Beginner recording Recording Progress

[skeller047]

Charlie Parker’s solos all sounded similar too. What do shoes have to do with anything?

Blue Suede Shoes? Check it out. Don’t wanna argue about the content of Bird’s solos, but they are good sources of inspiration. I agree they were similar in that they all sound real good.

Any form of art requires two things - inspiration and perspiration. I really like that you are working hard at your art, @AlonW

 

[PiccoloPirate]

There was a post, where someone stated, iirc, the mix of the backing track and my playing, would come out better, if I wore a headset, but I do not like the way it looks for a video.
So, I thought that barefoot without colored polish on the toenails, might make a better video presentation with colorful shoes.

Another option:

Please, no sandals. 🤮
A musician buddy, was leaving a Napa winery, after playing. The heavy door, scraped along the top of his sandals, tearing up the top of his foot.
These boots were made for playing, sang Nancy?

 

[jazzdoh]

This is not a criticism but just an observation but maybe its time to play less tunes and more learning some of them inside out, so that they become part of you.
i do admire your playing though.

 

[AlonW]

Blue Suede Shoes? Check it out. Don’t wanna argue about the content of Bird’s solos, but they are good sources of inspiration. I agree they were similar in that they all sound real good.

Any form of art requires two things - inspiration and perspiration. I really like that you are working hard at your art, @AlonW

You can't always feel inspiration.

 

[PiccoloPirate]

From the Web:
Inspiration is the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative

 

[PiccoloPirate]

Stretching skins, when I was 16, in the Fashion District in NYC, I was "inspired" to lie about my age, when the female fashion models arrived, to get fitted for the runway.

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. 😍

 

[AlonW]

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No real improvement in your "solos".
They all sound similar.
DO TRY to be thinking of what they sound like, and DO TRY to make them musical.
You can DO it, if you TRY. 🎶🏴‍☠️🎶

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

 

[cappers]

Keep it up, sounding better all the time, just got to nail those soli.

 

[PiccoloPirate]

It sounds like Webster, was suddenly possessed, by a bourbon filled free jazz beginner.
I'll come back in 6 months and see if there are any improvements.
Hopefully, it's Crooner meets the mellow side of Ornette. 🎶🏴‍☠️🎶

 

[JayeNM]

You can't always feel inspiration.

Inspiration is always felt, tho. If you cannot feel it, how do you become inspired ? If you cannot sense the feeling then how is it being acted upon ?

Your playing continues to improve...the more one plays, one cannot help but improve some.

...my two cents is, stick to the the tune selection to progress you down a path of playing with others...the last couple pages worth were pretty good...several others on the prior pages not really material someone gonna call at a jam...

 

[MikeMorrell]

Hi @AlonW, I haven't listened to many of your recordings in quite a while. Just because you post so many. Often your 'sax style is very similar on multiple recordings. Your 'sax style' is personal and it's entirely up you. Still, I would suggest varying your playing style (embouchure, tounging, dynamics - short/long, hard/soft - and 'tone').

You'll always sound like "you". But the perception of how you play can be very different, depending on for example:
- how you play staccato/lego notes (more precisely, the duration of the attack, sustain and decay phases of played notes)
- How you play the 'dynamics' (perhaps the most important written element of 'expression.

Many of your previous recording have (roughly) similar 'sax style'
'Little Suede shoes' started off well (different to ýour usual 'style). However, on your solo, you IMHO 'lost it'. Both in terms of rhythm and in terms of melody.

To be completely 'savage', your solo sounded as if it was an 'ego trip', divorced from the rhythm or the original melody. So my main suggestion is that "whenever you play a solo, always stay firmly 'grounded' in the rythm and the melody

 

[AlonW]

Hi @AlonW, I haven't listened to many of your recordings in quite a while. Just because you post so many. Often your 'sax style is very similar on multiple recordings. Your 'sax style' is personal and it's entirely up you. Still, I would suggest varying your playing style (embouchure, tounging, dynamics - short/long, hard/soft - and 'tone').

You'll always sound like "you". But the perception of how you play can be very different, depending on for example:
- how you play staccato/lego notes (more precisely, the duration of the attack, sustain and decay phases of played notes)
- How you play the 'dynamics' (perhaps the most important written element of 'expression.

Many of your previous recording have (roughly) similar 'sax style'
'Little Suede shoes' started off well (different to ýour usual 'style). However, on your solo, you IMHO 'lost it'. Both in terms of rhythm and in terms of melody.

To be completely 'savage', your solo sounded as if it was an 'ego trip', divorced from the rhythm or the original melody. So my main suggestion is that "whenever you play a solo, always stay firmly 'grounded' in the rythm and the melody

I think the Aebsersold backing track sounded like an ego trip.

 

[Ivan]

Half of saxophone playing is reed management.

That's the half I gratefully jetisoned when I switched to Légère

 

[AlonW]

Produced without the use of alcoholic beverages of any kind, here's "Over the Upside Down Rainbow"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke1LjTYwsoA

 

[Pete Thomas]

I’m closing this thread as all embedded videos appear to have been deleted which makes the entire thread pointless.