Leo Salu

Twistin’ the Night Away was written and recorded by Sam Cooke. It was released in 1962 and became a huge hit.
Backing tracks and sheet music are from “How to play saxophone” Johnny Ferreira .

Hello just tried the checkout and i have the coupon code block on the checkout page and can enter a code. fyi

Wow that goes way way back, not even with Ringo on the drums!

Great story, sorry about your sax, that must have been a shock, would hate to lose my primary horn the Yamaha. Tried playing the clarinet many years ago in High School (1962) did not have much luck with it, and stayed with the sax, at least till graduation then let it go for about 55 yrs, back again and loving it. So welcome back to the forum.…[Read more]

Hello Mark, sorry you had some health issues and a sore neck, the tenor sax has some weight to it and can hurt your neck i had similar problems with my tenor so i got a “saxophone harness” that distributes the weight to the shoulders equally i put up a link to ebay that shows the type of neck strap you might want to get, take a look.
I use it…[Read more]

Howdy Mark, did you ever get your YTS 23 back, looking forward to hearing you play it.

Johnny love the way you play “Born to Run”, especially that sax solo section, incredible skill and precision I can only dream of playing that well.

Hey Wayne, nice job and a real nice sound, like all the video adds. Keep them coming.

Hello Wayne, I play a Yamaha YTS 23, with a Otto link MP and fiberreed hemp medium reed. nice playing saxophone.

Always fun to read about the background of a song, who knew all these details were available. Thanks Mark and again I appreciate your comments. Currently working on a new song from Johnny “twisting the Night away” stay tuned. Leo

I have the #5 Ottolink super tone master NY, i use a medium hemp fiberreed, BTW those fiberreeds last a long time the one i am using is over 7 months old and still going strong.
My hard rubber MPs are the selmer S80 c* I have two of them but now prefer the Otto.

Pete I think we are all on this site to improve our playing, Johnny offers a lot of advice to achieve that end. He always says to video our playing, best way to know the weak area’s, a while back he suggested changing my MP to Metal so I got a Otto Link with a fiberreed made quite a difference. and like he always says Rock On.

Hello Pete great tone like the echo sound, one note however, you might be a little ahead of the track! Keep them coming. Leo

Hello Johnny, guess that coupon code has become invalid I have two songs left to go and can not get it to work, and August is almost over.
Leo

Thanks guys appreciate the feed back………

Notable occasion, your first video on How to play saxophone, hopefully one of many oh and welcome aboard….you will find great bunch of fellow saxophonists on this site.