This is why your tone SUCKS (and how to fix it)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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I was just wondering how you knew my tone sucked. Am I playing that loud!
😂 well that means you’re playing with enough air!
Okay, you must be spying on my practice sessions cause each week you cover something I’m working on! LMAO! I’m working with a new MP so my sound is off until get use to it. This is brilliant! 🎉
Great advice. I use this technique with my students and it works wonders.
Thank you, Dave. I needed this advice.
Good tips!
Game changing advice Dave!
Thank you very much!
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Thank you Dave, recently I've been really insecure about my tone so this video dropped at a great time!
You're very welcome! I really hope it helps you.
This is similar to doing long low tones, because you must open up and relax the embouchure to make low tones sound good. Thanks for another way to sound better.
Very well explained! Thanks for another amazing video!! ❤
You’re welcome! So glad you like it
Thank you Dave. Great, as always!!!
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Yeah, I’ve always believed this. But Dave Liebmans book says to hold an “EEEEE “ in your tongue but I’ve always found that didn’t really work on tenor or alto.
Depends on the tone you’re going for, I think the Trane vibe is more of an ‘Eeee’, but you don’t want to be constricting either. So I try to work on both, lol…
Great, great! thank you so much
You’re very welcome!
Never thought about that, great advice! Thanks!
You’re very welcome!
Omg why didn’t I think of that! Brilliant. Full disclosure dude, I’m stealing this teaching idea! 😂
Thanks brother!! I appreciate that 🙏
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Been a while watching saxophone content on RUclips, the timing of this video is crazy for me XD
I hope it helps you!
@@DavePollack most definetly, especially the 20 cents tuning fact , i was pulling back my mouthpiece and my low notes were not stable , now i know what needs to be done 🙂
Something so simple, yet so effective! Thank you, I’ll certainly be doing this moving forward. Is it “ah” or the letter “r”??
I think “aww”
Title really resonated with me 🤣
Hope it can help out!
@@DavePollackdefinitely!!
The face your making on the right of the thumbnail is hilarious :)
😂 actually creating it is so awkward, so i’m glad you dig it!
i though putting a sticker on your sax was the key to better tone
🤫 (that’s the advanced lesson…most aren’t ready for that yet)
David Sanborn once said:"if the reed isn't playing, it ain't happening..."
Dave - would that apply to the soprano as well?
Yes, but not nearly as open as alto. You need to stay firm and consistent, but lower the tongue a little and keep it there - you don’t want to move around too much on soprano!
Chick Corea to me: "You have a really nice tone." Awwwe
That’s a BIG compliment!
@@DavePollack Yes it is!!!!
I did some googling on this topic, and found this:
"I think Tongue position is a really important topic, I'd be really interested in other's opinions.
Here's my 2 cents for what it's worth:
For many years, I played with a "flat" tongue position... I believed this is was what people were referring to as an "open throat", and thought it would lead to a bigger, and fuller sound. My sound was fine, but I think it was much harder work than it needed to be.
I now play with higher, angled tongue position. I keep my throat relaxed but my tongue is in an "EEEEE" position (instead of an AAAH sound), or maybe a "Y" sound, as in the word "yes", is a better way of describing the tongue position. See how you find it - I believe it speeds up the air flow making tone production noticeably easier.
Here is a relevant except from John Harle's The Saxophone "At rest, or when talking normally, your tongue feels large in your mouth, and the side of your tongue are wide at the back, anchored to your top mid-back teeth. This creates a relaxed and efficient use of breath whilst talking. The same principle applies to saxophone playing. Habitually compression your tongue downwards (creating a large space behind the reed), will cause you breath to slow down and causes instability in sound and intonation. Making a big space in your mouth will not create a big sound, it will create a small sound. Keeping the tongue high and wide at the back stops a feeling of tension in the throat"."
Your thoughts?
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Thats me Dave,😢.
We’re going to work on it, don’t you worry!
Are you saying OR or ARE Dave? 🤔🤔
“aww”
Are you saying OR or ARE Dave? 🤔🤔
It’s between or and are. Just open up your embouchure a bit until you’re not pinching
“awww”