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you could do a Bach Partita

Concering pain in playing anywhere in your body: DO NOT PLAY PAST PAIN. When you do, you are training other muscles in your body to pick up the slack of the muscles in pain which have basicaly...

Keep in mind also the amount of free time that High School and Middle School students have to prepare music for an hour lesson. Nonetheless your abilities to make that hour a truly productive lesson...

"The Art of Saxophone Playing" is a great book. Larry Teal has a lot of great illustrations in there. As far as altissimo, the best thing is to find as many different fingers for notes as you can. ...

As a concert saxophonist, there isn't a piece of music that I don't evaluate my tonal color before playing. Also, the ensemble I am playing in weighs heavily. I believe that performers should...

I have spent a lot of time studying altissimo with several proffessors and what you are experiencing I can relate to. To correctly use altissimo, especially really quickly and accurately, you should...

Did you mean the "Lunde" Sonata (Lawson Lunde)? ;)

Try fingering up chromaticaly on the overtones you get. For Example, finger a low Bb and play mid Bb, finger a low B and play a mid B, etc. Try this with the second overtone as well. Overtones...

Anybody ever try a copper neck on a selmer horn?

Selmer Series II Alto, S80 C*, vandoren 3, rovner eddie daniels lig.

The whole purpose of overtone exercises is throat control. When I play, I open the cavity in the very back of my mouth and into my throat just a little bit less than I physicaly can. THIS TAKES...

The former, just saxophone. I have lots of listening material for classical music in general. But my saxophone library is lacking, which is why I posed the question. Thank you all very much for...

I have and he has given me some Lynn Klock recordings to check out. I like a lot of his stuff, he gets a little hacky at times though. I thought I would ask here to get a variety of opinions.

Hello all,
I'm a senior in high school and will be studying classical saxophone next year. I've always had a passion for jazz, but it has been recently that I have been studying with a student...

Ok, here is a question that I have. Our school quartet has been playing a bunch of various fugues and stuff from the baroque period. I am having difficulties with my staccatto tonguing technique. ...

If you wanna hear a great high school band, check out Seneca's new CD "No Shoes Required."

Duquesne is definetly an outstanding school and Pittsburgh has a great scene.


Any of you Pittsburgh peeps hear of Seneca Valley High School?