INTRO TO OVERTONES ON THE SAX
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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In this tutorial, Scott delivers an intro to overtones on the saxophone. What they are. How to get your first one. AND how to build on them from there. This tutorial should take several weeks to a month to work through. Each step will be difficult at first, but will need to be perfected before moving on to the next.
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Finally someone actually explained what overtones are along with how to play them! Thank you!
I have watched 6 other videos about overtones and I came away without any understanding. This is the first and best video to explain what overtones are and how to start developing the skills. Excellent job. Thanks Scott.
This is a different approach to the overtones that I am excited about trying. Thanks Scott for keeping me inspired to learn more!
Hey Joe! Yeah, switching from the original note to the overtone in the beginning will help get your tongue in the right spot. Once you get use to it, jumping to that note from the fundamental will be way easier. Most of the the videos/techniques I see teaching overtones go way to deep for just getting them started. It's a real process to make it happen.
“... I can’t sing”; lol, me too. That’s why I am taking up the sax...it’s just like singing. Best tutorial yet on overtones. Thanks for posting.
HAHA! I'm the absolute worst singer. I can't match a pitch to save my life. I sing in my lessons all of the time anyway, my students have just learned to figure out what I'm meaning, but when it's documented in a video it's brutal. lol
Improving day by day with your videos!!! Thanks thanks thanks. From vlc, Spain
gold..best sax teacher by far.. your all over it! improving 10 fold .as its be 20 yrs and im back in to it..inspirational stuff...legendary Scott.!Cheers mate
Really great explanation of overtones, Scott! Very well demonstrated. Thanks!
Thanks Luanne!!
Very cool, thank you.
Just found this video, probably the most helpful video on overtones i have been able to find on YT! Great work!
Hey Nate! Glad you enjoyed the video. If you want to dive deeper I have an entire course dedicated to overtones in my Sax School. I show you step by step how to practice them and make them a functional part of your playing. Check it out: www.scottpaddocksaxschool.com
This is great Scott! Please keep making these videos! We need you brother!
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Do you have any funk instrumentals that I can download and practice my sax with the funk lesson video you made using the b flat blues scale?
Best video on the subject
this was really really helpful scott!!!it helped me a lot
one of the best tutorials ive ever seen about overtones
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Thanks for that great lesson!
Other than improving your sound and tone how do you specifically and practically use overtones whilst in a performance if at all?
I did a video on the functional use of overtones! It just came out a couple weeks ago, check it out!
Hey, Scott. When playing the overtones Bb, B and C, do you use the octave key? It works with or without octave key, and I have read advocates for both techniques, but would like to know what's your call on this one. Great video!
hey Scott!! thank you for all the simple and great tips to play sax!!! but i am still not sure about what's the meaning of working on overtones??? to control your embouchure or to be able to play altissimo better??
Overtones help you with breath support and airstream control. The added bonuses are a way bigger sound and better altissimo because of your ability to control your airstream and breath support.
Help when i finger overtone c sharp it stays as c natural
Scott, thanks to your vid, i finally get the sound of it but it’s hard to keep the overtone long and fat. Is there any tips??
Very nice tutorial, thx! A question: does this work as well starting with the octave key? Like, I can reach notes an octave above the octave key notes? Or does the tongue work only work for the lower register notes?
I’ve always had trouble with sticking to just one topic of practice for a good week or so...
I have been using these overtones as part of my warmup for a good while now (6-8 months),
I’ve been incorporating that with my long tone and rhythm (metronome) exercises, almost correspondingly with each other every time...and I always try to fit that as part of my fundamental practice routine.
But it’s the same with almost every other aspect of what goes into individual practice that is inconsistent with me... you have any pointers on things like balancing that with, like, everything else in a busy schedule?
Sounds like a solid practice routine!
I've trying this for a few practices and i can get the octave to pop out pretty consistently. How do i get the next overtone to pop out?.
raise your tongue. And approach it from the actual note. Play the note and then sneak into the overtone.
Scott, I just got the Rascher book and I don't understand how the average person can actually hit those high overtone notes he has in the book. With the low Bb fingering, I can only reach high Bb, and try as I may, high D and F are way out reach for me. Can most of the pros reach these high overtone notes?
Yeah, but it takes time.... a lot of time.... a lot a lot of time. haha. So it will take a good year of doing overtones before you can get to the high notes. It's pretty advanced stuff. Getting to the double octave is a great start.
Hey, I know you've covered falls, but what is the difference between a straight fall and a rough fall?
Hey! I've never heard of a rough fall before.
Very effective..I can get ther 5th easily by raising my togue close to the roof of my mouth [something I `ve never considered in 35 years] but now my altissimo fingering don`t work.Suggestions?
Did they work before? Usually practicing overtones improves altissimo.
I just started playing. I have jazz background from high school. Stop playing cause instrument too expensive, i can afford one now..question is..from video lettsanity funk solo (lettuce) from sec 10 to 14 second..how did u created that transition..that was my whole focus learning that..any info helps..t.y.quick tutorial would help..
Hey! I'm just improvising over that. I'm not really doing in specific technique.
I've unintentionally played overtones when I really intend to play the lower octave version of the note. I always thought this was a bad thing. I'm wondering, when in music is it "good" or preffered to play the overtone versus the correct fingering for that higher octave note?
When you do it on purpose! Haha. To get those lower notes out cleaner drop your tongue down into the AHHH position. Overtones are used in soloing by tons of modern sax players.
Another teacher says to use ONLY your throat by singing the note in the higher octave, voicing, no ?
When you sing higher notes your tongue goes up. Kind of the same concept, but I give you a few extra pointers on how to make it work.
I'm confused. Do I need to press the octave key sir ?
no
This is so damn hard to come out! , stuck on the first one. I'm trying the Bb overtone and it's coming out as either F (2 octaves up) or Bb (2 octaves up) with low Bb fingering and I'm trying to get the Bb just 1 octave up...but i keep overshooting. I think I did it accidentally.... any tips?? Thanks in advance Scott!
Yeah, get your tongue down. You're getting the higher overtones (which generally are more difficult) because your tongue is up to high. Approach it from a regular Bb and then switch to the overtone Bb so that you have a reference note.
Thanks mate, I'll give that a try!
I got it! thanks heaps!
This is so fucking hard i keep playing an F overtone rather than the middle B flat can someone hel
Hey Sonya, some overtones come out easier than others on different saxes, mouthpieces, etc. If that F is coming out instead of the Bb that means that your tongue is up to high. You need to lower your tongue a little bit. A great way to practice the correct tongue position is going between the regular fingered Bb (using bis Bb) and the overtone Bb. Go back and forth between them several times to get use to the tongue position. Overtones are 100% about correct tongue position and breath support.
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gold..best sax teacher by far.. your all over it! improving 10 fold .as its be 20 yrs and im back in to it..inspirational stuff...legendary Scott.!Cheers mate
Thanks Shawn! Glad my videos are helping you.
gold..best sax teacher by far.. your all over it! improving 10 fold .as its be 20 yrs and im back in to it..inspirational stuff...legendary Scott.!Cheers mate