Ten modal journeys over living drones, for the player whose practice has gone flat. A practice, the way meditation is a practice.
66-page guide + 10 drone tracks · Instant digital download
You remember the first year on your instrument: every note was a discovery. Now you run the same patterns, reach for the same licks, and walk away from the horn feeling like you clocked out of a shift.
More technique hasn't fixed it, and another etude book won't either. You have plenty of discipline. What's missing is a way to practice for meaning instead of progress.
I'm Tito Silversax, saxophonist based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Somewhere between the scale sheets and the metronome, most of us lose the thing that made us pick up the instrument. I built this practice to find it again. It has no assignments, no grades, and no technique to master. You sit down, the drone starts, and you play.
Arrive before you play. Breath, posture, and a moment of silence before the first sound.
Start the drone. Let your ear tune to it before your hands do anything.
Each journey opens with a guided visualization: a landscape to play from, drawn from the character of the mode.
Improvise inside the mode over the drone. Nothing to get right, nowhere to arrive. The in-session invitations keep you exploring.
Reflection questions close each session, so you carry something off the horn and into your day.
Ten modal journeys. Each one pairs a visualization, a musical map, in-session invitations, and reflection questions.
Full 30-minute, seamlessly looping drone tracks, one tuned to each journey. Press play and the room changes.
Settle, Listen, Visualize, Play, Reflect. A repeatable container that meets you differently every time you return to it.
Every journey mapped for B♭ and E♭ instruments, so saxophonists, trumpeters, and clarinetists can play straight from the page.
Harmonic material for the days you want to go deeper into each mode.
Run the ritual for a week and you stop warming up to get somewhere. You start playing to be somewhere. The drone holds the harmony, the visualization gives you a place to play from, and your ear takes over the job your habits used to do.
The ten journeys stay the same. You come back to them the way you come back to a sitting practice, and they meet you differently each time. That's the design.
No. A course ends. This is a practice, the way meditation is a practice. You return to the same ten journeys and they meet you differently each time. There are no assignments, no grades, and no technique to master.
Any instrument you can improvise on. The guide is written in concert pitch and includes a full transposition guide for B♭ and E♭ instruments.
If you can find the notes of a scale on your instrument, you have enough. Each journey gives you a musical map to play from, and the triad pair appendix is there when you want more harmonic depth.
It's the price of one private lesson. A lesson lasts an hour; this is a practice you run for years. Ten journeys, ten full-length drone recordings, and a ritual that doesn't wear out with repetition.
Instant digital download through Kit: the 66-page guide plus all ten 30-minute drone tracks. Yours to keep, on any device.
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A Contemplative Music Practice in a Box
66-page guide · 10 full-length drone soundscapes
Instant digital download · No subscription · Yours to keep
The price of one lesson, for a practice you keep