You and SirValorSax together enabled me to hit altissimo G for the first time but consistently. With a synth reed, with a yamaha tenor starter mouthpiece, and a huuuuge gap in practice due to a hand injury AND only having played since January this year for about two months.
I had to use the last fingering for G on your chart, by the way. The one that requires both the lowest right hand palm key, and the lowest of the two keys next to it. Ironically, it is easier for me to hit, and in tune, than high G, but the fingering is too awkward for me, so I'm aiming to pull it off with a different one. But it gives me hope that I may just not be restrained to the standard key range.
Jaimie, thank you sooooooo much for making this video--a very cool person in our inner circle gave me the link to this video after reading I'd just bought an old ~circa 1970s Bundy Selmer tenor--no f# side key! Thanks again!
This is gold! I put this together with a new mouthpiece I just got this week and I'm finally getting many of these notes to speak for the first time. Lots of practice ahead, but at least I've got a great start!
Just bought a reference 54 tenor and my old double G fingering was completely unstable on this new horn (the only flaw in the entire instrument). Fingering option #6 for the double G is more responsive and easier to play than even D-F# below it. THAT is CRAZY. Thank you sir!
Thanks for the awesome lessons! I almost sold my sax last week.. Then pick it Up because I was bored.. Anda realised how beautiful it sounds.. It is so.. Natural :D! If you could do the Shine on you crazy diamond solo it would bé awesome!
Awesome. Excited to try all these. Especially the F ones. At the very top of my range I use pearls 1, 3 and side C for the altissimo F, add the 2 for F# and then remove 1 for the double altissimo G. Try it out if you get a chance. You (and sirvalorsax) are the one's that taught me altissimo through your videos. Have my own chart of fingerings I came up with that I'm going to make a video of after I can try them on bari. They work for my tenor and alto. From A through C# you can just use pearl 3 and add the left hand palm keys: 3 = A; 3+D = Bb; 3+Eb = B; 3+D+Eb = C; and 3+D+Eb+F = C#
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Thank you very much for all these combinations of music notes , it is very useful for me ‘cause I can’t read music notes so the fingerings are very very very useful to me 🙏🙏🙏
Well, I can’t re-edit the video I’m afraid. You’ll have to use the fingering chart. Find out what positions work best for you then join them up in a chromatic scale. Hope that helps.
Ive warned them in my house that they will hear some horrible noises over the next few weeks, I'm not disappointing them so far. i've switched from my MK 6 alto to playing a Trevor James The horn revolution 2 Tenor, as coincidence would have it. starting to get to grips with it. playing overtones and squeaking out altissimo. I have to go back to playing a nice minor blues every here and there to remind myself (AND OTHERS) that I can actually make a nice sound on this thing 😂
My only complainy is that I've only just found this! This video has been extremely helpful in kick-starting my journey into the altissimo range, thanks so much! Is this available for alto?
Jamie, can you please explain the fingering chart you gave out? Specifically, what the 1st key to the left means. Is that the high F key? In the video here it looks like it should be pressed down and your 1st finger doesn't seem to be on it so I am very confused.
Jamie, I noticed a small oval key on your charts for A and E options that is positioned between keys 5 and 6 (lower two right hand keys). Is that an F# key? I have an old Conn Shooting Star with no F# key, and haven't played on a modern tenor saxophone, so not sure where such a key exists. By the way, I have tried various ways to get F# and figured out a fingering unlike the six you show. I have been told that old saxophones like mine can be a challenge to get altissimo notes to sound, especially Conns due to the more flat crook design. We will see if that is bogus, as I will be trying to expand my playing into the altissimo range over the next few months.
dude I can kill altissimo on most horns but my mark six which sounds so sweet was a nightmare getting consistent scales up above the g. this saved my life. Felt like a failure then these came along. You realize there aren't any other videos with this many clear working fingerings for non F# horns? this made my mark 6 my main horn again....
Just when you thought it was safe...... Jamie Anderson is 'The Laminator'. Thanks as ever; awesome stuff. I am assuming the side rectangle between E and F keys is the front F#.....not a key I've ever used or owned.
I assume you're talking about the high F# key? I've never had a sax with that key either and I had to borrow and alto and tenor for these videos, but the comment below from MyRackley is quite right, it does make some altissimo fingerings easier.
Thanks a million for this one Jamie !! As a companion to this could you do a video about the alternative fingerings and which ones to use & when they are useful to use. Like a long F on the clarinet to use as a trill to D .... if you know those fingerings it’s like using all top fingers and finger 1&3 on the bottom to all bottom fingers
@@GetYourSaxTogether it’s not altissimo fingerings it’s the alternate fingerings for the main notes on the Sax. Where you might have 2-3 different fingerings and when to use them ...
I could only play altissimo G and A until I saw his video explaining altissimo. Now I can get out the double altissimo G and all the notes below it. It's a must watch. I also commented some of the fingerings I worked out from Sirvalorsax and a video of Jeff Coffin talking about Bert Wilson's fingerings. Also using a lip-out embouchure like Sirvalor uses/teaches is key I think (definitely saves me all the lower lip pain Jamie eludes to here lol). Altissimo had like this huge barrier to entry and then once you get over that it becomes so much easier--except for tonguing lmao. Hope it works out, guarantee you'll get it soon!
It’s a good idea, but as you know playing Altissimo notes on soprano are actually really difficult and I don’t think I can get much above an A to be honest.
Great video!! 👏🏻 my tenor is vintage (conn shooting stars) and I have been looking how to play in tune altísimos tunes that some standards positions doesn’t works. Regards !
Quick one, found your channel through Saxophone Academy but i play tenor and was doing a sax practice on a gospel yesterday. What do you recommend to practice, like after you learning how to hit the notes but to connect them or slide into them easily, especially through the different registers? Like jumping from front E to alttissimo A, C# and E, or from second register notes to altissimo notes. Currently using those notes to practice. Thanks EDITED
@@GetYourSaxTogether Sorry. Some missing words there but... What would recommended to practice to connect those notes, the altissimo notes, to help smooth out the notes transition? I tend to choke the notes when attempting to apply them in a practice song.
You need to watch my full altissimo video. You’re not making the right shape in your mouth and throat for the altissimo notes to speak. th-cam.com/video/kURzx_fZ6Ho/w-d-xo.html
@@GetYourSaxTogether When you get into the real hi notes its best to use only your upper hand and find what works best for you. It will help you to get faster that way. But it really comes down to your lip .
Just getting started on altissimo. This is the only video I've found with examples of how it sounds. Thanks!
You’re welcome. Make sure you watch the main video too. th-cam.com/video/kURzx_fZ6Ho/w-d-xo.html
You and SirValorSax together enabled me to hit altissimo G for the first time but consistently. With a synth reed, with a yamaha tenor starter mouthpiece, and a huuuuge gap in practice due to a hand injury AND only having played since January this year for about two months.
I had to use the last fingering for G on your chart, by the way. The one that requires both the lowest right hand palm key, and the lowest of the two keys next to it.
Ironically, it is easier for me to hit, and in tune, than high G, but the fingering is too awkward for me, so I'm aiming to pull it off with a different one.
But it gives me hope that I may just not be restrained to the standard key range.
Great!
Thank you so much! This is the best altissimo finger chart!!!
You're very welcome!
Really wish this has more views . You have the option to pause the the video and take note on the fingering chart!
There’s also a free pdf remember.
Best altissimo video for tenor, thanks for clearing the fog on this for us Jamie. Great work!
🙏 Thanks.
First day practicing altissimo, got F#, G, G#, A, and Bb out with these fingerings. Thanks!!!
Awesome!!
Jaimie, thank you sooooooo much for making this video--a very cool person in our inner circle gave me the link to this video after reading I'd just bought an old ~circa 1970s Bundy Selmer tenor--no f# side key! Thanks again!
You are so welcome!
This is gold! I put this together with a new mouthpiece I just got this week and I'm finally getting many of these notes to speak for the first time. Lots of practice ahead, but at least I've got a great start!
Great to hear John - keep it up!
Just bought a reference 54 tenor and my old double G fingering was completely unstable on this new horn (the only flaw in the entire instrument). Fingering option #6 for the double G is more responsive and easier to play than even D-F# below it. THAT is CRAZY. Thank you sir!
Yeh, weird all that, isn’t it?
@@GetYourSaxTogether Very!!
That’s my favorite fingering for the G on my Mark VI as well
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Thanks for the awesome lessons! I almost sold my sax last week.. Then pick it Up because I was bored.. Anda realised how beautiful it sounds.. It is so.. Natural :D! If you could do the Shine on you crazy diamond solo it would bé awesome!
Great to hear Ronny! Shine on Crazy Diamond will go on the list!
@@GetYourSaxTogether I second that recommendation for Shine On
Awesome. Excited to try all these. Especially the F ones. At the very top of my range I use pearls 1, 3 and side C for the altissimo F, add the 2 for F# and then remove 1 for the double altissimo G. Try it out if you get a chance. You (and sirvalorsax) are the one's that taught me altissimo through your videos. Have my own chart of fingerings I came up with that I'm going to make a video of after I can try them on bari. They work for my tenor and alto. From A through C# you can just use pearl 3 and add the left hand palm keys: 3 = A; 3+D = Bb; 3+Eb = B; 3+D+Eb = C; and 3+D+Eb+F = C#
Wicked - sounds like you're totally on top of it, be sure to comment with a link to your video when you do it.
< ! My Lip has fallen on the floor ¡!¡ Lip repair anyone? Feels Soo gOOd ( S/M I guess...) Yep,...you did *hard work* mate ! I thought I had it all figured out with Sigurd and here you come and altered my mental images !¡! Please include in the near future Lip Maintenance & alternatives under dispair. Thank You Jamie from Nicaragua under double nightmare > No...really it´s a great thing you´ve done here. I appreciate it Sir Jamie!¡!
lol - thanks for your comment Mike ;-)
Amazingly clear and incredibly effective tutorial. Thank you!
You're very welcome! 😊
Thanks Jamie!... This is a MUST, as your altissimo video... kind regards!
And the dying donkey on 4:24 LOL!
Thanks Eduardo
After 2 days i got all the way to C. Thank you!
Great!
Thank you very much for all these combinations of music notes , it is very useful for me ‘cause I can’t read music notes so the fingerings are very very very useful to me 🙏🙏🙏
You're very welcome!
Great Jamie ! What a grerat example of "having an open throat" too - much easier to see in this video
Glad you enjoyed it John!
Great video!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!
You are welcome!🙏🏻
These fingerings are great! Got all of them to speak up to the F!
Awesome!
This helped to fill in some fingerings I was struggling with, thanks for posting!
Great. Glad it helped. 🙏
much appreciated, thanks 😀
You're welcome!
Super!!!! Can you show us the exercise for the altissimo scale an also the position to favorite a good movement to play easy an altissimo scale
Sorry, I don’t know what you mean. The PDF has all the fingerings.
@@GetYourSaxTogether perform a chromatic scale in the highest, ascending and descending register. With the ability to see the positions used
Well, I can’t re-edit the video I’m afraid. You’ll have to use the fingering chart. Find out what positions work best for you then join them up in a chromatic scale. Hope that helps.
Ive warned them in my house that they will hear some horrible noises over the next few weeks, I'm not disappointing them so far.
i've switched from my MK 6 alto to playing a Trevor James The horn revolution 2 Tenor, as coincidence would have it. starting to get to grips with it. playing overtones and squeaking out altissimo. I have to go back to playing a nice minor blues every here and there to remind myself (AND OTHERS) that I can actually make a nice sound on this thing 😂
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Can you make a video on the altissimo notes for the baritone saxophone?
I'm not that great at Bari altissimo truth be told and never need to use it!
Yeah i’d love that too
My only complainy is that I've only just found this! This video has been extremely helpful in kick-starting my journey into the altissimo range, thanks so much! Is this available for alto?
Yup. Just search.
Yasss! Perfect timing Jaime! Thank you muchly ✌️
Anytime Russell!
Thanks Jamie. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
Glory be! Thanks Jamie this so totally rocks!!! Wow!!!!
You are so welcome!
Jamie, can you please explain the fingering chart you gave out? Specifically, what the 1st key to the left means. Is that the high F key? In the video here it looks like it should be pressed down and your 1st finger doesn't seem to be on it so I am very confused.
It’s the octave key.
@@GetYourSaxTogether awesome. Thank you. Man so many ways. Ted Nash fingers are quite different.
Jamie, I noticed a small oval key on your charts for A and E options that is positioned between keys 5 and 6 (lower two right hand keys). Is that an F# key? I have an old Conn Shooting Star with no F# key, and haven't played on a modern tenor saxophone, so not sure where such a key exists. By the way, I have tried various ways to get F# and figured out a fingering unlike the six you show. I have been told that old saxophones like mine can be a challenge to get altissimo notes to sound, especially Conns due to the more flat crook design. We will see if that is bogus, as I will be trying to expand my playing into the altissimo range over the next few months.
dude I can kill altissimo on most horns but my mark six which sounds so sweet was a nightmare getting consistent scales up above the g. this saved my life. Felt like a failure then these came along. You realize there aren't any other videos with this many clear working fingerings for non F# horns? this made my mark 6 my main horn again....
Awesome!!
Thanks got all the way to f and I used to stop at D and then just play by ear/use teeth on reed.
You're welcome!
Thank you Jamie, great lesson! 👍
Glad you liked it!
Just when you thought it was safe...... Jamie Anderson is 'The Laminator'. Thanks as ever; awesome stuff. I am assuming the side rectangle between E and F keys is the front F#.....not a key I've ever used or owned.
I assume you're talking about the high F# key?
I've never had a sax with that key either and I had to borrow and alto and tenor for these videos, but the comment below from MyRackley is quite right, it does make some altissimo fingerings easier.
Yeah SirValorSax certainly knows his stuff!
Thanks for another great video.
Can you do a video on the fingerings that you use on alto and tenor?
Do you mean non altissimo fingerings? Because this video and the previous alto video cover fingerings for the altissimo notes.
Thanks a million for this one Jamie !! As a companion to this could you do a video about the alternative fingerings and which ones to use & when they are useful to use. Like a long F on the clarinet to use as a trill to D .... if you know those fingerings it’s like using all top fingers and finger 1&3 on the bottom to all bottom fingers
I don't have any plans to do anymore altissimo fingerings for the moment. I figured 6 different fingerings for each note would be enough! lol!
@@GetYourSaxTogether it’s not altissimo fingerings it’s the alternate fingerings for the main notes on the Sax. Where you might have 2-3 different fingerings and when to use them ...
@@Islendingar Ah, I see! Sorry. That’s a good idea actually, I’ll add that video to the list, thanks. 😊
I really hope this works!!! I've only been able to go up to F#
I could only play altissimo G and A until I saw his video explaining altissimo. Now I can get out the double altissimo G and all the notes below it. It's a must watch. I also commented some of the fingerings I worked out from Sirvalorsax and a video of Jeff Coffin talking about Bert Wilson's fingerings. Also using a lip-out embouchure like Sirvalor uses/teaches is key I think (definitely saves me all the lower lip pain Jamie eludes to here lol). Altissimo had like this huge barrier to entry and then once you get over that it becomes so much easier--except for tonguing lmao. Hope it works out, guarantee you'll get it soon!
Hope it works out for you, good luck, keep at it!
@@gangofgreenhorns2672 Thanks! I'll definitely check out their videos
Caraca não pensava que dava pra tirar essas notas em um saxofone tenor 😁👏👏👏👏👏
Parabéns
O alcance de um saxofone é notavelmente amplo. Obrigado!
Hi J, You cover the alto and tenor. How about doing it for the soprano players just for a comparison
It’s a good idea, but as you know playing Altissimo notes on soprano are actually really difficult and I don’t think I can get much above an A to be honest.
This is very helpful, Thank you!!
You're very welcome!
Great video!! 👏🏻 my tenor is vintage (conn shooting stars) and I have been looking how to play in tune altísimos tunes that some standards positions doesn’t works. Regards !
Thanks David
Woot! Woot! Thanks Jamie! 🎷
You're welcome!!
Awesome tutorial!
What do I need for the top F#?
You mean the double F#?
@@GetYourSaxTogether yeah, an octave above the one on the 3 ledger lines.
@@FredHMusic-gr7nu try these…
3-D+Eb palm/sideE-lowEb
1-3-Eb palm/
1-3-Eb palm/1
3-palm D/side E
Palm D/2-side E
Can anyone explain I can play altissimo A but not altissimo G . Why is that?
Because G is harder to play than A! 🤣
Something that may help, do long tones on F#, Ab, then try you're G
How about note G7 you have just blown to F7 in 8:50 ?
The video only covers the first octave. @Sirvalorsax is good for that super high stuff.
Thanks for sharing, so 😎
Anytime! Thanks for watching.
Can you make a video where you go highter than f⁴?
I might do in the future, but that note in my experience is high enough for most people.
Very helpful thanks
Glad it helped
Can you make another video but going higher?
Maybe one day, sure!
Thank you, Jamie
You are so welcome!
Thank you great playing, not easy looks like a lot of work!, will you be doing anything on circular breathing?
Got you covered there Joe! th-cam.com/video/71rGbUHzihs/w-d-xo.html
Quick one, found your channel through Saxophone Academy but i play tenor and was doing a sax practice on a gospel yesterday.
What do you recommend to practice, like after you learning how to hit the notes but to connect them or slide into them easily, especially through the different registers? Like jumping from front E to alttissimo A, C# and E, or from second register notes to altissimo notes. Currently using those notes to practice. Thanks
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Sorry man - can you ask the question more clearly? Thanks!
@@GetYourSaxTogether Sorry. Some missing words there but...
What would recommended to practice to connect those notes, the altissimo notes, to help smooth out the notes transition? I tend to choke the notes when attempting to apply them in a practice song.
@@Zamten try simple scales and arpeggios. That’s what I did.
Thanks Jamie!
You are so welcome!
I just applied this properly but the tone are different and very low🥺
You need to watch my full altissimo video. You’re not making the right shape in your mouth and throat for the altissimo notes to speak. th-cam.com/video/kURzx_fZ6Ho/w-d-xo.html
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
You're welcome!
Podria tener subtitulos en español..me interesa tus clases pero no esta en español
I know you’re saying something about Spanish subtitles but I can’t understand what. Sorry!
What is the top left key at 4:17
That’s the LH thumb octave key
@@GetYourSaxTogether ok thanks
7:37 is that c#?
High c# fingering becomes altissimo Eb for me.
Play the Ebm or Eb pentatonic with a Db to get used to all the notes then switch from that high Db to altissimo Eb
I’ll be honest, I’m just going through comments and can’t watch the video at this moment!
Is it possible to play double altissimo g?
And way more besides!
oh wow could you make a video on it?@@GetYourSaxTogether
Jamie what are the positions without F #?
They're all in the video and PDF, only some of them use the high F# key.
Thanks.
You're welcome
You missed a fingerings on the hi A. Its just the 3rd key upper hand with octave key.
Thanks for that John, always useful to have another alternative.
@@GetYourSaxTogether
When you get into the real hi notes its best to use only your upper hand and find what works best for you. It will help you to get faster that way. But it really comes down to your lip .
@@johnshannon7141 Interesting tip, thanks!
I supposed would need a mute for soprano to keep the duck and the birds away LOL
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