I know this is a horse that has been beaten, kicked, and burned to death. Like many of us, I have had a love/hate relationship with longtones. On one hand it has helped me get this far with my tone from a beginner till now. In the last six or so years that I have been playing, I have been on and off with longtone practice really due to not knowing what to look out for now when doing them. First of all, people say to internalize a new sound in your head, but the guys I want to sound like I have been listening to for years, but I am nowhere close to sounding like how they sound. To me I have a verry dark sound vs what I would consider having a sound with some for lack of a better word "brilliance, or edge," it can go by very different things. The sound I am looking for is a cross between Kirk Whalum and Gerald Albright, where it is smooth and has some cutting power (the brilliance/edge I wrote about earlier). Something along the lines of these two players
I don't know who he is, but a tone a similar to this would be the best way I can describe as the in between that I am looking for and also, .
So what can I do with longtones to actually have my sound transition to something similar to these guys?
I don't know who he is, but a tone a similar to this would be the best way I can describe as the in between that I am looking for and also, .
So what can I do with longtones to actually have my sound transition to something similar to these guys?