saxomonica

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3387154371543019

SEE ~ https://www.neffmusic.com/blog/2022/02/do-mouthpiece-patches-and-beak-height-make-a-difference-to-the-sound-of-a-saxophone/

Howz thangs? Hope you are getting somewhere.

i wish i could play like John instead of braying but am getting there in resolute fashion. And noteworthy style. Especially reading them on the music staff and gaining some muscle memory. I am gonna work on Into the Mystic and bang it out for you to see. Ya. Another song in the key of F is Rocket 88.…[Read more]

Go for Gold, sx poet !! 🙂 From little things big things grow.

D’addario do not appreciate it, donkeys to ’em then, moving on!
What do you call a donkey wearing ear muffs?
Anything you like; he can’t hear you.

A loss can be a gain.

Vandoren Paris – Reeds, Mouthpieces and Accessories since 1905

Haha! There will probably say there be a limousine awaiting to take you to the Airport, maybe an Eldorado Cadillac or Rocket 88 awaits you at the other end ya, James, sure to be lotsa dancing girls, champagne, big wads of cash, fireworks, caviar and fine cheeses, fame and International acclaim. Fortune is within your grasp, just reach for it.…[Read more]

Heya James that’s certainly one way of getting the oral cavity and throat open, and, thanx for sharing!
Working good ya? 🙂

No worries ya. Only to pleased to help, James 🙂

SEE – https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/muddy-waters-in-20-songs/

https://www.reverbland.com/how-to-clean-saxophone-reeds/

Great choice, James!

Cool song ya methinks it’d sure be a beaut tune for us all here too

fyi @John somethink from the opposition –

https://www.reverbland.com/how-to-play-blues-saxophone/

Air is in D7
so that is E7 on tenor sax

Little Walter plays intro in 2nd posn, G harp
Then switches to 3rd posn, Super 64 chromatic in key of C

Says Wikipedia ~ If we were soloing over an E7 chord (E–G#–B–D), our Mixo-pentatonic scale would be E–G#–A–B–D (1–3–4–5–b7). You can think of this scale as a pentatonic version of the Mixolydian mode,…[Read more]

Guys, i wish to make a public apology if i have offended anyone with my crass sense of humour and i do not wish to detract from Robert’s initial post either.

‘Explanations become excuses’.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=481163004039057&set=a.454653093356715

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
Aesop

A man and his son were once going with their donkey to market. As they were walking along by his side a countryman passed them and said, “You fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon?” So the man put the boy on the donkey, and they went on their way.
But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said,…[Read more]

Great job, Robert and Fern! Wow, you sure do look stoked to have pulled it off, say!

Jolly good show! Sweeet. Trust you’ve lots more shows yet to come. Xcellent.

With your kind indulgence, reminds me of a joke ~

♦ What a conundrum ..
A man returning home a day early from a business trip got into a taxi at the airport. It was after…[Read more]

I know not what. But i think i’ll stick to my saxophone. Good effort, @John !! 🙂

Says Wikipedia, ‘The cimbasso is a low brass instrument that developed from the upright serpent over the course of the 19th century in Italian opera orchestras, to cover the same range as a tuba or contrabass trombone’.…[Read more]