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“Help Yourself” ala Tom Jones. “Me and Bobby McGee” is still on the Music stand. Also added to the music stand is “Help Your Self” ala Tom Jones. Backing tracks for both songs are loaded into GarageBand> Not easy keeping up with backing tracks. They move along at a good clip. “All I want for Christmas is You” – best Christmas tune.

Thanks Johnny,
I found a karaoke backing track ala Jerry Lee Lewis. So I loaded the backing track on to my Garage Band so I’ll be recording myself, just Me and Bobby McGee. I have the sheet music in my Bb music book. The backing track is in C major and my sheet music is in D major so we’er good to go.

Thanks for all the info guys. I solved my sound problem. I used a fiber carbon reed recommended by Johnny, and my mouthpiece today is a theo wanne slant sig 2, tip opening 7* and enlighten ligature. In the past I was using a carbon Onyx reed but today the carbon reed had a nice buzz https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/product/carbon-tenor/

Looks like “I heard it through the grapevine” is in the key of F minor. the music is divided into 12 bars and 8 bars, and some smaller divisions for the short solos. Is this music a type of blues? Sounds like a motown rhythm and blues

This morning the horn was ok when I went from middle
b to high G with the octave Key. I’ll blow “I heard it through the grapevine”. I might just be my lip etc. Thanks Johnny
William

How about some reggae like “Brown Skin Girl”, Tiny Winey, or some Reggae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nuihAonUwg

OK Mike. My email address is grandeza@icloud.com Thanks a bunch, I got the sheet music from music notes but it’s not quite right.

William

Ok, maybe Johnny might put the sheet music for “You never can tell” in the repertoire section. Mike plays it right and so does Bruce Springsteen and his sax player plays a solo.

Sounds great Mike. I’ve been trying to learn “You never can tell” since hace mucho tempo”.It’s a keeper.

Sound was a dud today. I went through all my mouthpieces and reeds and ligatures. Still a dud. I put my teeth on the mouthpieces etc just like Johnny shows in his educational video. I finally ended with a Van Gogh lig and carbon fat boy mouthpiece and medium soft oxycarbon and all the wind I could muster. Every three notes I had to take in more…[Read more]

Thanks Saxomonica. I guess The Kingston Trio could hang the Midnight Special with “The Tijuana Jail”

You bet. I’ll keep those mediums on hand. I’ve been blowing ‘Wave’ and Sinatra’s “Fly Me To The Moon” and Herb Alpert’s “Spanish Flea” among other things. Cheers