RockinRobin

You got great sound with the right Buzz. Great job

I play my backing track on GarageBand. I drag the mp3 from my iTunes library to GarageBand,

Great sax and video

I was blowing a MS onyx reed. The reed sometimes stopped vibrating. Johnny told me to stick with the medium onyx and the Medium began to blow just right. i have a medium copper (2.5) and it is a tough reed so I went to a #2 copper reed. I prefer the medium Onyx reed. I consider the copper reed to be a rock and roll reed.The copper reed takes a…[Read more]

My go to reed is the medium onyx reed in one of my 7* mouthpieces, Theowanne slant 2 or MBII fat boy

Bravo. Graphics are great too. Two thumbs up for you.

The Onyx reed sounded better than the copper reed. I find the onyx reed easier to blow compared to the copper reed. I had to move down to size 2 from 2.5 with the copper reed. Holding a note longer was easer with the onyx reed. The copper reed seems to be for rock and roll.

My onyx medium and my copper reed 2 work very well.My 7* mouth pieces and my MBII fatboy blow well using the onyx medium reed and copper reed size 2

Thanks Johnny. I’ll check it out tomorrow.Today using the fatboy mpc and a #2 copper reed and a winslow big I was playing “Your Mama Don’t Dance”. Nice rocking tune

One more thing about using a metronome. My music reading is very cognitive, too cognitive. I have to play the notes/music without thinking about it. Dancing puts you into the music so I stomp my heal or pat my foot. I don’t dance but I can get my leg into the music on the down beats

80 bpm I can do with a metronome ….bam bam bambabam..Something like that. Patting my foot seems to work better e.g. patting my foot to the down beats of “Save The Last dance” seems to get me closer to the backing track down beats.

I did better this time by tapping my foot on all the down beats. I can’t hear the down beats but I might feel the down beat with a foot down beat

Hi Johnny
It may be too late to use April”s code for “Time is tight. Today is April 30 The music is not posted yet. I’ll check back before midnight mountain time
William

Good one Jake. I followed you in the music humming most of the lyrics as you played the musical notes. I need lyrics and in a way you provided the lyrics in your music. The F# key is not hard to play. So today will be a Beach Boy day. Thanks for the video

Thanks Mel. Something to keep me busy

Scott I was sight reading “Lilly Was Here” transposing the notes to E minor (key signature G major) and E minor for tenor sax would be easier to play