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i shall have one more attempt at trying out the Tenor sax YTS480 or YTS62.
I play ‘Fly me to the Moon’ in C Major on the Alto sax, i’m used to hearing it in played in C Major.

when i tried out two Tenor Sax’s, i played ‘Fly me to the Moon’ using the same Key positions as on the Alto C Major. When i got home, i realised that i should have played…[Read more]

Hi Jeff,
good to hear you are still playing the sax.
You’ll have to do some more uploads.

Hi Wayne,
i started learning the Alto sax 10 years ago, and i’m not as good a player as you are, i’ve listened to your 4 uploads on youtube, and they are well played.
Keep up the good work!

the guy who runs the shop, was telling me they often get new sample reeds to try out and thats how i got my free reeds. I think he said a few other shops had received a couple of vandoren reeds to try out, once they up their production, they should start supplying here. Thats a big step for vandoren as they were committed to only produce cane…[Read more]

seven years research to produce a synthetic reed by vandoren

https://vkreeds.com/en/

Hi Wayne, appreciate the feedback, but unfortunately i don’t have anywhere in my house that i can leave my stuff out.

When i record, I have to put my computer on my bed along side with a clarett 2 pre audio interface (it’s an older audio interface with thunderbolt connection and midi connection), i put the microphone stand next to the bed, then…[Read more]

when i play the sax, it depends on who is in the audience –
if it’s people with no musical background, then a lot of pressure is off, as half the time they won’t notice a lot of mistakes, in fact the only thing they will notice is if you are way out of tune.

if it’s people with a musical background, that play musical instruments – the pressure…[Read more]

To most people, we think we only have one brain, in fact we have 7 brains that work together. However 3 of these brains – frontal, Limbic and Parietal brains combine to form the psychological mind.

frontal brain – human (is you)
limbic brain – Chimpanzee (emotional machine given at birth and that thinks independent from you)
parietal brain -…[Read more]

Top Tips for Trad Musicians: Conquering Your Nerves & Overcoming Stage Fright

You’re dealing with overcoming Stage Fright which is a good article, where as i was talking about the problem of playing extremely difficult music sheets ex chopin piano music, pieces of music which tend to be played very fast, where it is very difficult to read the sheet, never mind play the sheet. For me it’s impossible to play these music…[Read more]

When you play a music sheet that is very very fast, it gets impossible to read and play the sheet at the same time.

you will notice a lot of top flight piano players don’t play from a music sheet, they play from memory. If they have a sheet in front of them …. then that might be there just to tell them where and when to play their parts in an…[Read more]

you got no hugs, the you got the blues

try hugging trees instead

Name any profession – and you’ll find similar problems that will cause wear and tear damage to different parts of your body and mind.

You’ll either end up damaging different parts of your body or wear out different parts of your body, or you’ll expose yourself to this bacteria, or that virus, or some other toxic substance in the environment.

i…[Read more]

glad you’ve turned the corner – the problem with corners is no one knows what’s round the next corner.

Never the less, it’s not what you do but the way that you do it – basically everything in excess is bad for you – too much sugar, too much salt, too much water, too much booze … the list goes on. Too much sax practice is that bad for you?…[Read more]

you guys are over 10 years older than me. I started playing 10 years ago, and at my age now, i keep thinking how many more years i will be able to carry on playing the sax? and it seems pointless to me to upgrade my sax to a better model at my age. But you’ve all inspired me to carry on playing the sax.

One tip i can give you, if it’s too much…[Read more]