[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] I’ve set my students a target of #21daystoimprove: practise the saxophone for 21 days and record a short clip of it. I’m someone who always tries to practise what I preach: here are my 1-minute videos. In each of them I’ve tried to give a short explanation of what I’m doing. Obviously this will only be completed once […]
Christmas is coming … And you can’t have escaped all the music, mulled wine and carol singing. Well, if you want to keep the carol singers away the best thing to do is to make sure you keep on practising, because if you’re deep ‘in the zone’ you won’t even hear the doorbell ring! I find that […]
It’s Christmas Project time, this time for 2023 I’ve selected ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman’ from the Wise Music Christmas book
In this lesson, we are dealing with clip 5 which marks the end of the ‘bridge’ section of Scrapple from the Apple. As I have explained before, with Scrapple from the Apple, the bridge section is always improvised by the musician, the ‘head’ being the ‘A’ section is only what one has to play as per Charlie Parker’s composition…
So many ‘mistakes’ by aspiring saxophonists come from poor fingering technique, we just can’t get our fingers in the right place at the right time! These ten exercises are building on my second ebook, Nail Your Scales which is available from the Cambridge Saxophone website. ALL of these exercises need to be practiced with a […]
The Jazz Standard ‘Autumn Leaves’ was composed by Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma in 1946. Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prévert in Paris. They collaborated on the song Les Feuilles mortes (“The Dead Leaves”) for the 1946 film Les Portes de la nuit (Gates of the Night) where it was sung […]