What now?
I have been playing the tenor for a bit longer than a month. I've finished my begginers book which had a few major and minor scales, and a few very basic tunes ranging from classical to traditional to jazzy blues. I can play and control all the notes on the sax, but off course no altissimo yet...although I can play second octave notes without using the 8ve key.
The thing is that I am only interested in learning jazz and there is only one jazzy tune in that book that I've played over and over again and vary the sequence of notes to make things a bit more interesting. Other than that, I've been playing long notes and jamming over my sequencer, going up and down a few scales over a simple beat/bassline arrangement, using the computer as a metronome that does something more interesting than just "tick tock".
The arrangements I've been making so far are all 4/4, but I am going to do some 3/4 tunes to jam over.
I am still on the standard, cheap, Yamaha mpc that came with my YTS and I must say that it does the job for the time being. I am still on 1 1/2 reeds that I also find very comfortable.
Where do I go from here? What is the next book that will teach me more of the basic stuff, but if possible, teach me some jazz phrases that I am so longing to learn?
Should I go for a harder reed? Dunno if I should change the mpc really. The thing is that this one does the job. Should I wait until I get better, or am I simply wasting from getting a mpc that will sound better and help me progress? Can a mpc help me progress? Or is it simply down to practise?
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