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In my opinion, this extreme end of the range impractical. It requires so much control and the slightest deviation of voicing will result in the note changing pitch, intonation, or tone. But it makes for a cool party trick. And thank you! I try to hit the gym 6 days a week!

Yes! I teach several woodwind students at Heritage!

Depends on the saxophonist. Though there are many that can play far higher than that with a consistently beautiful tone. Several pieces in our standard repertoire call for the saxophone to play up to concert A-flat 6 above that. The highest I've ever seen a piece of music demand (for the alto) is a concert B 6.

Application of voicing. I'm ssing a series of anchor or checkpoint notes. Beginning with my tongue and voicing set lower than I would for the beginning note. As I raise my tongue, I slowly move my fingers toward each of the checkpoint notes making sure that my fingers stay ahead of where the produced pitch is. The tongue and voicing is effectively playing catch up to the fingers until they meet at the top most note.

@JaredWatersSaxophonist great explanation, doing sax professionally at the moment but still trying to improve on my altissimo range.

@@Hari-Harmonies Not to dump unsolicited advice, but check out Top Tones by Sigurd Rascher! Incredible resource for overtones and altissimo.

@@JaredWatersSaxophonist brilliant thank you, I've been using better sax and a few others on here to get there, at the moment I'm able to get to top A without too many inconsistencies.

@@JaredWatersSaxophonist if I'm able to, could I share an improving sax playlist of about 4 different videos from different channels including your suggestion. Brilliant gliss by the way, would love to learn to do that more consistently on the sax

You may be able to find PDF excerpts on Google

If he likes it, I can give it to him to work on in our lessons!

I believe I was using 1, 2, 4, 6, octave

Altissimo

@@Jus_AceBat no I get that lol. It's just so amazingly smooth it's crazy

Never too late to pick up the horn again!

Agreed, never too late. I just started back up after nearly 15 years of a break.

I'm effectively stringing together a bunch of smaller glisses through a series of checkpoints. Starting on D to G, then to Palm D, crossing over the front fingerings towards altissimo A and then altissimo D, then overblowing palm F# to hit the double G. My landlord currently doesn't allow me to play on the premises. Once I can secure a more consistent place to play and record, I intend on making a tutorial on how to gliss on saxophone.

​@JaredWatersSaxophonist super cool, thanks for the answer 🙏

Same!

I heard the same thing... They're both a concert F

@@TrashCanBoiBoithe rhapsody in blue clarinet gliss is open g to high c, so it was the wrong ending note but I get the point

Yeah​@@FNBRVolts

​@FNBRVolts The Soprano Clarinet is in Bb. So a C played on clarinet would be Bb concert. His Bb was an octave higher but it was the correct pitch

HAHAHA!! Thank you so much!

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Not to provide any unsolicited advice, but to do exactly that, I find this register speaks much more effortlessly if you slightly roll out the bottom lip so that more "pink" contacts the reed. Hope this is helpful!

Interesting. Is there a note at which you noticeably begin to roll out? Maybe around D or E?

@@jzer21 In this video, I was rolled out from the get go. In most pieces, I will usually roll out for anything that's Double F#/G or higher.

@@JaredWatersSaxophonist thanks for the tip! I think I tend to focus too much on overly tightening my embouchure from an alt E upwards. I’ll try shifting focus to the lip instead.

I hope you mean that in a good way...?