by Lynden Blades | Sep 27, 2025 | Performing & Playing Live
From a question to a lesson: Norman’s journey into playing with feeling Recently one of my clients, Norman, asked me a question that I’ve heard many times before, but which always carries weight: “How do you play with feeling on the saxophone?” It’s the kind of...
by Lynden Blades | Aug 9, 2025 | Performing & Playing Live
From beginner to wedding performer: Jonathan Currington’s saxophone journey In 2019, a gentleman named Jonathan Currington approached me with a wonderfully ambitious goal: he wanted to learn the saxophone from scratch so he could play Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always...
by Lynden Blades | Jul 15, 2024 | Performing & Playing Live, Vlog
My very first sax vlog… Making my first vlog was absolutely unknown territory for me. By the time I made this, I had produced well over 125 video tutorials for both YouTube and this website, but all of them had been studio-based. When confirmation for a very...
by Lynden Blades | Feb 20, 2024 | Performing & Playing Live
Playing in Public… …nothing will focus your practice like knowing that you have a gig coming up! This is a question that often gets asked when I’m teaching: should I play in front of my friends? People often want to, but they are understandably nervous....