Try Not To Cringe: Saxophone Edition

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • Cringe is my home. I live in it. That is why I love it. It takes one to know one.
    Thank you Josh and Alonso for being in the video! Let me know if you want to see more of them. I plan on getting David in a video again, too.
    This video was such a blast to record, but editing it was a nightmare. Perhaps I'll hire an editor for videos like these!
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Комментарии • 388

  • @shendshillova6872
    @shendshillova6872 3 года назад +1022

    I'll never forget that video I once saw on tiktok, where a women had her mouthpiece twisted by 180° with her Reed being at the top.... And she acted like she was playing it while the background music was literally a violin. Nothing tops that.

    • @inspir.edmusic
      @inspir.edmusic 3 года назад +31

      I need to see this.

    • @thespartan9156
      @thespartan9156 3 года назад +13

      Please send link bro😂

    • @thespartan9156
      @thespartan9156 3 года назад +4

      @@inspir.edmusic me too lol

    • @shendshillova6872
      @shendshillova6872 3 года назад +12

      I can't find it.... I saw it a few months ago, when I just randomly typed saxophone into the searching bar

    • @Saxologic
      @Saxologic  3 года назад +151

      We actually reviewed that one! But I figured everyone already saw it haha

  • @faelsax1514
    @faelsax1514 3 года назад +357

    As a sax player, I can say the squeaks are not the problem, the thing is that after you squeak and realize it, you get nervous and start messing up other things

    • @gamingmusicmishaps
      @gamingmusicmishaps 2 года назад +2

      True, very true

    • @camthesaxman3387
      @camthesaxman3387 2 года назад +14

      When you squeak, hold it out and make a face like you're playing some really high altissimo note.

    • @chiliology3921
      @chiliology3921 2 года назад +2

      yes yes yes!

    • @verrgr
      @verrgr 2 года назад +1

      FR BRUH 💀😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨✨

  • @BrunoNeureiter
    @BrunoNeureiter 3 года назад +362

    Dude on the right is a solid comedian

  • @Justshredman
    @Justshredman 3 года назад +157

    I’m in my second year playing the sax and although I fit into all the cringe categories I can say the saxophone has humbled me. You’re gonna squeak you’re gonna sound terrible but it slowly gets less terrible with time.

    • @weeaboocentral4921
      @weeaboocentral4921 3 года назад +7

      I feel that, been playing about 5 years and while I've come a long way there's still things I'd like to improve on

    • @itsmikehayden
      @itsmikehayden 2 года назад +2

      @@weeaboocentral4921 I've been playing for 20 years... It doesn't get much better.

    • @davidgee4260
      @davidgee4260 Год назад

      Is it any worse than all these players trying to imitate what is supposed to be cool? I would rather squeak than sound just like every other 1950s sax player. I only listened to guitar players and don't ever want to sound like every other boring jazz solo sax. It is like having to have a 50 year old dull lacquered horn to be cool. Finding your own sound is called art. If you want to be a paint by number artist be sure to copy. My advice is do not listen to other sax players. And especially to critics that do not play that well.. In the 60s great bebop players were forcing themselves to unlearn all licks and sounds they were supposed to have. I cringe more at listening to this barrage of sound that all sounds the same. The trick is to play like others and then destroy their copycat coolness with original sounds and ideas. This makes them run to the study books that lead to the homogeneous sax sounds that make people hate jazz. Be yourself and quit following the so called teachers that are stuck in the time warp of complementing some player because he sounds just like Coltrane or any other great player of the PAST. And don't forget it was Miles that set in motion the rebirth of scales and rhythms that kept changing and was the antithesis of guys like Marcellus W that live in the past. Squeaks are what gave over time the upper harmonics we drool over now. That being said I need to hear you can play in tune before I listen to your experiments in scale deviations that corrupt and can excite those that understand art is expanded through the need to see and hear new methods. Don't aim to sound like somebody you admire, sound like someone that will be recognized immediately as you and then you are on your way to true greatness in your art. Or not and succumb to the applause good imitation.

  • @eternal_hangnail
    @eternal_hangnail 3 года назад +193

    Glad to see someone practicing safe sax

  • @DavePollack
    @DavePollack 3 года назад +161

    How have I never seen that expert village clip?!????

    • @thespartan9156
      @thespartan9156 3 года назад +4

      Good to see you here bro

    • @Saxologic
      @Saxologic  3 года назад +38

      I guess he is too much of an expert we aren’t worthy

    • @jacksmith8758
      @jacksmith8758 3 года назад +1

      @@Saxologic amen

    • @Hump007
      @Hump007 3 года назад +3

      Probably because it has 16 views lol

  • @hybrid4029
    @hybrid4029 3 года назад +60

    4:12 this guy definitely warms up by speed running every jazz song ever

  • @Diembee
    @Diembee 2 года назад +42

    6:52 It’s incredible how well Saxologic has kept his spirit

  • @immortalasirpa8117
    @immortalasirpa8117 3 года назад +41

    Ugh. 04:16. Working on my piano performance degree, there was *always* a sax nightmare in the practice room next to me, spewing out random free jazz for hours at a time 🥶 any time of day, any day of the week, it's like a lunatic talking in your ear

  • @martincommunications5381
    @martincommunications5381 2 года назад +16

    This made my day. I have been self-critical to the extreme lately and this reminded me of where I'm no longer at in my playing. Time to go practice. Thanks guys!

  • @clauscleber7189
    @clauscleber7189 3 года назад +292

    I’d give this video a solid 7/10, could pump it up to 8 if all 3 had their arms awkwardly crossed the whole video.

  • @fredtyu5723
    @fredtyu5723 3 года назад +81

    I like Josh and Alonzo. Put them in more videos.

  • @thikdikriky1559
    @thikdikriky1559 3 года назад +49

    Playing legend of zelda music as the background... a man of culture you are

  • @DrSelfridgeMusic
    @DrSelfridgeMusic 3 года назад +194

    [scrolls through looking for my tutorial on Whip/Nae Nae 😨}

    • @joshuadaugherty2267
      @joshuadaugherty2267 3 года назад +4

      I love your chanel it helped me get started on saxophone.

    • @gorgestboi1028
      @gorgestboi1028 3 года назад +2

      @@joshuadaugherty2267 same dr selfridge was and probably still is great

  • @overthebridge_
    @overthebridge_ 3 года назад +15

    I love how josh is quieter and Alonso is louder! It brings a great dynamic

  • @jirehkoshy8076
    @jirehkoshy8076 3 года назад +43

    "Cringe is my home"
    Me too, me too.

  • @GamerStickslol
    @GamerStickslol 3 года назад +458

    Yes that’s true I don’t love it I think it’s a big band lol but I’m not sure what what color is it lol but I just got a new one lol lol but I don’t think I

  • @gardinselmer1005
    @gardinselmer1005 3 года назад +11

    I used to hear this busker downtown all the time. The only tune he played was Summertime but he never played the last 4 bars.it drove me nuts!

  • @SeagullGC
    @SeagullGC 3 года назад +25

    I had a good laugh, but also an unexpected confidence boost in my saxophone skills, from this video. Great stuff!

  • @Tjalfe_Sax
    @Tjalfe_Sax 3 года назад +13

    Phew, I’m relieved that none of my sax clips were shown in this video xd

  • @ecarohh
    @ecarohh 3 года назад +45

    The person that played Donna Lee has like 100 videos of him playing it exactly like that on his channel

  • @annaleacherry3940
    @annaleacherry3940 Год назад +9

    For a solo I did at the level before state in highschool, I got so nervous...to keep things short, I started breathlessly sobbing while playing in front of the judges and some peers. It sounded atrocious 😂

  • @tawanda_manika_music
    @tawanda_manika_music 3 года назад +33

    Had a teacher whose hands are beastly. He plays keys and some other stuff of course. I think it's an older musician thing

  • @bellad5968
    @bellad5968 3 года назад +22

    I love the collective reaction at 5:41😂

  • @ThomasW280
    @ThomasW280 3 года назад +19

    The guy on the right is hilarious! I would love to see him in more videos

  • @haydenh.3124
    @haydenh.3124 Год назад +2

    I remember finding a video of (I think) a wwbw sales guy demoing selmer mouthpieces, and he clearly wasn’t a saxophonist. I think they’ve since taken the video down, but I still think about it to this day.

  • @zoenicole826
    @zoenicole826 3 года назад +34

    9:50 : Junior high kids when they think they're good...💀💀

    • @thespartan9156
      @thespartan9156 3 года назад +5

      Well everyone has to go though this phase at some point😂

    • @thespartan9156
      @thespartan9156 3 года назад +4

      At least hes that confident😂 respect

  • @cashews1016
    @cashews1016 3 года назад +13

    Here’s how it goes with scoring:
    1st scorer - high/low
    2nd scorer - opposite of first
    3rd scorer - middle of first and second

  • @sparkshot289
    @sparkshot289 2 года назад +8

    Funnily enough, the French astronaut who played the sax also played the French national anthem after last year's Olympics, and sounded respectable!

  • @kirbslaw4194
    @kirbslaw4194 3 года назад +30

    17:51 when you practice a 16th note lick after eating taco bell

  • @AlphTime
    @AlphTime Год назад +1

    Came for the cringey saxophone content, stayed for the free standup comedy from the dude on the right lmao

    • @Saxologic
      @Saxologic  Год назад +1

      He is so hilarious 😂

  • @brandonmonroe9822
    @brandonmonroe9822 3 года назад +9

    Alonso is friggin HILARIOUS 😂😂😂 love that guy!

  • @orlaspring363
    @orlaspring363 3 года назад +7

    I'm late to this party but the 3 of you reacting is beautiful...especially to Shrek's mouthpiece and the last player. More, please.

  • @thewarhenk
    @thewarhenk 3 года назад +8

    The least that the guitar accompanist on "Lily Was Here" could've done is detuned to make Miss Slovakia sound better! ;>) Great video!

  • @nicholasc.1024
    @nicholasc.1024 3 года назад +87

    Hey to be fair that squeak was in front of like 6 college professors. I think that adds cringe points smh.

    • @Sully365
      @Sully365 3 года назад

      Been there

    • @byf4ith
      @byf4ith 3 года назад +2

      Was a terrible camera angle. Hahahha

    • @mattsax_music8439
      @mattsax_music8439 3 года назад +2

      Wow funny seeing you here nick

    • @cjgreen4331
      @cjgreen4331 3 года назад +1

      Man, that squeak hurt my soul, and gave my flashbacks. OUCH. He was jammin though

    • @corrancully5960
      @corrancully5960 3 года назад +1

      Hey Nick

  • @MTB_2311
    @MTB_2311 Год назад +4

    🤣The way they all look up at 5:41 does it for me!

  • @idleH4nd5
    @idleH4nd5 2 года назад +3

    The last one was the stuff of nightmares - it reminds me of the sax solo on "My Lovely Horse" by Father Ted.

  • @taibaldridge70
    @taibaldridge70 3 года назад +20

    listen at 0:04 with your eyes closed and just sit back and enjoy the sounds

  • @brycewalburn3926
    @brycewalburn3926 3 года назад +6

    I literally had to use my hand to cover up my screen when you showed that mouthpiece. Unbelievable.

    • @Semor-bn1lh
      @Semor-bn1lh 3 года назад +1

      I know same. I couldn't look at it

    • @tylersharkey4727
      @tylersharkey4727 3 года назад

      I've seen one like that in person 🥲

  • @natnatiko2568
    @natnatiko2568 2 года назад +2

    All my sax pain in one video
    2:58 gave me incredible pain 😞😞
    But you’re doing the world a favor so hats off to that

  • @thebigwylb
    @thebigwylb 3 года назад +4

    The fact that at least one of these people has a framed photo of Luigi gives me hope

  • @ThomAvella
    @ThomAvella 3 года назад +7

    7:00 glad we have confirmation you've just always been this way. cringe yet free. i envy it

  • @cm4n63
    @cm4n63 3 года назад +12

    10:53 it's either a really good thing or a really bad thing when your bandmate looks at you like that jfc

  • @satchelharris3051
    @satchelharris3051 3 года назад +24

    how did that kid not notice that there is an alien growing in his mouthpiece

  • @latinkeys1
    @latinkeys1 3 года назад +3

    Josh and Alonso, seem like cool guys.. I'd like to hear them play. Love your vids, kid. Keep em comin.

  • @HealingWord_Psalm107-20
    @HealingWord_Psalm107-20 Год назад +1

    I just want to go back to 7:55 and mention that he was properly using the bebop scale. That’s a big win for a high school freshman.

  • @someonesomewhere1100
    @someonesomewhere1100 3 года назад +1

    That video of you as a child was thee most derpiest, most precious thing 🤣🍪

  • @benjaminkaggwa5481
    @benjaminkaggwa5481 3 года назад

    What is that guy in black doing , he isn’t sayin a word 😆 .
    Thanks for this funny video guys.

  • @lewcus4318
    @lewcus4318 3 года назад +16

    9:27 should be a official demonstration to newbies on why to wet the reed before playing

    • @propyro85
      @propyro85 3 года назад

      It's not that hard to put the reed in your mouth while you put your sax together and get your stuff set up ...

  • @Benkett
    @Benkett 2 года назад +9

    “A out of tune note is a wrong note” - my band teacher
    These people really prove her message

    • @davidgee4260
      @davidgee4260 Год назад

      So a bending of the 3rd among other notes 😂that makes the blues is wrong. Get a new teacher. This is why you should listen to guitar players as it is the alteration of the intonation that requires the ear and the technique which makes you and your audience feel the emotion. Ask a guitar player to some blues with and without bending notes down or up depending on feel and witness this. Those that teach usually can't play the blues well. This what's Miles Davis' first test at an audition for players in his bands; if they could not play gut bucket simple blues, they did not get the gig.

    • @Benkett
      @Benkett Год назад

      Yes

  • @JuanCarlos-bs2tw
    @JuanCarlos-bs2tw 3 года назад +3

    the collective look up at 3:39 HAS ME DYING

  • @toastsandwiches
    @toastsandwiches 2 года назад

    I just have to appreciate the Luigi frame in the top left corner, amazing.

  • @sat.chid.ananda
    @sat.chid.ananda 3 года назад +4

    i just cleaned my sax, but i'll clean it again after seeing that mouthpiece, geez

  • @corinnamarie9694
    @corinnamarie9694 3 года назад

    I was expecting at least one video with Careless Whisper!! Funny stuff! 🤣

  • @AbeTheBabe6233
    @AbeTheBabe6233 3 года назад +6

    the clip at 10:06 made me shrivel up and i have only started learning saxophone 4 weeks ago

  • @cjgreen4331
    @cjgreen4331 3 года назад +7

    Guy at 4:14: Plays Donna Lee
    Chris Potter: Why do I hear boss music

  • @dellroy301
    @dellroy301 3 года назад +1

    Rotisserie Chicken on a saxophone 🤣🤣 omg the guy on the right is hilarious

  • @ivyssauro123
    @ivyssauro123 3 года назад +2

    I haven't laughed this much in a fucking while
    Jaws aching, tears running down
    thank you

  • @alztero
    @alztero 2 года назад +2

    That mouthpiece will make me vomit💀💀

  • @Jajajasax
    @Jajajasax 3 года назад +7

    I laughed a lot, I hope I'm not in a future video for "Try Not To Cringe: Saxophone Edition" lol

  • @emilydillon7439
    @emilydillon7439 2 года назад +1

    9:30 My band director would be like “BLOW AIR WHAT ARE YOU DOING”

  • @nuggetville1236
    @nuggetville1236 3 года назад +2

    into the clouds was the f irst piece in my marching band show freshman year :O

  • @HealingWord_Psalm107-20
    @HealingWord_Psalm107-20 Год назад

    7:55… High school freshman??? Killin! Pretty sophisticated lines. Good sense of time and connecting his ideas across the changes.

  • @moyamedia9
    @moyamedia9 3 года назад +3

    Now I sort of wish there was video from my sophomore year, when my neckstrap broke in the middle of a parade and a bass drummer stepped on my horn before I could get it off the ground.

  • @CROPDUSTERB-52
    @CROPDUSTERB-52 3 года назад +1

    The amount of dedication you have to heart as many comments as you do

  • @matthewmeador9565
    @matthewmeador9565 3 года назад +2

    “New from the saxologic shop: the prophyligature”

  • @Joe_Landry
    @Joe_Landry 3 года назад +8

    such a fun concept, I hope you do it again sometime

  • @KatzumiiiiBakugo
    @KatzumiiiiBakugo Год назад +1

    As a sax player this hurts physically and mentally…please god never let this happen again

  • @latinkeys1
    @latinkeys1 3 года назад +2

    HAHAHAHA 15:09 Shounds like he needs to get somewhere he's in a rush!!

  • @megustanlostacos7339
    @megustanlostacos7339 3 года назад +13

    14:55 I actually got chills lol

  • @neilmartin8701
    @neilmartin8701 3 года назад +12

    17:50 BRO I WAS EATING

  • @bluessax5089
    @bluessax5089 3 года назад +7

    This video is a composite of all the saxophonists who talk trash on the Facebook “Saxophonists” page.

  • @bdoubled5731
    @bdoubled5731 3 года назад +2

    Alonso has such a great personality

  • @gusmarrero
    @gusmarrero 3 года назад +2

    Yes bring the guys back. Funny stuff!

  • @turkeybob3574
    @turkeybob3574 3 года назад +17

    4:14 I’ve got a friend that literally plays like this

    • @Saxologic
      @Saxologic  3 года назад +6

      We all need that friend

  • @mons6975
    @mons6975 Год назад

    Took my mouthpiece out of my case and started to frantically clean it after whatever the heck I just saw

  • @rich4444hrsm
    @rich4444hrsm Год назад

    1:00 - get them sax players a humidifier!!!! hahahahaha

    • @rich4444hrsm
      @rich4444hrsm Год назад

      2:03 - OMG I'm dying! "Which hurts my soul" hahahahaha

    • @rich4444hrsm
      @rich4444hrsm Год назад

      3:04 - I saxxed the sheriff... but the deputy got away.

    • @rich4444hrsm
      @rich4444hrsm Год назад

      In theory, he made all other blue saxophones (due to destroying 1 adds a very little amount to rarety)... worth just a little more.

    • @rich4444hrsm
      @rich4444hrsm Год назад

      8:20 what? Dude is shredding it!

    • @rich4444hrsm
      @rich4444hrsm Год назад

      22:00 - that is NOT Candy Dulfer LMAO

  • @adomaskuzinas2137
    @adomaskuzinas2137 3 года назад +2

    Holy fuck dude you gotta keep Alonso! Dude is hilarious!

  • @sonata1621
    @sonata1621 3 года назад +1

    Not the Creston on a jazz set up 🤣🤡

  • @owenjohnson3733
    @owenjohnson3733 3 года назад

    that high school sax solo was so killin

  • @kailamb09
    @kailamb09 3 года назад +1

    the dude playing donna lee super fast is just impressive

  • @robokillers
    @robokillers 6 месяцев назад

    The first one reminded me of when i got my first sax and had acted like i was a pro pressing on random keys

  • @olivernau2366
    @olivernau2366 2 года назад

    dude should've broken out careless whisper in the church lol.

  • @Ach1llies
    @Ach1llies 2 года назад

    Bro when saxologic played his neck as a kid 😂

  • @Vad_ihm
    @Vad_ihm 3 месяца назад

    I played into the clouds for my 8th grade band last year and hearing it again like that is a big oof

  • @searcherholic3473
    @searcherholic3473 Год назад

    C'mon! That version of My Way. The best!!

  • @tomcox-wilson2373
    @tomcox-wilson2373 2 года назад

    I have never been able to finish this video

  • @willis251
    @willis251 3 года назад

    Alonso seems like such a chill dude

  • @oliverkollas4526
    @oliverkollas4526 3 года назад +1

    I love your Luigi painting

  • @supes1055
    @supes1055 2 года назад

    THATS MY PRIVATE LESSON TEACHER RAY

  • @micklepickle4744
    @micklepickle4744 Год назад +1

    Tomorrow I’m going to do my first solo and when I heard that solo and thought y’all would think it was cringey I was scared out of my mind

  • @alexts94
    @alexts94 3 года назад +3

    5:40 was a lovely moment

  • @nairdazitro7460
    @nairdazitro7460 3 года назад

    " It is not meant to judge " LOL

  • @jayraygaming3147
    @jayraygaming3147 3 года назад

    I was waiting for them to get Rick Rolled by a sax

  • @Lilglassmagnet
    @Lilglassmagnet 3 месяца назад +1

    9:57 my ears got violated

  • @sonsauvage
    @sonsauvage 3 года назад +1

    Because the first one was purposeful it was fire. Like something you'd hear in a Shorter head. Or Mingus. Or maybe Henderson

  • @giulioferraro4023
    @giulioferraro4023 3 года назад

    The My way guy reminded me to the Mnozil Brass version😂

  • @Jack_Marston05
    @Jack_Marston05 2 года назад

    i have been playing for seven months now, and my days of playing like bad sax player were over literally within a week

  • @jordondabney6837
    @jordondabney6837 3 года назад

    "scoop god" at 10:04 almost killed me

  • @TimothyMendoza-fi6fr
    @TimothyMendoza-fi6fr 4 месяца назад

    Anyone who has at least a year or 2 worth of experience with any instrument would cringe to those videos, especially ones where they start squeaking