Whats your noodle?
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Sure ... warmup is some ballad or two from the standard list of such things. Harlem Nocturne, Nearness of You, Naima, dozens of others.
Sound checks or public listening get something a bit flashier. Depends on the situation.
ALWAYS have something planned for a first impression. Not necessarily technical, but certainly organized.
Sound checks or public listening get something a bit flashier. Depends on the situation.
ALWAYS have something planned for a first impression. Not necessarily technical, but certainly organized.
I go up and down the horn chromatically usually, then usually "Work Song" and "Wheel Within a Wheel."
If I'm trying new equipment I'll do that and then actually do some real testing scales and ballads and things in front of a tuner.
If I'm trying new equipment I'll do that and then actually do some real testing scales and ballads and things in front of a tuner.
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Chromatic scale, some ascending forths, on tenor, a ballad like Darn That Dream or Body & Soul, on the 3 other sizes.... dunno, whatever comes to my mind.
Buffet Clarinet, Conn Soprano Sax, Buescher Alto Sax, 2 Bundy One Tenor Saxes, Conn C Melody Sax,
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Long tones, on whatever horn I pick up, (clarinet, and the saxes-sop, alt or ten). Overtones, all scales-major and/or minor, intervals. I don't have a set routine. Sometimes a standard, learning the changes.
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You win! Good ol' Ikema781........
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I play in a brass band, where the brass players are constantly noodling before a gig, between numbers, after we're done... and so forth. Some will noodle along with the background music before we go on, with the worst offenders attempting to noodle along with the band playing before us. Yeah... all terrible stuff and it took me some time to break them from these bad, and often ingrained poor habits. So I try to lead by example. With covid, I'll set up my mouthpiece at home and blow three descending tones on it while off the horn, then cap it and put it in the case. When I get to a gig, I'm the last to get my horn out. When I do, I'll run up and down the horn chromatically just fingering without blowing to make sure nothing's sticking. Then I play three short notes in succession; low Bb, middle Bb then high Bb. Then I play the gig.
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A few fingering / riming excercises like the first bridge from Dave Koz - Mindi Abair live version of Just the Two of Us to make sure I get all the notes out even, a few long tones and overtones. The only time I noodle is at jams when I want to "influence" the guitar players to do a certain song (or not) but most of the time they are too ignorant anyway for anything that's more than 3 chords. Otherwise no, let the others do their cacophony and only start playing when the time is right.
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The theme tune to The Sweeny, Take Five and Pink Panther 😁
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The first time I pick up an instrument (sax and bass) for the day or after a long break I play/ work out whatever tune or line is in my head at the moment and move it around the instrument full range and in a bunch/ all the keys. Regarding trying new gear: I do the same...I don’t have go to licks or tunes. Some gear pulls a player in a certain direction a little too much so after an initial trial feeling it out I’ll start trying to play other things. If it isn’t easy enough to play a wide range of styles/ sound colors; I know it’s not flexible enough for me as I like to have ultimate flexibility and don’t buy gear that pigeon holes me into a specific sound. Outside of those who play both classical and contemporary music, I think folks who have a different mouthpiece for every kind of gig or rehearsal are pretty ridiculous.
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