This article comes courtesy of guest contributor, Todd Feldman of RS Berkeley Musical Instruments. Posi-Tone Records recording artist Travis Sullivan has earned a worldwide reputation as an alto saxophonist, pianist, composer, and arranger. He has been hailed by Jazz Times as being “…a gifted alto saxophonist and improviser who has also developed a strong and [...]
The Buddhists call the practice of applying calm awareness to one’s activities as “Mindfulness.” And no matter what it is you’re doing, mindfulness will allow you to do it better. Zen and the Art of Sax Of course, practicing the saxophone is no exception. In fact, I would venture to guess that over 90% of the [...]
Editor’s Note: This article was inspired by a question I recently received from a reader. It’s actually a great question, and I thought that it would be a fantastic opportunity to tap into the wisdom of Bill Plake. Some of you may recognize Bill as one of the contributors to the Bulletproof Saxophone Playing program. [...]
As many of you know, for the past 5 months, I’ve been busting my hump putting together the mother of all saxophone educational programs. I didn’t want it to be just average, but instead I wanted it to be bursting at the seams with game-changing information that would guarantee major improvement for all those who [...]
In this third and final installment of the Bulletproof Saxophone Playing kickoff series, I proudly present a master class interview with one of the finest sax players playing the horn today, Mr. Bob Sheppard. As many of you know, Bob is one of Los Angeles’ first call session players. But beyond that, he’s played with everyone from [...]
With this post, we continue on to the second installment in the kickoff to my upcoming saxophone instructional program called Bulletproof Saxophone Playing. This time we’ve got an inspiring master class interview with the incredibly passionate Tim Price – a world class saxophonist and music educator who’s played alongside jazz’s greatest names in the business. [...]
By now you’ve probably heard me rambling on and on about my new upcoming e-book and Audio Master Class Interviews, also known as Bulletproof Saxophone Playing. To kick off the Bulletproof Saxophone Playing festivities, I’m going to be posting three free audio master class interviews. Much to my honor and delight, the interviewees are renown [...]
Since writing a review on the MACSAX FJ III metal tenor saxophone mouthpiece and the MACSAX D-Jazz alto saxophone mouthpiece, I wanted to write a review on a hard rubber tenor saxophone mouthpiece that I found to be unique and truly one of the best hard rubber mouthpieces I have ever played. When I attended [...]
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