RockinRobin

And my sax man examined my sax today, And there were many leaks and so Tuesday I should have my horn. G# key was wacko and a few others were not fitting well.

Sxpoet, I should know by Monday or Tuesday. Could be a loose screw.

Good Morning sxpoet. I might have a leak some where in the lower keys. I take my sax to the repair man Sunday afternoon. Only one repair person in the Daytona Beach Florida area. He has a one room shack behind his prefab hone in which he repairs horns. He’s busy playing on the road when he’s not working on horns.

I agree with Rod. No apparent fix. According to my recent down loads under Check out only “What’d I say” appeared. I went to the repertoire on the premium channel where I first got the sheet music and downloaded it again and bar 25 was the same as my first download.

Thanks Johnny. I’m working on Pick Up The Pieces and Lily Was Here. Doing well with the two pieces

Johnny,
I’m Working on “Lily Was Here”. It’s in the key of F# minor. I concluded that from the chords in the Sheet music. First chord is F# minor. Key signature is A major, three sharps. Looking at the mode chart you made F# is the first note of the Aeolian Mode for the key of A major. My thinking is that the F# minor mode takes its scale…[Read more]

I can do the fork High F and F#. I’ll keep practicing those notes e.g. the notes in the frame C# high E fork F# down to C natural B, A, middle F#. I do it til I can run it on down smoothly. It’s a two bar run taken from “Lily Was Here” which is a 12 bar blues I think

Thanks Johnny. I just changed the title to Kansas City after it downloaded into my music library.

I got it but it was entitled “What’d I say”

I can play the first 8 bars plus the intro bar – rest rest F Db…etc. easy. I have the long version backing track and I’ll get on it tomorrow with a steady rocking riff or riffs

I have a shorter backing track so I won’t have think too much now, just play without thinking; just blow what I know before I blow.

I was improvising along Shot Gun trying to keep up with the backing track, long backing track. I missed most of the notes i.e. blew a natural instead of a flat and vice versa. Made up my own riffs trying to keep up with the backing track. I recorded it on GarageBand to check out the sound. Sounded OK but not good enough to post yet. When I’m…[Read more]

I pulled out my Theo Wanne Slant Sig 2 7* and put on an Onyx Carbon medium soft reed and away we went. Even the medium Onyx Carbon reed blows. I rather use the medium soft onyx carbon reed for now. Shot Gun is coming along well.

Ay. Mate, one of me favorite melodies, Waltzing me Tilda.

To do an improve or riff I have to hum it, make a melody out of it, like “Shot gun Mamma, Kindly put yo shot gun down”. By the time I sort of get a riff together the music is way ahead of me. Then I can blow ba ba baba ba ba baba. etc etc etc. I haven’t tried to record yet. So I’m working on it. Music is like a language. I can read the language…[Read more]

I’m still working on Shot Gun. All day today I worked on shot gun