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00:00 Intro
00:51 FREE Improvisation Masterclass!
01:39 Any commonly shared saxophone advice
that you don’t agree with?
02:11 I’m not the biggest fan of combo jazz,
is this a valid opinion?
02:24 How did you ask for gigs when you were in high school?
03:23 How do I make my solos more melodic instead of basically going up and down the scales and chords???
03:51 What’s the best upgrade from a regular phone mic?
04:53 What are the best first standards to learn?
05:57 I haven’t touched my saxophone in 2 months since I graduated high school. Where should I pick back up?
06:52 Do you have any good methods for phrasing/varying phrase length/utilizing space?
07:51 What’s a mistake you see in a lot of private lesson teachers for saxophone?
08:34 Ever plan on playing in Texas?
08:47 How do I stop being a Scoop Johnson?
09:34 What inspires you to keep progressing in
skill as a musician?
10:12 With a sax goldfish embouchure, should my top teeth be on the top of the mouthpiece?
10:40 How do you remember chord functions and progressions in various jazz standards?
12:11 How often do you change reeds?
12:16 I was wondering if you could give any tips for bari, especially regarding low notes?
13:38 What should a practice session look like?
15:59 How the hell do you manage to put together all these wonderful videos?
16:23 Is there a formula you can suggest for quickly identifying a suitable scale, or scales, which will ‘work’ over a whole sequence of chords?
18:23 How do you become good at playing doubles?
19:56 What’s the best way to develop one’s own natural vibrato?
20:26 Can you please demonstrate how to do a split tone on alto sax?
20:33 Are there downsides of learning how to play with backing tracks, ear training, and no coach?
21:00 Approximately how long should a reed last before I toss it and get a new one?
21:15 What are the sonic characteristics I should be looking for that tell me I need a new reed?
21:38 How can I tell when my mouthpiece might need to be replaced/upgraded?
22:37 Could you provide some guidance to play pop funk style and how to pick backing tracks that go along?
23:44 How do you know which key signature to play over a given chord?
25:59 How do you make altissimo sound more exciting?
26:47 What do you do to keep time and count while doing a solo?
27:27 Do you do private lessons either in person or on zoom?
27:43 Do you have any tips for starting to transcribe, or what are your suggestions for any tunes that you think are good to start with?
29:22 What is your favorite lick? (I would love to learn it)
29:37 What is the best way to get a good, professional tone, while using a cheap beginner sax?
30:21 How can I improve knowing where I am while improvising and begin hearing and identifying chords?
31:16 What was the time in your life when you felt that you were making the most progress on the saxophone?
33:14 Do you have a practical way to count the number of bars while playing?
33:58 How do you work on intonation?
34:58 How do you work on motifs and keep ideas flowing?
35:31 How much time should a high school player be practicing a week?
36:15 How do you create a tasteful melodic solo over a chart that you're seeing for the first time?
37:41 If I have only 15 minutes a day, what should I practice?
38:36 What's something that happened to you with the music that kind of just changed your life or how you approach the music, and who are some of your greatest teachers? 
41:11 What can I practice to help me play louder without sacrificing tone and pitch?
42:23 Say you have a tune in D major / relative B minor - what scale(s) could i use over it?
43:48 Are you using Logic Pro? Can you show us your settings with the effects plugins in detail?
45:08 Outro and final thoughts

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