Jez Watson
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I recently decided that I need to get more stuck into playing sax, so I started to practice more regular and also look for somewhere to go to play/find an ensemble in a jazz vibe.
Things were going well and my embouchure started feeling more stable, I even ordered a new box of reeds! (Rico royal). Reeds came and gave em a soak and played through them and marked them in my usual manner of good to bad.
Circumstances dictated that I couldn’t play for next two days so got sax out today and put a new reed on that I had marked as good and it was crap, tried another, just same, got Reedgeek out and adjusted them but not much improvement, got some old Java’s out and managed to find two that were reasonable but while this is going on my embouchure that was feeling more stable recently feels more unstable today and found myself tightening up a lot especially on the top notes which isn’t that unusual for me but something I was addressing with my new practice regime, very pissed off as a result but realise I have to soldier on, so what’s your experience, anything similar? Or am I going mad!!!
Things were going well and my embouchure started feeling more stable, I even ordered a new box of reeds! (Rico royal). Reeds came and gave em a soak and played through them and marked them in my usual manner of good to bad.
Circumstances dictated that I couldn’t play for next two days so got sax out today and put a new reed on that I had marked as good and it was crap, tried another, just same, got Reedgeek out and adjusted them but not much improvement, got some old Java’s out and managed to find two that were reasonable but while this is going on my embouchure that was feeling more stable recently feels more unstable today and found myself tightening up a lot especially on the top notes which isn’t that unusual for me but something I was addressing with my new practice regime, very pissed off as a result but realise I have to soldier on, so what’s your experience, anything similar? Or am I going mad!!!