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heres a quick stab at all the things you are, setup is metal link refaced 7, vandoren blue box 2.5 reed. dunno if im happy with it, just 3 minutes of the tune, then i stopped because I am running out of breath with this mouthpiece. lol
anyway, here:

http://mysite.verizon.net/res1g9ny/attua1.mp3
 
Sounds good. A few little bits of what I intend to be constructive criticism.

On the larger interval jumps you need to be careful with the pitching, I'd recommend getting some exercise books out if you've got any or finding some on the net for larger intervals all over the horn and warm up with a few of those here and there.

Some of the phrases are really nice, they grab your attention go around a bit then resolve nicely, I found some of them kind of came up short on me because they didn't seem to end, more just cut off.
My recommendation would be to practise a few patterns and methods of how to vary phrases in terms of starting and ending on different beats, extending and building up to phrases, melodic development etc.

One thing that may help you but not with your sax playing, is to download audacity for free, record the backing tracks into audacity, then record your saxophone onto a new track in audacity, then drag the saxophone audio so when playing back they tie in together. You can then add a bit or reverb to blend the sax into the track (as the track will have reverb and make it sound like the sax was recorded somewhere else), then do an audio mix down and upload them here so we can hear the backing track and the saxophone equally balanced and in time with each other.

Hope that helps!
 
thanks, I appreciate the comments. I am struggling a bit with my equipment though. Today I have a lesson so I get a chance to show my teacher my new setup. Anyway I just switched to a plain jane rico 3 reed and it was easier to blow. I played it again with the rico and here it is. But still, I find this metal link tiring to my chops...

http://mysite.verizon.net/res1g9ny/samerico1.mp3
 
I think the tone is much stronger and clearer with the new reeds.
I always found that a metal link was overkill on my alto and ended up with a ebonite link. I thought I knew exactly which direction I wanted my tone to go in, and that was a 'warm', 'hot' and smooth kind of direction, I ended up just over a week ago buying a Yanigasawa ebonite which is the complete opposite. I found out that to get that tone you need cut, edge and a bit of brightness, you also need free blowing mouthpiece. The links had a nice sound, but they were stuffy and resistive which gave them that sound, once you're chops got used to them they were just hampering your tone - That's the conclusion I came to anyway, I'm still using one on my tenor, but then it's a tad more open and I can't afford a Yani metal piece or an RPC for tenor.

The interval exercises will help the fatigue issues greatly as they'll work your embouchure really hard, which over time is what allows you to play for extended periods of time. Frequent small amounts of practise is better than a few really long ones, even for chop building!
 

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