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- Low notes are hard... send help!! 😣😝🤓
🎷 I'm Video-Journaling my Sax Therapy Progress 😚 Start Date: March 23, 2023 🤓
First Saxophone Lesson: 3/25/2023 (weekly lessons with sax teacher)
I try to practice 20-45 minutes daily, and post videos as often as I can... #NoRules #JustForFun
In my 'real' life, I'm a full-time session vocalist / studio singer, music producer & songwriter who loves the outdoors, baking and animals. 🦝🐿🦙💕
Thanks for following my beginner tenor sax journey. 🥰
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Quick tip: practise with a metronome. I know most people hate it, but your accuracy will improve dramatically.
Busted! 🙈 I generally try to incorporate it into my practice, especially for classical etudes… but slept on it this time 🥹
Very good tip! ☺️
You're making great progress! Keep it up. Your description for this video asked for help on the lower notes, here ya go:
1. We want to make sure our air support comes from the lower diaphragm. There are a number of good breathing exercises for Saxophone playing you can find via your Teacher or here on youtube that will help you with this. The Saxophone is the instrument that comes the closes to the human voice, and you'll find breathing exercises that singers use also work great for the Saxophone. Check out "Jacob's Vocal Academy's Vocal Warm up Series here on youtube....I assure you those exercises will help you out with your breathing.
2. Keep your throat open/relaxed and avoid 'crunching' the shoulders. When you see a player 'shrugging' their shoulders when they play, it's a sign they have shallow air support. Keep your shoulders down and keep your throat open/relaxed and push from your diaphragm. If you watch your video, you'll notice a few times--when going higher--some of the notes became a little thin--no worries, it's all part of the learning process we all go through. What can cause these higher notes to sound thin is that we may simply be 'choking' the note, so keep your throat open/relaxed, and this will ensure the air can flow from your diaphragm into your oral cavity freely without being 'cut off' from having a tense neck, etc..
3. Focus on keeping the oral cavity open/relaxed too; doesnt do any good to have the neck open/relaxed, but then the Oral Cavity is tense. Don't make the mistake of 'biting' with the jaw--this will cause problems for you with tuning, etc.. As you continue to progress with your playing, you'll learn some cool tricks you can do with our Oral Cavity to change your sound....an oral cavity that becomes 'smaller' causes the air to be faster, and more compressed/compact vs an oral cavity that is open will result in air that is 'slower'....think about it like a hole/leak on a inner tube: the smaller the hole, the more highly-pitched you'll hear the air leaking from the hole vs the bigger the hole , the lower the pitch you'll hear the air coming out.
4. Think of the embouchure muscles around the lips like a rubber band--we 'stretch' the corners of the mouth lips when we go higher. But then, we we go lower, we relaxe the muscles a little bit and form more of an 'o' shape with our embouchure, while still maintaining a grip with the corner of the lips around the MP. Try saying 'eeh', then 'aah', then 'ooo' and notice the change in sound between each word.....this is what we do on the Saxophone too. We use the lips of the mouth to form a seal around the Mouthpiece, so think of the sound 'eeh' when you go higher, but then think of the sound 'ooo' when you go lower--hope this all makes sense.
Just like @Jeroen Neve says, use a metronome, but also a tuner too--these 2 things will help you out immensely. Keep up the great attitude and having fun with the Saxophone!
Wow, thank you so much for your extensive explanation & help!! 😍
I really do appreciate the great advice and will keep those super helpful, valuable tips in mind going forward. 🙏🤩🤓