night-train

[jake]

Just wanted to say how in love I am with my Selmer Bari sax. I am learning Night Train from your music selection and wow is it a fun song! I usually record music with my ipod and listen to it on my 40 minute drive to work. I couldn’t stop listening to the sounds of that Bari, I had to listen to that one song atleast 10 times!! (I’m even hearing the song in my head while I sleep) I am taking your advice Johnny and blowing the hell out of that sax! It is coming along nicely. I was practicing today and noticed a couple pictures fell off the wall. Man when I hit that LOW Bb the whole house shakes!! What a rush that song is. I am working on an improvised solo in the middle but when I get the song to a level in which I am happy I will surely post it to the blog!
I am searching for my tenor tone still but other than the fullness of my Bari, I think the sound I am looking for is there. After playing the bari for a while, the tenor sure sounds awfully high pitched. LOL.
Johnny, thank you for this site and all your help in getting us to improve playing our saxes!!
Jake

[john]

Well thanks Jake. It’s all a lot of fun. Yes, I remember that feeling of going from bari to tenor…makes it seem so small, unlike when going from alto to tenor!
Keep at it on those solo sections! Actually, I’m working on a course (as I mentioned a while back that I would do after the busy holiday gigs etc). The course is showing how to improvise using the major scale. All the tips and tricks we can use to make good sounding solos over just the one chord. Also to make it “real life” (not just exercises etc) we work to “What Does It Take”.

[Dazza]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OViqOURc8s

Nice piece of Bari work in this rockin song from The Refreshments. Never heard of them until saw their name on Saxonthewebforum. Pretty cool.

[john]

ya awesome rock and roll band.

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