found the fingers - but want to sound the sound!

practising proceeding chez moi - except not yesterday because I was doing a gig-thing.

Friday night I was sounding AWFUL on the alto - less so on the tenor! - although the alto did sound better after I'd swopped reeds around. Today I did 3 slots (all on the alto) of about an hour each - scales, exercises etc in the first (including a cute little scales-as-tunes-with-funky-cd-backing book! - virtually all the way through) then more sight-reading of tunes with long notes & long phrases in order to work on the tone (will I ever make that sax-sound that melts you from your belly-button outwards & makes your scalp & toes tingle?) - also mostly backing cd stuff (postcards from abroad book & Razzamajazz book, easy notes so could work on sound, sound, sound & sound) and the third slot I played my Grade 1 programme with the cd backing-tracks for the first time - played it to Liz later on too.
I think I'll do
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" from the blues&roots section

"Mack the Knife" from the standards section
&
"Oye Como Va" from the contemporary jazz section.

busking's not a problem, as per usual - but I sooooooo want the sound to happen NOW.
I've now got all the notes from low Bflat to high C (2 leger lines) under my fingers - but it's not the fingers that make the tone, unfortunately.
I look forward to practising sax - and even if I intend just to pik it up & tootle for a minute I just don't want to put it down until I actually can't play it any more. I just wish the tone-turnaround would happen immediately so I can enjoy it even MORE!!! how col will that beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!