1 Tip to Play Your Sax in Tune
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2024
- [1 TIP TO PLAY YOUR SAX IN TUNE] If you play in tune when you use a tuner, but then are out of tune when you are not looking at one, watch this video for a free resource and valuable tip to help you play your sax in tune.
This resource and tip applies to all wind instruments.
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What's your biggest struggle when it comes to playing in tune?
Ha.....the fact that the sax doesn't play in tune when you simply blow into it.....WTF??? So many notes require "tweaking" and how to actually do it with your tongue position seems like a dark art because you can't see what you need to do and it is such a trial and error process.
Yep!
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100% right! I see too many people dependent on a tuner to tell them if they are in tune or not. Fantastic description on the ringing part with the drone! Love you're videos!
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Same to you!
This video was fabulous. I'm going to do this. I would also like to share a couple of ideas that I have used. I have no idea if they are original or not. A simple way to work on intonation is matching pitches. You play pitch like, say, D on a computer keyboard (your tuner is turned on). Then you close your eyes and try to match this pitch. Then you open eyes and see how close you are on the tuner. This forces you to concentrate in that you do have second or two to find the pitch with you eyes closed.
Another technique I use involves using some music theory (but not much). I'm lucky to have attended music school a half a century ago, and I can sing/hear any interval. But really, anybody who can sing the 1,3,5 of a major chord can quickly learn to sing/audiate the Maj 3rd, Perfect 5th, Perfect 4th and the Maj 6th. So you play, say, a D1, and then you hear in your head (or sing if you need to) the A. Then you close your eyes, play the A2 and then open your eyes and check the tuner. It's when you play intervals, especially large intervals, that you get into trouble with intonation, I think.
Thank you, and nice to see you using "audiate" ;)
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Never heard this idea before but will be trying it this afternoon. Many thanks.
You're welcome :)
Great tip thank you! Guilty of Visual tuning far to much! This can also be done on tonal energy app by sustaining the notes. 👍🏼
What a great idea. Thanks Donna - one for me to try out.
Very useful, thanks a lot. My only doubt would be if that Tonal Energy function in which it actually emits the note that you are playing, would have the same utility as these drones.
Great (and simple) resource!! Added it to my basic tools. Thanks. (Also, when out of tune, one can hear a low frequency beat)
Interesting about the low frequency beat....
I think about it as if I was drawing waves and straight lines, the wavier it is, the more out of tune it is, the straighter it is, the more in tune. You shoot for two sounds that perfectly align, or you'll get one wobbling around the other below or above the pitch, slowly or fast the more out of tune it is.
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You uploaded this while I was practicing lmao Thank you!
Great tip! Thank you)
You're welcome!
WowZer! This really resonates with me. What a great lesson. Going to try this out. This could be a huge breakthrough for me! Thanks Donna😱😳🎷😉😍
Very cool!
One time I played an outdoor gig around Halloween in Michigan & it ended up being COLD!!!! Elect. keys, guitars & bass. I got SOOOO flat - mouthpiece pushed in as far as it could go - it was TERRIBLE! Plus, it was so cold by the 3rd set we could barely play.
That happened to me on trumpet - playing an Easter Sunrise Mass. I wound up transposing on the fly. Not fun!
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Dang I’ve been using cello drones.
That's fine, but I feel that the organ drones sound fuller
"Best" tuners? This seems like an odd term to me.
Drone tuning is useful because you are using your ears. And training them to always be used, especially when you are playing. But the overall tuning of the entire horn needs be "close" before you start.
And I think *that* is the biggest "problem" with using any tuner, visual or other. You need to tune the horn, not the note. If you look at a tuner as you play a tuning *note*, anyone can get it in tune. But if you close your eyes and listen for the best sound you can get (center of pitch), and *then* adjust the overall tuning of your horn, you are tuning everything. Not just a note at a time.
And *then* you can proceed to drone-tuning as you suggest. imo of course.
Not an odd term because certain tuners can play drones and provide you with hearing the pitch first.
I did a video on tuning the horn - check it out on my channel