Multi-instrumentalist Eizaz Azhar demonstrates the JodyJazz Norteno mouthpiece in this video. The JodyJazz Norteño Alto Sax mouthpiece is a bright "free blowing" easy to play mouthpiece that captures the full range of tonal qualities of the instrument. The low register of the saxophone is full, round and strong, while the upper register is strong and bright sounding, and in tune. In addition, the altissimo register responds extremely well on the JodyJazz Norteño alto saxophone mouthpiece. The mouthpiece has a clean, focused sound with excellent projection, while maintaining extraordinary versatility.

Designed by Jody Espina, the JodyJazz Norteño alto sax mouthpiece, is the only saxophone mouthpiece around made specifically to meet the needs of the Hispanic saxophonist. Listening to the Hispanic saxophonists, this is an alto mouthpiece that's perfect for whatever your style of Latin Music. Saxophonists who play Rockero, Banda, Norteño, Durangense, Mariachi, Banda, Merengue, Salsa, Cumbia, will find the Norteño is made for them.

The Norteno has the bold sound of a metal mouthpiece with instant upper register response, with the control to stay in tune and the power to be heard as a lead instrument at the price of a high quality Hard Rubber Mouthpiece.

Equipment used: William entry-level saxophone JodyJazz Norteno 6 mouthpiece All equipment distributed and sponsored by Mama Treble Clef Studio and ER Studios

Recorded in ER Studios, arrangement by Eizaz Azhar. Camera & lighting by Ray Lee. Mixed and edited by Eizaz Azhar and Ray Lee. Directed by Ray Lee. For best listening results play video on large external speakers or a good pair of headphones as laptop speakers are unable to reproduce many of the frequencies.

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JodyJazz Story - What makes JodyJazz Special? Cool Stuff Innovative state of the art design and production, 3D modeling, CNC Multi Axis Machines, Craftsman detailed hand work. The Right Stuff Quality Control that only passes mouthpieces that look great, measure great and most importantly play great. That's why we have a 7-point inspection test that every mouthpiece must pass before it is approved including the magnified look test, measure test, pop test, and the all important play test. Jody Espina In 1999 Professional NYC Musician/Jazz Educator Jody Espina, met legendary saxophonist and mouthpiece maker Santy Runyon. Runyon ( see Runyon's bio) was the teacher of Espina's boyhood teacher Junie Ferrell. Jody recognized the unique energy and spirit of Santy and Santy recognized Jody's spirit and thirst for knowledge. Santy customized a mouthpiece to Jody's specifications and when Jody was in love with the mouthpiece it was Santy's idea to produce it for Jody and call it the JodyJazz mouthpiece. Word of Mouth Word got out about this special mouthpiece and orders started to pour in to Jody's New York City location. Although fully occupied as a player and teacher Jody saw the potential in a real business in mouthpieces, and over the next six years travelled to Opelousas, Louisina, seven or eight times a year. During this time Espina asked Runyon if he could prototype his own metal mouthpiece in the Runyon factory. Santy graciously agreed and gave Espina cartre blanche in the Runyon factory to work out a newly designed mouthpiece. With the indispensable help of Runyon employees Leroy Guilbeau and Blaine Moran Jody developed the ESP metal mouthpiece for all saxophones.

Multi-instrumentalist Eizaz Azhar runs through the basics of a drumkit in this crash course video along with a short performance. For those who want to know what the drums are all about, and a brief introduction to the drumkit this video (Beginner's Guide To The Drumkit) is for you! The demo song is called "River Crossing" from the Drummania/Bemani series. Eizaz can be found on Facebook; http://www.facebook.com/mamatreble

Equipment used: Fender Standard Jazz Bass '09 Laney RB9 TAMA Rockstar Drumkit '00 Zildjian/STAGG/SABIAN/Turkish Cymbals All equipment distributed and sponsored by Mama Treble Clef Studio and ER Studios

Recorded in ER Studios, arrangement by Eizaz Azhar. Camera & lighting by Ray Lee. Mixed and edited by Eizaz Azhar and Ray Lee. Directed by Ray Lee. For best listening results play video on large external speakers or a good pair of headphones as laptop speakers are unable to reproduce many of the frequencies.

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Scarlatti violin factory visit to Tianjin, China and we manage to complete another violin making courses .This trip is invited by the owner of the violin factory , Mr Deng of The Xiosheng violin factory of Tianjin.The weather here is about 14 Celsius during our visit and we are so amazed by the violin maker enthusiasm towards their job.The violin factory have about 58 workers and divided to a few departments.They have Luthier , carpentry , vanish , spraying, storage and QC department.I must say , they are very professional in handling their job.Everyday they received orders from all over the world.Is our great pleasure to meet a few famous luthier during our visit to China and they willing to share with us all the tips in the art of making violins.The factory can produce approximately 500 violins a day.Indeed is our honour to visit this factory and looking forward to come back here again.

Hi everyone! This is Eizaz here and today I'm here to talk about something called a "minuet". No, not "minute", "minuet". For those of you who study classical music I'm sure you may be wondering what the word means, especially since so many songs that we learn have it as a title!

Basically a minuet is a classical European dance originating from France. Its name is adapted from the Italian word "minuetto" meaning (small/little/delicate - in today's language, cute). The minuet is usually found in 3/4 time, meaning three beats per bar, however some composers have written quicker minuets in the time of 3/8 or even 6/8.

One of the most famous composers to expand the minuet was the Italian composer Jean-Baptiste de Lully, and after him continued by the great composer Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel. As such many of the European Baroque dances soon fell out of popularity but the minuet survived in many forms and even found its way into full orchestra pieces which are still played until today.

Perhaps one of the most famous of minuets is Bach's Minuet In G, copied from the "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach", which was a collection of popular pieces of music at the time. It is interesting to note that Bach did not compose the music; the composer of the piece was recognized in the 1970s as Christian Petzold.

Enjoy this piece of lovely music which has lasted for centuries - and many more centuries to come!

Good day! I would like to share my journey to Hong Kong and China last weeks with all MTCS students, teachers and customers.First of all the mission is to visit the 12th China Musical Instruments exhibition.Before the exhibition we stop at London based Hong Kong's Madam Tussuad Wax Musuem.A day trip to Hong Kong is quite fun because of the tight schedule and cold weather. We manage to visit the musuem at 12.30pm ,about an hour ago after we landed Chep Lap Kok International airport.Is very convenient to travel in HK with systematic transportation network like MTR and City buses.The people they is very informative and quite helpful.We spend almost 3 hour at the musuem .Is an eye -opener for us , the wax statue is so real and we can't believe our eyes.Many celebraties, sportmans , statemans and legends were display there.Among them is Princess Diana, Mahamat Gandhi , Hitler, Angelina Jolie , Brad Pitt , Maddona , Mozarts ,Micheal Jackson , Elvis Presley , The Beatles ,Anita Mui , Jacky Chan , Bruce Lee , Tiger Woods and many more.We manage to take every picture with all of them.It looks so real and their craftsmanship is the finest in the world.You can't stop taking picture with them.After an amazing journey in the different attraction halls,we check out the the peak for the superb panoramic view of HK city.Later, we went to the Victoria harbour by The Star Ferry service, founded in 1888, and provides scenic views of Hong Kong's skyline for its 53,000 daily passengers to view the most popular HK TVB movie scene - Hong Kong Victoria harbour skyline.Then we took a train to China at night.

A day later we went to the exhibition hall for the World Musical Instruments exhibition , where about 350 musical instruments manufacturer, supplier, retailer ,lovers and entrepreneurs from all over China , Europe and USA had exhibit their products there.Many of the world's top brand like P.Mauriat , Selmer ,Fender ,Gibson , Cremona violins , Marshall ,Steinway and sons had their latest products display there.We can see gu-zheng , er-hu, violins , guitars, drums, pianos , woodwinds like saxophone, tuba , clarinets, African percussion , piano accessories , music books, flutes , accordion and many more.You name it , you see it.We are amaze to see their enthusiastism towards music.Everywhere people play, listen ,appreciate music .Non stop action and movement,from thousand of violins and guitars to hundreds set of drums, from classical voice to heavy distortion effect.This exhibitions is really for hard core musicians like all of you.Musicians are free to test all instruments there.You can test all violins , saxophones ,guitars and drums there and nobody going to stop u. Just whack whatever u like.I can just simply instruct any musician there for demonstration and they feel happy for it.I remember I have just call a young man to test the soprano saxophone from one of the manufacturer booth from Tianjin. Without any hesitation , he just grab the saxophone and play it , wow! This is awesome! You have a lot of freedom there.The manufacturer is happy to see you testing theirs instruments in his booth because your demo can help them sells their products.I think this is the right way in doing musical instruments business.Let the musician have unlimited test but there must be a mutual understanding where you can't simply playing around or making fun of their instruments.Belittle the instruments , sarcastism and criticism among the customers had prevented many Malaysian musical instruments entrepreneurs in Kuala Lumpur in practicing this method. In the afternoon we have stop at this Italian Luthier Marco Piccinotti violins booth and we manage to have a chat with him.He is friendly and outgoing.He invite us to his hometown in San Polo D'enza , Italy.Piccinotti is one of the top ten violin luthier in Italy where he inherited his family skills-the art of making violins.His violins price range from USD 10,000 to USD 50,000.Piccinotti is the one who try to venture the Chinese market and he even created name card ,brochure and leaflet with Chinese characters.Besides him, we met a Malaysian , Mr Lim -he is the supplier for African drums and percussions.He love African instruments and his passion towards this instruments is in infinity.He started to venture this business since 3-4 years ago and he is influcing the mainland Chinese to love the African instruments like djembes, mandinka and ngoma drums. In this expo,we manage to see a lot of latest products like the digital disc piano , colourful violins , digital accordion , digital er hu , antique violins ,latest digital tuner , distortion, stagg amplifiers, concert grand piano and many more.Of course we never seen so many music exhibitors in Malaysia before , is only happen in China , Germany & the America! For all your information , China is the biggest musical instruments manufacturer in the world now.Pearl River is the most sell-able pianos in the world and the music industry there is growing tremendously.With support of 1.5 billion people and their government together with one child policy, every parents are giving their child the best education and music education is part of their menu.I hope one day , Malaysia will have this scenario where all musicians can find their heaven here - variety of musical instrument exhibitors at same roof.We need more music educators, lovers and entrepreneurs to contribute towards Malaysia music industry especially the music education progress.Let's think about the bigger picture and work towards a better Malaysia. For us , is a great experience to visit this expo and will come back again next year.Together we make music education accessible to everyone.