I think Larry teal wrote that in is book, the art of saxophone playing. when i read that, it made me happy. i have read quite a few saxophone books, and some say that the sax is an easy instrument to play, and i always added mentally badly.
I went to the collage of hard knocks, Played with my dog and own the cheapest sax I could find. I know it all. it's a piece a cake. I'm looking for a gig. Wanna hire me?
uah! 🐻👍👍👍 great! 💥🎷💥 ... i must confess... i was culprit... nº3! uah, but back in time, 1990, no internet, no teacher, so i learned all by my self... and so i m the best in every bad, really bad, habit that can you have on sax 😭😂😭😂🤪😱
Dear Adriene, I have been enjoying and learning from your videos for a long time. You're unique, and in a league of your own. Thank you, and thank you again! 🙂 As for Number 1 on your list, I believe you will love that perfect and amazingly beautiful example for your point: th-cam.com/video/LYP7Mxss3_U/w-d-xo.html ❤
My friend is one of the best players I know, he studied under Garzone and I didn't know it until someone else told me like 6 years after meeting him lol. Let the saxophone speak for yourself lol.
Great video! To your last point about listening to the band behind you and communicating back and forth with the band: I am always impressed when the sax player starts their solo with a motif played by the prior soloist, and develops that motif in their solo. This requires great knowledge of the harmony of the tune (so you are not thinking about the chords - you just know them), and the ability to play any phrase by ear. Great players can do this comfortably. The problem is too many great players just try to impress the listener with their extensive knowledge and abilities without the interplay with their band mates.
😎Excellent, excellent video on all points. And I concur, most anomalies and distasteful behavior can be traced back to ego. Really loved Marsalis’ comments. Also, I think the cheap instrument mentality is part of the failure to commit to the art form. Too many TH-camrs just looking to get a lot of hits and likes with their stupid click bait videos. You got the right idea, man; enjoyed the content. 👍🥳 See Ya!👨🏻
As a guitarist (& saxophonist)- I will humbly disagree with your statement that the guitar is easily laid out! There is a pattern to the way notes are placed on the fretboard - but the same note can be voiced in many different places, and it gets complicated quickly. I can’t believe I never noticed how this layout translates to the sax as well - pretty wild!
this is great advice, the only thing i do wrong, is devalue myself, to a point that i believe i am not good enough to play for people. This is regardless of what anyone tells me. it is something i really need to get over, and just think i am where i am, and tomorrow i will be a bit better. Other than that, it seems i am a good person to have at a gig....lol.... if i ever take that massive step.
Can someone explain the paying too little bit to me a bit better? What if I bought something like a yamaha 62, which is not exactly cheap, but also not ultra expensive, as my first saxophone ...then I will outgrow it and need a step up one? Could I not use it for a long time?
There are a lot of TH-camrs trying to push cheap garbage saxophones off as good quality ones. These are the saxophones that I am referring to. The Yamaha 62 should fit your liking very much if that is what you are into, they have really good resale value and should last you a very long time
@@Sirvalorsax Ah, I see. Thanks. I plan on playing the tenor sax (and maybe the alto later) mostly for my own enjoyment, but also to hopefully spread some of its beauty into the drab, tired world around me. (Music clubs have been dying out bad, for a decade now, barely anyone is making music anymore, everyone in my neighborhood is silent and tired v_v...) Since last year, I do not have a three as the first digit of my age anymore. So, I don't see myself becoming anything stellar, but I do plan on enriching my life and others with it, and I do aim to be good. So, its good to know that I can stay on this instrument for some time. I'm aiming for a decade at least. Perhaps with s bow and mouthpiece tweaking at some point, but...yeah. Since I doubt I'll become a virtuoso, that model seemed like the best choice for projected skill, versus quality and joy.
Great video! Thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom. I'd like to add the commitment about your saxophone condition to Sin 5. It's important to improve your setup over the time and to use the best you have but it's also important to keep your saxophone in working condition, to use a full of leaks 5 digit MK VI is worse than use an intermediate saxophone with no leaks and means lack of commitment.
Inexpensive sax..... off the shelf look great, can be good sounding. and playing with a little tweaking. But they do not hold up! You are so right about playing with and off each other on stage. It can be easy to forget about the rhythm section, especially when they are rock solid. Big fun playing off the drummer and they love it. When the rhythm section is shaky, it won't matter what you do. They take you down with them and anyone listening will sum it up as follows: This Band Sucks!
Very insightful, SirValor! Several of these sins are transferable to other instruments as well (Name dropping, College dropping,etc.) and they annoy me constantly.
I played trumpet at.... and I know personally that each instrument has it's challenges. Why I think sax is easier than the trumpet, is because of the physical demands. I could practice sax for 3-4 hours but playing trumpet would only be 1-2 hours maxed. Also, beginners playing the full range of the sax is incomprehensibly easier than that of a trumpet. Not talking about altissimo or grand/super high register either. LOL piano is the easiest instrument to learn.
Wow! This is the best sax related video i've seen in a loooong time! Tips 7 and 6 certainly humbled me (especially with the college thing...I'm very guilty of that!) and tip 1 makes me appreciate the beauty of being a musician. It's certainly an ebb and flow of musical ideas which in-turn creates a sense of unity.
Very good topic and i agree with everything you pointed out and that's why I spend time on all the little things. I found out in order to be good you gotta to put in the work and practice and order to be great multiple work and practice by 100 then add in lots patience. You go guy love your content.😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😇
Good video 👍. I bought a YAS-62 as soon as I could afford it so that I know that when the sound is lacking it's not the instrument! However, I do regret not keeping my student Buescher - it had a sweet sound which I didn't appreciate at the time.
I've always said this from High School Days, that YOU can have the best Saxophone on the Market, and can play just about anything...oh, you can play all the Higher Octave Notes, etc. But eventually you have to come back down, and your lower Octaves are questionable and out of tune! I've gone through that with players that got a Selmer MK5 (sorry I'm that old) and you'd laugh at my old Conn M10...well shit, at LEAST it was in tune! No, the keys on it weren't conformed "sloped" for the ease playing...they were "straight" just like it would be for most High School Saxes of the day. I guess what I want to say is that when I perform, (and every now and then I do...just for fun with close friends) I give it my all in wanting to do well...but I want to BE ME; no one else, and I want to have PRIDE in what I'm playing and how I sound! Yes, we all borrow a page or two from more established Musicians...yes, but you want to be comfortable with how you sound and play firsthand! And no, I'm not a professional Saxophonist (never sought out to be) but when I've played with a few that are much more advanced, I don't like to be one that tries to be like.. "Well, let me do one up on him or her"...no. Playing a GIG with that attitude, I want no parts of it, and I'll walk away. When I have to play with other Musicians, my job is to complement the others (be it the Singer or Pianist or Organist) not to overpower them...that RUINS it for everyone! Sirvlarsax, I like you points on what you've said...these are matters that HAD to be said! Thanks, Bro.
I like the green case in the background. In a sea of balck cases a colored case tends to stick it. Interesting video -- thanks for another informing/entertaining video!
Thanks for this video, SirValorsax:) Everything is so true. I am just a little confused about the 5th sin... What do you mean with the idea of the "rhythm section" of the woodwinds? And how is this related to buying (or not) a cheap saxophone in the begining? Just curiously asking, thank you :)
Rhythm section instruments have a very easy to learn logic in the way they are laid out. Learning a basic finger pattern on guitar and bass makes it easy to move that position and play the same thing in a different key. Piano is similar to this but not to the same degree. When Adolphe sax created the saxophone, he wanted to apply this logic to the saxophone's fingering system. Many people interpret this to mean that the sax is easy to play. This is not true, but it does make the instrument very easy to learn the basics.
I have a general question, I play on a jazz mouthpiece and whenever I play a phrase that has a somewhat big interval that leads to D (on alto sax), the D would tend to squeak. Is there any fix?
The inherent stuffiness of the "D" can cause added pressure that will make the higher harmonics speak more easily. In other word, you'll squeak. Make sure that there are no leaks anywhere in the sax and practice those intervals slowly to make sure you are closing all the keys at the same time. Be sure to check the neck hole because that is often where the leak is.
Hello!! Been playing sax for over 50 years and it crushes me that Yamaha music has not yet developed a Professional Sopranino Sax for purchase! I already play from Tenor to Soprano and am seriously considering expanding into the Sopranino area to give my Alto an octave higher range. Since I play by ear, should I just stay with my three saxes or expand my range??? Also, I lost my Tenor and Soprano in Hurricane Harvey and am putting the money together to get my saxes replaced
Probably has to do with the business side of things. Not much demand for sopraninos by players or gigs. Sopranos also does not have as many market (buyers) demand compared to alto/tenor. So adding a line of curved sopranos.....that market segment might already be saturated. Not many saxophonist keep both curved and straight sop at the same time and probably more demand for straight than curved as some professional saxophonist feel curved sop diminish from their image. Just my thoughts.
@@Sirvalorsax I don't see much need for Bari sax as a predominantly solo artist! However, I am getting the YDS-150 Digital Sax and if it has a decent adjustment to tune it to sound more like the real thing, I'd rather spend a grand for a Digital Sax than 7 or 8 grand for a Sax that I don't typically play! I played Bari in 7th and 8th grade, but good lord, that was 50 years ago!!!
I recently saw that when having to choose exclusively between Tenor or Alto sax, alto was winning 51/49. How would SirValor answer this perplexing dilemma ?
Here is how it goes, there are LESS BARI PLAYERS than there are TENOR PLAYERS, there are LESS Tenor players than there are ALTO Players, and there are less Soprano players than there are ALTO players. Hope this helps.
This is a random off topic question but - I’d consider myself a professional player. Been doing it for a while, did military band thing for a while. I mostly teach now. But I recently bought a soprano after not playing it for about 10 years. I can’t play the palm keys above D!!!! Any tips on developing that?
@@Sirvalorsax I’ve got a drake mouthpiece for it. It’s 10/10, love it. Legere American 2.75 on it (I play legere on all the horns because I teach too, they’re so consistent). It’s a cannonball soprano, stone series. I’ve tried softer reeds I’ve tried harder reeds. Not sure if it’s my voicing but I can’t imagine it’s Glen worse after 10 years 😂
@@youtubebanddirector This is a tough situation. I have always struggled with Cannonball soprano saxes above the high G#. I call it the G# wall. There seems to be an extreme amount of added resistance above that note. I would try the Cannonball soprano mouthpiece that comes with the sax. It is actually made by Meyer. It is also my favorite soprano mouthpiece but I don't play it because it doesn't fit with my current sax necks. I would also try some cane reeds. I found that the Royals by D'Addario (blue box) play pretty freely across the range of the horn. These are a few cheap ways of getting to the heart of the problem.
@@Sirvalorsax thanks for the advice! Might sell this thing then and go for something else. Have a similar priced soprano you’d recommend? In the $2,000 range?
Number 3; my favorite quote, “The saxophone is an easy instrument to play poorly”.
I like that quote !!
I think Larry teal wrote that in is book, the art of saxophone playing. when i read that, it made me happy. i have read quite a few saxophone books, and some say that the sax is an easy instrument to play, and i always added mentally badly.
I went to the collage of hard knocks, Played with my dog and own the cheapest sax I could find. I know it all. it's a piece a cake. I'm looking for a gig. Wanna hire me?
Excellent and direct!
The giant steps reference had me chuckling. XD
LOL
Smart man!
What are the differences you can expect to benefit from when goi g from beginner to step-up and pro horns?
uah! 🐻👍👍👍 great! 💥🎷💥 ... i must confess... i was culprit... nº3! uah, but back in time, 1990, no internet, no teacher, so i learned all by my self... and so i m the best in every bad, really bad, habit that can you have on sax 😭😂😭😂🤪😱
All true, but No.1 is everything :-)
Dear Adriene, I have been enjoying and learning from your videos for a long time. You're unique, and in a league of your own. Thank you, and thank you again! 🙂
As for Number 1 on your list, I believe you will love that perfect and amazingly beautiful example for your point: th-cam.com/video/LYP7Mxss3_U/w-d-xo.html ❤
Wow, thanks for the suggestion. I could always use more organ music in my life
You are are an awesome communicator. Thank you for sharing your experiences and keeping it real.
Thanks
My friend is one of the best players I know, he studied under Garzone and I didn't know it until someone else told me like 6 years after meeting him lol. Let the saxophone speak for yourself lol.
Great Video
Great video! To your last point about listening to the band behind you and communicating back and forth with the band: I am always impressed when the sax player starts their solo with a motif played by the prior soloist, and develops that motif in their solo. This requires great knowledge of the harmony of the tune (so you are not thinking about the chords - you just know them), and the ability to play any phrase by ear. Great players can do this comfortably. The problem is too many great players just try to impress the listener with their extensive knowledge and abilities without the interplay with their band mates.
Totally agree!
Well done. There is always so much to learn every day about the sax.
Cool
Wisdom shared, thank you. You're dead on when you say ego is a fault in so many cases, learning humility should be part of a person's education.
Excellent thoughts….truth
😎Excellent, excellent video on all points. And I concur, most anomalies and distasteful behavior can be traced back to ego. Really loved Marsalis’ comments. Also, I think the cheap instrument mentality is part of the failure to commit to the art form. Too many TH-camrs just looking to get a lot of hits and likes with their stupid click bait videos. You got the right idea, man; enjoyed the content. 👍🥳 See Ya!👨🏻
truly true...
As a guitarist (& saxophonist)- I will humbly disagree with your statement that the guitar is easily laid out! There is a pattern to the way notes are placed on the fretboard - but the same note can be voiced in many different places, and it gets complicated quickly. I can’t believe I never noticed how this layout translates to the sax as well - pretty wild!
I've had a guitar for over 15 years. Man, I really need to learn how to play that thing. I feel like Bill and Ted LOL
Good morning! Teacher, is your ebook available?
I have 3 available as a digital purchase. The link is in the description box.
this is great advice, the only thing i do wrong, is devalue myself, to a point that i believe i am not good enough to play for people. This is regardless of what anyone tells me. it is something i really need to get over, and just think i am where i am, and tomorrow i will be a bit better. Other than that, it seems i am a good person to have at a gig....lol.... if i ever take that massive step.
Try some open mic night performances and just play your favorite stuff for a while.
give me plz note's
By me a piece of love, 77
You don't need a good saxophone to sound good. You need a good saxophone to sound BETTER.
That is really well said.
Excellent
All of this!
Yep, Sax is easy....Easy to mess up and look like a fool.
LOL
Can someone explain the paying too little bit to me a bit better?
What if I bought something like a yamaha 62, which is not exactly cheap, but also not ultra expensive, as my first saxophone ...then I will outgrow it and need a step up one?
Could I not use it for a long time?
There are a lot of TH-camrs trying to push cheap garbage saxophones off as good quality ones. These are the saxophones that I am referring to. The Yamaha 62 should fit your liking very much if that is what you are into, they have really good resale value and should last you a very long time
@@Sirvalorsax Ah, I see. Thanks.
I plan on playing the tenor sax (and maybe the alto later) mostly for my own enjoyment, but also to hopefully spread some of its beauty into the drab, tired world around me.
(Music clubs have been dying out bad, for a decade now, barely anyone is making music anymore, everyone in my neighborhood is silent and tired v_v...)
Since last year, I do not have a three as the first digit of my age anymore.
So, I don't see myself becoming anything stellar, but I do plan on enriching my life and others with it, and I do aim to be good.
So, its good to know that I can stay on this instrument for some time.
I'm aiming for a decade at least.
Perhaps with s bow and mouthpiece tweaking at some point, but...yeah.
Since I doubt I'll become a virtuoso, that model seemed like the best choice for projected skill, versus quality and joy.
Thanks so much for this video 🙏🏾
No problem 😊
Great video! Thank you so much for sharing all your wisdom. I'd like to add the commitment about your saxophone condition to Sin 5. It's important to improve your setup over the time and to use the best you have but it's also important to keep your saxophone in working condition, to use a full of leaks 5 digit MK VI is worse than use an intermediate saxophone with no leaks and means lack of commitment.
Great point.
Inexpensive sax..... off the shelf look great, can be good sounding. and playing with a little tweaking. But they do not hold up! You are so right about playing with and off each other on stage. It can be easy to forget about the rhythm section, especially when they are rock solid. Big fun playing off the drummer and they love it. When the rhythm section is shaky, it won't matter what you do. They take you down with them and anyone listening will sum it up as follows: This Band Sucks!
Very insightful, SirValor!
Several of these sins are transferable to other instruments as well (Name dropping, College dropping,etc.) and they annoy me constantly.
I played trumpet at.... and I know personally that each instrument has it's challenges. Why I think sax is easier than the trumpet, is because of the physical demands. I could practice sax for 3-4 hours but playing trumpet would only be 1-2 hours maxed. Also, beginners playing the full range of the sax is incomprehensibly easier than that of a trumpet. Not talking about altissimo or grand/super high register either. LOL piano is the easiest instrument to learn.
Wow! This is the best sax related video i've seen in a loooong time! Tips 7 and 6 certainly humbled me (especially with the college thing...I'm very guilty of that!) and tip 1 makes me appreciate the beauty of being a musician. It's certainly an ebb and flow of musical ideas which in-turn creates a sense of unity.
btw, i've followed your videos since I was a teenager especially the ones on altissimo. I'm 26 now.
WOW, I guess i've been at this for a while LOL
Very good topic and i agree with everything you pointed out and that's why I spend time on all the little things. I found out in order to be good you gotta to put in the work and practice and order to be great multiple work and practice by 100 then add in lots patience. You go guy love your content.😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😇
Much wisdom and good advice here. Thank you, Sir V. Wish I had heard this ( and really listened ) 50 years ago.
LOL, Thanks
Good video 👍. I bought a YAS-62 as soon as I could afford it so that I know that when the sound is lacking it's not the instrument! However, I do regret not keeping my student Buescher - it had a sweet sound which I didn't appreciate at the time.
EXCELLENT! Thank you for your great advise....I am guilty of two for sure.....
Because of the things your speaking about is one of the main reasons I don't miss the gig. 46 years was definitely enough.
I've always said this from High School Days, that YOU can have the best Saxophone on the Market, and can play just about anything...oh, you can play all the Higher Octave Notes, etc. But eventually you have to come back down, and your lower Octaves are questionable and out of tune! I've gone through that with players that got a Selmer MK5 (sorry I'm that old) and you'd laugh at my old Conn M10...well shit, at LEAST it was in tune! No, the keys on it weren't conformed "sloped" for the ease playing...they were "straight" just like it would be for most High School Saxes of the day. I guess what I want to say is that when I perform, (and every now and then I do...just for fun with close friends) I give it my all in wanting to do well...but I want to BE ME; no one else, and I want to have PRIDE in what I'm playing and how I sound! Yes, we all borrow a page or two from more established Musicians...yes, but you want to be comfortable with how you sound and play firsthand! And no, I'm not a professional Saxophonist (never sought out to be) but when I've played with a few that are much more advanced, I don't like to be one that tries to be like.. "Well, let me do one up on him or her"...no. Playing a GIG with that attitude, I want no parts of it, and I'll walk away. When I have to play with other Musicians, my job is to complement the others (be it the Singer or Pianist or Organist) not to overpower them...that RUINS it for everyone! Sirvlarsax, I like you points on what you've said...these are matters that HAD to be said! Thanks, Bro.
I like the green case in the background. In a sea of balck cases a colored case tends to stick it.
Interesting video -- thanks for another informing/entertaining video!
Excellent video bro. Thanks for this.
Absolutely powerful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
All instruments are difficult, if you want to play them well.
Are you still working on your Tone production book? I remember you said before it will come soon, but that was before the Diminished Book.
If you have the money just Start with a good horn else at least let a professional adjust the springs and make lits really closing
Couldn't agree more 🤙🏽🎷 well said!
Great content man keep it up !!
Thanks, will do!
Thanks bro., I needed that....
Thanks for this video, SirValorsax:) Everything is so true. I am just a little confused about the 5th sin... What do you mean with the idea of the "rhythm section" of the woodwinds? And how is this related to buying (or not) a cheap saxophone in the begining?
Just curiously asking, thank you :)
Rhythm section instruments have a very easy to learn logic in the way they are laid out. Learning a basic finger pattern on guitar and bass makes it easy to move that position and play the same thing in a different key. Piano is similar to this but not to the same degree. When Adolphe sax created the saxophone, he wanted to apply this logic to the saxophone's fingering system. Many people interpret this to mean that the sax is easy to play. This is not true, but it does make the instrument very easy to learn the basics.
Thanks a lot for point #1, if there is no interaction there is no music!
Sirvalor I was gifted with an alto saxophone and I love playing it and I wished I had played one in high school but I forced to play a trumpet.
Welcome to the sax side of the street LOL!!
I have a general question, I play on a jazz mouthpiece and whenever I play a phrase that has a somewhat big interval that leads to D (on alto sax), the D would tend to squeak. Is there any fix?
The inherent stuffiness of the "D" can cause added pressure that will make the higher harmonics speak more easily. In other word, you'll squeak. Make sure that there are no leaks anywhere in the sax and practice those intervals slowly to make sure you are closing all the keys at the same time. Be sure to check the neck hole because that is often where the leak is.
Just discovered this - wow! These points are right on. Every beginning sax player should hear this.
Spread the word, thanks for watching
You forgot a few more.....Do NOT show up P LATE, and Do NOT Show up DRUNK! Love this channel!
LOL, two things I have done.
@@Sirvalorsax Guilty MYSELF. LOLOLOL.
Shout out to Twon!
Great life lessons can be extrapolated from this; thank ya kindly for sharing!
YEP!! Twon is dope!!
He said it Giant steps😱💀
Epic
No te Entiendo.! Spain
Buen día me encanta Sax tenor.
Nice list..i would add dissing your peers to it
Yep
Great rules.
Do you think jodyjazz jet would be a good step up from selmer s80c?
What kind of music are you planning to play with it?
@@Sirvalorsax jazz or blues I want a mp with a bright sound but more closed tip & jet 5 or 6 seems like a good in between
#1 is sooooooooo true. It's the musical selfie.
The musical selfie..LOL well put
Hello!! Been playing sax for over 50 years and it crushes me that Yamaha music has not yet developed a Professional Sopranino Sax for purchase! I already play from Tenor to Soprano and am seriously considering expanding into the Sopranino area to give my Alto an octave higher range. Since I play by ear, should I just stay with my three saxes or expand my range??? Also, I lost my Tenor and Soprano in Hurricane Harvey and am putting the money together to get my saxes replaced
I wish Yamaha would make a curved soprano also. What about the other direction and going for baritone sax?
Probably has to do with the business side of things. Not much demand for sopraninos by players or gigs. Sopranos also does not have as many market (buyers) demand compared to alto/tenor. So adding a line of curved sopranos.....that market segment might already be saturated. Not many saxophonist keep both curved and straight sop at the same time and probably more demand for straight than curved as some professional saxophonist feel curved sop diminish from their image. Just my thoughts.
@@Sirvalorsax I don't see much need for Bari sax as a predominantly solo artist! However, I am getting the YDS-150 Digital Sax and if it has a decent adjustment to tune it to sound more like the real thing, I'd rather spend a grand for a Digital Sax than 7 or 8 grand for a Sax that I don't typically play! I played Bari in 7th and 8th grade, but good lord, that was 50 years ago!!!
I recently saw that when having to choose exclusively between Tenor or Alto sax, alto was winning 51/49. How would SirValor answer this perplexing dilemma ?
Here is how it goes, there are LESS BARI PLAYERS than there are TENOR PLAYERS, there are LESS Tenor players than there are ALTO Players, and there are less Soprano players than there are ALTO players. Hope this helps.
I gotta go with tenor. I wonder if kids were in that survey. They would probably choose alto for its lightweight convenience.
@@Sirvalorsax 🤣🤣 👍
I was thinking along the same lines, figuring us older guys and some of the women, would prefer Tenor. 😎👨🏻🎷
Top vid adrian
The saxophone is going to cost $40K. {{cough}}bassoons{{cough}}
😀😀😀
I just saw a video with an $84,000 flute. Lol
Love the Brahms clarinet quintet in the intro.
Glad someone noticed that!!
Gorgeous intro track Sir!!🎂
Glad you like it!
This is a random off topic question but - I’d consider myself a professional player. Been doing it for a while, did military band thing for a while. I mostly teach now. But I recently bought a soprano after not playing it for about 10 years. I can’t play the palm keys above D!!!! Any tips on developing that?
There could be a variety of issues. What sax is it, what mouthpiece are using and what reed company and strength of reeds are you using?
@@Sirvalorsax I’ve got a drake mouthpiece for it. It’s 10/10, love it. Legere American 2.75 on it (I play legere on all the horns because I teach too, they’re so consistent). It’s a cannonball soprano, stone series. I’ve tried softer reeds I’ve tried harder reeds. Not sure if it’s my voicing but I can’t imagine it’s Glen worse after 10 years 😂
@@youtubebanddirector This is a tough situation. I have always struggled with Cannonball soprano saxes above the high G#. I call it the G# wall. There seems to be an extreme amount of added resistance above that note. I would try the Cannonball soprano mouthpiece that comes with the sax. It is actually made by Meyer. It is also my favorite soprano mouthpiece but I don't play it because it doesn't fit with my current sax necks. I would also try some cane reeds. I found that the Royals by D'Addario (blue box) play pretty freely across the range of the horn. These are a few cheap ways of getting to the heart of the problem.
@@Sirvalorsax thanks for the advice! Might sell this thing then and go for something else. Have a similar priced soprano you’d recommend? In the $2,000 range?
Your videos are so cool!
Glad you like them!
Fantastic
😀
Amazing!
Thanks!
Thank you for the years of SOLID content