Right on, Jay. The bit at the end-the process-is a huge thing. I'm 69, been playing professionally for fifty years now. I still work on it almost every day; I remember clearly when I was 15 and recorded myself playing "Here's That Rainy Day", and my feeling of disgust and self-loathing when I played it back. I listened several weeks later and realized it wasn't really that terrible, but that I would NEVER be satisfied, that I needed to attach to the love of the process of learning. It has stood me in good stead. And sound! Yes! YES! If one doesn't have a compelling sound, no amount of technique is redemptive. Every point you make here is spot on. Jay, you do us all such a service. Great stuff, my good man! Merci beaucoup!
I'm 74 yrs. old and have been playing since I got my soprano sax in April of this year. So about 8 months now. You have been a major source for everything saxophone, and your videos have helped me enormously with my playing. This is a hobby for me and I'm enjoying it very much. Sounding okay and playing proficiently from sheet music is my main goal. Rhythm and vocabulary are most important to me to reach that goal at this stage of my life. Won't be spending a lot of time on theory, memorization , and harmonizing. I do get some of that through incidental learning. No plans on becoming an entertainer at my age. Thank for all that you do for the saxophone community.
Mr. Metcalf, this is definitely a conversation between musicians who are in a crisis. You know us well, those who follow the rules in this conversation will definitely be better. This video is very valuable, please continue to upload such videos from time to time, we love you sir
I feel for you. I have started to play at 58, also. I am now 61. I have started in the last 6 months to play trumpet, piano, trombone, and guitar all at the same time, except piano(which i can't play very well). I work 55-60 hrs week. Get up at 4:30 with wife, get home at 6pm, try to get to bed by 9, asleep by 10. I am a Christian and am dedicated to my church for all day Sunday and Wednesday nights... One thing I am able to do is keep all the animals out of my yard when playing any one of these. My wife of 38yrs loves me so much, she puts up with it. I can get some songs out that only I can recognize. I am having fun though. I do get some frustrations going sometimes but, l realize I don't have time to do all so, I just enjoy making noise. I am also trying to learn to read sheet music and some of its theory and why/how it works. I also rebuild saxophones for my friends, repad, bend, solder, everything on them. From bundys to 613 cleveland, jupiter, keilwerth st90,(cheap mendini alto and tenor sax, yes, they bend easy and are cheap). All the ones I rebuilt are done back to specs that i can find. All the post are aligned and straight, keys fit straight and level, keys fit perfect and aligned with post. I use kangaroo pads(yes, they are finicky but last).I haven't relaquared yet but is next hopefully this month. One thing though, I am having fun and enjoying myself. By the way, no one has brought back their sax to me and all love how they play. I go by a few chromatic tunners for tuning each note adjust by cork and glue. Several other things with them. Thank you Mr Metcalf for your video, I watch you a lot and hear what you say. Time is not on my side but, I am happy with all the things I get to try in this life beige my time is up.
Congratulations, Jay! Not everyone who masters their craft can communicate the essentials of it to others as you just did. And, thank you for taking me back to Paris while doing it.
Great advice as usual. One thing I've become aware of that I'd like to add. No matter what you practice/work on, do it in the most musical way possible.
Hi Jay. I'm watching from Mussy-sur-Seine....way upstream from Paris. I started on alto and tenor pretty much at the same time. I am trying to learn by listening. I'm going to be 74 tomorrow...after a lifetime of rock n roll in Texas. I play by ear, and being self-taught, I guess I have a fool for teacher. I do know what sounds good, and I have a good ear. I won"t live to be 120, which is what is probably required to become really good. Still, I have fun, I try to improve, and I try not to be too hard on myself. I can't really play in all keys, which I know you gotta do. You know what though? So many tunes are in sax-friendly keys. Even the greats liked just a few keys.
Jay, … take a bow ! You hit it out of the park ! Probably, your BEST video to date. Great photography, awesome location, I liked the point you did all this while walking around Paris. Most of all.. priceless pointers ( info ). Thank you.
Practice on your weaknesses, this is such good advice. I always take line of least resistance but never really progressing. Been playing forty plus years and still lack many basic skills. This is an inspiring video and has given me impetus to try to improve not just sax playing but in other areas of life, thank you sir.
I get hired on sessions, not because I am the "best", but because they like how I play. I am very grateful for that. Still working to be a better musician everyday. Played a lot of trumpet years ago and recently picked up the saxophone. I practice for perfection, but play for perfect moments. I Love it! Thanks Jay!
Jay, this is an outstanding video. Great tips here. Being a great musician demystified. It’s all about the work you put in. My father used to always say, “You get out of it what you put into it.” And when I started to figure that out for playing sax, I began to experience the truth of this statement. It’s all about doing the work and putting in the time (including active listening) and like you said at the end, it’s not about any outcome or achievement , (because it never ends) it’s about the journey!! It is so important to enjoy the journey!!!
All great advice…love it…I’m also an avid golfer and many of these pieces of advice carry over…like varying what you practice…golfers tend to just do repetitive practice, hitting the same iron over and over to the same target instead of varying their shots, targets, clubs, etc…
Great advice. It's always good to hear it again. I'll add one more that is currently important to me: Ear Training, or more specifically, hearing what I play in relation to the harmony. This is a tough one, but for me it's critical. The tour of Paris is an added treat.
i’m a bass trombonist, but the videos you make are really helpful even for someone who doesn’t play sax; i think there’s a lot of ethic and how we perceive challenge and practicing that any musician can gain from the videos you make :) (i do wanna double on bari some day so can’t wait for the release)
Terrific, sensible advice, Jay. Thank you. From the first seconds of this video, you had me shooting glances at the photos I took in 1969, now hanging on my wall. So like your video--one isfrom the top of the Tower, looking northeast towards Sacré-Coeur, and the other looks straight up from the base. It was the same day I bought my new Mark VI alto from the Pierre Beuscher music store. It sits today in my tiny studio, and if I follow your venerable advice, I may actually get good at it again.
Good advice. I've been playing a couple years now. I took professional lessons and have been learning sight reading. Sight reading has helped me to learn finger coordination. It just takes time.
Underlying all these skills is the ability to listen. No less than a great therapist, this skill is essential and it amazes me how some amateur players (like me) just don’t hear the musicians around them and the sound they are making themselves. Literally I have heard someone not observing the key signature and rather than stopping and scratching their heads wondering what has gone wrong they just keep playing. Drives me nuts.
Wow, what an amazing clip, Jay. You hit the nail on the head! So many core aspects and bits & pieces of proceeding as a saxophonist in 12 minutes of video. Inspiring, encouraging, driving. Now I'm gonna watch it a second time, enjoying the beautiful scenery of Paris. Just asked my dear wife if she liked to go for a short visit next week?! 😂 A thousand thanks and a happy 2025! 🎉
Great video! Though I think perhaps the area where talent comes in isn't talent for music, but the personality traits that lead to be able to put those hars hours in. Really glad you led with sound: and where I think some sax players get hung up is that tone does not equal sound. Sound includes so much more than pure tone - it's intonation, articulation, feel and so on. My weakness is definitely technique and putting that time in on patterns and technical proficiency. My technique comes from the tunes I've learnt, rather than the hard hours on scales, arpeggios and patterns.
This is fantastic! I would add ear training on the list. It's essential to be able to hear sounds, rhythms, lines, harmony, tunes, and so on. Every day, I take time to sing, either out loud or mentally, what I am working on incorporating into my playing. As Jerry Bergonzi says, imagine how you want to sound. Thanks for this great video!
Thanks for this great video! It's perfect timing for me, since I just returned from a year abroad and away from my horn. The thought of restarting playing again feels daunting (where to begin?), but after watching your video I'm feeling motivated.
Hi Jay, I started my musical journey at the age of 61, no chance to start earlier in life. If I listen to this and similar videos I get really frustrated, knowing I lack at least a fifty years of experience to get where I would love to be with my saxplaying. No chance to ever become a good player. But well, you are right in everything you say. Thank you 😊
Brigitte, you have every prospect of getting good! Believe it. If you live 20 more years and play 3 to 4 h per day with a little structure to your play time, you will be very good. Even 2 h ler day! Don't forget to go the gym and of course give thanks to God. Doc Severinsen was doing planks into his 90s.
Before watching this video, here's my 6 (at my level anyway.) Let's see how close I can get to Jay's thoughts. 1. Practice 2. Practice with intent. Learn to critique youself. Don't "practice" mistakes - it will become a part of you 3. Actively listen to music. Learn and recognise what you like / don't like. (and then practice) 4. Throw out any advice that doesn't (after *really careful* consideration) work for you. Then start practising. 5. Learn to read music. (while practising, of course) 6. Listen. Transcribe. Emulate. Better copy a good idea, than invent a bad one. (also: see point 1.) I'm off to have some quality time with my horn now...
Great video Jay! Inspiring as always. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and perspective. It is incredibly helpful and enjoyable to watch to. 🙏🙏🙏
Great video! What are some concepts that you have been practicing recently that you feel isn’t at the 100% clarity and consistency that you are reaching for?
I often wonder if improvisation on the fly by the greats. Were they really thinking while playing while the transcribers brought up the rear. I find that without reading your cutting out the eyes read press finger delay and it gets in the way for me personally. I learnt by ear and struggle with dots. Surely you just have to know what every button sounds like then play whatever melodies in yer head.
En haut de la tour Eiffel mais pas dans de visite sur la tombe d'Adolphe Sax au cimetière Montmartre? la prochaine fois! bravo et merci pour les conseils.
Being humble is one thing, but we as players must know that we weren’t born knowing how to play. It takes years of lessons and practicing to sound good. I’m still fairly new to the saxophone (been playing for 3 years) and people compliment my sound and think I’ve been playing all my life, but I haven’t. I’m eternally to everyone who helped me develop my saxophone playing skills but I still had to do the work of learning and practicing.
You got to study in Paris, at French school there. Fixed DOE. You'll be SORRY. Screw that. Marcel Mule and Fred Hemke wandered those same streets. Faure, so many...
True - no one is born with ability to play. BUT people with good ears are blessed with the ability to hear what they want to play and reproduce it without reading once they learn basics of their instruments. A good ear and a huge knowledge of music and different genres will take you most of the way if youu learn your instrument fairly well.Unplesant sound? - Coletrane on Soprano.... His . 'My favorite things 'is out of tune and is hard for me to listen to.
Bari is a funny sax, the parts you’ll see in standard middle/high school are not technically challenging unfortunately for bari players. You’ll have to look for opportunities outside of school, trust me they’re there
@@AlexM-s6t I’m almost 30 years removed from high school. Lol I’ve I’ve had a few harder pieces for bari but not many. But just because it’s melody doesn’t mean it’s difficult.
15 hours a day, every day, for years. 70,000+ hours on tenor alone (mostly the same Mark VI I bought new in 1973).. That's not counting piano / guitar, anything else (also law degree + legal career). Helps to have absolute pitch. Still unknown after 50+ years. Maybe I better do You Tube teaching channel, LOL?
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Right on, Jay. The bit at the end-the process-is a huge thing. I'm 69, been playing professionally for fifty years now. I still work on it almost every day; I remember clearly when I was 15 and recorded myself playing "Here's That Rainy Day", and my feeling of disgust and self-loathing when I played it back. I listened several weeks later and realized it wasn't really that terrible, but that I would NEVER be satisfied, that I needed to attach to the love of the process of learning. It has stood me in good stead. And sound! Yes! YES! If one doesn't have a compelling sound, no amount of technique is redemptive. Every point you make here is spot on. Jay, you do us all such a service. Great stuff, my good man! Merci beaucoup!
Exactly! It bothers me when people remark about my “talent” as it would seem to belittle the thousands of hours of practice
Maybe the talent is to have the patience and dedication to put in those hours
Excellent advice... lovely tour of Paris, as a free bonus
"Make it a habit to ALWAYS play with your best sound." Great advice!! ...and sometimes overlooked.
I'm 74 yrs. old and have been playing since I got my soprano sax in April of this year. So about 8 months now. You have been a major source for everything saxophone, and your videos have helped me enormously with my playing. This is a hobby for me and I'm enjoying it very much. Sounding okay and playing proficiently from sheet music is my main goal. Rhythm and vocabulary are most important to me to reach that goal at this stage of my life. Won't be spending a lot of time on theory, memorization , and harmonizing. I do get some of that through incidental learning. No plans on becoming an entertainer at my age. Thank for all that you do for the saxophone community.
Mr. Metcalf, this is definitely a conversation between musicians who are in a crisis. You know us well, those who follow the rules in this conversation will definitely be better. This video is very valuable, please continue to upload such videos from time to time, we love you sir
I feel for you. I have started to play at 58, also. I am now 61. I have started in the last 6 months to play trumpet, piano, trombone, and guitar all at the same time, except piano(which i can't play very well). I work 55-60 hrs week. Get up at 4:30 with wife, get home at 6pm, try to get to bed by 9, asleep by 10. I am a Christian and am dedicated to my church for all day Sunday and Wednesday nights... One thing I am able to do is keep all the animals out of my yard when playing any one of these. My wife of 38yrs loves me so much, she puts up with it. I can get some songs out that only I can recognize. I am having fun though. I do get some frustrations going sometimes but, l realize I don't have time to do all so, I just enjoy making noise. I am also trying to learn to read sheet music and some of its theory and why/how it works. I also rebuild saxophones for my friends, repad, bend, solder, everything on them. From bundys to 613 cleveland, jupiter, keilwerth st90,(cheap mendini alto and tenor sax, yes, they bend easy and are cheap). All the ones I rebuilt are done back to specs that i can find. All the post are aligned and straight, keys fit straight and level, keys fit perfect and aligned with post. I use kangaroo pads(yes, they are finicky but last).I haven't relaquared yet but is next hopefully this month. One thing though, I am having fun and enjoying myself. By the way, no one has brought back their sax to me and all love how they play. I go by a few chromatic tunners for tuning each note adjust by cork and glue. Several other things with them. Thank you Mr Metcalf for your video, I watch you a lot and hear what you say. Time is not on my side but, I am happy with all the things I get to try in this life beige my time is up.
Well put. Over 50 years of playing and decades of teaching under my belt and I say you really nailed it!
Same. Agree totally 👍
Congratulations, Jay! Not everyone who masters their craft can communicate the essentials of it to others as you just did. And, thank you for taking me back to Paris while doing it.
Great advice as usual. One thing I've become aware of that I'd like to add. No matter what you practice/work on, do it in the most musical way possible.
the ability is a gift from the chief musician.its how we water our flowers,that determines how they grow.
Hi Jay. I'm watching from Mussy-sur-Seine....way upstream from Paris. I started on alto and tenor pretty much at the same time. I am trying to learn by listening. I'm going to be 74 tomorrow...after a lifetime of rock n roll in Texas. I play by ear, and being self-taught, I guess I have a fool for teacher. I do know what sounds good, and I have a good ear. I won"t live to be 120, which is what is probably required to become really good. Still, I have fun, I try to improve, and I try not to be too hard on myself. I can't really play in all keys, which I know you gotta do. You know what though? So many tunes are in sax-friendly keys. Even the greats liked just a few keys.
If you’re enjoying yourself, that’s what matters the most.
Jay, … take a bow ! You hit it out of the park ! Probably, your BEST video to date. Great photography, awesome location, I liked the point you did all this while walking around Paris. Most of all.. priceless pointers ( info ). Thank you.
Practice on your weaknesses, this is such good advice. I always take line of least resistance but never really progressing. Been playing forty plus years and still lack many basic skills. This is an inspiring video and has given me impetus to try to improve not just sax playing but in other areas of life, thank you sir.
Love that!
Danke!
Bitte
I get hired on sessions, not because I am the "best", but because they like how I play. I am very grateful for that. Still working to be a better musician everyday. Played a lot of trumpet years ago and recently picked up the saxophone. I practice for perfection, but play for perfect moments. I Love it! Thanks Jay!
Hi Jay Im Russian sax beging player, I used to watch your video lessons but Nowadays youtube is being blocked by idiots and Im so upset
Where can I keep in touch with you
Paree!! Beautiful shots! Go, Jay!
Jay, this is an outstanding video. Great tips here. Being a great musician demystified. It’s all about the work you put in. My father used to always say, “You get out of it what you put into it.” And when I started to figure that out for playing sax, I began to experience the truth of this statement. It’s all about doing the work and putting in the time (including active listening) and like you said at the end, it’s not about any outcome or achievement , (because it never ends) it’s about the journey!! It is so important to enjoy the journey!!!
You preaching, bro!
thanks bro nice flute playing!
Excellent advice for every musician. Thanks, Jay
All great advice…love it…I’m also an avid golfer and many of these pieces of advice carry over…like varying what you practice…golfers tend to just do repetitive practice, hitting the same iron over and over to the same target instead of varying their shots, targets, clubs, etc…
serving the music with humility is key
Great advice. It's always good to hear it again. I'll add one more that is currently important to me: Ear Training, or more specifically, hearing what I play in relation to the harmony. This is a tough one, but for me it's critical. The tour of Paris is an added treat.
Paris is lovely this time of year! Thank you for the motivating ideas, Jay! Happy New Year!
Great video Jay, nice backdrop. Well filmed nice one
Very nice vid, as well as useful messages. Salut.
Good vídeo, thank you very much!
i’m a bass trombonist, but the videos you make are really helpful even for someone who doesn’t play sax; i think there’s a lot of ethic and how we perceive challenge and practicing that any musician can gain from the videos you make :) (i do wanna double on bari some day so can’t wait for the release)
Brilliant video Jay. And so good to visit one of the greatest cities in the world.
This is one of my favourite videos of yours
Thank you
This is a beautiful video.Thank you Jay!
Happy new year, Jay. Your videos are excellent, you are an excellent teacher and a really influencer in the music.
Terrific, sensible advice, Jay. Thank you. From the first seconds of this video, you had me shooting glances at the photos I took in 1969, now hanging on my wall. So like your video--one isfrom the top of the Tower, looking northeast towards Sacré-Coeur, and the other looks straight up from the base. It was the same day I bought my new Mark VI alto from the Pierre Beuscher music store. It sits today in my tiny studio, and if I follow your venerable advice, I may actually get good at it again.
Jay. Nice video. Really enjoy your content. I learn a lot. Thanks!
Your best video as how personal it felt.
Nailed it this time Jay. France living has obviously expanded your mind. Bravo you.
Excellent advice Jay. It’s as if you were talking to me personally.
Beautiful and enlightening video, Jay. All serious musicians, including myself, can benefit from this and should revisit this regularly.
Much love from South Africa
Thank you, Jay. Hmm...where to start...
Just what I needed to hear at this stage. Thanks man.
Thanks Jay - one thing you didn’t mention is reading skills! This is a particular weakness of mine despite years of application!
Good advice. I've been playing a couple years now. I took professional lessons and have been learning sight reading. Sight reading has helped me to learn finger coordination. It just takes time.
Underlying all these skills is the ability to listen. No less than a great therapist, this skill is essential and it amazes me how some amateur players (like me) just don’t hear the musicians around them and the sound they are making themselves. Literally I have heard someone not observing the key signature and rather than stopping and scratching their heads wondering what has gone wrong they just keep playing. Drives me nuts.
Thanks ❤
Smooth vid, and very sound advice; thank you.
Wow, what an amazing clip, Jay. You hit the nail on the head! So many core aspects and bits & pieces of proceeding as a saxophonist in 12 minutes of video. Inspiring, encouraging, driving. Now I'm gonna watch it a second time, enjoying the beautiful scenery of Paris. Just asked my dear wife if she liked to go for a short visit next week?! 😂 A thousand thanks and a happy 2025! 🎉
Nice - An Afternoon in Paris 🤩🎷
Very good video ! As a French Guy 🇫🇷
A very nice "Art" video! Nice job Jay!
Great video! Though I think perhaps the area where talent comes in isn't talent for music, but the personality traits that lead to be able to put those hars hours in.
Really glad you led with sound: and where I think some sax players get hung up is that tone does not equal sound. Sound includes so much more than pure tone - it's intonation, articulation, feel and so on.
My weakness is definitely technique and putting that time in on patterns and technical proficiency. My technique comes from the tunes I've learnt, rather than the hard hours on scales, arpeggios and patterns.
Great tips and nice tour by the city. Great 2025
I like this style of video- explaining the topic in sections as you share scenes of where you are.
I love Your Tone.🎶
Great Sights in this one
Brings back Memories
Of My Visits
My Mentor was Ace ♠️
Spend your notes wisely
Talent = aptitude + interest + *_lots_* of work
So timely for me. I appreciate your work!
Thanks Jay!
Solid advice!
Much appreciated!🎷
Thank you so much
This is fantastic! I would add ear training on the list. It's essential to be able to hear sounds, rhythms, lines, harmony, tunes, and so on. Every day, I take time to sing, either out loud or mentally, what I am working on incorporating into my playing. As Jerry Bergonzi says, imagine how you want to sound. Thanks for this great video!
Nice winter tour of Paris! Thanks for the reminder on all the most important tips.
Thanks for this great video! It's perfect timing for me, since I just returned from a year abroad and away from my horn. The thought of restarting playing again feels daunting (where to begin?), but after watching your video I'm feeling motivated.
Hi Jay, I started my musical journey at the age of 61, no chance to start earlier in life. If I listen to this and similar videos I get really frustrated, knowing I lack at least a fifty years of experience to get where I would love to be with my saxplaying. No chance to ever become a good player. But well, you are right in everything you say. Thank you 😊
The process is what matters. Enjoy the act of doing it. That’s all anyone can do.
Brigitte, you have every prospect of getting good! Believe it. If you live 20 more years and play 3 to 4 h per day with a little structure to your play time, you will be very good. Even 2 h ler day! Don't forget to go the gym and of course give thanks to God. Doc Severinsen was doing planks into his 90s.
Before watching this video, here's my 6 (at my level anyway.) Let's see how close I can get to Jay's thoughts.
1. Practice
2. Practice with intent. Learn to critique youself. Don't "practice" mistakes - it will become a part of you
3. Actively listen to music. Learn and recognise what you like / don't like. (and then practice)
4. Throw out any advice that doesn't (after *really careful* consideration) work for you. Then start practising.
5. Learn to read music. (while practising, of course)
6. Listen. Transcribe. Emulate. Better copy a good idea, than invent a bad one. (also: see point 1.)
I'm off to have some quality time with my horn now...
I'm glad that Paris is nice to walk around. I chose the best time. Take care. Happy new year.
Great video Jay! Inspiring as always. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and perspective. It is incredibly helpful and enjoyable to watch to. 🙏🙏🙏
Great information.
Fabolous tour. I love Paris!
Thank you for all you do for us wanna-be sax players!
Another great video!
outstanding
Thanks for another year:…That knit hat should have Bettersax sewn on it with a little saxophone😉☮️🎵🎶🎵🎶🎷
Spot on 👏🎷
You are the goat.
Spent my honeymoon there in 2002.. fond memories...👍🎶🎵🎶🎷
Great video! What are some concepts that you have been practicing recently that you feel isn’t at the 100% clarity and consistency that you are reaching for?
All of them 😂
Good advice! Nice clips of Paris! (You even got a 2CV!)
I was in Paris 3 days ago, wish I met you there for an autograph
guys whats your opinion about the thomann baripro L Baritone saxophone?
Love that piano. Wishing you unlimited success in 2025, Jay!
Asking for a better sax tenor bc I’m too broke btw I’m in middle school😊 if not it’s ok it is very expensive
I often wonder if improvisation on the fly by the greats. Were they really thinking while playing while the transcribers brought up the rear. I find that without reading your cutting out the eyes read press finger delay and it gets in the way for me personally. I learnt by ear and struggle with dots. Surely you just have to know what every button sounds like then play whatever melodies in yer head.
Nice…🎶🎵🎶🎷
Please can you put the names of the songs used in the vid in the description.
what is the music of this video?
Thanks for the video, though I must say, I was a little disappointed that you didn't play a little bit at the end.
Cool stroll by the Eiffel Tower!
What am I saying? Beautiful pictures of Paris! And great video content, that comes on a day where I feel particularly frustrated by my sound 😀.
Was watching your beginner guide and got to the fingering video. Whenever i press the octave key it just wont make noise. Any reason it could be?
Are the other keys working? Check your ligature and reed. The octave key pressed alone should be a high C# note.
It will only make a sound when you blow your horn and the sound you will hear will be C#.
En haut de la tour Eiffel mais pas dans de visite sur la tombe d'Adolphe Sax au cimetière Montmartre? la prochaine fois! bravo et merci pour les conseils.
Ah bonne idée. Prochaine fois.
I am a saxophonist too
And i hope i will build my RUclips channel like you 😊
Apparently Pris is beautiful this time of year.
Would be nice if you go through and pick certain songs that you feel would increase vocabulary and compile those for your students to listen to.
Being humble is one thing, but we as players must know that we weren’t born knowing how to play. It takes years of lessons and practicing to sound good. I’m still fairly new to the saxophone (been playing for 3 years) and people compliment my sound and think I’ve been playing all my life, but I haven’t. I’m eternally to everyone who helped me develop my saxophone playing skills but I still had to do the work of learning and practicing.
Just one exercise: " Stay true to yourself and your friends and time will come when you will shine as a musician" Everyone's path is different.
My upper register is not there , so frustrating
I was just talking about how music is like learning a language...if you don't practice, you lose a lot of what you learned.
Hahaha I actually take TALENT as a compliment😅
You got to study in Paris, at French school there. Fixed DOE. You'll be SORRY. Screw that. Marcel Mule and Fred Hemke wandered those same streets. Faure, so many...
They make you sit in front of the tuner machine and make the needle stay at zero. If you can do that, you are good.
True - no one is born with ability to play. BUT people with good ears are blessed with the ability to hear what they want to play and reproduce it without reading once they learn basics of their instruments. A good ear and a huge knowledge of music and different genres will take you most of the way if youu learn your instrument fairly well.Unplesant sound? - Coletrane on Soprano.... His . 'My favorite things 'is out of tune and is hard for me to listen to.
Why exactly are you in Paris?
Hmm, I don’t get a lot of melody on bari.
Change sax’s.
Bari is a funny sax, the parts you’ll see in standard middle/high school are not technically challenging unfortunately for bari players.
You’ll have to look for opportunities outside of school, trust me they’re there
@@jimburns2981 I also play soprano, alto and tenor in another setting.
@@AlexM-s6t I’m almost 30 years removed from high school. Lol I’ve
I’ve had a few harder pieces for bari but not many. But just because it’s melody doesn’t mean it’s difficult.
15 hours a day, every day, for years. 70,000+ hours on tenor alone (mostly the same Mark VI I bought new in 1973).. That's not counting piano / guitar, anything else (also law degree + legal career). Helps to have absolute pitch. Still unknown after 50+ years. Maybe I better do You Tube teaching channel, LOL?
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