RockinRobin

I’ll use my Motown music book. Not as good as Johnny’s sheet music and background music but it’s a start.
William

I meant FULL MIX
WILLIAM

G-day
sx poet. I haven’t heard from Michael Bishop for some time
William

Hi John
Talking with Michael Bishop some time in the past I bought an Enlightened Ligature from Theo Wanne for the guardala mpcs.
William

Ya John
The lig is attached to the mouthpiece but The Rovner or Winslow holds the reed better in place, The stock ligature on the Durga seemed to always turn a bit. I did move the stock lig up to the front. Seemed to work better up front but the Rovner or Winslow worked best for me. So I removed the stock lig and replaced it with the winslow
William

When Johnny plays “Brown Eyed Girl” the lyrics just pop out with the notes

Johnny,
I found it. One of the early down loads
William

I’m also practicing with Tony Orlando’s backing track My backing track MUSIC is in A major. The last verse of “He don’t love you like I love you” goes up half step. So I lowered the backing track to G and G#. So my tenor sax plays A and Bb and the backing track plays G and G#. I’m tone deaf so mathematically I think I have it correct. The backing…[Read more]

Johnny named that tune: “He don’t Love You, Like I Love You” according to Tony Orlando and Dawn.Bill Medley named the tune “He Will Break Your Heart”; same tune, same notes, same melody. I’ll record it on GarageBand and If I do it justice I’ll post it.
William

great performance; the best; Shot Gun shot gun.
William

I’m with Johnny and sxpoet. The Durga will take back seat. This morning I put my Guardala fat boy on my sax with a soft onyx reed and I blew and blew. Guardala is King
William

Ya, I do like my Durga. I might like my FatBoy a bit more and also the King.High baffle mouth pieces I find harder to play. On my Durga I moved the ligature forward to the first holes. Easier to control the sound. I was told some time ago by the Theo Wanne reps that the last ligature holes were put on the Theo Wanne mouth pieces for Dexter…[Read more]

SX Poet Here is Nigel with the Durga
William