{"id":22084,"date":"2014-11-25T20:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=22084"},"modified":"2019-08-12T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:54:01","slug":"great-lenny-pickett-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/great-lenny-pickett-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lenny Pickett Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I just found these videos on Youtube a few minutes ago and started watching them. \u00a0Lenny Pickett is a tenor sax player known to almost all saxophone players. \u00a0If you have ever watched Saturday Night Live, you have heard Lenny Pickett. \u00a0He&#8217;s the sax player in the middle of the TV screen playing notes so high that you wouldn&#8217;t think they could come out of a saxophone. \u00a0He has the reputation of being one of the masters of the saxophone altissimo register. \u00a0After watching these\u00a0videos it is apparent to me that he is the master of a lot more than just the altissimo register. \u00a0He delves into slap tonguing, \u00a0circular breathing, altissimo playing, alternate fingerings\u00a0and\u00a0multiphonics, \u00a0 He also plays a few other instruments along the way that reinforce what a great musician Lenny Pickett is. (In part 5 he plays a recording and he says it took 72 instruments in total to record and he played all the parts!!) \u00a0He sounds amazing\u00a0on all of them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2014\/LPickett.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is worth listening to! \u00a0(He even reveals talks about his\u00a0mouthpiece and bass clarinet reed&#8230;&#8230;..) \u00a0As you watch the videos it is evident how much Mr. Pickett loves music! \u00a0Check out part 4 where he is playing different recordings (his favorite recording in the world) for the high school kids&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;He is so passionate about it. \u00a0Don&#8217;t miss the playing he does with the recording in part\u00a0either. \u00a0So much emotion and feeling!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I also love his honesty and humility. \u00a0He even admits in video 5 how he doesn&#8217;t know any jazz standards (the melodies)&#8230;&#8230;..Wow! \u00a0 I also love his honesty at 11:00-12:00 in part 5 about going into music and making a living at it&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I found this video clinic very inspiring and motivational! \u00a0 \u00a0Thanks\u00a0for this great clinic Mr. Pickett\u00a0but also thanks for all the funky and soulful sax solos every Saturday night since I was a kid&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.they have helped not only motivate me but so many other sax player over the years&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. \u00a0Enjoy!!! \u00a0 Let me know what hits you or what you think in the comments section below&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m57vAeV7wCY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lenny Pickett Clinic 1 of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QW9tModHGjU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lenny Pickett Clinic 2\u00a0of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dGQYCGFkFi8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lenny Pickett Clinic 3\u00a0of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RfWDJFAijV0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lenny Pickett Clinic 4\u00a0of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Oy3gbw9jNc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lenny Pickett Clinic 5\u00a0of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found these videos on Youtube a few minutes ago and started watching them. \u00a0Lenny Pickett is a tenor sax player known to almost all saxophone players. \u00a0If you have ever watched Saturday Night Live, you have heard Lenny Pickett. \u00a0He&#8217;s the sax player in the middle of the TV screen playing notes so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":22101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,244],"tags":[1219,1323,716,1218,357,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-22084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jazz-education","8":"category-jazz-videos","9":"tag-clinic","10":"tag-jazz-education","11":"tag-jazz-sax","12":"tag-lenny-pickett","13":"tag-masterclass","14":"tag-tenor-saxophone","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}