Gary Deripaska

Thank you so much for the very kind words Saxomonica truly means a lot.

I have a couple more songs I plan on posting where I had to use other backing tracks that weren’t available on Johnny’s site, and had to figure out the fingering on some of them to make it fit the track and timing. I prefer Johnny’s backing track as they are the higher…[Read more]

Thank you Pete for the kind words.

My Tenor Sax is a ” THE MARTIN” manufactured by Martin instruments in Elkhart Indiana between 1954 to 1955 ( Funny I was born in 1955 also) my parents bought for me back in 1969 , My MP is a Silver Metal Berg Larsen 110/ 2 they also bought me back in 1969. For recording on the album that I recorded for my…[Read more]

Thank you Pete

Hennie,
Yes on the synthetic reed. I’ve used the ones Johnny has on his web site ” The FIBEREED CARBON ONYX” ( Medium, and Medium soft) I also use the LEGERE Signature series Synthetic reed # 2. What I like about them compared to the cane reed is that you can pick the sax up and just start playing without having to pre-wet the reed. I know that
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Hennie,
I did almost the same thing you did, I started playing Tenor, Alto, Baritone sax in High school over 50 years ago settled pretty much on the Tenor in the high school band for 6 years and then after high school , I played in a little Jazz band for about 2 years where I went to School in Memphis, Tenn. Then like you my career (Corporate…[Read more]

Very nice – What Mouth Piece are you using ?

VERY VERY NICE LOVED IT Love the sound, the licks, growl, all of it, Great job Mike !!

Would love to play in a band here in Southern Cal. Just got to find one 🙂

Gary D.

VERY NICE, LOVED IT

Thank you for sharing,

Gary D.

Very Nice Keith And congrats on your wedding anniversary. Great job on the playing.

I had the same issue on the back ground track vs my playing on this album I’m recording for my parents, about 8 songs. The studio that is recording me, on the first few songs had me pretty much just barley out in front of the back ground track. I asked them to…[Read more]

Will do Pete thank you.

Gary,
As far as reeds are concerned Johnny has a lot of information on reeds, https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/fiberreed-synthetic-saxophone-reeds/. Just this past week I switched from cane reeds ( RICO # 2 ) to the Fiberreed CARBON ONYX Medium Soft, and soft. I bought them from here on Johnny’s web site. His turn time is awesome on getting…[Read more]

Thanks Johnny and Michael I Appreciate it, Thanks for the heads up Johnny. I have a music store here in Southern Cal that’s going to let my try the Berg, Otto Link , Jody Jazz and a few others to see what sound I get.

Yes, Michael I love the sound too I get out of my Berg on the tenor especially when I “growl” sounds pretty awesome on the old…[Read more]

Thank you Johnny, Love this song Pretty much have it committed to memory now, working on the rif that you do at the end. AWESOME !!!!!!