I love Patrick Bartley so much. Dude is not only one of the best musicians alive right now but he’s such an inspiring and well-rounded person. I look up to him so much.
Great stuff FF, nice to see you showing a bit of depth in your personality, you have indeed done some of the real work to get good and continue to improve…you don’t mention so much the whistle and it’s influence in your music, but would say its largely joyous…much kudos to you and every success bro
I LOVE your content, Foolish! I've had musician friends my whole life and just really love the vibe! I hope you have a long and fantastic career. You'd be a fantastic teacher with your personality if you ever need a change.
I love that you're digging into bluegrass. There are a lot of gatekeepers who say that you have to play a string instrument if you want to play bluegrass. But I know that, despite them sometimes being hard to find, there are also bluegrass musicians who love hearing new and different sounds added to the genre, regardless the instrument. I hope you know, or find some, of the more easygoing types. I'd love to hear some saxy bluegrass.
Thank you so much!! I've definitely come across people who are not interested in hearing saxophone in bluegrass (especially at jams) but usually after I play a song or two they end up enjoying it! Just gotta keep getting out there and playing, I enjoy it afterall:)
Way late to this video, but I really wanted to chime in & let you know how validating it is hearing that you only completed one semester of music school, and are out and gigging regularly nonetheless! I was able to complete 3 semesters of Jazz Studies before switching to audio engineering. Neither of which I could hack, and I can completely relate to being miserable. My applied lessons Trumpet professor was insanely good, but he taught Trumpet like a football coach which left me pretty disillusioned to the whole thing (RIP Stephen Jones) Anyway - Thank you for the great content Frankie! Keep up the good work, you're going places!
WOAH DUDE - talk about blowing up. You posted this on Mar 30 and said you have 33k subs but today it's Apr 15 and you now have 219k. That's crazy!! Congrats! I just discovered your channel when the shorts started randomly popping up in my feed. I always loved the alto sax and wanted to play when I was in middle school (6th grade) but back then, an entry level sax was like $450....yeah this was back in the late 70s.....and my dad said it was too expensive. So he made me play trumpet because it only cost $150. Played until I was 16 because in HS, marching band was SO DAMNED FUN BUT all the cute girls were not in band and I wanted to hang out with them. Plus by that time I was totally burned out on sax. Anyways - my favorite saxophonists back then were David Sanborn and Grover Washington Jr...but really Sanborn was it for me. His album "As We Speak" has so many amazing memories associated with it. Great stuff!! If you don't know him, he was the saxophonist on the David Bowie song Young Americans and was SUPER popular throughout the 80s and 90s. Really awesome dude. Anyways, keep up the great work
Ahh thanks so much!! The growth has been crazy lately. Sorry you didn’t have the chance to pick up saxophone back then:/ it’s never too late to start though especially if you enjoy it! Thanks so much for watching🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks for the content. I like what you do over here, even if I'm not a musician and can't play a single instrument. I can appreciate how much you enjoy it and how humble and nice you are. We need more Frankies in this world
I don’t know much about saxophone players, but I’ve been listening to Grace Kelly lately and I’ve enjoyed her music (I’m a big fan of the Michael Connelly “Bosch” novels and the Amazon Video show that was made from them, and Connelly has a ton of jazz references in those books, so he mentioned Grace Kelly, and then she recorded a song “Blues for Harry Bosch,” which got me listening to her music)
I was not expecting him to only be playing a year longer than I have. I wish I focused a lot more on jazz than classical stuff because when it comes to that it’s almost like I’m a beginner in comparison to you
I wanted to learn sax when I was younger, but my school would make us either play flute or clarinet before learning sax. I remember going into 5th grade we did an instrument test and I got a good sound with the clarinet, but I ended up going into choir instead or band or orchestra. Lol. I was already taking piano lessons and later started playing guitar. too. Still love sax and those sax licks/runs that you don't really hear in other instruments. I may try my hand at learning sax in the future. Either way, it's one of my favorite instruments to listen to and watch being played.
That’s cool that you went to UNT for a little bit there, I had a lesson with Professor Leali one time and he kicked my ass lol but I was better because of it. What was the best/worst part of your time there, everyone I’ve talked to who’ve done their undergrad there have told me to steer clear
I definitely learned a lot in my short time there. I had a lot of other things going on that made school in general really difficult so I don’t know how much of it was that vs the school itself
@@FoolishFrankie don't know what vids this person is watching. U always show personality. Omg ur smile? Um, yes please. Keep up the great work and stay funky!
Love ya. Around 12 min tho I recommend ppl get through some mouthpieces, it can be a day and night difference, dont be a douchnozzle and try hard but like I said, he said anatomy and stuff...the mouthpeaces differ and can! make a squeel a proper tone.
@@FoolishFrankie Oh yeah I went auto-projecting, if this is a word, and not an expert but had an epiphany much much later in life. Lemme just say nobody heard me screaming in my car when I got a new Rousseau ...I wasn`t "sophisticating" but diosmio I got it finally.
Can you like link the saxophone you have or anything because I am 6th grade and am in the jazz band for alto sax, I would love to buy a new and improved sax.
Hello. I'm a new sub and I am enjoying your channel. My friend plays sax, so I've found myself interested in people that play. You're awsome!! I'm going to have my son friend you on Fortnight. His name is MamaGenie (long story...lol).
Hey man, I’m wondering if you would be interested in creating the sound track for a short film we are making? Comment here and we can talk more. If not thank you for the awesome content!!! I love your stuff ❤️
@FoolishFrankie oh just making it day by day and I have a question about a song I saw on Instagram or some platform that you did a cover of and that was star boy. Do you ever plan on releasing the full cover?
small criticism; you don’t need to add those little pieces of text next to you when you think you need to add context in post, the organic part of you just speaking into a camera overrides any benefit that, sprinkled pieces of hindsight littered through your video, could add. edit: something that might be less impactful is editing your video to flow better/ cut pieces that don’t fit in post.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. If you watch my other videos you’ll notice I don’t do this nearly as much. I felt it was necessary for this QnA video to provide as much context and depth to my answer as possible. I also didn’t change the order as much as I would with other videos as the point of this is not to be super attention grabbing and viral like some videos. I just wanted to answer the questions I got and provide time stamps for people to jump around to hear whatever answers they wanted. Thanks!
@@FoolishFrankie :) Love seeing you improve, your hairs great in this btw too. If I’d seen your q&a before this video had come out, I would have asked about presentation, like; ‘what percentage of your desirability as a musician do you think is charm/ self presentation, clothes, etc?’. Looking forward to your next post.
I love Patrick Bartley so much. Dude is not only one of the best musicians alive right now but he’s such an inspiring and well-rounded person. I look up to him so much.
Me too!!
OMG I WAS IN DA VIDEO
Yooooooo cool man :D
Thanks for the question:)
From CZcams short to one of a fan here. Keep up your work really love your mindset and personality 🫶🏼
Same here! Thank you CZcams algorithm for introducing me!
Thank you so much!!🥺
Great stuff FF, nice to see you showing a bit of depth in your personality, you have indeed done some of the real work to get good and continue to improve…you don’t mention so much the whistle and it’s influence in your music, but would say its largely joyous…much kudos to you and every success bro
Hey thanks so much Jimu I appreciate the kind words and you watching!🙏🏻🙏🏻
I think it's so funny how you were talking about how difficult burnout is to deal with while the Mario Kart lick was playing in the background
Lmaaaooo😂
@@FoolishFrankie represents me in a nutshell
I LOVE your content, Foolish! I've had musician friends my whole life and just really love the vibe! I hope you have a long and fantastic career. You'd be a fantastic teacher with your personality if you ever need a change.
Ahh thank you so much I appreciate the kind words!!🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love watching these videos and recognizing some of the people asking questions.
That’s what community is all about!!
Frankie
Watching the reaction of those enjoying your music brings me joy.
Thank you.
Glad you enjoy it!🥺
I love that you're digging into bluegrass. There are a lot of gatekeepers who say that you have to play a string instrument if you want to play bluegrass. But I know that, despite them sometimes being hard to find, there are also bluegrass musicians who love hearing new and different sounds added to the genre, regardless the instrument. I hope you know, or find some, of the more easygoing types. I'd love to hear some saxy bluegrass.
Thank you so much!! I've definitely come across people who are not interested in hearing saxophone in bluegrass (especially at jams) but usually after I play a song or two they end up enjoying it! Just gotta keep getting out there and playing, I enjoy it afterall:)
Way late to this video, but I really wanted to chime in & let you know how validating it is hearing that you only completed one semester of music school, and are out and gigging regularly nonetheless!
I was able to complete 3 semesters of Jazz Studies before switching to audio engineering. Neither of which I could hack, and I can completely relate to being miserable. My applied lessons Trumpet professor was insanely good, but he taught Trumpet like a football coach which left me pretty disillusioned to the whole thing (RIP Stephen Jones)
Anyway - Thank you for the great content Frankie! Keep up the good work, you're going places!
Glad I could provide some comfort!! Everyone has their own path. Thanks for watching🙏🏻🙏🏻
"just" "a" saxofon player?? 👀 That's an understatement... You are a great saxofon player!
I appreciate the kind words 🙏🏻🙏🏻
congrats on nearly 300k !! this will be your main source of income soon!
foolish frankie is my idol 💥💥
You’re my idol!!
Very well posed questions and the answers are very accurate. A very good video ^_^
Thank you very much!😎
Thanks for putting my coment i been playing saxophone for about a month and you have really helped me get better.
Ahh that's awesome to hear!! Thanks for the question!!🙏🏻
WOAH DUDE - talk about blowing up. You posted this on Mar 30 and said you have 33k subs but today it's Apr 15 and you now have 219k. That's crazy!! Congrats! I just discovered your channel when the shorts started randomly popping up in my feed. I always loved the alto sax and wanted to play when I was in middle school (6th grade) but back then, an entry level sax was like $450....yeah this was back in the late 70s.....and my dad said it was too expensive. So he made me play trumpet because it only cost $150. Played until I was 16 because in HS, marching band was SO DAMNED FUN BUT all the cute girls were not in band and I wanted to hang out with them. Plus by that time I was totally burned out on sax.
Anyways - my favorite saxophonists back then were David Sanborn and Grover Washington Jr...but really Sanborn was it for me. His album "As We Speak" has so many amazing memories associated with it. Great stuff!! If you don't know him, he was the saxophonist on the David Bowie song Young Americans and was SUPER popular throughout the 80s and 90s. Really awesome dude.
Anyways, keep up the great work
Ahh thanks so much!! The growth has been crazy lately. Sorry you didn’t have the chance to pick up saxophone back then:/ it’s never too late to start though especially if you enjoy it! Thanks so much for watching🙏🏻🙏🏻
I too also play the saxophone (alto) but I actually started with clarinet I also play jazz on both :D
Love u and ur channel and ur awesome sound!🎉 big fan
Thanks for the kind words🥺
@@FoolishFrankie u read my comment! Yay!🥰🤗💖
Stayed to the very end. Reward or torture, it was cool.
Thank you so much I appreciate you🥺🙏🏻
Thanks for the content. I like what you do over here, even if I'm not a musician and can't play a single instrument. I can appreciate how much you enjoy it and how humble and nice you are. We need more Frankies in this world
The goat himself
Not me😱🙌🏻
I don’t know much about saxophone players, but I’ve been listening to Grace Kelly lately and I’ve enjoyed her music (I’m a big fan of the Michael Connelly “Bosch” novels and the Amazon Video show that was made from them, and Connelly has a ton of jazz references in those books, so he mentioned Grace Kelly, and then she recorded a song “Blues for Harry Bosch,” which got me listening to her music)
I was not expecting him to only be playing a year longer than I have.
I wish I focused a lot more on jazz than classical stuff because when it comes to that it’s almost like I’m a beginner in comparison to you
I’m sure you’re far more proficient at classical than me though because I’ve hardly studied it!! There are trade offs to both!
Great stuff man
Thank you bro!!🙏🏻
Well, you answered one of the questions.. but it's a bit hard to give tips on something you can't do to begin with😂😂
Yeah I’m sorry I figured it’s better for me to know when to give advice and when not to!! I appreciate your question though:)
@@FoolishFrankie All good! I guess we both have to learn..😂
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO I WAS CAUGHT SO OFF GUARD WITH THE RAPID FIRE ANSWERS
Thank you for answering them
LOL thanks for asking them!!
I wanted to learn sax when I was younger, but my school would make us either play flute or clarinet before learning sax. I remember going into 5th grade we did an instrument test and I got a good sound with the clarinet, but I ended up going into choir instead or band or orchestra. Lol. I was already taking piano lessons and later started playing guitar. too. Still love sax and those sax licks/runs that you don't really hear in other instruments. I may try my hand at learning sax in the future. Either way, it's one of my favorite instruments to listen to and watch being played.
All I can think of right now is how I feel this is something I can see The Horne Section do and tbh I’m not mad ❤
Frankie how do you learn to play by ear? Like how do you follow the other people during your gigs?
This process but sped up and live! czcams.com/video/aNUg5hChLHc/video.html
Woah, you hit 33k subs two weeks ago? As I write this, you have 229k. Bro blew up!
Thank you so much it’s been crazy lately🥺🙏🏻
As a fellow sax player, who is interested in doing the stuff you do in the future, this video was very enlightening. Ta.
Thanks for watching!
You should play with Masego, that would be earth shattering !
There are actually more pieces for classical saxophone now than for clarinet OR flute! (at least, that's what i was taught in music school)
Interesting, still less gigs😂
That’s cool that you went to UNT for a little bit there, I had a lesson with Professor Leali one time and he kicked my ass lol but I was better because of it. What was the best/worst part of your time there, everyone I’ve talked to who’ve done their undergrad there have told me to steer clear
I definitely learned a lot in my short time there. I had a lot of other things going on that made school in general really difficult so I don’t know how much of it was that vs the school itself
@@FoolishFrankie ok gotcha, I hope you’re doing better now!
Great vid 💯
Glad you enjoyed!🙏🏻
:) thid video helped me realize you have a wider range of personality than i thought. And dont worry, i too like burning every tree down in Minecraft.
LOL sorry I guess I need to show more of it in my videos! And I’m glad I’m not alone 😎🔥
@@FoolishFrankie don't know what vids this person is watching. U always show personality. Omg ur smile? Um, yes please. Keep up the great work and stay funky!
Love ya. Around 12 min tho I recommend ppl get through some mouthpieces, it can be a day and night difference, dont be a douchnozzle and try hard but like I said, he said anatomy and stuff...the mouthpeaces differ and can! make a squeel a proper tone.
Yeah definitely, just not early on. I find young musicians end up changing mouthpieces too often then and never develop enough on one mouthpiece.
@@FoolishFrankie Oh yeah I went auto-projecting, if this is a word, and not an expert but had an epiphany much much later in life. Lemme just say nobody heard me screaming in my car when I got a new Rousseau ...I wasn`t "sophisticating" but diosmio I got it finally.
loved it
I appreciate you watching!
Best starting Sax to buy? How much should I be spending?
I'm a big fan of the Jean Paul student alto, I wouldn't spend more than like $700-800 on your first horn. Could always rent to decide if you like it!
are you going to make a vid about the Phil barone tenor you’re borrowing? just like a little review
Hmmm maybe!
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Thanks for your help:)
@@FoolishFrankie ofc!
Can you like link the saxophone you have or anything because I am 6th grade and am in the jazz band for alto sax, I would love to buy a new and improved sax.
I play an eastman 52nd st but just play your student alto for awhile!
Until this year I had never played alto. Do you have any tips on hitting the top notes?
Practice overtone exercises to learn the voicing!
I play tenor and i'm in my schools jazz band. I was wondering should I learn vibrato?
Definitely. You should be able to turn it on and off
Where can I find the gig income breakdown video?
Linked in the description!
How can i find you to request songs, i have a very serious jazz list for you bro
I don't really do requests other than randomly on Omegle
Hello. I'm a new sub and I am enjoying your channel. My friend plays sax, so I've found myself interested in people that play. You're awsome!! I'm going to have my son friend you on Fortnight. His name is MamaGenie (long story...lol).
"We just hit 30k subs!" Checks current sub count. 495k ! Whoa, what a year!
It’s been crazy!🙏🏻🙏🏻
Are you a full time musician?
I do content creation too
Does doing CZcams content fit your more introverted personality better?
Definitely. But if I go too long without playing gigs I start to go crazy. I need a balance of both, but I haven’t figured out how much of each yet
Best Saxophonists are all both dead and alive 11:00
What are sound exercises?
Exercises that improve your sound
When are you gonna post some covers on Spotify
I have one! It’s pure imagination
@@FoolishFrankie I know it’s already added but I’m gonna need more
You’re here for 12:57
HII
Hello!
@@FoolishFrankie HEYY I PLAY SAX TOO I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
Hey man, I’m wondering if you would be interested in creating the sound track for a short film we are making? Comment here and we can talk more. If not thank you for the awesome content!!! I love your stuff ❤️
Possibly! Send an email to foolishfrankie@gmail.com
Someone tell me how to ask them questions? Do you go on a different social media app or something? Cause oh boy I got a box of ammo here to release
I posted a community tab post for this one but I’ll make sure to post another next time I do a QnA!
@@FoolishFrankie cheers man 🥂
do a flip
only if u subscribe
Hey Frankie how are you doing brother
I’m good how about you?:)
@FoolishFrankie oh just making it day by day and I have a question about a song I saw on Instagram or some platform that you did a cover of and that was star boy. Do you ever plan on releasing the full cover?
I feel you and as of right now no but maybe someday!
small criticism; you don’t need to add those little pieces of text next to you when you think you need to add context in post, the organic part of you just speaking into a camera overrides any benefit that, sprinkled pieces of hindsight littered through your video, could add.
edit: something that might be less impactful is editing your video to flow better/ cut pieces that don’t fit in post.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. If you watch my other videos you’ll notice I don’t do this nearly as much. I felt it was necessary for this QnA video to provide as much context and depth to my answer as possible.
I also didn’t change the order as much as I would with other videos as the point of this is not to be super attention grabbing and viral like some videos. I just wanted to answer the questions I got and provide time stamps for people to jump around to hear whatever answers they wanted. Thanks!
@@FoolishFrankie :) Love seeing you improve, your hairs great in this btw too.
If I’d seen your q&a before this video had come out, I would have asked about presentation, like;
‘what percentage of your desirability as a musician do you think is charm/ self presentation, clothes, etc?’.
Looking forward to your next post.