Michael

The Fibracells are making my practices so much easier and better–less time spent on caring for cane reeds, more consistent playing, etc.. I’m taking to my Sax lesson tomorrow, see what he says about them. I mentioned Fiberreeds to him, said he’s heard of them but never played them, so it will be cool to also bring those for him to try too. He…[Read more]

Great job Mike! Very cool 🙂

@Johnny I’m definitely going to look into those reeds as soon as I can, probably in the month of May. Got some family stuff we’re doing first over the next few weeks. I’ve been hearing great things about them from lots of players. I tried Legere reeds from a music store locally, didn’t like them at all. I’m going to look over your blog post about…[Read more]

@Johnny Java Greens size 3. My Sax teacher told me this past Wednesday to start making a weekly video diary–plus using a mirror. The difference with working with a real teacher vs. someone in a music store who professes to be a teacher is like night and day! He taught me some other cool tricks about tuning–super helpful!

I have some Fibracell…[Read more]

That would be awesome Johnny 🙂 We’re a family of 6 and that would really help to keep things simple–especially now that I’m paying for weekly Sax lessons locally.

Sil Austin’s tone! Man….it’s so good, it almost hurts LOL Just goes to show how good those guys were 🙂

You’re making great progress Keith, keep it up 🙂

Way to go Keith! Very nice video 🙂 Congrats on your wedding anniversary. My wife and I celebrate our 22 year anniversary on April 12th. You’re making fine progress, so feel good about the progress you have made and don’t worry about comparing your playing with someone else’s playing. Johnny is a pro and he’s been doing it for many years.…[Read more]

Absolutely. I think those subtones are much harder to do than long, loud, long-tones. Playing loud and in tune is a great way to develop (or re-develop like I’m doing) our tone. He said I’ll be focusing on subtones more as my air support starts to come back to me. For now, we’re focusing on developing the tone back. Johnny has a great exercise of…[Read more]

@Jose Luis Hinojosa Johnny’s forum is a great place to learn from other players like you said. Johnny sounds great with his Guardala–I couldn’t see him playing with anything else on the Tenor Sax, definitely fits him. I think as players we all go through an experimentation phase. Once we discover what works for us, then we stick with it–just…[Read more]

Your teacher put his hands over yours? Wow, never thought about that. With me, I haven’t mentally forgotten how to do anything. It’s just getting everything else to respond. It’s one thing to think about it, but another to do it. I still don’t have any problems with Altissimo, but he advised me to back off that for just a few months 🙂

The one…[Read more]

@William Yes, that’s a nice area 🙂 If I remember correctly, you’re about 4-5 miles south of Taos?

You did an awesome job with Tequila Johnny 🙂 Was waiting for the day you would do it 🙂