Inside the saxophone and the clarinet

This article is a guest article. We are happy to invite Syos artist Joe Trahan who is sharing with us today his journey as a saxophonist and his story with Syos. I hope you will enjoy this piece which really comes from his heart.

I'm really happy to present you Mammal Hands' new album: Gift from the Trees.

You're a saxophonist beginner and you want to learn in the best conditions? In this article, we wil detail the 7 biggest mistakes while starting saxophone and how you can avoid it!

Choosing which type of saxophone to play is not an easy task. All of them are different because of their physical characteristics, their tonality or the register in which you want to play them. In this article, we will explain you all this in detail to help you make your choice with the maximum of information!

In this article, we'll provide some tips and strategies for beginning to improvise in music, including the basics of improvisation, understanding scales and chords, approaches to improvisation, and tips for practicing and improving your improvisation skills.

For this 6th episode, I interviewed Seun Kuti, a mythic Afrobeat saxophonist and leader of the band Egypt 80! Together, we talked about his childhood, how he began saxophone and his first step in the group Egypt 80. But we also talk about his strong conviction and how he manages to use his music in politics. 

On this 5th episode, I interviewed two great musicians: Daro Behroozi and Rogerst Charles from the famous brass band Lucky Chops! Together we talked about how to run a music band, to grow its fame, to auto-produce an album, to tour and a lot of other things about music career.

On this 4th episode, I was really glad to interview the great Neal Sugarman, tenor sax player with the Dap-Kings (Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse) and co-founder of the label Daptone Records (Lee Fields, Antibalas, Charles Bradley...). Together we dived into the world of music labels.

Do you know everything there is to know about the saxophone's history? And about Adolphe Sax, the man who invented it? Let us tell you all about it in this article