For professional musicians and advanced students, this is a fairly obvious statement: equipment matters.  You’ll see a host of jazz, classical, R&B, rock, Latin, etc. musicians all with different equipment and in many different combinations.  For the beginning student, the subject of equipment is rarely discussed even though it is actually fairly simple, plays a [...]

So, I was looking around for certain players’ set-ups recently and was having to hunt more than I thought I should.  A lot of the more modern players’ set-ups, unless they’re endorsed by a particular mouthpiece or reed company, were really difficult to piece together.  Theo Wanne has an excellent set up chart on his [...]

Effortless Mastery – Kenny Werner This book is pretty widely known in the music community.  It’s about… well, check out the book.  This book tackles the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of creativity.  Kenny uses accounts from his own development as an artist to explain how to think and create effortlessly. There is also a [...]

I got these great sheets from Ben Wendel (of Kneebody) who’s an old Eastman student of Raymon’s. The first sheet shows 1) the harmonic series for Saxophone 2) the harmonic tendencies for Saxophone, Clarinet, and Flute, (those are the weird liny-charty things) and 3) 9 exercises for practicing the harmonic series. The second sheet shows [...]

Welcome to the Transcription page!  Transcriptions are listed alphabetically by first name.  Next to the artist name and song name are some different selections.  Bb, C, & Eb are the different keys that each transcription is in.  The “Score” selection shows each chorus of an artist’s solo on a separate line so you can compare [...]