it till I get close to right.
William

good one Leo