Better Sax Podcast
By with Jay Metcalf
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As the founder of BetterSax.com Jay’s mission is to help developing saxophone players break away from traditional music learning methods and discover a more efficient, practical and fun way to become a Better Sax player.
The Better Sax YouTube channel’s videos have been watched by millions and thousands of students have made meaningful progress on their instrument thanks to Better Sax courses.
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The Problem with Metal Alto Sax Mouthpieces
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May 19, 2026 |
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It’s Hard, But Gets You a Beautiful Sax Sound in 30 Days
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May 12, 2026 |
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I Asked Jazz Pros What They Practice and Didn't Expect This
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May 08, 2026 |
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I Asked Classical and Jazz Pros What They Practice and Didn't Expect This
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May 06, 2026 |
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We Tested How Saxophone Lacquer Changes the Sound
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May 04, 2026 |
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Classical Saxophone Pieces That Don't Suck
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Killer Sax Solos are Easy with This Pentatonic Scale System
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Just Practice This for 10X Better Sax Solos
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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This Fixes Saxophone Low Notes Forever
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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The Most Powerful Exercise for Sax Improvisation
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Kirk Whalum's ONLY Advice for Saxophone Players
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Bob Reynolds: The Problem with Learning Jazz Online
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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6 Things Older Saxophone Players Get Wrong (and regret)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Practice This Everyday for Fast Saxophone Technique
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Adding Gospel, Blues and Soul to Sax Solos - Donald Hayes
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Why Curved Soprano Sax is Better than Straight
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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How Jazz Pros Practice Saxophone
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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I WISH I Learned Jazz Improvisation Like This - Stop Wasting Time
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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The Saxophone World Will Never Be the Same
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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These 3 Songs Will Teach You Jazz
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Altissimo Was Hard Until I Did This
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Just Practice Like This Every Day - Jazz Saxophone
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Gorgeous Sax Tone in 5 Minutes a Day
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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I Replaced Myself with AI, Could You Tell?
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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The New BetterSax Bari Changes Everything
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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The Greatest Saxophone Duo of Our Time - Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Practice This to Play Better Sax Solos
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Practice Pentatonics Like this Everyday for Killer Solos
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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George Garzone on Playing Jazz Saxophone
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Practice Improv Like This and You'll Nail the Chord Changes
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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I Found the Solution to Silent Saxophone Practice
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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How In-Ear Monitors Made Me a Better Sax Player
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Copy this Sax Embouchure for a Beautiful Sound
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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These 4 Simple Changes Make Good Sax Players Great
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Are Metal Mouthpieces Better Than Hard Rubber?
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May 20, 2025 |
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We Designed the Ultimate Bari Sax Mouthpiece for Beginners
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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One Change Killed American Saxophone Manufacturing
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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A Cure for Boring Solos with Will Vinson
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Classical Saxophone Taught Me These 3 ESSENTIAL Concepts
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Making Average Sax Reeds Play INCREDIBLE
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Every Opportunity I Had Came From Jam Sessions - Tivon Pennicott
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Is Altissimo Overrated?
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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What's the Point of Your Sax Technique? - Jeff Coffin
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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I Asked Pro Sax Players if the Selmer Mark VI is Overrated
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Beyond Technique: Kirk Whalum on Playing from the Heart
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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How to Become a Better Sax Player in 2025
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Overcome Your Musical Fears - With Ted Nash
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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If You Want to Become a Great Sax Player… Do This
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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This Book Will Make You a Better Improviser
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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TOP 10 SOPRANO Saxophone Players of all Time
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Solving Saxophone Puzzles with Ben Wendel
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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STOP Practicing Scales - Do THIS Instead
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Listen To This if You're Over 40 and Play Saxophone
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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What Wayne Shorter Taught Me - Joel Frahm
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Lakecia Benjamin is Unstoppable
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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How Long Does It Take To Learn Saxophone?
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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A Saxophone Lesson at the University of North Texas with Brad Leali
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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The 6 EASIEST Blues Heads You MUST KNOW
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Derek Brown Teaches Me How to Beatbox on Sax in 5 Minutes
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May 31, 2024 |
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Why Troy Roberts Switched to a Modern Saxophone
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May 10, 2024 |
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9 Jazz Lessons You Need To Learn Earlier
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May 03, 2024 |
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Why Camille Thurman Gave Up Music, and What Brought Her Back
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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How to Play Saxophone Until You're 100 - Don Braden
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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How the Saxophone Changed His Life - Andrey Chmut
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Mark Gross: The Necessary Components for Jazz
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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The Charlie Parker Opera Lick
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Breaking These 7 Bad Saxophone Habits
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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A Musicians Perspective On Quitting Youtube
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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You Were Lied To About Improvisation
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Why Are Mark VI Saxophones So Overpriced? Q + A 5
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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A Saxophone Lesson at Juilliard with Bruce Williams
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Why are JodyJazz Mouthpieces So Good?
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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How to Play More Interesting Improvised Lines - with Chad Lefkowitz-Brown
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Vincent Herring - Carrying on the Alto Sax Legacy
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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The END of Saxophone's Golden Age - a Conversation with Bob Rockwell
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Beliefs About Jazz That Need to Die - Patrick Bartley
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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The Sax Solo that Changed Everything - Andy Snitzer
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Playing Burnin Funk Sax Solos with Tower of Power - Tom Politzer
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Top Baritone Saxophone Players
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Why Miles Davis Hired Me After Hearing My Demo - Rick Margitza
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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The Secret to Terrace Martin's Musical Success
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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How He Got a Golden Saxophone Tone - Immanuel Wilkins
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Going on the Road with Jazz Legends - Jaleel Shaw
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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How Important is it to Transcribe Solos? and other Saxophone Questions with Jaleel Shaw
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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I Asked Eric Marienthal How He Got So Good
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Improv Shortcut- This Technique Saves 100's of Practice Hours
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Top 10 Tenor Players from the Classic Jazz Era
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Jazz or Classical Saxophone? Saxologic Decides - Nathan Graybeal
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Jazz Legend Reveals Secret to Music - Kenny Werner
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May 25, 2023 |
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Being a Musician is Not Always Rational - Donny McCaslin
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May 15, 2023 |
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Keys to Pop Music Soloing for Sax Players - Michael Ghegan
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May 05, 2023 |
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This technique saved me 100's of hours of practice time
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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How to Make Your Solos Sound Inevitable - Tim Armacost
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Braxton Cook is the Future of Jazz Soul Music
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Jess Gillam - Making Classical Saxophone FUN!
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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If I Started Learning to Improvise Today, I'd Do This (7 Part Guide)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Asking Top Sax Players How They Got Good (Vincent Herring, Eric Alexander, Bob Reynolds, Ben Wendel)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Do These 8 Things For a Beautiful Saxophone Sound
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Great Sax Players Being Awesome for 10 Minutes Straight
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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6 Books Every Jazz Musician "Must" Study
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Why AI Will NEVER Improvise Jazz Like Humans
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Jason Marshall - Why You Don't Need a Vintage Saxophone
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Grace Kelly - Air Sax Ear Training
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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The 6 Hardest Things To Do On Saxophone (And How to Do Them)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Asking Jazz Legends How They Got Good with Eric Alexander, Mike LeDonne & Paul Bollenback
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Ben Wendel’s Exercise for Fast Technique
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Bob Mover's House of Harmony
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Bob Reynolds - What I Learned at Berklee
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The Most EFFECTIVE Way to Practice Patterns (Wish I Did This at First)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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10 Tricks for Saxophone Solos that WIN - Avery Dixon's Secret Formula
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Joey Defrancesco on Learning the Saxophone
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Ryan Devlin & Steve Kortyka - A Series of Circumstances
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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NEVER Make These 10 Saxophone Gear Mistakes
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Top 10 Alto Saxophone Players of the Classic Jazz Era
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Mindi Abair - Pairing Wine and Music
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Alex Hahn - How to Find Your Own Musical Personality
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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These 2 Things Stop 95% of Saxophonists from Improving
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May 23, 2022 |
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Leo P - A Bari Sax Beast
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May 18, 2022 |
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Tim Armacost - Practicing 365 Hours Per Year
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May 09, 2022 |
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George Coleman - A Living Saxophone Legend
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May 04, 2022 |