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saxes away…..

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

This is another new track - It was an exercise primarily to see how the saxes would record.

Again it is part of my post Cubase onto Logic development and have used Logics default software instruments with 2 soprano and a tenor sax together with some live acoustic and electric guitar.

I am quite pleased with the results….

I was pondering over a name; my wife suggested ‘come again’ but I changed that to ’see you again’!!

my saxes!

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

My wife and I both play in our local St Eugene’s Brass and Reed Band. Lorna plays the flute and I play tenor sax. I joined because Lorna wanted something we could both do together.

I had never played a brass or reed instrument before - but the band needed a tenor sax (or they had a tenor sax going spare!) so I took the ‘beat up’ sax and looked for lessons locally.

I have now been playing for 18 months but I’m afraid the band sax has been given up and I spent too much money on a Yanigasawa T902 - a lovely sax in bronze.

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I have to say I am not really a lover of the saxophone other than the sound of the soprano which I could use quite productively in my own musical compositions.

Needless to say, a couple of months ago I bought a Yamaha 475 soprano sax! I absolutely adore this saxophone - I had originally intended to buy a ‘cheapy’ but sense prevailed in the end.

I am a firm believer in buying the best you can afford when it comes to any musical instrument.

The plus side is now we have a bonafide saxophone quartet that meets every wednesday

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Thursday, July 5th, 2007

This is a new track - sort of finished…

It is the first I have written entirely in Logic using the default software instruments.

I’m sort of convinced that this is the way to go - although I look at the array of expensive outboard midi equipment I have and mourn….