As some of you know, I am currently working on a follow-up to my educational program for saxophone players, Bulletproof Saxophone Playing. You may have also heard me say that this time around I’m featuring Bob Mintzer, Dave Liebman, and Bob Sheppard. Needless to say, I’m completely honored to get to work with these truly [read more…]
It’s probably safe to say that if you’re here, you love the saxophone. Its dulcet tones are mesmerizing. The saxophone is a window into an elegant world of music. Maybe you love it more than anything else. Money? People? Matlock? It’s also probably safe to say that your passion for the sax pales in comparison [read more…]
Here's a new alternative to the uninspiring tunes often found in the average beginning sax book. This collection of 25 tunes, each with backing and demonstration tracks plus a video tutorial, is the product one of my most significant discoveries in over two decades of working with beginning saxophonists. That is, beginners learn fundamentals much faster by playing the kind of music that attracted them to the horn in the first place.
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Hey saxofriends! I just wanted to take a moment to let you all know that you can now go to the Amazon Kindle Store and pick up the e-book portion of my saxophone instructional program, Bulletproof Saxophone Playing. For those unfamiliar with it, the program features a 70-page e-book and nearly 6 hours of Audio [read more…]
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 [read more…]
It’s true what they’re saying. Everything’s gone mobile. Even if you’ve got the niftiest and most powerful smartphone on the market sitting in your hands, give it a year or two, and that phone will seem like a relic from the distant past. In keeping with the spirit of mobile innovation, world-renown saxophone recording artist [read more…]
While at the NAMM 2012 show I had the opportunity to meet and network with some of the world’s leading musical instrument and accessory manufacturers as well as some of the greatest saxophonists playing today. I was able to speak with established saxophonists such as Bob Reynolds, Greg Osby, and Pete Christlieb as well as [read more…]
NAMM, NAMM, NAMM. What a great time. I got to try out a gaggle of saxophones, and best of all, I was able to meet in-person so many super-cool folks who I’ve come to know through starting this website. Folks like Charles McNeal, Tim Price, Bob Reynolds, Adam Larson, and Zach Sollitto, along with long-time [read more…]
Regularly-updated saxophone blogs are few and far between. But recently, I came across another site at the web address, Saxophonistisches.de that is hopefully part of a trend towards modern and vibrant saxophone-specific websites. A German site run by Bremen-based saxophonist and educator Tobias Haecker, this online saxo-hub is chock-full of saxophone news, product reviews, instructional content, and even [read more…]
Exactly one year ago, on October 5, 2010, I launched a little site with just a pocketful of articles, all written by yours truly. Right from the get-go, it was absolutely one of the most exciting creative projects I had ever been involved in. I was finally getting to put into practice all of the [read more…]
This is a guest post by Mark Catoe of http://markcatoe.tumblr.com. 1. Politics kept the saxophone out of the orchestra. When Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone, his shop made all the parts for all his instruments (including woodwinds and brass). The other instrument makers in town really didn’t like this, because they had been assembling interchangeable [read more…]
Tips and Techniques from the pros PLUS free access to the Sax Lessons with the Stars archive - 10 years worth of interviews and exercises featuring the likes of David Liebman, Bob Mintzer, Ben Wendel, Bob Reynolds, and many more!
