TweetJust thought I’d share a few of the books I’m planning on reading this summer. The Masters of Bebop: A Listener’s Guide – Ira Gitler Primacy Of The Ear – Ran Blake Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – Mason Currey Discourse on Method – Rene Descartes If you have any book recommendations, feel free to [...]
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Tweet One of the first transcriptions I posted on this site was Kenny Garrett’s solo on There Will Never Be Another You. It comes from Woody Shaw’s “Solid” album. I’ve always liked this record since I bought it, but I had never learned any of Woody Shaw’s solos until now. It’s cool to [...]
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Tweet This is a photo of an original Adolphe Sax tenor saxophone that I took at the Museu de la Música in Barcelona, Spain. It’s the first time I’ve gotten to see one of these up close and it was really interesting to see how the saxophone has evolved over the last 170 [...]
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Tweet Everybody likes free stuff, right? Just wanted to let you know that I’ve added a few free exercises to the Student Resources page. Just scroll down until you get to the section labeled Free Exercises. Click on the links to download any [...]
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Tweet About a month ago, I received a Rico Reed Vitalizer Case in the mail. I had given the folks at Rico Reeds some feedback about one of their products and they sent the case as a thank you gift for my input. For a [...]
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Tweet While I was online tonight, I stumbledupon good-ear.com. It is a simple ear training tool with a lot of options. A lot of the hits on my site come from people doing google searches for “charlie banacos exercises.” Good-ear.com allows you to do exercises like those that are randomly generated in real [...]
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Tweet I ran across a story on the NPR site yesterday that really grabbed my attention. The title was: Think Music Heals? Trombone Player Begs To Differ The basic gist of the story was that this trombone player was chronically ill due to mold and bacteria that [...]
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Tweet I have 5 spots available for saxophone students who would like to study via Skype. I specialize in helping students who want to: Produce a beautiful, professional saxophone tone Get more out of their practice time Develop greater facility Clean up their technique Learn music theory and apply it to the saxophone Transcribe [...]
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Tweet Click here to read the story from AFM Local 802 (NYC). Traveling with an instrument has been daunting for a long time. The fear of being stopped somewhere between the ticket counter and the plane and told you have to check your prized (and very delicate) possession has been great. Hopefully a [...]
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