Hi everyone,
I’m Gareth and I live in West Wales, I’m an experienced blues harp player and slide guitarist, and a couple of years ago had the itch to take up sax – I’m loving it so far and have been working hard on my tone and breathing. I want to improve my improvisation technique (I’m no reader!) and stumbled upon Johnny’s lessons on Youtube. He’s teaching just the sort of stuff I want to learn and I love his sound – his enthusiasm really inspired me. I’ve just downloaded the blues improvisation .PDF and it’s great. Luckily, playing with a band I’ve had a chance to play a bit live on some simple RnB stuff – but I really want to stretch out and improve.
I’m playing a vintage King Zephyr, which seems to be a good axe for that bluesy sound. I love all those RnB honkers and screamers, as well as the funkier stuff like King Curtis and Junior Walker. I’m also a big fan of those hard bop jazzers who had a bluesy sound, and hammond combo players, especially Stanley Turrentine and Willis Jackson.
Anyway, I look forward to taking part in these forums and learning from you all!
Gareth
