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 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 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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By Eddie Rich
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Posted in News, Technology
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Also tagged classical, Eddie Rich, instruction, internet, jazz, lessons, music, online, Pop, Skype, student, study, teacher
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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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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 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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Posted in practicing, Technique, tools
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Also tagged Brazil, Brazilian music, Chapeu de Baeta, Exercise, Festa Dos Deuses, Hermeto Pascoal, long tones, sax, 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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Posted in practicing, Technique, tools
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Also tagged Band, Improvement, Maintenance, music, Orchestra, Practice, Recreation, 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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Posted in ii-Vs, practicing, Technique, tools, Transcriptions
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Also tagged Chris Potter, Easy to Love, ii-V of the day, improvisation, jazz, Pure, sax, tenor saxophone, transcription, vocabulary
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Tweet While browsing youtube the other day, I came across a video of saxophones being made at the Keilwerth factory. I am a geek of the highest order when it comes to this kind of stuff and could watch it for hours. This, of course, meant that I looked up other videos and I want [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Posted in Technology, Videos
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Also tagged Brannen, Buffet, clarinet, factory, flute, Haynes, how it's made, Keilwerth, Leblanc, manufacture, Powell, Selmer, videos, woodwinds, Yamaha, Yanagisawa, youtube
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