Rico Royal reeds are designed for the advancing player. They are French filed for freedom of response, especially in the low register, adding clarity to the tone and making soft attacks easier. Box of 10....
Does tenor or alto sax sound better playing slow standards from the 40s and 50s?
Q: I play clarinet, but I want to learn sax to play slower fingering songs like Stardust, Tenderly, Lulaby of Birdland etc. And I want to get a trio with a piano player and bass or drums. I like tenor sax but I wonder if alto sax might be best. Guidance needed!
A: If your a clarinetist go for a Tenor because it’s it B flat tuning just like a clarinet (or a trumpet) The alto is in E flat tuning and doesn’t sound as nice.
Rico Royal reeds are designed for the advancing player. They are French filed for freedom of response, especially in the low register, adding clarity to the tone and making soft attacks easier. Box of 10....
The Rico Select Jazz cut features a strong, well-defined heart and longer vamp, yielding unprecedented projection and a clear, fat tone, with unsurpassed flexibility and lightning-fast response. Precise third strength grading provides unparalleled consistency. Box of 10....
A relative of the Java reed family, the Java Filed Red Cut is the first file cut Vandoren jazz reed. The driving force behind the Java Filed Red Cut (French File Cut) design was to offer more sonic possibilities to musicians while keeping the qualities of the Java universe. More flexible than its predecessor, with a little more tonal body, the Java Filed Red Cut offers a full, rich, centered so...
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what’s the best USA city to be a jazz/blues musician?
Q: i want to move where i can get more gigs. i am a jazz and blues sax player and have been playing pro for 10 years or so, but the cities i’ve lived in haven’t had enough gigs for me to make all my living playing. is chicago a good place since it’s known for jazz and blues? or are all the musicians starving there too?
A: New Orleans is the best place to get the feel of jazz/blues. Memphis is good for country and gospel.
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Q: Well, I recently came across a mouthpiece that my grandma gave to me after her father died. He was an extremely experienced saxophone player, and owned at least one of each of the common saxophones… the problem is, she doesn’t know what saxophone this mouthpiece is for, and I can’t figure it out! It doesn’t seem to work too well on the bari (too small), and it’s not working on the alto (just fits weird), but I haven’t really tried it on anything else. Here’s what I know about it:
Hard Rubber
Berg Larsen
Under the MP it says “85″, then under it is an “O”, then under that is an “M”.
Any idea what saxophone this is for?
A: I looked it up and it appears the Berg Larson 85 is an Alto Sax mouthpiece. MORE INFO: Actually, there is also a Tenor 85. So if it doesn’t fit the Alto and it’s too small for the bari, maybe it’s a tenor. It’s really hard to tell without seeing the mouthpiece.
Sax Stand How can you twirl/flip your saxophone while marching? ?
Q: So in our marching band, when the cymbals crash in our cadence and other cadences, the trumpets twirl or flip their trumpets…and I think but I”m not sure, they are behind me, that the trombones do something…oh and the flutes and the clarinets do it too…so yea basically our sax line does nothing during that and stand out. We went to an OU football game and watched the Marching 110 and their sax line twirled or flipped theirs. Lol so I was just wondering if anybody knows how to do it because we would LOVE to know! Lol.
A: I wouldn’t do it. It sounds like a great way to do some real damage to your sax.
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Lace trimmed blouse has front band, ribbon trimmed yoke, stand-up collar, long set-in sleeves gathered to armholes and buttoned cuffs. Ruffled skirt has V-shaped front waistband, back elastic casings, side seam pockets and lace and ribbon trim. V. 1 is short. V. 2 is long.bias bound vest has yoke, and lace and ribbon trim....
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Q: Does it matter what kind of ligature i buy with what mouthpiece? My band director got me a Selmer S-(i think)80 C* mouthpiece because my other one was a flying piece of crap. My ligature is just a piece of crap. So I wanted one of those that you can put on upside down. I think its called Rovner. Do I have to get a certain kind or can I just try to get a “tenor sax ligature”?
A: Hi! I’m a clarinetist but ligature companies are the same for sax and clarinet. There is not a specific ligature for mouthpieces, but they do all work differently, so you might want to try a couple.
I prefer to use metal ‘reverse screw’ ligatures for the following reasons: they pull the reed against the mouthpiece more evenly and they don’t stretch like cloth material ligatures do. In terms of metal you can try brass, gold-plated, silver or rhodium. They all have a different sound. I actually play on the cheapest metal ligatures that are reverse. No gold, silver or fancy stuff….
Rovners stretch, so you might want to buy two at a time, for one day you will notice that your reeds don’t stay on, or you can’t tongue as well. When they are new they’re great.
The Rovner Dark offers the free-blowing performance of a string ligature with the convenience of a standard screw ligature. Model 1RL fits most alto sax hard rubber mouthpieces while 1M fits most metal alto sax mouthpieces and slim tenor sax mouthpieces. The 3ML model is designed to fit Otto Link metal alto and tenor sax mouthpieces....
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Conceived as a "retro" version of the famous Harrison ligature used by many of the worlds greatest clarinetists and saxophonists, Rico's H-ligature offers the sought-after features of this popular design. The new H-ligature holds the reed firmly to the table of the mouthpiece assuring better contact and therefore reducing leaks along the siderails. Additional support has been added to the ligature...
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