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 This solo has all of the things that I like about Rick Margitza. There’s a lot of great melodic inside playing, material built off of upper structure triads, and a strong display of fluency in the altissimo register. I actually learned this solo 6 months ago, maybe longer, but I just got [...]
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TweetI love reading books about music! It’s so nice to have that access to someone else’s perspective and insights. Here are a couple that really influenced how I think about music and how I work at music. 1. The Talent Code – Author Daniel Coyle has spent most of his career writing about sports. There [...]
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Tweet The beginning of a new year is always a time of reflection and renewal. Many people are making resolutions and striving to create habits or break old ones. Just like everyone else, I’ve been thinking about what I want to accomplish this year and how to go about it. With that in [...]
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Tweet In my last post about Seventh String’s free online metronome, I mentioned that they also make the great Transcribe! software. You can use it to open music files and manipulate them in different ways. You can highlight areas, as in the picture above, and loop them, slow them down, speed them up, adjust the [...]
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Tweet I just wanted to share a great online resource I found the other day. Seventh String, the same company that makes Transcribe! (awesome transcription software), has a free online metronome on their site. You can set it for tempos from 34-250 bpm (beats per minute). [...]
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Tweet I’ve been listening to a lot of Cuban and Brazilian music lately and one of the artists that I’m really, really hooked on is Hermeto Pascoal. As I was driving home to Las Vegas on Monday from a gig in Long Beach, CA, I was listening to the Festa Dos Deuses album. On the [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Also posted in Technique, tools
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Tagged Brazil, Brazilian music, Chapeu de Baeta, Exercise, Festa Dos Deuses, Hermeto Pascoal, long tones, sax, Saxophone, Technique
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Tweet While having a conversation with a fellow musician the other day, the topic of practicing flute came up. I have recently increased the time I spend working on my flute playing and when I mentioned this, my colleague asked what I was [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Also posted in Technique, tools
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Tagged Band, Improvement, Maintenance, music, Orchestra, Practice, Recreation, Saxophone, Talent Code, Uninformed Influence
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Tweet It’s been a lot of days since the last ii-V, but I came across a good one in an old transcription I did several years ago. This ii-V was played by Chris Potter on Easy to Love from his 1995 album, Pure. I like this one because it’s mostly diatonic except for that little [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Also posted in ii-Vs, Technique, tools, Transcriptions
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Tagged Chris Potter, Easy to Love, ii-V of the day, improvisation, jazz, Pure, sax, Saxophone, tenor saxophone, transcription, vocabulary
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Tweet I purchased one of these a few months ago from Flute World for about $30 and have had nice success for myself and working with students. You can use it as a standalone product, but it also fits into the body of the flute so you can work on your airstream while simulating other [...]
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