Chromatic scale instructions for the saxophone - Chromatic scale step by step
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Chromatic scale instructions for the saxophone
And we are going on with another exercise. This a quite a tough one. It's probably going to take you a while to do this,. but it's the most important exercise I think you'll ever do on the sax. You see, it's very useful at this point to start to develop a good mental picture of the saxophone in your head. When you look at the saxophone you probably still feel some confusion as to:" which notes are located where". When you look at a piano. You can see all the notes neatly lined up next to each other form low to high. On the saxophone this isn't so easy, because you can't see the order of the notes on the saxophone with your eyes. If I was to say to you:" Play an F, and now play the note that's 6 notes above that". If you were playing piano you could just count up 6 keys and you would have found it, but that's not so easy on the saxophone. If you can create the ability to see the order of all the saxophone notes in your head, then you make things much easier for yourself in the long run. So we are going to have to create a good mental image of the saxophone notes, and using this you are going to get all the notes into your fingers.
How do we do this? Well, I also hit this problem of course, and it's the reason why I ended up creating the piano chart. What it does is quite simple. It shows you the order of the saxophones notes exactly as on a piano.
Now all you have to do for this exercise is play all of them. Like a scale. From the lowest note (the Bb3) all the way up to the C#6. Feel free to try and go up even higher if you can, but it's ok to save that for a little later.
Once you have done this for a while (2 weeks or so) you will start to find that you begin to see the saxophone as a whole in your mind. You will be able to locate every note easily and you will be able to count up and down the range. It's the foundation for everything else. So take all the time you need to practice this until you can play it and name the notes almost without thinking about it.
Now I will go into this more later, but while you're doing this exercise realize and remember one thing. The white notes on the piano chart are the "whole" notes and the black notes are the "half" notes. This will become important later so keep it in mind while you practice.
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Very good teaching it really helps. Thanks
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As I'm self teaching at the minute, needed to learn the scales and found this video. Excellent just what I needed.
Same! How has your progress been? I hope you have learnt some gorgeous phrases, if not, you will get there!
I been on this video since 2016 still learning keep it up champ
Same.
Just a quick tip, use Side F# not middle, it’s faster and smoother in chromatics
Same!
The best I've ever seen for beginners. Just great everything
in one video.
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Your fingering charts are some of the most user-friendly on the web. Well done!
Just starting over after so many years have passed. Lost my sax and jazz albums in a fire and have not picked up a sax since. But I ordered one last night and will be using your lessons to get back to what I loved years ago. Thank you!
Good luck with playing again, and have fun!
I got my saxophone yesterday 20/5/2020 and I can tell you this is the BEST video for learning all the notes since in other videos there is not the diagram showing you what to press down unlike other videos where you have to look at their hands all the time. Would definitely recommend for beginners
Thanks! also check out my materials at www.hellosaxophone.com
Bro I am a true beginner and have been learning on you tube. I love your finger chart and I can't wit to try this. Your lessons are amazing. My cousin gave me his old 1932 Conn Transitional Tenor that I had reconditioned. The few that have played it said it is a beast. I can't wait to get going as I had lost interest because I couldn't see keys and what the hell was going on. Thanks for the great lesson.
D.O in Denver
Your video just saved my head from going crazy from all the other videos for beginners. Thank you!
haha thank you. Glad could help ;)
I can't tell you how much this helped me. Most videos assume you are looking at a chart or you understand basic fingering. You are my hero today!
15 minute video that actually gets to the point unlike a lot of others thats just bunch of BS and about a minute of actual info. Thank you.
I have never played the sax or any other instrument before, but I finally got together and started playing and without this I would have remained completely lost, so thank you so much!
happy to help
maaan...this is just priceless...this just givers saxophone a summery in its hidden notes.....am keli from kenya Nairobi and a psychology student Kenyatta university. been struggling with higher notes for only God knows how long till now...thanks tr.reall passionate about saxophone family instruments.
Im learning last minute because of my band teacher!! You have saved me fr fr!!!!!!
I agree with most everyone else: this is the best explanation for the chromatic scale on TH-cam. This is great. Thanks, man. As a beginner, this video's amazing.
Great impact round the globe. i can feel your impact all the way in Nigeria. Thanks
One of the BEST lessons on TH-cam! Thank you!
Thanks for the video. Yours is the most detail video I've seen on TH-cam.
I have to self-teach myself the tenor sax for jazz band and this helped me so much in what your mouth is doing for each note
this videos out the many alto sax videos ive watched was the best!
Absolutely wonderful! Have not touched my sax in 30 years. You have made coming back enjoyable. Thanks
I am a drummer originally but I have always admired the saxophone, so I have ordered my first ever sax and watching a couple of these videos has helped me gain the confidence to start learning. These videos are so straight forward and clear, thank you so much!
You made it look very smooth and simple. Thanks... for the inside information on how to hit the low B's with the o shape mouth.
Well I'm still trying. But I have a tenor sax, so should my B sound like yours? How can I make the O and blow? HELP
Gary Chique LOVE IT ❤️👍
Hi , By far this is THE only tutorial which taught me in the right way.
Keep it up sir !
You have amazing teaching skills and I have no doubt that you will be one of the best 🎷 Players on the Planet.
Best wishes from India.
Thank you 🙌
THIS IS THE BEST! the way you explain the notes, how the play them, that it will be hard at first... all your lessons, i'm a handpan player/drummer, and always love the sax, try to learn how to play in my spare time over the years..but never worked out. Your way of teaching ,and that i can go back to your lesson at anytime on youtube work out great, I just downloaded i"inside your sax" and it help me fix something already!!!i will be buying your mega package soon,thanks
thanks man. that is great to hear :) let me know how it goes :)
Thank you for your excellent teaching work. I play saxes since 23 years and can still learn from you!
After getting my sax in the middle of covid year 2021, several months later, this is the first time I've heard my Sax play a correct tone. I'd been using other videos to learn to play and I could never get my instrument to match the key they were playing in the vid or to match the tuner app I have. Every time, I tried G, C, A and then quit, quite discouraged that none of them matched.
Yesterday, I found your video on fingering. I figured if I can't get the notes to sound right, at least I could learn the fingering for practice. You started at the bottom, and I matched the fingering and blew. then the next and the next. I was paying so close attention to your clear instructions and well-illustrated chart that it wasn't until I played D->D# that I realized that the key my horn was playing matched yours, almost exactly.
I went back to two other "beginner" videos and played what they said with their fingering, G C, A ,... FLAT! I came back to your vid, Low Notes... Perfect. Then I let your video take me all the way from Low to High and as soon as i got to F, it sounded a bit strange but still on key, and from F -> G that's when it was Flat again. Also it seems my Octave Key might not be working.
I know I'm an absolute bottom rung beginner, but is it possible that instead of me being absolute shite, that something might be wrong with my horn that it can play the low notes but not the high notes or the Octave change? I bought it online, so it's not an expensive valuable brand name anything, but should I take it to a music store? Who can check something like that? I'm an adult, so I can't just waltz into a school and ask the music teacher. Any advice would be great.
Oh, and your Video is awesome btw. It gave me new hope that I might be able to embrace this instrument as my own. I'm already able to play the first part of Overjoyed by Stevie Wonder, albeit, very poorly. LOL
Thank you so much!! I'm just getting started on sax after 40 years of playing guitar and it seems so complex. Thanks for making it understandable.
So how is it going?
Have't played sax in 15 years. Figured it would be easy to jump back into it because I play clarinet, but it was definitely difficult to get a sound out of it... until watching this video. Thanks so much!!!
I am from India. I love saxophone instrument. God bless to the explorer. Thanks
Welcome again to Adame HelloSaxo,
So glad to have the 2nd lesson!
1 million LIKe for you!
P/s. You can touch hard the buttons and i can not....hahahaha!
Happpppyyyy!
Thank you very much for sharing this most awesome information.
The up close fingerings and diagrams are a bonus to learning.
You are greatly appreciated and a awesome teacher.
Thanks again.
EXCELLENT CHROMATIC SCALE VIDEO I'VE SEEN FOR BEGINNERS
wowww This video is what i've been looking for since i bought my tenor sax. i am a begginer saxofonist and i really needed this particular informacion becuse most os the video i have watched on youtube doesn't have this kind of detalles... Thank you very much for sharing this most awesome information. The up close fingerings and diagrams are a bonus to learning.
You are greatly appreciated and a awesome teacher.
This really took me from zero to playing the scale. I find your key diagram on the right of the screen the easiest to follow of several I've tried.
I bought a "C" Melody sax that was made in 1913, That is the instrument that i am teaching myself to play. That is a real beast. The good thing about this sax is I can use regular piano sheet music because my sax is in the key of C. There are very few CDs that showcase the C melody, so I am going to buy a new sax. I can't decide on Alto or Tenor. So I am exploring youtube. I will be checking out your lessons. You are a real help. Thanks.
I know them. Very nice horns :)
@@HelloSaxophone I bought the sax on a Saturday. I fiddled with it over the weekend, and brought it in to work to show it off. My boss asked me what songs I could play and I said, "I don't know. I just got it 2 days ago." He suggested that I play Strangers in the Night. I played that song perfectly for him. Without practicing, I hit every note. Needless to say, he was amazed. He asked me if I had ever played an instrument before. I told him...no. He asked me if I could read music. I said...no. He told me that I was a natural and I need to practice because I would go far with the sax. Well, there are so few songs for the C melody. It's funny that my C melody from 1913 likes to play OLD SONGS. Dick Van Dyke theme. Little Rascals. Strangers in the Night. Auld Lang Syne. and some Christmas tunes. I want to buy a Tenor sax. I feel that there are so many more songs available to play. Thank you for your online lessons.
Of all the sax instructional videos there are, as a beginning sax player, and I could use only one video, THIS would be it!
best tutorial i´ve seen on youtube! and i´ve seen many...
I have books and other learning tools but this is a great video for learning the scales, thank you very much.
epic lesson thank you. is anyone else blow away by the engineering of this instrument? it's so clever! this must have taken so many calculations, trial and error and many years of highly skilled craftmanship to get to where the sax is today
Your lesson is just awesome.... I bought my first saxophone after watching this video. Bcs I felt I can do it.... Truly I am doing well ....
Sooo sooo simple to understand, why does everyone else on youtube have to make this look complicated. Ive watched many of his videos and and although i'm still waiting to buy my first Sax this week, ive learned so much. Florian Rooz is by far the best Saxophone teacher online. I can't wait to start playing. :D :D
been looking for this for hours, priceless video for beginners
Just bought a sax, never touched it before, can't wait to burn the midnight oil learning this little piece of craft. Thank you HelloSaxophone.
Wow!This video have the best explanation of the chromatic scale in TH-cam! Well done, "HelloSaxopone"! Thank you!
This video and your tuition is really helping me. It's like learning to speak a totally different language for me. I'm loving the journey. Nice work! THANKS!! Kevin
I haven’t played in over 50 years, this excellent
Always wanted a saxophone,brother got me one thank-you for your teaching been really helpful just what I was looking for learnt alot now thanks bro.
Thank you for going in depth! I could not figure out where those darn spatula keys were for the longest time LOL
Fabulous tutorial. I do not play nor own a sax (I play guitar, bass, keys and drums with varying degrees of ability) but I just started looking into the EWI and I feel like if I watch this it will help a lot when I inevitably impulse buy one
You're the best teacher amongst all of them
Amazing. So simple and yet so thorough. You make it look easy and I know over time it will be. Thank you, so far this is the best video I have seen for this type of exercise on the sax.
Bought a saxophone last month in an impulsive moment and am trying to teach myself to play it. Hey, quarantine has to go with something. Your video's are really helpful so thank you for the effort. It's really good that you've added the visual aid for seeing what buttons are pressed.
Thank you so much for sharing this most awesome information. You are an excellent teacher, the close up fingerings accompanied by the diagrams are most helpful.
I basically learned how to play from your site and TH-cam. I had a friend show me a few things a couple of years ago but mostly on my own.
Thaks again.
I play sax in Symphonic Band and we were learning the chromatic scale and this helped me a lot thank you 👍
I just purchased my very first alto sax today but was using your video to learn how to play a month ago. Now that I have it in following a long having so much fun. 😁😍
I really like the way you combined the fingering chart with the actual movement of your hands and fingers. I found your suggestions of changing your mouth shape as you higher in pitch. You are the first teacher I came across to put it all together for me. Thank you so much! Excellent work!
Im starting again after a one year break and i have bad memory so this helps a lot
I thought I could figure the saxophone out since I already have music experience in guitar/piano, but boy was I wrong. This is the video that I needed, thank you so much for this in depth tutorial that actually shows you each of the notes and how they sound. Now I can figure out if I am in tune or not.
Beautiful and awesome instructions. You are a good teacher
Best scale explanation on Sax, actually started practicing right away. Thanks !!!
Thank you so much my auditions were coming up and you helped me learn the whole chromatic scale in one day .
Maaaan, you know how to teach!! I feel like I already know how to play and my sax didn't even arrive 😁
This is still the best fingering tutorial for absolute beginers on YT IMO. 👍🏻
Brilliant job.💯
Been subbed for years. 🤛🏻
Thanks...very useful! Just started grade3 and have a chromatic scale to play for the 1st time.
Recently picked-up the saxophone again and this has really clarified the upper and lower section of the register, where fingering charts get a little confusing. Thank you so much for the great visual tutorial. :)
Just started yesterday and this has helped me a lot!
Hey bruv, it's been 2 years. You still playing or not? If you are, have you been in any bands?
Ickbarr Bigelsteine I’m in honors band
Easiest vid I’ve seen to show the notes and how to play
This is the video I most commonly recommend for "starting out' players
Clear, concise, and rich with foundation. Thank you!
You are an outstanding teacher!
I nettop found my sax out from hiding, after about 33år .. Where I was teaching in a single Sesson .. I must therefore begin again. Forgot everything.
But this you show (although it is very fast) is fantastic .. The time there was no such thing as teaching with computer, so I am expecting to be able to continue this time. DANMARK.!
I'm not a beginner but I knew nothing about chromatic scales or what that even meant. Thank you my dude👌
Thank you for making this it really helps clear up which keys I need to be pressing for each note!
This has been so helpful . Great presentation
Best illustration I've seen thus far👌👏
Thank you!!
Thank you so much, i got all i need in one video. God Bless You
Man, I will have to go back to this video for help. I thought playing the saxophone was easy!
This has really helped me, thank you. Teaching myself the saxophone through the internet and it's going great!! :
Best fingering guide I have come across so far. You are boosting the joy with my new instrument immensely, thank you.
(The included manual was kind of hard to grok...)
Excellent video for a chromatic scale. Thanks for creating this video..
A simple yet very useful video
Thank you!! I am a complete beginner and this is the perfect pace (for me anyway). Not too fast, not too slow. Just right :)
Awesome. The best yet.
the best channel ever... great job
Well done vids! I'm glad I found u. Just bought a sax. I'm a long time musician guitar and drums. Always had a crush on sax
I'm 70 and just starting on the alto - you realize of course, that this is going to take me three life times and I don't believe in reincarnation. Hmmm. I wonder how I'm going to do this. Oh, well. I'll start and maybe I can finish up there (-: Thank you very much. I've watched some of your other videos and like others here, they really are clear and concise. Thank for taking your time and sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!
Never thought I hade to change embouchure with the notes. Very helpful video
BRILLIANTLY EXPLAINED, I really enjoyed that, and easy to follow. Great stuff cheers.
You flipped the fingerings for the low B and C#.
Great video!
Another fabulous presentation.
All 33 notes. Right ? Thank you.
Some are 32
@@arhanmshah how? Its still 33 since old sax can still do high f sharp
@@Hiroyuki_T I said “some ”
Y u bully me 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
@@arhanmshah im not bullying u. Ok, so, how can some sax only pkay 32 notes?
@@Hiroyuki_T the same way they play 33
thx this was one of very few helpful videos to me since im a beginner
Very good instructor. easy to follow
Thank you so much man!!!! Just watching over and over again! Thanks so much!
I played the tenor saxophone for awhile but only found out a couple years ago that the lowest note is actually an A. The fingering is the same as a low Bb, but to play it you have to cover half the bell with your leg when your sitting down. Try it.
Paul Marenco or just shove a math book in there or smth
Or you can do it this way! 😂
th-cam.com/video/wHqUhzZXLWE/w-d-xo.html
@@lisawanderess How did you find that XD
@@Humanhamsandwich nha no point in a math book, never have those. Try English. There are libraries everywhere ;)
Lots of practise to go before I get to the Chromatic scale...I'm still on the C Minor!! LOLOL VERY good instruction though...keeping it in my back pocket!!
Yay. The "O" thing worked🤓
Thx.
Awesome I was able to replicate this on my electric saxophone (aerophone go ae-05) thank you 🙏🏼 thank you 🙏🏼 thank you 🙏🏼
Really liked this!!!
this video helped me to start to play sax. made my own chart. thank you very much for soo much effort you put into this video. its great. I do not get the high tones out of my sax, yet but practis will sort it out too. thnaks.
Thank you! I'm an absolute beginner on sax after years of trying to learn the guitar but just never falling in love with it. I'm still squeaking and having a hard time playing the low notes in particular but I know It's possible. I absolutely love the way all the valves and levers work on the sax. It's like a Doctor Seuss creation haha. I can't wait to be able to write my own music. No constant tuning or messing with cords and amps or worrying about where I'll get electricity. Easy to throw in the car and go. I need a mute, though. I really just need a dedicated practice room that's well insulated so I don't drive my wife and pets crazy.