Lean On Me -Sax School Virtual Saxophone Ensemble

[@edwinrueda1495]

What a super ensemble. Nigel, you did a fantastic job putting this together. I was very pleased to have been a part of it. Congratulations to all my fellow students.

[@carllevesqueimbeault6972]

Wow! Cool project! Really appreciated participating!

[@suzychisholm4931]

I don't know who did a better job...the members or Nigel with his video editing skills!! This was fun and educational and attests to the wonderful community engaged with the McGill Sax School. Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved.

[@shlomobinstock6697]

Nigel and all the crew fantastic!!! You did a wonderful job. Thanks for the pleasure and challenge it gave me to be part of this project.

[@MrMelby]

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! Fantastic opportunity and amazing collaboration!

[@davidhellard8161]

fantastic project, so proud to be a small part of it and so proud to be a member, its been an amazing experience, great to know when you are out there on your own practicing there are so many friends doing the same thing from all over the world. You must be very proud of what you have brought together Nigel and I expect somewhat surprised at the way it has all come together as a real community "gooday mate"

[@amandalevy7884]

Thanks Nigel! Lots of fun participating in this project.

[@susanlitchen1455]

Nigel, this was a huge project on your part. 40 hours of production. No doubt! I learned so much with this challenge. You keep proving that you are a master at teaching and motivating online. I am so glad I jumped on your train. You made my day! My week! I so miss performing and you gave me a piece of the solo! I am elated. What's next??

[@valerieussher11]

That was loads of fun, and I'm thrilled to be in it! Thanks for all your hard work putting it together!

[@nanciemcauley614]

Thank you so much Nigel. I absolutely loved doing this, watching this and can't wait to do another one. You and your team did an amazing job. Thank you again, Nancie

[@lesmilner6604]

Congratulations on everything you have achieved with Sax School Nigel. You must be extremely pleased with the way it has developed. This video is a great tribute to your hard work and success in bringing together saxophone players of different abilities from all over the world. It was a pleasure and a privilege to be involved.

[@FULLJAM]

This was so much fun to do!! Awesome job on the compilation Nigel!! Would love to do another one! Great job to all who participated!

[@KaySax67]

Wow what an amazing job Nigel and gang. I can only imagine how long the editing took! Was lovely to be part of it. Great Job!

[@izzysaxplayer9578]

Awesome job Nigel. Thanks so much it has really given me a confidence boost to keep going with sax . Great thing to be part of.

[@paulthackeray2721]

Brilliant project Nigel, huge fun to do, an honour and a wonderful privilege to be involved in. Thanks so much to you and your team for the creative thought and hard work in putting this all together. And a HUGE well done to all the other members who contributed. Would love to do it again - if you’ve got any editing stamina left, Nigel Thank you everyone in SaxSchool.

[@stellavardi825]

Loved it!!..great...lovely hearing all those saxophones!!!

[@henrygutierrez7720]

waooo wonderful extraordinary excellent participation from all and very well organized I am proud to be part of the Nigel school.

[@skhoo]

Fantastic ensemble ! Thank you Nigel, and well done Sax School !!

[@tnawcwvictoria]

In memory of Bill Withers God Bless You Brother, R.I.P. Soul Brother

[@tracydawson4183]

Nigel thank you for the challenge, you have made my day, what a fantastic project to be apart of, the video is brilliant, congrats and thanks.

[@garypike9966]

Had great fun learning this and to actually see myself in the final production added that bonus!! wasn't really expecting that lol!! Great work Nigel and team for all your hard work producing this and I honestly hope this is just the start of many "virtual Sax Ensemble" A massive well done to all those who participated.

[@chrishardy1692]

A fantastic to be involved in this project! Great arrangement, easy to follow music and backing track and such a lot of work by ?Nigel to bring members of Sax School together. It wasn’t easy playing a whole song correctly but wow what a combination. Congrats to soloists! Blooming marvellous.

[@SteveonSax]

This was great fun and it turned out amazing! Glad to have been one of the bari saxes contributing to it. Hopefully we can do more of these in the future. Also, great arrangement as well as editing!

[@anneke2003]

oh wauw Nigel, you did a great job !!!!!!! congrats

[@noosweat7022]

That was Awesome....Great Job to everyone!

[@SteveSmith-hw7kb]

Great project and loads of fun. Top marks Nigel for putting this lot together!

[@tonyworth4095]

A great result. Thanks for all your hard work Nigel.

[@angelaschiffer2216]

What a brilliant Challenge. The result is Amazing. Thank you Nigel for brighten up my day.

[@cazwebb5140]

This is brilliant Nigel. Thank you.

[@12Nobodies]

Thanks Nigel! It was fun to be a part of the ensemble. Thanks sax school members, you make my virtual world special.

[@peterstocks8019]

Well done to all who took part & well done to Nigel for putting it together 🎷🎷🎷

[@beverleysaxophone]

This was such a fun, inspiring and educational project - Nigel you do an amazing job producing great educational videos and now this ensemble project :-) In these strange times, it is such a morale booster to be part of this sax community, united by our love of this weird and wonderful instrument.

[@joziki]

You did an amazing job, putting it all together!

[@garryj1231]

Great sound guys!! Great work by all involved!!

[@1977BEE]

A mammoth job that was very well done. Gives our jazz group an idea of what can be done. Of course...with a great effort in editing!!

[@timtuthill4915]

Lots of work Nigel! Very nice. Tim

[@janetokai]

amazing! well done to everyone that took part and incredible job with the arrangement and putting that many videos together Nigel

[@joanrenton-spencer3309]

Fantastic effort everyone. Love it!

[@brucechamberlain5042]

Great job everyone!

[@gejkjazz]

Thanks Nigel, this was fun!

[@cadenake3834]

This is so cool! I wish I had more people that I could try to do a virtual ensemble with!

[@pillamarcin6197]

congratulations, all you are fantastic!!

[@suebrewis5559]

That was fantastic. Loved it 😁🎷

[@rreganjjohnn]

totally amazing effort and great tune there Nigel

[@jopreston3973]

Awesome, really loved learning and playing in this virtual band. thanks Nigel and crew for all your hard work, producing the end result.

[@mikkovaisala8264]

Really great! Sounds and look very good! Nigel made fantastic job with editing all stuff! More like this! Absolutely great! :-)

[@rn5193]

Fantastique, Merci Nigel

[@wildboy1983]

To an aspiring sax player, that was lovely, thank you!

[@drielinghToolsTraining]

Fantastic performance

[@ericking9281]

Just wonderful that is fantastic I hate I missed this one.

[@gilbertohio]

This was a really fun experience Nigel....Hope it's the first of many ensembles to come!

[@susannepearce2577]

Brilliant job Nigel! Thanks a lot, it was great fun to take part!

[@janetdavies1704]

Sounds great everyone. Thanks for doing this Nigel. Can we do another?

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Cheers Janet. Another??? I think I need to sit in a quiet room for a while first! (and clone myself a few times)😂

[@gilbertvassart5359]

A great achievement, for all of us, participants, and even more so, for you, Nigel ! Thanks a lot !.

[@mitchfrance301]

Mammoth job there Nigel, well done, I'm surprised it only took 40 hours. Fantastic effort, I was going to send in a video but other stuff got in the way. Brilliant!

[@kevthehorn]

Fantastic Nigel

[@shannonlee6780]

Awesome Nigel. Sorry I didn't get my act together in time to contribute. Thank you for al you do!

[@scarlethellard9313]

Superb! Well done to all involved :)

[@aileenssaxcovers9326]

Wow ! Well done everyone. Was great to be part of it. Thank you Nigel, you've done a really good job with the editing.

[@philipridguard9402]

That was awesome and thanks for putting it together Nigel. Great to see everyone making music together! I look forward to the next one 😀

[@animay_g3163]

Nigel, what a fantastic job you did, it's superb, and well done everybody! I, too, was going to send in a video but too much other stuff got in the way, and I did not feel ready yet. Hopefully next time...

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

No problem. Hopefully we can do another one down the track.

[@ggauche3465]

A cast of thousands!

[@judy1406]

Wow superb, was great fun doing really had a ball and great to see so many member contributing to this wonderful project.. well done Nigel and Chris for putting this together ... top result

[@sylviaspit8797]

I have been looking forward to this video and it is far beyond my expectations !Thanks for all the effort, Nigel Great Job!! Sylvia

[@aaziz7392]

Great stuff . Well done .

[@patricianeale7767]

That was fantastic. It sound amazing. I didn’t send in a video because I didn’t feel that I had been a member for long enough. You must be so proud of what you have achieved.

[@barrie9245]

Brilliant everyone such fun and congratulations for such a mammoth edit Nigel. 🎷🎷🎷

[@daveskinnersaxproject844]

That was awesome, everyone! Congrats, Nigel, what an effort!

[@Ekingchan]

Wow, that’s a great Project. Really amazing. Congratulations!

[@milcodevries1]

wow Nigel, what an energy this creates. Fantastic project. Keep it on, inspiring us to be part of a movement creating music togheter !

[@rondenorscio7984]

Sounds great!

[@suegrosvenor7274]

That was fantastic, well done everyone *****

[@cheriholland744]

Love it! When's the next one Nigel 😉

[@fredthompson8377]

Inspirational!! I know I'm in the right place.

[@terokaitonen7219]

Great job👌 Allthough I didnt saw myself in the video🤔 Well maybe next time🎷

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Hi Tero - sorry I thought I got you in there somewhere.

[@terokaitonen7219]

@@McGillMusicSaxSchool Hi. No worries it was a huge job for you guys to put on this video. I keep practicing 😊

[@johnedwardpeterskillen5526]

Nice work looks like a huge task. Well done guys.

[@BadiLattif]

LOVED THIS!! Gonna be looking up your courses to see how I can be part of such a great community and improve my alto sax game!

[@johannacollins4420]

Wow, superb!! Well done everyone & congratulations Nigel on the mammoth task of putting it all together. Although I didn’t make the final cut it was fun videoing my part. Maybe next time 🤞🎷jx

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Sorry Johanna. I thought I had included your video!

[@johannacollins4420]

McGill Music Sax School No worries Nigel, I can’t even imagine how difficult a task that must’ve been. I had to get my 15year old tech support to help with my wee clip, ha ha. As I said it was great fun doing it & even helped with my fear of recording myself 😆👍

[@thomraller5323]

Great stuff. It comes across really well with so many different levels of experience. Well done (editors included!!!).

[@johnporteous3008]

Absolutely awesome! Well done to all and Nigel for putting it together.I had a go at this but just couldn't get it to the required standard. Sounds really great and the solos are amazing!

[@predragrajkovic7304]

Great job, really cool 👍

[@HowardSaxMan52]

Great job Loved it

[@antnyf13]

That was Great !

[@stephandhersax]

Thanks Really enjoyed being involved Sad my soprano solo at the end is covered by a notice saying 'How to play overtones and boost your tone' But am taking that as a personal hint! Haha

[@vangildermichael1767]

catchy play on the words. cheerio :)

[@christophebibi6342]

Well done. Excellent

[@jahsouljah9754]

Well Done every1 Well Done 💯💯💯🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷

[@entysax]

Superb effort everyone...and thanks Nigel/Chris for the editing, that was mega!!!!

[@berniecawson6197]

Amazing well done everyone

[@tmlpony3396]

Very Cool!

[@ph2738]

The Eb part of tenor 2 was kicking my ass. I completed tenor 1 right away, but tenor 2 took a dozen takes. Rather than patch in a clean Eb section, I wanted to play the whole part start to finish. There was always some bobble with the 16th notes going into it, and mainly, the 16th notes on the turn around. Reading someone else’s sheet music always reveals to me that I’m not as versatile as a real professional. After 10 attempts, I did better by not looking at the sheet music in the Eb part.

[@dabisax2536]

i wish i could join the virtual school

[@gorfgarf9735]

That's fire

[@johnnymeredith42]

MY SCHOOL TEACHER IS IN THIS!

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Wow, that’s cool! Great to hear your teacher is a Sax School member!

[@rinozaurrini359]

Sad I wasn't on it maybe next time

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Rino Zaurrini Sorry Rino!!! I tried to include everyone who sent in videos but with so many it was hard to keep track.

[@rinozaurrini359]

It's ok I understand plus mine wasn't that great lol but next time hope you enjoy my other videos

[@sarahmacarthur2140]

Seems quire a few of us got missed, so deflated

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Sorry Sarah! I did try to get everyone in but with so many it was hard to keep track. Thanks for sending in your video though.

[@woznod]

brilliant

[@shlomobinstock6697]

Nigel. Out of interest how many countries are represented in the video?

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Good question Shlomo - lots!

[@davidhart9154]

Very cool, I'm sorry I didn't get it together in time.

[@AceHardy]

✍️

[@ADRees01]

Well done Nigel - I'm really pleased to have had the opportunity to be involved. Well worth the effort I'd say! Thank you for doing the mammoth video edit. I'm interested to know how you did it... perhaps there is a how-to video waiting to happen inside sax school!

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Perhaps. To be honest it’s incredibly difficult (for me at least). We had over 50gb of video submitted so my computer was really struggling. I had to edit the video in sections by instrument. I think you really need industrial strength computer power for this job!

[@MrMelby]

@@McGillMusicSaxSchool The effort is very, very much appreciated and the video is spectacular.