How to Improvise using only a Major Scale Premium Sax Course…thank you Johnny :)

[Michael]

😎 Hey Johnny,
Thank you very much for working on/making available soon your course on Improvising with the Major Scales in your Premium Saxophone lessons category 🙂 Will there be things that we will learn that we can apply to the minor scales too? Anything you can make available for me along the lines of Improvising would really help me personally. I need to re-purchase “How to Play Killer Blues” as well as a few songs of yours because when I got back home my kids “kindly” revealed to me that they dropped my labtop and damaged the cpu. When I was out west, I had been working on your exercises from Memory. When I bought Killer Blues & a few of your songs, I downloaded them to the cpu and hadn’t backed them up on a flash drive 🙁
My family and I have been very busy getting ready to move into our new property and the paperwork that goes along with it, the packing, the moving, etc.. But we’re very happy about the open space to say the least. I did get the neck on the LJ Hutchen fixed that my bro-in-law gave to me, found another small problem with it too. At the very least, it made my bro-in-law feel good to give it to me as he and I are very close; regardless of what shape the Saxophone was in LOL Feels good to be back playing on the Tenor though, my 2 versions of the Green Onions in Gm and Am are coming along too.

[john]

Michael, nice to hear from you again!
I know you bought killer blues already so I can email you the download link again so please don’t worry about that.
The new improve course deals specifically with the major scale, although once you learn these concepts you can use them on the relative minor key. Congrats on a new place, sounds like you’ll have your own, bigger practice room?

[Anonymous]

Welcome back Michael – missed you man! Hope everything works out for you!

[Anonymous]

hey Michael – my daughter broke her laptop,
i took the back off it, removed the hard drive,
went to maplins and bought a usb connection
for the hard drive, and copied all the stuff
on the hard drive to my pc!
So you may not have lost everything!

[Michael]

I got a few messages from Members here on the site wondering where I was, because I said I would be uploading to the blog regularly and all when I got back home–Thank you guys for checking up on me 🙂 I’ve made some great friends here on Johnny’s site and I PROMISE I will be on Johnny’s Forum and uploading more regularly ASAP.

SXPOET: Thanks for the tip and that was certainly on my mind. The monitor on the cpu looks like “shatter glass” when you turn it on and the hard-drive is acting funky, my wife said it got dropped pretty hard but it was an accident. That could have happened to anyone, including me. I will be taking it to a cpu. specialist to have them check it out and will have more details soon. The warranty that was on the cpu is about 6-months expired.

JOHNNY: I will be paying for my new Trevor James Saxophones sometime between this Friday and March 14th, we’re completing our year-long savings to buy them with our tax return and with us buying our new place we got some tax breaks this year. So it was a “win-win” situation for our family; new house for the family and for me New Saxophones 🙂 I REALLY like Massullo Music, those guys are awesome. Seems like they’re getting lots of customers coming to them for the Trevor James line of Saxophones…..I was told that they’re selling more Trevor James Saxophones than almost any other brand right now?!?

[john]

Ya, he told me that he’s selling more Trevor James than Selmers. Not surprising when you consider the price difference. When you play a TJ they’re very impressive. Not saying they’re better but the Selmers just got way out of hand as far as prices go.

[Michael]

I spoke with Massullo Music today regarding the model of Tenor I’m getting and told them to tell you “hi” for me when you stop by the shop again. The person I spoke with over the phone wasn’t Sandro…sounded like either a young person or a female employee.

If I remember our conversation correctly, they didn’t have in stock the model of Trevor James Tenor I’m getting, so they had to contact T.J. and have it shipped in. I attached a couple of links from T.J.’s youtube channel for that particular model; they speak very highly of them. I would have EASILY chosen a Selmer….I feel that they are simply the best Saxophones in the world. But given my family finances, these lines of Saxophones, paired with a good MP/reed is the next best thing I could do. Even at that, it was my wife who is helping me pull this off, in addition to a new Trevor James Alto. I’m just trying to have fun with the Saxophone v.s. trying to be the next Gerald Albright or Kenny G LOL For guys like that, a $9,000 Selmer is rightfully justified…..not for lesser student players like myself LOL
http://youtu.be/nrBvAh8Ss3w

[Anonymous]

i might be the crappiest saxophone player in the entire universe,
but if anyone out there wants to donate me their prize Selmar,
i welcome it with open arms! Please Get In Touch Now!

lol – only kidding Michael, i understand what you are saying.
Imho – with so much advances in technology, i think
Selmars might have had their day, and are more of a status symbol.

Good thing we aren’t into violins – i might want a strad..

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