playing the blues

[William Cingolani]

Thanks Jake for the comments and the tip about decreasing and increasing volume re: expression. Yep, the vibrato is there.

[Anonymous]

@William – increasing/decreasing volume is a simple way of setting the mood of the music not paricularly the expression of the piece.
Also growling, fluterring aren’t really classed as expression – more like grabbing attention.
To do true expression you need to play the same key and make emotional sounding – like sad & happy etc these are achieved by bending the notes to make them sad sounding and speeding up the tempo to make them more happy….

[William Cingolani]

Thanks sxpoet. I’ll get on to it on my next piece. I usually start out blowing a sad/happy piece like “the day I fall in Love” and then pass over to “Soul Man” and before long I’m blowing “That’s All Right” Mama any way you can. I’ll go that route for a few days and end up on some R&B that feels good at the time. I think I do better without the backing track. Backing tracks seem to limit the creativity.

[Anonymous]

@William – i’m on your wavelength – somedays i go and sit in the garden for an hour and just improvise away at my own feelings, after playing guitar for over 40 years its easy to do – i’m a long way off doing that on the sax.

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