Well I would compliment a good transcription but I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now why would I want to play 47 years to sound like someone else? Not a rhetorical question by the way if someone cares to answer it. Phil, I don't think any of us (obviously, including myself) are silly enough to think that we'll ever have the technical ability that Brecker had, but much like playing ANY transcription(s), for me it's simply about trying to see and play things that wouldn't naturally come out of my horn and to maybe 'steal' little snippets here 'n there, hoping to incorporate some of those things into my own playing. I think it's ALL about trying to expand our saxophone vocabulary and can be very inspiring (frustrating too!).
Re: Michael Brecker's cool cliche licks Originally Posted by Martinman In my opinion, Audacity is even better than the Amazing Slow Downer since you don't have to buy anything, and you can slow anything down, not just the first two tracks of a CD.
I'm a HUGE admirer of what Michael Brecker did, but will also say that I don't try to sound like him. Hell, I can't! One thing I do a lot is to play a bunch of the transcriptions that Miles Osland did (on Charles McNeal's site) of Sonny Stitt. Talk about learning jazz saxophone vocabulary! In my not so humble opinion, Stitt was THE 'Godfather' of modern/bebop saxophone vocabulary/licks.
Plus, reading transcriptions from the likes of Brecker, Stitt, Coltrane, etc., sure as hell test ones reading abilities! That's now I sees it!;-) John.
Phil, I don't think any of us (obviously, including myself) are silly enough to think that we'll ever have the technical ability that Brecker had, but much like playing ANY transcription(s), for me it's simply about trying to see and play things that wouldn't naturally come out of my horn and to maybe 'steal' little snippets here 'n there, hoping to incorporate some of those things into my own playing. I think it's ALL about trying to expand our saxophone vocabulary and can be very inspiring (frustrating too!). I'm a HUGE admirer of what Michael Brecker did, but will also say that I don't try to sound like him. Hell, I can't!
One thing I do a lot is to play a bunch of the transcriptions that Miles Osland did (on Charles McNeal's site) of Sonny Stitt. Talk about learning jazz saxophone vocabulary! In my not so humble opinion, Stitt was THE 'Godfather' of modern/bebop saxophone vocabulary/licks. Plus, reading transcriptions from the likes of Brecker, Stitt, Coltrane, etc., sure as hell test ones reading abilities! That's now I sees it!;-) John Thanks John for taking the time to explain why one would transcribe someone like Brecker.
I know he talked about transcribing a lot.
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