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2019-12-20 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.

2019-12-06 By Bob 8 Comments

In this lesson I’ll walk you through what I’m thinking as I accompany trumpeter YAYennings in a chord-less band.

2019-11-23 By Bob 12 Comments

Bob playing

Using half tonguing when playing faster lines can help keep articulation and time in check.

2019-11-03 By Bob

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.

2019-10-09 By Bob Leave a Comment

Bob Answering Questions

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.

2019-09-18 By Bob 24 Comments

Bob Explaining Chords

How to learn a new piece of vocabulary, apply it, and mix it in with your own improvisations.

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