4 pictures one word a man playing a saxophone, a guitar, a women pilot in a plane and a man sat on a bench?
The answer is SOLO...
Saxophone music from the Movie "Hitch"?
I've been looking around and searching for the name of the song/composer who composed the saxophone/piano instrumental music that plays in the background in the movie Hitch, it played when eva mendes and will smith first kissed, and also during the sad scene when allegra cole sits with her financial advisors and sees that albert brenamen isnt there... ive bene lookign all over and its not a song with lyrics so can anyone please help me?
Marching with a saxophone problems?
ok so im relatively new to my saxophone, i haave played it in symphonic band before and other stuff , and but never really in a MARCHING band, til this year, and the march we are playing is pretty hard, i can play it when im sitting down just fine but when we get out there to march there are some parts i can play with minimum problem but there are sum parts tht i just cannot play to safe my life while i am marching, like ill try to play a G half note and it will break up or i play 8th notes and it sounds like im playing bebop, or i just cant play AT ALL while i am marching and its really starting to be a problem...HELP?!?! do u know of any marching tips i could apply while marching to prevent this from happening? oh and it might not be my marching cuz i am a pretty good marching, i used to play bass drum and we did a lot of marching basics without instruments and i guess i am a really good marcher so i dont think that might be a big problem
How can I fix the Eb key in an alto saxophone?
Seems like I’ve encountered this issue with my own sax years ago, and it was because of the way I was handling it.If it was new, return it to the seller and point out that something must’ve happened to warp this part of the instrument. Don’t get into explanations; “It’s not right” should be the best and only statement you’d have to make. Hopefully it won’t lead to legal action; that’s a cost you’ll have to examine for yourself. Just from a legal standpoint (I’m a paralegal), there is the idea of “implied warranty of fitness” to be considered.If you don’t want to take it back, for whatever reason, it can be fixed yourself. I’ve never taken mine in for repairs, so I have no advice to give on what it would cost.You show photos of where the key is hitting the guard, but you don’t show photos of how much space you have with the other post. It could be as simple as the whole assembly being pushed in one direction; this was what my problem was. I fixed it myself, but as other posters who have suggesting self-repair have said, you do this at your own risk. Gently push the posts simultaneously, with the guard attached, in the direction that frees up the key.If the issue is that one post has moved, warping the cage along with it, that may be a bit more complicated. It’s still doable, though. Remove the cage and re-form it so that the posts on the cage itself are more parallel to each other. Then re-attach the “good” post, and then gently push the deformed post on the body so that it meets with the re-formed post on the cage and re-attach.The key is gently. Brass is fairly pliable, but you don’t want to go too far with it.
Is Kenny G the best Saxophonist today?
Let me tell you a true story, this took place years ago in Philadelphia PA. Kenny G. was on the same show with the legendary Miles Davis.That night I had a ticket for the early show and a ticket for the late show. No disrespect to Kenny G. but he should not have been on the same stage that Miles appear on. Kenny G. perform first on both show I left the Academy and went across the street and sat in a bar until his show was over and then I went back to see Miles Davis Band. This is a true story I did watch the second show opening act Kenny G. but I was so hype that i really could not watch Kenny G. at the first show and really didn't pay attention to his performist of the second show. This is the picture they painted of Kenny G. but really cats like Miles would blow circle around him. Bottom line is man you can't put Kenny G. on the same level as cats like Coltrane, Rollins, Miles, Baker, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, and many more like these people. He is not even close to being the best sax player out there today hands down don't even come close. What does that got to do with white or black music is no color. You don't understand jazz or appreciated music that u don't understand so stick with Kenny G. Let not play the race card please.
Do professional jazz musicians think of every single note they play when improvising, or do they sometimes throw in a series of notes in a scale and see where they feel like going from there?
There isn't a separate decision process that has to happen for each note which is played. One problematic word here is "think". Just because we aren't explicitly thinking "this note, then that one, then that one", or "Bb A Ab G F", does not necessarily imply that each note played isn't deliberate. We aim to play melodies, which are sequences of notes. What we are "thinking" of are melodies, and the notes which comprise these melodies are basically under our control.I don't think all jazz musicians use the same processes to effect that control. And the control isn't 100% perfect. But I think the best of us have many strategies we can call on, depending on the needs of the moment. One thing I "think" of a lot while playing, which is quite nearly as discrete a form of information as pitch class, is interval distance. It's more useful to me than pitch class because it gets me from one pitch to another. Whatever we're doing, it has to happen fast, but I'm comfortable having an idea for a couple notes to start with, and trusting that I'll come up with something good to follow them up with during the time it takes to play them. For my taste, a good solo starts simple anyway. A lot of times, a couple notes is enough. I would say generally that the idea, experienced as a sound within the mind's ear, comes first, and the "information" part happens after that - whatever process helps to translate the idea to the mechanics of the instrument. But it's not like there are rules about that. Even if I were going to make a decision based first on scale degrees, it's not like I don't know how they are going to sound before i play them. As much as possible, all these bits of info are a unified thing. So it can be hard to sort out the "order of intention". Sometimes a note comes out that isn't what I wanted, but no one will know (muahahahahaah!), because the necessary decisions to make that "wrong" note right can happen in a millisecond. The same thing is true of coming up with an idea in the first place.I would say all of us rely, to some extent, on melodic sequences we already know we can physically pull off, and which fit the harmonic moment. This is lick playing. Whether or not that is "truly" improvising is debatable, but I know that even if every note isn't individually "chosen", certainly they are all a known, accounted-for part of a deliberate action.