Happy Thanksgiving to my Sax-cateers!
For those of my compadres living in lands where the holiday of Thanksgiving is celebrated, and even those of you who aren’t, I just wanted to send my warmest thoughts for a safe and happy Turkey Day.
Regardless of your horn, mouthpiece, or reed, the truth is, to the outside listener, you sound pretty much like...you. It's not that gear doesn't affect your sound at all, but your biggest and richest sound will only come by developing the skills within both your body and mind to sound great on any setup.
So if you're willing to move beyond having your day ruined by a lousy reed, then sax legend David Liebman's course, Ultimate Guide to Saxophone Sound Production is where you're going to want to go next.
Broken down into bite-sized lessons, this streaming video program covers just about every single aspect of saxophone sound production. It represents his entire life's work teaching the techniques and concepts that were handed down to masters such as Michael Brecker, Bob Berg, and Harvey Pittel (among many others), and then refined over the course of decades teaching countless lessons and masterclasses worldwide. Click below to see for yourself why so many professional saxophonists consider David's thorough, methodical, and practical approach the "real deal" for players at any level.
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As for me, I’ll be heading out to the ever-festive town of Palm Springs, California. So you’ll be hearing little-to-nothing from me on this blog or elsewhere throughout the rest of the week, but I look forward to resuming our scheduled programming as normal next week.
In the meantime, I leave you with a Welk-adelic clip from the 1973 Lawrence Welk Thanksgiving Show. Besides being aired around Thanksgiving 37 years ago, what, might you ask, does this video snippet actually have to do with Thanksgiving?
Well, for starters, you can thank the mighty heavens that you don’t need to wear horrideous pink suits on gigs, since thankfully, baby blue and plaid are all the rage these days (right?).
Have a happy one friends!
