[Jim]

Originally Posted by fly135

Jim, trust me I'm giving myself all the credit I deserve. One thing that's slowing my posting is that I've got a lot of irons in the fire. I work on this a bit, Bad Moon Rising, the Hawaii 5 Oh track, Twist and Shout and other odds and ends. The good news is that I can tell that I am improving little by little on everything I'm working on. The bad news is that my tempo and timing when playing again a backing track is still horrible.

I record myself continually, so I really have a good idea of a lot of my flaws. But you will be seeing me post more stuff soon. Hopefully sooner than later. My ability to adlib solo stuff is pretty bad right now. That's why on this particular track I stuck to playing the sax part as best as I could get it.

I understand fly! As long as you're recording yourself and listening, then you are listening closely to the progress you're making, and I know that you'll know when you're ready to go online with your music.

Do you play regularly with a metronome (either a physical one or a free PC download)? That's helped me a lot with getting my tempo and timing better. Also, Ben helped me about with downloading ASIO drivers (I think that's the right name) for Audacity that minimize latency in recording on a computer (which makes it sound like your timing is off, when actually it's the computer not keeping up and recording you accurately). That's helped a lot also in my recordings at least sounding more like I actually played them!

Playing the sax part is a great way to get into soloing in this piece! If you can get that sound down, then doing some of your own variations on it will make your solos your own.

Jim