Ever heard the expression: "When you cut the head of a dragon, two new ones will apear". Mastering the saxophone on the advanced level is a lot like that. There are a great many important details and the inter-relations between all the different facets of saxophone technique like: posture, embouchure, tempo, knowledge-of-harmony, knowledge-of-band-dynamics etc. are all quite complex.
As a result of this, sooner or later, every student of the sax will hit a glass wall. During our first year (+/-) we feel our playing is getting better and better, but then, suddenly, our ears become better! And when this happens, we start to realise exactly how much better all those professionals actually sound.
Trust me! it will happen you too!
From one day to the next, you suddenly won't like your own sound so much anymore. You'll start to feel that: your timing is a bit sloppier than you previously imagined. Your high notes suddenly seem to sound a bit less briliant than you thought before, and there will be many other small details in your playing that you somehow don't like anymore.
is it your mouthpiece? Is it your sax? NO!
What is happening is: You're starting to develop the ears of a professional! You're body has slowly developed the ability to pick up: much smaller details in sound, tempo and note-placement. You're finally starting to listen like an advanced saxophone player.!
Yes! his means the time is now!
If you put in the effort now, you can start to push your own technique up to the advanced level, but this means: re-examening every part of your technique and finetuning everything meticulously!
When I hit this moment in my own development, it took me a lot of time and effort to figger out exactly what I needed to do. Like when I first got started, I was again confronted with the fact that there was no complete, step by step, method for bridging this illusive gap. So once again I wrote down all my experiences. Then I brought everything I learned together in one, easy to follow method.
The combined result is a 16 week long, highly in-depth home-study course that will help you fine-tune every aspect of your saxophone technique to perfection.
And unleash the musical beast inside you! |
