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10/05/2026

Music Performance Degrees Are a Scam. There, I said it. 🎷🤷

Look — you might disagree, and that's totally fine. If music school was the best decision you ever made, I'm genuinely happy for you. This is just my honest take after years of gigging.

Here's what I see:
📉 Only about 1 in 4 college grads work in a job closely related to their major.
📉 The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 0% job growth for musicians and singers through 2035.
🎤 And not one bandleader has ever asked me where I went to school.

They ask: Can you play? Will you show up on time? Are you cool to hang with?

And if you never went to music school? Good news — the stuff that makes you good (your ear, your time, your sound) was never taught in a degree anyway.

Would you jump out of that plane? Tell me in the comments 👇

🎯 Free live training on the skills that actually get you hired: https://smpl.is/ancp1
Or you can register in my link tree in the bio. 👆

10/02/2026

People Decide If They Like Your Sax Playing in 5 Seconds 🎷

And it's not your licks. It's not your scales. It's not how fast you can play.

They're listening for three things:

3️⃣ Time — they don't hear it, they feel it.
2️⃣ Intonation — they can't name it, but they know when something's off.
1️⃣ Sound — the very first thing anybody hears.

It took me years to figure out these mattered more than anything I was practicing.

Which one do you want to work on first? 👇

🎯 Free live training on how to work on all three: https://smpl.is/anb2k
Or you can register in my link tree in the bio. 👆

09/30/2026

If You're Not Transcribing Coltrane, You Might Be Stupid 🎷🤷

This is one of the first fast lines from "Countdown" off Giant Steps — and it's still humbling every time I play it.

Here's why you transcribe players like this: not to copy them, but to rebuild your ear from the inside out. When you learn a line like this by ear, you're not memorizing notes. You're learning how Coltrane heard harmony moving.

Your ear sets the ceiling on your playing. This is how you raise it.

Who are you transcribing right now? 👇

🎯 Free live training on how to actually learn by ear (and use what you transcribe): https://smpl.is/an95m
Or you can register in my link tree in the bio. 👆

09/30/2026

If you're constantly missing, your practice process sucks. 🎷

Here's the trap: you play the lick at full speed, miss it, play it again, miss it again. Twenty minutes later you're frustrated — and you just practiced the mistake twenty times.

If you're constantly missing, you don't have a talent problem. You have a process problem.

The practice that actually works is boring. Slow. Accurate. Repetitive.
But it gets you consistent results — and consistent results are what kill frustration.

1️⃣ Slow it down until you play it right every time.
2️⃣ Repeat it until it's boring. Seven clean in a row.
3️⃣ Only then, nudge the tempo up.

Get good at being bored, and you'll stop being frustrated. 👇

🎯 Free live training on the full practice system: https://smpl.is/an612
Or you can register in my link tree in the bio. 👆

09/28/2026

3 Signs You're a Better Sax Player Than You Think 🎷

If you practice every day — even 30 minutes — you're already ahead of most sax players. 🎷

But if you also do these three things, you're better than you think. Even if you're a beginner.

3️⃣ You're not easily satisfied. One clean take isn't the finish line. It's the starting line.
2️⃣ You attack problems the second they show up. Not tomorrow.
1️⃣ You're building a diagnostic. "I missed the high D" is a complaint. "My air collapsed on the high D" is a diagnosis.

Missing one? It's usually number one. 👀

How many do you have? Drop your number below. 👇

🎯 Free live training on how to diagnose exactly what's holding your playing back: https://smpl.is/an5ze

Or you can register in my link tree in the bio. 👆

09/22/2026

3 Lies Every Saxophone Player Tells Themselves 🎷

Three lies every saxophone player tells themselves. I've told all three. Some of them this week. 🎷

3️⃣ "I'll practice it tomorrow." Tomorrow-you is the same guy. Same horn, same brain, same avoidance. The thing you keep putting off IS the practice.

2️⃣ "If I had the right equipment, I'd sound way better." Charlie Parker played Massey Hall on a plastic saxophone. New gear won't make you sound better — you'll sound exactly like you, just more expensive.

1️⃣"I don't have time to practice." Go look at your screen time. I'll wait. 👀

Which one do you tell yourself the most? Drop the number below. 👇

🎯 Free live training on what to actually do with that time once you find it:
https://smpl.is/an1ik

Or you can register in my link tree in the bio. 👆

08/18/2026

Raw Do***ng a Chorus of Sonny Stitt 🎷😬

Sonny Stitt. "The Eternal Triangle." One chorus, no backing track. Just him in my ear and me trying to keep up. 🎷

Sometimes you just want to play that.

And one of the best things you can do for your playing is transcribe, get that player in your ear, and try to copy them as close as you possibly can.

You'll never get 100% like them. But the process of trying to sound like them is how you start to sound like you.

Who's in your ear right now? Drop the name below. 👇

🎯 Free live training on how to build that ear-to-horn connection: https://smpl.is/am9ve
Or you can register in my link tree in the bio. 👆

08/10/2026

Shedding Some Bb Rhythm Changes 🎷

This video was made with Musical Captions, an app that puts scrolling sheet music on your videos in real time without complicated editing. If you're a musician who makes content, this is about to change the game. We're opening it up to early users soon. Hit the link in my bio to join the waitlist and be one of the first to try it out 🎶

If you're a saxophone player who can hear what you want to play but can't get it out of your horn, I'm doing a free live webinar on Wednesday, August 12th at 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern. I'm breaking down the exact system I use to close the gap between your ear and your fingers. Spots are limited.

👉 Register here: https://smpl.is/am3fz
🔗 Or grab it in my bio in my link tree.

07/29/2026

Minor 11th Arpeggios Into the Stratosphere 😬

Minor 11th arpeggios ascending in half steps, all the way up into the extreme altissimo. Still a work in progress. Not perfect. But that's the point -- you don't wait until it's clean to put in the reps. You do the work and let the work clean it up.

This is what real practice looks like. No shortcuts. No hacks. Just showing up and running the drill.

If you want to understand how I think about the saxophone and how I help my students build real skills from the ground up, I'm doing a free live webinar:

📅 Saturday, August 1st
🕦 11:30 AM Pacific / 2:30 PM Eastern

👉 Register here: https://smpl.is/aluk3
🔗 or grab it in my link tree in the bio.

07/22/2026

🎷I Tried to Cover Baptiste Herbin's Insane Solo on "All The Things You Are" 😬

Baptiste Herbin is one of the most terrifying saxophone players alive. His solo on "All The Things You Are" is absolutely ridiculous, so naturally I had to try and learn it. 🎷

I transcribed the whole thing and put it on screen so you can follow along. Definitely check out his original recording because I probably don't do it justice 😂 but I did my best.

If you want to understand how players like this actually think through changes and build vocabulary, I break the whole process down in my free live webinar this Saturday, July 25th.

🎯 Register here: https://smpl.is/alob2
🔗 Or grab the link in my link tree in my bio.

🔔 Hope you'll follow and sub for more transcriptions, breakdowns, and real talk about getting better on the saxophone.

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