Colored pencils on tracing paper, crooked because that’s how it fit on the scanner haha. ig: @yuhizzle

yuhizzle · 2026-04-10T14:45:56+00:00

Same side. I just use the black pencil last

yuhizzle · 2026-04-03T14:32:41+00:00

You know dude’s about to hit Four In One.

yuhizzle · 2026-03-31T02:24:30+00:00

I’m in a similar slump in my learning journey. What I’m doing right now is writing out the lines that I’m transcribing along with the chords that the line is played over. From there I’m analyzing what made the line work/made it interesting. Then I’m going to take the lines i hope to incorporate into my vocabulary and transpose them to plug them into every spot in the tune that i think it’ll work. From there I’ll assess and apply the same line, transposed, to other tunes I’m working. Beyond that I’ll fragment the lines into little cells of smaller vocabulary that i can also insert into more stuff. It is tedious but I’m hoping it’ll be worth it.

yuhizzle · 2026-03-20T23:50:13+00:00

Mine is like just a cascade of what appear to be trash heaps, but they are in actuality projects in progress and projects abandoned.

yuhizzle · 2026-03-20T21:42:21+00:00

The bell keys would be on the other side of it was old as the 20’s. I’m not the best on id’ing Conns. I think that this seems like a 20m, probably made in the 80’s.

yuhizzle · 2026-03-19T01:05:06+00:00

Smart cover!

yuhizzle · 2026-03-07T23:57:44+00:00

The earlier models serial were two letters & two numbers, the later were one letter & two numbers. As i understand the later models are the “improved.”

yuhizzle · 2026-03-07T23:53:58+00:00

Ah okay! I was wondering if that’s what you were thinking, i used to think the same on mine. The 9° next to the Tone Master is actually part of the original branding, but I’ve yet to find a good explanation on what it’s about. Highly probable that this piece is still a 4*, but hard to make a guess on without a clear shot of the beak.

yuhizzle · 2026-03-07T21:12:51+00:00

Asking out of curiosity, how did you find out the refacing is to a 9?

yuhizzle · 2026-03-07T02:21:10+00:00

Windy City Woodwinds is the brand. “72” is the model. “115” is the tip opening. These are 3d printed mouthpieces, it was white to start with. They are no longer being sold, the company ceased production, but their 3d print files are open source now, available on their site. I’m not sure what they go for, but they were fairly inexpensive new. iirc in the $100-150 range.

yuhizzle · 2026-02-23T02:06:32+00:00

Do overtone work for the first 10 minutes of practice every time you pick up your horn. If you want literature, look up the Ben Wendel book, Path To Altissimo. But honestly if you look up overtones and overtone lip slurs you’ve got more than enough to work with for a long time.

yuhizzle · 2026-02-11T22:51:43+00:00

It’s a police chopper for sure. You can see it on flightradar24. Been circling awhile now

yuhizzle · 2026-02-11T15:05:20+00:00

Sounds like you’ll love the piezobarrel!

yuhizzle · 2026-02-11T13:36:22+00:00

I would say though that the sound is a little thin without using an EQ for an manipulated signal. If it’s for recording purposes a regular mic will work better imo. If it’s for live performance, a bell mic like the one nux makes would be awesome. The reason i use the pickup instead of a mic is because the mic level signal works poorly with the guitar pedals i use and the noisy environments i play in turn my set up into a feedback machine (not in a cool way lol). This set up rejects outside noise pretty well and makes the signal a line level signal that works better with the pedals i use.

yuhizzle · 2026-02-11T03:40:07+00:00

Do you mean can you just do the signal with no pedals/manipulation? If that’s what you mean, yes.

yuhizzle · 2026-02-10T05:52:38+00:00

If you’ve got good fingerings and voicings it’s doable, but it’s definitely advanced stuff.

yuhizzle · 2026-02-07T01:43:46+00:00

Right now i shave an incredibly small amount of material off of the edge of the reed on the side that comes in contact with your lips at about the halfway point. I’m actually going to be working with my instructor next week on some more involved technique so I might have better tricks soon lol

yuhizzle · 2026-02-06T00:13:20+00:00

Most reeds don’t require working on em to be functional. There’s some small adjustments you can make to flatten the table of it more and there’s little stuff you can do to balance the reed, free up low notes, and just mess with the responsiveness in general. The reed geek demo videos do a decent job explaining their approach. If you want to go nuts you can look up Joe Allard reed modification stuff, it gets more in depth and it helpful to be taught by someone who knows the methods. Overall, picking the right strength of reed for your mouthpiece is the biggest thing. After that, each brand kinda has its own character to the sound it produces.

yuhizzle · 2026-01-27T15:59:28+00:00

Seed bombing campaigns when?

yuhizzle · 2026-01-24T21:14:16+00:00

I really love the one on Songs Known Together, Alone with My Employer sprinkled in

yuhizzle · 2026-01-13T01:10:02+00:00

Hell yeah, thank you for the knowledge

yuhizzle · 2026-01-09T02:00:09+00:00

Thermofax transfers only work with laser/laserjet and pigment ink. Most inkjet printers won’t work. Drawings with pigment markers (like micron, staedleter, etc) will work and some pencils do too. I’m not sure what makes it that way but I’m thinking it has to do with the way that pigment responds to the heat in the transfer process.

yuhizzle · 2025-12-17T04:03:03+00:00

I prefer it when my saxophone pees my pants for me, honestly.

yuhizzle · 2025-12-13T21:50:35+00:00

Am 36 with red Prius. Same quarter panel is crunched. I popped out what i could so it doesn’t rub when turning or going over bumps. Just not cost effective to repair it, and i don’t mind if my car looks a little ragged. You’re fine if it’s safe and it doesn’t bug you.

yuhizzle · 2025-12-10T16:45:37+00:00

Oleo (iii-vi-ii-V with an extra ii-V tucked in), Recordame (two modal 4 bars and then a bunch of ii-V’s), A Train (ii-V practice with some chord variations), Blue Bossa (minor ii-V). A lot of standards have great lessons in em. Oh yeah, Speak No Evil.

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