Yep, this is exactly how I mastered low notes, and how I still approach them- establish a volume of air with correct voicing before applying the required embouchure pressure to initiate reed vibration. To refine it, just make the time differential between the two moments increasingly shorter.
Ooh I've never tried this one, thanks ! I'm gonna give it a shot. My favorite exercise to play low notes is to try and get the low register while pressing the octave key. I usually start with the G and descend chromatically, as lower notes will need more effort. We can't say it's easy but I found it astonishingly effective. You have to give it time though. At first I was barely able to play G and currently I reach D consistently, sometimes C# and C.
Well first make sure your instrument doesn't have leaks and is in good working order. Then, make sure you're mouthpiece and reed setup isn't too heavy. If the mouthpiece tip opening is too big and/or the reed is too hard, low notes will be VERY difficult to get out.
Why I cannot play low notes straight especially B flat , then C # and B but if I am coming gradualy from low note it's ok I am trying to play saxophone now for more than 6 years, same fricken problem. I feel like just throwing it can you answer my question please , or anyone who can help
@redwane-music I am a dumb beginner, okay? for what it's worth I had big, big problems with low C and Bb. Got a player from the local band to try the thing. He said it was alright. Kept trying. Still no good. Took the thing to the pros, a music repair shop, big deal five or six guys working there and they gave it back to me said it was okay. So all I could/can do it keep trying. Got much better when I gave up trying to blow a stream of air directed through it but instead just did an open throat hahhhhh thing. I don't/didn't just get a problem couldn't get the notes I also get a 'bubbling' sort of sound, too. It helped with that. I also found I was getting them better when the music called for me get the note 'in passing', you know? Not dwell on it. And reeds. I have big problems with reeds, always have had (used to do clarinet). I play a very soft reed and have to hunt forever to find another when it dies. Out of ten I might find one. The point there is that the reed, I think, has something to do with it. I still have problems but I'm heaps, heaps better. I find a reed that works for me. I blow haahhhhh. Like one guy put it - like breathing on a window to make it cloud up. And I try to 'think' the note. Trumpeter in the comments here said it makes him laugh all this. Well I dunno why but it could be because trumpeters are all the time 'thinking' notes. They hold the same keys for three or four different notes and the higher you go the less there's any noticeable clear physical difference in your mouth how you're doing it there's the just the thing in your head 'this is what I'm blowing now'. I found that. Got a pocket trumpet and have been giving it a go. So: machine good. reed good go haaahhhh think the note and, I should have said: relax. That might be the most important bit of all. Relax. Have fun. Just my take. Might be all wrong. I told you, I'm just a dumb beginner. Good luck. :)
@@abrogard142 Thank you so much, I was not expecting someone to take the time and tell me what they had to go through in their own experience :) But, let me tell you, as faar as I am concerned, coming from a guitar background, I should say that one thing I discovered about the Saxophone is that it is a dificult instrument, not like the guitar which I never had to take it to a repair shop for anything, I had my oldest guitar for 40 years and it still sounds the same, nothing needed repairing. But sometimes I wonder, since I have an old saxophone a Vigo, a Yamaha Student imitation, perhaps its padss also need to be replaced, but I am not really sure. I just hate to have it checked and be told that I have to pay big box, maybe more than what the sax is worth. Anyway, I am going to keep trying. Thank you again Sir
@@Redwane-Music You're welcome. More than welcome. I hope sharing is a bit of a help That's all I can hope for because as I say: I am a total beginner and know nothing really.. my 'explaining' could be all wrong. I'm just trying... :)
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I asked my now deceased sax tutor which is the best saxophone to buy,he simply said one that works, priceless advice.
Lowering my tongue and shaping an "awe" sound made a world of difference! Thanks so much!
So great to hear!
sax the only instrument where getting overtones is easier than just the regular notes
The franch horn has the same problem to a certain extent
And then when you learn correctly, overtones become hard lmao
@nskpersonal348😭
Also worth mentioning that suitable reed strength/tip opening matching really facilitates low note production.
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
I LOVE the clutch example you gave, its perfect for the way I learn! Thankyou!
Yep, this is exactly how I mastered low notes, and how I still approach them- establish a volume of air with correct voicing before applying the required embouchure pressure to initiate reed vibration. To refine it, just make the time differential between the two moments increasingly shorter.
Thanks for the advice !!! Now i can play the sax without stressing my self
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Thanks been honestly helpful tips thank you so much!!🎉
That's great to hear!
Ooh I've never tried this one, thanks ! I'm gonna give it a shot.
My favorite exercise to play low notes is to try and get the low register while pressing the octave key. I usually start with the G and descend chromatically, as lower notes will need more effort.
We can't say it's easy but I found it astonishingly effective.
You have to give it time though. At first I was barely able to play G and currently I reach D consistently, sometimes C# and C.
I called those "undertones" and they're also a great exercise!
Bravo! Great tip, thank you very much!!!
You're very welcome!
Thank you😭
You're welcome! 🙏
As a Trumpet player I found this very funny
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Oh yeah? Play High C on the 2nd ledger line!
Play a high note then
Hi Mr. Pollack!
thanks it worked :D
Awesome!
Yeah, Dave!!!!
I think it's my instrument cause I have tried everything when I tell you everything I say everything and I still play overtones
Well first make sure your instrument doesn't have leaks and is in good working order. Then, make sure you're mouthpiece and reed setup isn't too heavy. If the mouthpiece tip opening is too big and/or the reed is too hard, low notes will be VERY difficult to get out.
Why I cannot play low notes straight especially B flat , then C # and B
but if I am coming gradualy from low note it's ok
I am trying to play saxophone now for more than 6 years, same fricken problem.
I feel like just throwing it
can you answer my question please , or anyone who can help
@redwane-music I am a dumb beginner, okay? for what it's worth I had big, big problems with low C and Bb. Got a player from the local band to try the thing. He said it was alright. Kept trying. Still no good. Took the thing to the pros, a music repair shop, big deal five or six guys working there and they gave it back to me said it was okay.
So all I could/can do it keep trying.
Got much better when I gave up trying to blow a stream of air directed through it but instead just did an open throat hahhhhh thing.
I don't/didn't just get a problem couldn't get the notes I also get a 'bubbling' sort of sound, too. It helped with that.
I also found I was getting them better when the music called for me get the note 'in passing', you know? Not dwell on it.
And reeds. I have big problems with reeds, always have had (used to do clarinet). I play a very soft reed and have to hunt forever to find another when it dies. Out of ten I might find one.
The point there is that the reed, I think, has something to do with it.
I still have problems but I'm heaps, heaps better.
I find a reed that works for me.
I blow haahhhhh. Like one guy put it - like breathing on a window to make it cloud up.
And I try to 'think' the note.
Trumpeter in the comments here said it makes him laugh all this. Well I dunno why but it could be because trumpeters are all the time 'thinking' notes.
They hold the same keys for three or four different notes and the higher you go the less there's any noticeable clear physical difference in your mouth how you're doing it there's the just the thing in your head 'this is what I'm blowing now'.
I found that. Got a pocket trumpet and have been giving it a go.
So:
machine good.
reed good
go haaahhhh
think the note
and, I should have said: relax.
That might be the most important bit of all. Relax. Have fun.
Just my take. Might be all wrong. I told you, I'm just a dumb beginner. Good luck. :)
@@abrogard142 Thank you so much, I was not expecting someone to take the time and tell me what they had to go through in their own experience :)
But, let me tell you, as faar as I am concerned, coming from a guitar background, I should say that one thing I discovered about the Saxophone is that it is a dificult instrument, not like the guitar which I never had to take it to a repair shop for anything, I had my oldest guitar for 40 years and it still sounds the same, nothing needed repairing.
But sometimes I wonder, since I have an old saxophone a Vigo, a Yamaha Student imitation, perhaps its padss also need to be replaced, but I am not really sure. I just hate to have it checked and be told that I have to pay big box, maybe more than what the sax is worth.
Anyway, I am going to keep trying.
Thank you again Sir
@@Redwane-Music You're welcome. More than welcome. I hope sharing is a bit of a help That's all I can hope for because as I say: I am a total beginner and know nothing really.. my 'explaining' could be all wrong. I'm just trying... :)
Nice simple exercise! But I don't think there's many manual drivers left haha (though I drive a manual lol)
I just put my end plug in the bell of my saxophone and it mostly fixes it
Are you related to Ben Pollack?
nope
Yeah, that’s interesting…