👍🎷 Getting A FULL Sound on the Saxophone | How To Play The Saxophone | Todd Schefflin 🎷👍
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- 👍🎷 Hi Everyone! In this video learn how to get a FULL sound on the saxophone by using the correct Embouchure technique! Embouchure is just a fancy word for how you put your mouth on the mouthpiece! If you are learning to play saxophone, make sure you watch this video! 🎷👍
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I don't know why Im watching this at 2am when I fully well know if I even try blowing down my saxophone right now I will get kicked out of my flat
Same
@Dmoll the struggle is real brother
Great lesson, it can be so easy to rush right in trying to get stuff happening and overlooking the fundamentals.
Todd, I learnt something from you. Thank you very much.
Hi when forming your embouchure you can simply think of the word what. By the time you reach the end of the w your embouchure is formed. No jaw dropping as that alters the muscles. Think of closing a sleeping bag in its carry bag. Pull the string closed and you see a circle forming. To test embouchure pressure is correct, blow your mouth piece alone in to a tuner and it should produce an A. If you embouchure is correct you should be able to play with mouth piece upside down or at any angle. Very old and wise player taught me this and it’s so true. Have a go and let me know. Cheers!
Thanks for the help 😁 I needed this video because I switched from flute to sax which is completely different. My teacher handed me the sax and expected the best from me so now I knew I was doing something wrong. Thanks a lot for the help! 😊
wow, this actually works. I've been playing almost a year and I've been trying to find my sound. this video helped better than any other
That's great to hear Kenneth! More videos to come!!
Great Job,God bless you
Thanks for the tips. I haven't been bringing the corners of my mouth in, so this should improve my sound.
Thanks!
this is really good actually it helped me a lot it should have more views
what type of mouthpiece do you use in this video please?
May looks funny but usefull, thks
Ksi is truly talented
Can someone explain why he doesn't breathe through the nose?
hey
I didint know rafe spa played sax
T O u funny 😂 I'm sleep
Logang Pauler4life oh lol
Damn Connor McGregor is good at the sax
haha nice ;)
Antonio Machado
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Seth Rogen!
im probably gonna scare my parents out in the living room because i haven’t played my sax in like 3 years
Instruction unclear:
Passed out at step 3
lol
Rip
Hello Todd, I must say i'm truly appreciative of this video. I watched your video a few days ago and I started to implement what you have taught here and my sound is naturally bigger. It is less stressful to play the the notes spot on and my horn just sound sweeter. Thanks a million for the tips shared here.
Kind of weird question, but I don’t have top teeth. Any suggestions for an alternative without going all in on dentures or veneers?
Try trumpet
Pericodelospalotes 😂😂😂
Sry bro
Rip fam
Try just grab it with you're gum, it is only for stabilising
Omg ty so much, i managed to make a sound for the first time in a xaphoon
Ah, I love playing my xaphoon
My favorite instrument, the xaphoon
ah you mean mayonnaise
@@lenabougie7180 It’s actually an instrument btw
*Xaphoon*
This was so helpful thank you
any one here in 2019
yep. just borrowed a sax from an instrument lending library and this is gonna help a lot!
No, not here
Yeah I'm here. I was in 6th grade when I watched this 😂 it was every helpful
i am borrowing a sax from school
Fuck you
I cannot thank you enough for this! I've switched from clarinet to tenor saxophone and for months I haven't been able to adjust my embouchure. I had problems with sore lips, intonation. All that bcs of applying the same principle as on the clarinet. OMG! This way the lip is more fleshy and lets the reed to vibrate more freely!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 😄😄😄😄
Omg when I tried it it actually did sound like a saxophone thank you😂😂
This is my weakness getting a thinner sound by not placing my mouth properly to the mouth piece.
We all struggle with this! In addition to making sure your embrouchure is good, taking a huge breath is essential to getting a full sound!
@@toddschefflin5703 hi im very new learning playing saxophone....i hope u can teach me online
THEN PLAY CLARINET IT'S BETTER ANYWAY.lol... naww So true are the Thin sounds
I didn't know Pewdiepie played the sax hahaha
Ohhhhhh noow I get it
T O you obviously haven’t seen pewdiepie
hi everyone ,if anyone else needs to find out about learn to play the saxophone try Vaxicorn Simple Saxophone Guide (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my partner got cool results with it.
i did
that was really help me to start in a proper way of blowing.
me too
Sounds wrong 😂🙅🏻♀️
Nathaniel Azarraga that’s what she said
2:07 got me feeling some type of way
Same
XD
I had my first lesson tonight. Things I learnt...
1. My saxophone wasn't broken, it was just me! 🤣
2. Keys, B, A, G and F
3. I have a thing called a diaphragm and
4. Dance Monkey is gonna take me bloody ages to learn! 🤣 🤣 X
L4WNY wtf 🤣😭
@@thekiddgvill3 ☺️
Practice fam, dance monkey can still be achieved!
I wonder if u learned it
I just want to say how nice it is to listen to a guy who sooo genuinely wants to help beginning sax players. You have a great way of explaining embouchure: step one, step two.... And I really appreciate how close you have your camera and that it's angled a bit so I can see a lot of your mouth. I'm a classically-trained sax player who is beginning jazz so I'm reworking my entire embouchure. Would you say that your embouchure is more a jazz embouchure or classical? Thanks. Best wishes.
Keep the classical embouchure! You don’t want to destroy a beautiful clear sound? Playing jazz has nothing tondo with that! You really want to sound lime that? Just saying..
@@HuubClaessens Thank you for replying to my comment. I'm interested to know more about what you're suggesting. If you have a website, yourself, or if you know of a player who does, whose playing you admire for his/her embouchure - playing jazz - I would be very interested in watching/listening to them from your perspective of re: classical vs "jazz" embouchure. (On the other hand, please feel free to post here again with more about your thoughts on this topic.) Thanks again.
Consistent practice over the full range and long tones will help you to produce them. At the beginning of the year I set a goal to practice deliberately for a minimum of 2 hrs daily. Most days I do two hours and sometimes 3 or 4 hours; I have not missed a day practicing since 2018 began. High notes, middle notes and low notes are coming out more beautifully than before.
That's some serious dedication you have!! I recently got a cheap sax to try and learn with (decided to save up for a decent one while I learn), but having stupidly thin walls I've been a little chicken about practicing incase neighbors thinking I'm murdering one of my dogs lol!
I've ordered a mute in hope it makes me a little quieter, although kind of wish there was a way to only get sound through headphones as I'm usually awake all night and hate that I can't be using that time to practice without risking noise complaints lol!
I just hope once I'm a little less self conscious about how bad I probably sound that I can be as dedicated as you!
Good luck with your hard work and I'm sure you sound great already after so much practice :)
I think I need a new mouthpi- *LONG TONES* everytime we play long tones my band directed has to put that on the screen and yell it omlll
Emzy HippoZimmer funny that was one of the reasons I quit saxophone years ago. And now I have my house and neighbours are far so I’m free to be as loud as I can. Just bought a sax to get back into it. One word of advise. Do not take a long break such as 1 year or more. You literally have to restart almost from 0 again. Not only the sax playing but also the ability to read music fast.
@@vitorfernandes651 I think thats just you
From a high school trumpet player learning tenor sax as a secondary, I feel like this was very informative and helpful. My muscles figured it all out once I got the mouth positioned correctly on the mouthpiece. Great video, thanks to this my tone sounds better than expected already!
Hi, I'm your fan
I have a question.
It's about the embouchure setting
The power of the lower lip covering the reed is
I'm so curious how much it should be
I don't know if it's weak or if it's tight
I don't know how tight it is
I wonder if it's not
Thanks so much! I used to know how to do the embouchure technique, but I couldnt afford a sax to practice with, and wasnt able to rent. Now I have a sax, I forgot everything. Thanks for teaching me again! :)
I was sure he was gonna say that step 1 was to firmly grasp it
Thank you so much. I never knew how to place my bottom jaw properly so my teeth were always digging in to my lower lip.
I played sax a younger guy in high school and in local funk bands. But, I haven’t played now n over 30 years . So, some my old band brass section had breakfast and decided to just break our horns out again , just to hang out have some fun...hopefully. But one problem I’ve always had was to fold my bottom lip over my teeth. You can imagine what that does to the inside of your lower lip...big problems! So, this time I intend to start the right way. Thanks for the tips!
Your bottom lip should fold over your bottom teeth a little bit since you need to use your jaw to keep a firm embouchure. Just don't roll it over too much.
Joe Blankenship, thank you for your reply. I’ll certainly put it to use as I continue to practice and get re-aquatinted with my sax.
So helpful, thank you i'm in 7th grade and just joined band, so helpful thank you so much!
NationPlayz same dude
What school you go to?
How’s band coming along?
MLT_Mango I may join in 9th. This is gonna be rough
Sax isn't my first instrument trumpet is so this really helps thank!!
Will it mess with your embouchure in anyway? Because the only thing im good at is at playing high on trumpet
Why did you abandon us! Brass Mob for life
Great Video Todd, very informative. helped, bigtime!!
Just starting to play alto sax and I really like how you've explained the embouchure technique. Thank you, Carolina
Playing saxophone for marching band this coming up school year, very excited! This helped very much, thank you.
Omg same
Todd, you are the man! Thank you, took me one year to find this. My sound changed completely. Viewing from Acosta, Costa Rica!
So um the rhytm BTW just saying that is not completley straight ummmuummuummumm that how it sounds now thats good for jazz but but the uummuummuum is not compltetley for like a normal song that you're playing it would sound kinda awkward just "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm" just try to keep the rythm straight and I picked out the sax because of the jazz to but you can do all different sorts of melodies like blues or rock or jazz etc. so yes very good for jazz.
Thank you so much for that first sax lesson. I've always loved to learn how to play this instrument.
and with this first lesson, I hope it correct my habits before it forms.
again, much thanks
Very helpful! I just got a saxophone but played it like i would with clarinet 😂
Thank you for this video! My sixth grader has been struggling to make his tenor sax sound right and this did it!!
Hello Todd. I Like your pédagogical way of teaching.
Just à little précision... Embouchure is not à fancy Word, it comes from Bouche which means Mouth in French.
N'est regard and thumbs up for your vidéos...
This is by far the best explanation I have seen on youtube. Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much. Comments like that inspire me to keep making more videos. I should have some more videos coming within the next week!
Thank you so much! My saxophone has been sat under my bed for 17 years and I decided to attempt to take it up again but I just couldn’t get any sound. This is brilliant!
2:06 Pls call a psychiatrist
😂
Finally! Thank you for the great advice!
I'm starting to learn to play my alto saxophone and I haven't been able to find someone who could properly teach me the proper way to position my mouth on head of my sax, and then, I found you my dear friend! Really, thank you for everything! Now my difficulty in blowing notes as been minimized a lot! Even my girlfriend who played Clarinet was trying to explain to me but she wasn't able to specify. She is returning and I'm starting to learn the sax so I can play with her as a love duet to enhance our relationship. Thank you man I will be forever in debt to you! 😀🙂
If only... if only my middle school teacher told me, showed me, more importantly, the great information that was said in the first minute. 30 years later, my mouth still gets tired not to long after starting to play/practice. I believe this problem is preventing me from creating a vibrato, and I want it so bad. This is what led me to this video.
Thanks Todd. Very helpful advice.
Okay, so, you're like the very first person who didn't mention tucking your lower lip over your teeth to create a cushion for the reed to sit on. Why didn't you do that, because I'd rather not learn a bad habit and do something incorrectly at the beginning, so I'd have to go back and learn something different later. Could you please explain why that whole step was skipped?
Thanks. I was having trouble with notes around low g on the alto jumping up an octave or sounding uneven. I tried this method and straight away it started to help. I guess my jaw was too tense if you know what I mean. I relaxed it and those problem notes sounded in the right octave 👍
I thought it was my saxophone causing the squeaking sound every time I hit G key. I was wrong, it was my Embouchure!
Thanks for the useful video. One question I have is, do you have your teeth in contact with the mouthpiece when blowing? I find this very difficult when the vibration passes to the teeth.
Tank u so much for the info...
I seem to be a little confused here
I followed the steps as instructed yet am still not getting the right tone I want.
Pls, what could be the problem?
Every one of these sax sound tutorials is good, but...none of them recommend the one essential ingredient to producing a good sound. Listen, listen and listen. Find a contemporary player or one from the past whose sound you like, as a starting point to developing your personal sound, and absorb that sound by listening.
A beginner won’t be thinking about the kind of sound. They just need to get the instrument to make a sound. Any sound. Developing and building your sound will come later
Straight up. Been trying to make a sound for the past couple days and nothing. Lol. But I’m determined to learn the drop dead Saxxy phone
I just started Band and you helped me a lot thanks 🙏🏼
lol..... Do not forget stance! lungs are key to get the air through the bend...
You seem like a genuine guy wanting to share your wisdom, but I am sorry to say that your video involved too much repetition.
Okay but who else watched this vid bcs of quarantine and you forgot to practice and just had to review some stuff
Your teaching is clear and quite helpful! Thanks a lot !
______________________What about the bottom teeth? Are they touching the underside of the mouthpiece? Are you biting it? Or do they never touch the mouthpiece?
Ive been playing for 2 years, but I’m here to practice my ombouchure, so mk👌
Not so good bringing your lower jaw up “naturally” when you have a small lower jaw like me 😂
Thank you so very much, this video helped me a lot, Thanks again from India. 😊
This was very helpful turns out I had my mouth wrong the whole time but no one correct me from my group
I just don’t have a talent for music. Can u post how to put your reed together I’m really confused on it
complete beginner having my first lesson next week. I'm sure this tutorial will be a good start.. Thankyou
I thought something was wrong with my alto instead it was just me lol . THANK YOU!!!!
Why do you have the sax a such a weird angle? It almost looks like your playing a soprano.
You can easily watch this video on 1.5x speed.
Ty dude
Omg thanks
Helpful
No offense but when I clicked on this video, I thought you were Pewdiepie for a sec.
JAX Did not hit the truck. He faked his death and learned to work the sax. Good choice Jax.
Thank you. This really helps. It allows me to reset my mouth position to the same place and gives a consistent starting point each time. Really simple and useful.
Thanks, great instructional video.Clearly explained and demonstrated.
Thanks, just got my Sax and tried the technique and it worked, Cheers
I've been playing for about 4 years now and every once in a while I still struggle to get that nice rich tone we all strive for, so if your having trouble getting that just know it happens to the best of us.
Thank you so much for sharing, it's helping me to get the better sound.
I thought you were sopposed to but your top lip under your top teeth and same for the bottom row
I mean i played clarinet so when i blowed in the alto sax for first time and it was full and loud
Its a good tip! But my teacher told me whatever embouchure you have that you are happy, good tone and comfortable with it. You're good.
Thank you Alex! Definitely listen to your teacher and keep practicing!
Aren't you supposed to put your bottom lip in
not necessarily
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! lol Lips in a seal tight blow hard.....
The beginning of the video reminded me of the kind of instruction videos my ex-girlfriend used to watch (albeit for a different purpose).
On a more serious note... I personally combine the jaw-dropping method for breathing with the mouth corners one and breathing through the nose. Sometimes you are left with very little time between 2 passages, and dropping the jaw can result in missing the following note(s).
Victor Pechorin thank you for wrote this information!
@@АлександрАлексашкин-ф3ш, я рад, если это помогло. Пожалуйста, сообщите, если остались вопросы.
i still dont get any sound and i do everything. im confused
Melanie Gonzalez ME TOOO
Funny that I have played for many years and I always got air in through the nose. I never drop my jaw. No teacher ever told me otherwise. It actually seems to take more time to drop the jaw to breathe. Using the nose is quicker
Exactly! I found that weird about the instructions too. I personally try to do the jaw-dropping thing as little as possible, because it takes too long, and there is a slight chance the lower lip will not end up where it was before.
Not sure how you can play certain passages without adding breathing out of the corners of your mouth to breathing through the nose. My first teacher told me at the very first lesson that "saxophone players don't breathe through the nose".
3:27 is funny out of context
First time ever playing tenor last night. And I'm loving it, I'm a claronet player
Anton Vickrey nice uwu
Natie H stop 😂
is it ok if i put my bottom lip under my front teeth?
That is how i used to do it. I've been told that is more of a classical way to create your embouchure, and the way this gentlemen is teaching is more of a jazz style that gives a different tone. I tried both and although I played with my bottom lip over my bottom teeth, I prefer the sound the was this guy is teaching. Everybody has a little different mouth and embouchure so just try both and see which sound you prefer. With my lip over my teeth, for me, the sound was more tinny sounding. I just started practicing again and I prefer this style and sound over having my lip over my teeth. Depending on your embouchure, the other may be better for you. Best of luck!
I like your video thats great why do you have the ligueturscrue up
This has the breathing technique I have been looking for, that does not exist on any other beginners quide (like how to inhale while playing). Most tutorials just brush it of saying "just breath while taking a pause, just like when talking". But the actual info of openeng jaw, and breathing under the reed, is the thing I have been searching for. Just bought my first sax, and it will be mailed to me soon. I intend of learning by myself, but might take some classes if I don't advance enought as such.
Thank you for the video, and cheers from Finland!
Thanks! That was very very merger video!
Checked out several vids on sax embochure. This is the best. Superb presentation.
Maybe is a stupid question but it's normal to feel a vibration in my upper teeth?, a kind of strong vibration
because I know the reed is vibrating but I feel a little awkward vibration
Thanks, liked your approach.