What should you do when you feel like your sound isn’t projecting the way you wish it would? Change mouthpieces? Reed strengths? Both? Here are some practices I use to develop a big sound—at any volume.
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By Bob 20 Comments
What should you do when you feel like your sound isn’t projecting the way you wish it would? Change mouthpieces? Reed strengths? Both? Here are some practices I use to develop a big sound—at any volume.
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In this lesson I’ll walk you through what I’m thinking as I accompany trumpeter YAYennings in a chord-less band.
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Using half tonguing when playing faster lines can help keep articulation and time in check.
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Learning (and retaining) music quickly, navigating non-traditional chord progressions and forms, and finding ways to expand your improvisations on modal and loop-based grooves, these are all things we do on a nightly basis with Snarky Puppy. I’m on tour with them and we just played Utrecht, NL—the city where we recorded “We Like It Here,” it seemed like a good opportunity to round up a few Snarky-related lessons, including one I made during that recording session.
In this month’s Q&A we cover marketing yourself as a saxophonist, how to practice rhythm, what I’m visualizing when thinking of chords, and what my inspiration was on each track of Quartet.
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How to learn a new piece of vocabulary, apply it, and mix it in with your own improvisations.