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depending on the ligature you use can transform your overall Pitch from a Mouldy to a clear pitch sound, and also can transform the your overall Tone from a Dark to a Bright Sound. So there are 2 factors to listen out for, getting the balance right between both factors makes a hell of a lot of difference to how you sound in your head when you…[Read more]

The other thing you can’t see in the photograph.

i’ve cut large rectangle holes out of the sides of the rovner ligature, so if you were to look along both sides of the ligature, you would see the sides of both Vamp stock reeds.

Cutting large rectangle holes out of the sides of the ligature has not weakened the holding strength of the ligature,…[Read more]

check out the photo, you can see the two Vamp Stock reeds on the left and right hand side inside the ligature, they are both touching the base sides of the vibrating reed.

on top of the vibrating reed, is another hard Vamp Stock synthetic reed.

As you can see from the photograph, the ligature is way too fat for the mouthpiece barrel

I don’t…[Read more]

hi jeff
any mouthpiece i would buy, would be based on the tip size, similar in size to my alto king mouthpiece.

Wow – make sure you have some good guard dogs outside 24/7.

if you’re starting out on the sax – checkout all gear you will need

look at the height of the finger positions
look at how relaxed the body frame is
look at breathing, this guy doesn’t appear out of breath at the end of each sheet

quite interesting to see all the articulations played on the sheet and how they should sound. A lot of it is just recognising a lot of common patterns of notes (identical group combination of notes) that are repeated over and over. If you can play any of the combinations in time just by practicing a few solo etudes, it can speed up playing as you…[Read more]

hi @Jeff,
That’s funny about the clarinet ligature, weeks ago, i bought a new ligature for my Clarinet, and i when i got home, i compared it to one of my Alto Ligatures – turns out it is the same brand, same make and both are exactly the same. both are designed for classical mouthpieces.

Last year after 9 years of working through various practice…[Read more]

I agree with you Leo, i can’t see how the average person can possibly read and play fast tempo passages involving 32nd and 64th notes in various combinations. The eyes can’t keep up, and it’s impossible to read ahead while fingering the keys, and controlling air flow all at the same time.

Yakety Sax – doesn’t have 32nd or 64th notes on the sheet,…[Read more]

The interesting part, is to compare the sound quality of both recordings.
1. both recordings were done in the same room
2. both recordings were recorded with the same JVC camcorder
3. the audio files were extracted from the camcorder movies using Quicktime software
4. both recordings the camcorder was the same distance from the guitar and the…[Read more]