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Hello, I'm discovering your channel and I've already become a fan. I'm Brazilian and I don't speak English. In your other videos, you enabled the TH-cam translator, but unfortunately, in this video there is no translation of the subtitles in other languages. Was this intentional? Note: I translated my writing using Google Translate. Thank you!

Fun!

Thank for the vidéo, what is your setup please ?

Excellent presentation. Thank you for this in-depth lesson on voicing👏🏽

great video! should one move the larynx like in yawning? Interestingly I saw in your video that when you play an high A your larynx is much lower than when you play lower notes (in the chromatic passage it is apparent). P.S any alto listening recommendations? (I listened to bird's with strings, cannonball, pepper with rythem section. )

Cool

I like the middle D with regular fingering without octave key and with palm D instead.

Great lesson. Thanks

If you can locate it, the SaxFAQ explains this and the mouthpiece exercise in great detail. I was teaching people to do this on the internet in 1994 when some Brits approached me and asked if they could post it in the SaxFAQ. I consented and was persuaded to write it for them. I described using the mouthpiece alone to play a scale starting on about concert A and using voicing to play the notes downward an octave. You can use vowel sounds to remember the positions. Then apply the same movements to the overtone series. Same vowels to remember positions of the tongue. Many people call it the Shooshie Mouthpiece Exercise, but I got the basic idea from Joe Allard, who played a scale on his mouthpiece for the audience at the World Sax Congress in Evanston Illinois in 1979. It affects literally every aspect of playing from double tonguing, circular breathing, altissimo, intonation, timbre, phrasing, and everything else. Glad to see that it’s becoming more widespread now. When I learned it, the reception to it was pretty much to ignore it. Then I began helping people online. ‘After the posting of the SaxFAQ, I got letters from literally thousands of people (email, and a few on paper!) from all around the world, who each said that it was the key that opened up their playing even after years of lessons with teachers who had no concept of this. This is the singular most important technique you can learn on saxophone. All wind instruments use this to some degree, but it’s critical on saxophone, which can be like a kazoo in its flexibility. This controls that kazoo-like mess and turns it into a musical instrument. Thanks for sharing this! I feel vindicated! -- Shooshie www.bobrk.com/saxfaq/2.6.html

Excellent content. Thanks

What kind of microphone do you use?

Really awesome video! I love this series!

I am happy you covered Hasbrook. I was going to mention it. :-D I would just add that Hasbrook claimed going down a minor third was the way to create a jazz sound.

wow, you might actually have changed my life with that bit about the same embouchure up the scale, with and without aaa-eee, and how it just didn't work without it. thing is I'm an ex-clarinettist so I've been squeezing the reed as I go higher through ingrained force of habit, and it's sending me way sharp. and I've watched TONS of videos that keep imploring me to "stop doing that, just relax your lower jaw/lip, and it'll sound better!", and to use voicing rather than lip pressure for tuning. but none of them seem to have clicked for me because if I don't squeeze, the note doesn't come out. so what I've ended up doing is (1) squeeze to get the note out, (2) it's wildly sharp (3) apply exaggerated 'aaa' shape voicing to try and flatten it back to where it should be. I got really good at blowing ugly sounding notes a semitone or two below what I was fingering, but actually settling into a high note that was both in-tune and 'nice' seemed impossible. finally you explain doing the correct voicing (ee shape) before you even start the note MAKES THE NOTE COME OUT EASIER IN THE FIRST PLACE so you don't need to squeeze, so actually with a 'sharp' voicing I'm now less sharp than I was before because I can finally relax my lip without the note vanishing or squeaking. halllujah. man I've spent the last 2 weeks vainly trying to find the right degree of 'aaa' to get those notes right and it was the complete opposite shape to what I should have been doing, thank god I watched this before I wasted more months ingraining bad habits. wish i could give a superthanks

So thorough on the overtones. I will try it tomorrow!😊

Excellent training. Can’t wait for the next video

Great video thank you so much for putting this together. I'm still trying to figure out how to open/expand my throat as I see most of the pro players do it. I'm probably missing a step here. Thank you.

Best explanation so far. Cant wait for part 2. Hope you post it soon...

lift the tongue a few CENTIMETERS??? My mouth isn't that big. Other than that, I think this is going to help me. I keep pushing for tighter embouchure, especially as I get tired. Concentrating on vowels might get me moving in the right direction.

Thanks professor aloha coach Mundo Hawaii

So far this is the most straightforward video on voicing I've seen. Thank you!

Diggin' everything as I want to start incorporating altissimo. By the way what is on your walls? Are you using whatever you have on your walls to dampen the sound? I need that as much as learning from you in altissimo and voicing. 😂😂😂

Nice

Thank you so much for this WONDERFUL video. You are the first teacher that made sense out of voicing I have witnessed. You took all the fugazy out of sax instruction and provided simple directions that were easy to understand and implement. I wish I saw this thirty years ago, but am happy to see it now, because it was immediately impactful for me. Thank you very much Sir! By the way, your introductory phrase on sax was what instantly struck me as being played by someone I needed to learn from. Thank you Sensei.

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Very good info! Thanks!

Great stuff!

Killer. Me trying to count it. 🤔… 🧮

Very cool 😎 so many fun quotes in Joel’s solo lol y’all sound great 🎶

thankyou

Freakin' awesome!

Hi Zack, thanks for the excellent video! It really pulled back the curtain on these concepts for me. I am going to screen capture and print the exercises you flash at the bottom of the screen. It would be nice if you had a full sheet as a reference.. Thanks again, looking forward to your next topic.

Really enjoyed this - in the pocket

Great post. Best guide to voicing on TH-cam that I’ve encountered. Eagerly awaiting the next videos in the series!!!

New to your channel. Thank you -- You gave a TON of useful information here.

Hi Zack, I really like your melodic way of playing 😊.

At 20:06, I meant to say use the "BACK of your TONGUE" I was trying to stress not starting the overtone with a tip of tongue "taah" articulation. I think you all know what I mean, but I'm clarifying it here just in case...

Mark Watkins has x-ray videos of the stuff Zack is talking about 👍

Good stuff. Thanks Zack! 🎷

This got me thinking about the exploratory fiddling I've done on sax, and how funny flutists', so sonically limited, are about absolute laws on this stuff..NO overblown low notes, NO! A new teacher! More practice! Buy a new headjoint. A new flute. Also, your approach, focused on total sonics is great. I wonder if another, from the same experiences, could be done with a focus on quarter or other micro tones, and perhaps even notes and scales from other systems, such as the varieties of "Arabic"?

Do you have a pdf of the fingerings?

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Thanks man. This is helpful.

Thanks for sharing all these fingerings. I’ve only been playing sax about two years but I like using some alternate fingerings for intonation and fluidity. From Eugene Rousseau I learned the middle C# by lifting top 2 left fingers from middle D or E - makes the transition smooth and quick. On my alto both middle B & C tend to be flat and I’ll add the Bb side key to raise the pitch a bit, as you mentioned for B, also for A. And my middle D and somewhat E are typically sharp and I like the left pinky B key to lower them. I’m looking forward to trying some of your suggestions.

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excellent ! je vous découvre a travers votre video sur les doigtés alternatifs; j'adore vitre jeu riche dynamique et créatif

Thanks for sharing all these fingerings! Just subscribed! 🎷

This is pretty solid information, Maestro. Thank you for sharing!

Swinging performance !