Hey, why not up your sax game with this free masterclass✅ www.getyoursaxtogether.com/masterclass
@Lutemann4 ай бұрын
You should write a book on this with exercises and a CD to play along with. R&B along with the wedding/party bands have gotten very popular these days. The nerdy horn player from high school is in demand!
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the suggestion! I do cover it in more detail my Phrase Like A Pro course
@douglange68634 ай бұрын
Absolutely spot on! These few tips are not just good suggestions, it’s a master class on how to be a section player. The inclusion of Basie at the Sands with Sinatra is a great lesson on how to be tight, crisp and make it swing. Basie’s band is so crisp and swings so hard when backing Sinatra that it’s on my roadtrip playlist. I exaggerate more when playing lead tenor than when playing lead alto and find it much more fun to do. I’m forwarding your video to my band mates! Thanks!
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much.
@pavelpatsenkov4 ай бұрын
Every word of that lesson, is a very important. Thank you very much, Mr Anderson.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
You're very welcome!
@stellasteele23974 ай бұрын
Also please add bloopers to everything, they made me chuckle 🤭
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
They are on pretty much most videos!
@pjk24 ай бұрын
Great stuff. The world really needs a decent horn section course. Hope you make one some day - I will be the first to buy it.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
I do cover it in Phrase Like A Pro
@HahnJames4 ай бұрын
Your videos are always jam packed with great information. I love the sound of that tenor sax, too. A tenor is going to be my nex saxophone purchase. I am glad that I can now sit at the computer and watch videos like these again. On the last Friday in February, I suffered a devastating fracture in my left leg that shattered the top of my tibia and drove the bone out of my knee joint. That following Monday, I had reconstructive surgery. I couldn't sit in an office style chair for two months. Now, I'm walking again without crutches but, still need to work my leg strength up to what it once was. I am so grateful to be able to walk on two legs, again. We often don't appreciate what we have until we lose it even if, the loss is temporary.
Love it, I play in a local intermediate woodwind band, I am the platipi, always getting lost and being pulled out for being a beat behind. This can't come soon enough.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
👍
@matejtrojan37794 ай бұрын
One of your most beneficial lessons I’ve seen so far.. I am actually wondering, why on these aspects isn’t put more emphasis on musical schools (at least within my social bubble), whereas they are (or should be) the very first thing you learn once you set foot in ensemble of any kind, size or genre.. Keep up the great work, you are super-inspiring for me (and I am sure for a ton of others) both as a musician and a teacher. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and love! Take care ❤🎷
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much
@tmcnelis4 ай бұрын
Lots of good stuff here, and I'm glad to hear that intonation isn't just my problem! I'm particularly having trouble with my middle D,Eb, and E after changing back to my old Berg Larsen, though I don't know if it's the horn or the mouthpiece (or me). And as you suggest at the end, dealing with egos is perhaps the trickiest part!
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Try adding your low Bb key for those notes you mentioned. It’ll bring the pitch down.
@tmcnelis4 ай бұрын
@@GetYourSaxTogether thanks!
@maike-the-owl-is-dancing4 ай бұрын
Great Video ☺ and hello from Germany I love the "Tower of Power" horn section. Watched them live last year at a concert in Hamburg. That was one the best concerts I visited.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Amazing!
@davidwood3514 ай бұрын
I’m a huge fan of Tower of Power. Got to see them live 3 years ago, front row. Awesome.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Awesome!
@midi15294 ай бұрын
Btw... have you met "The Martin Brothers Horns".. I played trumpet in 4th grade with Andy, and Stan Martin
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Nope.
@travlak4 ай бұрын
Great video. In the horn section I play with, my biggest issue has been just hearing all of my section mates over the sound of the rest of the band.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Yeh bit difficult if you can't hear.
@beckyn93384 ай бұрын
Intonation. Can’t say it enough!
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
🙏
@lyntedrockley72954 ай бұрын
right on the money! Should be required viewing for any band member.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@mikemeskel4 ай бұрын
That horn soli sounded great, but can we also talk about how sick those synth sounds were?
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Sure!
@stellasteele23974 ай бұрын
Can you do a video about being a solo player joining an existing, established gigging band or as a session player please? 😊
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Video on solo player here kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWW4YZygfpmmn80si=4dK4wA1B2iF73Lm2
@robstevens95904 ай бұрын
I've never played in a horn section, but most of these points seem to be common sense, but the info about intonation and lower horns in a section are revelatory.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Glad you still got something from it!
@GeorgeSKLeong4 ай бұрын
I play in a 2 piece horn section with a trombone player. Because the band does not want to hire another trumpet player, I have to use the alto to cover the trumpet parts. Will this setup ever work? The sound is just not there in my opinion.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Well yeah, I mean the average white band had alto and tenor, and the crusaders had trombone and sax.
@michaeldavis99544 ай бұрын
Your last tip (tread carefully) was the most important lesson I’ve learned playing in a section. The two others are: 1) keep a sense of humour and 2) bring plenty of coffee to share for rehearsal breaks. Don’t knock bribery.
@patrickkelcey24354 ай бұрын
...we're really schooled and enthusiastic and know at a moments glance when for example" bribery" won't work. And we don't mind... we'll do the work... run ALL the peices down... and have a ball 'cos it's cool as, but it's pretty confronting when you can even emotionally blackmail (bribe) some peckerhead to enjoy themselves (and to stop screwing everyone).
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
🤣
@michaelosullivan93394 ай бұрын
Was that nigel hitchcock on alto
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Well spotted!
@jeroenneve58074 ай бұрын
why does "we are the borg. we are legion. resistance is futile." suddenly come to mind during Jamie's intro of this week's lesson?
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
🤷🏻♂️
@johnleon29824 ай бұрын
I use a Snark contact tuner and like it, but the trouble for me is that the bendable goose-neck that holds up the screen is too short. One gets a little cross-eyed looking at it clamped to the neck of an alto sax. It's even worse on a flute, trying to see it out of the corner of your eye. Does anyone know of a contact tuner that has a long neck? I've had no luck finding one, including emailing Snark--I got no response.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
Yeah I know what you mean.
@panman60944 ай бұрын
Круто!
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
🙏
@patemblen36444 ай бұрын
👍
@GetYourSaxTogether4 ай бұрын
🙏
@ph27384 ай бұрын
4:06 trumpet players get their way too often.
@clarinetguyuk4 ай бұрын
Yeah, this was the one tip that rubbed me the wrong way. In the moment, I'll try my best to follow the lead trumpet's phrasing/articulations, but it's critical to know whether the player is deviating from the chart intentionally, (eg. because the printed markings are wrong or sound naff if played as written - in which case, I'll mark up my part to make matching them on subsequent plays easier), or because they just didn't read it properly in which case, we need to have a discussion as to whether to obey the printed markings or to go with the lead trumpet (then mark up the parts accordingly so that we both play that line consistently).
@edwardonsax99194 ай бұрын
@@clarinetguyuk I avoid playing in sections, so I have more freedom.