Tips for Woodwind Players

I found this nice article and free PDF to download from the Canadian Musician website. It's a series of articles on 'Tips for woodwind players' which includes everything from, embouchure to sound and rhythmic exercises. It even has an article on Carnatic saxophone which was quite a nice surprise. This is a really nice read so do check it out:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33731898/Tips-for-Woodwind-Players

Health Benefits of playing the Saxophone

So here it is. Why we all play! OK, I'm joking but actually this is something I'd like to do some research on. What are the health benefits of playing the sax and what we can do for our bodies and mind to play better. More coming up on this subject:

http://www.jazzassassins.co.za/live-music/index.asp?q=health-benefits-of-playing-saxophone

Mortens Lessons

Twitter is increasingly becoming a useful resource these days. Even if you don't like to tweet i would definitely recommend following some of the jazz tweeters as there are plenty of interesting things to read and learn. Hopefully over the next days I'll make a list of the more interesting ones and post them here. For now here is another great site with video lessons by Norwegian musician Morten Faerestrand. Its mainly for guitar, but the lessons are very well explained and they are surely interesting and relevant for all musicians.

http://www.mortenslessons.com/