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A 17 Year Old Plays Coltrane Giant Steps On a Selmer MK VI Alto Saxophone

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Uploaded by on Aug 21, 2011

A fairly short clip of A 17 Year Old Playing Coltrane Giant Steps On a Selmer MK VI Alto Saxophone. I have a new setup since my last videos. The mouthpiece and ligature are made by Drake Mouthpieces. Aaron Drake custom made this one with just right amount of baffle.

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  • Very nice u young rascal

  • @sirrich0608

    :-)~

  • I hate when people put their age on an instrumental video like it matters. if your good your good no matter what the age and the same rule applies if you suck

  • @PHSMustangSAXPlayer

    I think in my case it is not for good or suck, it is for my own growth timeline, if you looked at my whole list of videos, it shows my growth from when I was 13 till now as a 17 yr old. So relax, it is not meant for anything else.

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  • Geez Dad, thanks...

  • Freaking amazing. I'm a guitar player and I know nothing about the sax, but I love Coltrane and you nailed this! Keep it up!

  • wow! how did you get the notes?

    I want them to!!

  • That was very good just remember getting the right notes is just step 1. Keep playing it over and over again until you get all of his articulations and inflections.

  • im impressed you went all the way to transcribe it, and for alto instead of tenor. but on a long enough timeline, anyone could play this piece if they spent enough time working on it. how about you compose something yourself instead of playing someone else's music? that's the trouble with jazz musicians these days, they're too used to playing someone else's music and not enough with making their own. same goes for classical players as well.

  • I transcribed part of the solo once (6 choruses). I gave up when trane started playing 16th notes. =p

  • memorizing solos is fun and really educational, but don't forget to explore your own voice - slow that track wayyyyyy down and try soloing over the changes yourself. Experiment with different combinations of Coltrane's licks and try to come up with your own

  • sounds better on tenor lol but yea man u ripped it

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