Playing the saxophone Improvised solos and “telling a story”

[turf3]

Start at 2:15

[admin edit: fixed to automatically start this one at 2:15]

View: https://youtu.be/Z2_M0V0rzEY?si=ShfjtOXnH-Mb-cGV&t=135



LIsten to everything Prez plays, but especially the solos starting at 1:12, all of them. Prez solos at about 2:00, just eight bars, but it's so much more than a "fill".

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJxVzhzle2I


Prez at 2:04

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmopDZVvEpk&list=PLlmbpCXPtcA_Dslvvg0VQTn_vmctE0Ok0


These are a few examples of what I'd call "a solo, perfectly rounded and formed". No one could do it like Prez, but Rahsaan came close.

 

[Ballymenaboy]

Surely one of the main objectives of playing music is to convey emotion or mood if you like and in listening the listener creates their own story from that mentally.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Start at 2:15

Just an FYI, you can embed it to begin at 2:15. Fixed it now.

See here:

Forum Support 🤔 - Embedding Videos with timestamps

FYI. When you want to embed a video starting at a specific time: In YT pause the playhead at the time you want Click or tap on Share (under the video ) Click (or tap) on Start at. Copy the URL

cafesaxophone.com

 

[JayeNM]

Surely one of the main objectives of playing music is to convey emotion or mood if you like and in listening the listener creates their own story from that mentally.

Spot on.

As I posited earlier....assigning the 'narrative' to the solo/performance (or not) is in the hands of the listener, not the player....

 

[LostCircuits]

Wait - do you mean "in the middle of a solo during performance do I suddenly wish I was someplace else" ?

That happens during most of my solo attempts, honestly.

And I have not, unfortunately, found myself (idiomatically speaking or otherwise) in a beautiful house, etc......

....I usually just rely on those Slippery People who are gonna see me through.....

Well, if it is any consolation, you are in good company!

 

[JayeNM]

Well, if it is any consolation, you are in good company!

(Except .....now it isn't the Same As It Ever Was...... and gosh, some say you never appreciate something until it's gone, eh ?)

 

[LostCircuits]

Well, here is another reference to story telling at around 15 minutes in

youtube.com/watch?si=OxTH-znXhEFpNp58&v=108O_wuMvFw&feature=youtu.be

I am actually deliberately not linking to the exact time because it is really worth watching the entire video