great video, one issue: "na" feels easier because air is being sent out your nose, allowing your tongue to move without changing air pressure in your mouth. However, we don't play with air coming out your nose. Try saying "na" with air coming out your mouth like on saxophone. It is impossible. If you try saying na while air only coming out your mouth, it becomes "da". Thus "na" may help psychologically, like a placebo effect, but you can't ever tongue like that
It’s amazing to realize others have discovered the same thing! I discovered the hell of using Na or Du especially when I was working on the Ibert and the Creston Concerto third Movement. I love your playing ! I am very picky about classical Saxophonist! There’s a young man named Steven Ticknor who plays with the presidents on Marine band and his father, Ken, who are incredible as well. Please keep sharing! I have retired but I still teach at a small college in McPherson Kansas. I tell my students all to listen to you!
Using “na” has really helped me with my tonguing with feeling fast etudes! I have a thing called all region and i have to play a fast estufe and this has really helped! Thanks! 😁
Using Na is brilliant. Da has seemed a good softer and efficient syllable but Na is even better. Thank You!!!! Also I also discovered breath attack the first syllable, doing this seems to allow the subsequent notes to flow out more easily.
Excellent thank you very useful! I have been using this technique for over 40 years I learned that from my Maestro Joe Viola ..... your video and explanations a excellent!
Olá. Todas as explicações foram muito claras e didáticas. Sua voz parece música clássica. É boa para ouvir mais de mil vezes apreciando. Obrigada por compartilhar tanto conhecimento.
Excellent!!! You are a gifted teacher I must say Btw, my favorite sax player from years back is Vicent Abato there is a great recording of him playing a Porgy and Bess medley on RUclips thanks for sharing your masterful skills!
Hi Adam, I think that has to do with your oral cavity and tongue position. Try to close the space by saying "hissing sound" which will bring your back of tongue to go higher.
I haven't found a single video that can help me yet. How in the world do you say "NA" with a mouthpiece stuck in your mouth? All the explanations make zero sense to me. I can slowly tongue on one note, but how the hell do you do it while changing fingering? For example: if I am in 4/4 time and there are 4 quarter notes in a row in one measure, doesn't the second note begin EXACTLY where the last note ends? How am I supposed to tongue that in time without losing some sound somewhere. I just do not get this concept at all. Been playing guitar for 25 plus years and this seems to be very similar to muting a string so that it doesn't ring out, but i am having a major issue with this.
Thank you for the comment. Tonguing is hard! You are exactly right about saxophone tonguing being similar to muting a string. We need to stop the reed from vibrating, but the problem is that we tend to also stop the air stream at the same time. Then many issues come up. So I would say check your air stream while tonguing a single note and see if that makes it easier.
great video, one issue: "na" feels easier because air is being sent out your nose, allowing your tongue to move without changing air pressure in your mouth. However, we don't play with air coming out your nose. Try saying "na" with air coming out your mouth like on saxophone. It is impossible. If you try saying na while air only coming out your mouth, it becomes "da".
Thus "na" may help psychologically, like a placebo effect, but you can't ever tongue like that
It’s amazing to realize others have discovered the same thing! I discovered the hell of using Na or Du especially when I was working on the Ibert and the Creston Concerto third Movement. I love your playing ! I am very picky about classical Saxophonist! There’s a young man named Steven Ticknor who plays with the presidents on Marine band and his father, Ken, who are incredible as well. Please keep sharing! I have retired but I still teach at a small college in McPherson Kansas. I tell my students all to listen to you!
is na bad or du bad?
I was wondering how you said na or ta so fast! I am relatively inexperienced compared to you of course, but I am soooo much slower!
Using “na” has really helped me with my tonguing with feeling fast etudes! I have a thing called all region and i have to play a fast estufe and this has really helped! Thanks! 😁
Using Na is brilliant. Da has seemed a good softer and efficient syllable but Na is even better. Thank You!!!! Also I also discovered breath attack the first syllable, doing this seems to allow the subsequent notes to flow out more easily.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent thank you very useful! I have been using this technique for over 40 years I learned that from my Maestro Joe Viola ..... your video and explanations a excellent!
It's been good learning with you Sir
So amazing! It helps me a lot. Looking for your new clips
Incredible... More videos like that please. You're a very good professor and your tips are really amazing. Regards from Mexico
Olá. Todas as explicações foram muito claras e didáticas. Sua voz parece música clássica. É boa para ouvir mais de mil vezes apreciando. Obrigada por compartilhar tanto conhecimento.
Very helpful thanks
Thank you for this fantastic lesson 👍👍👍
I was lookup some tutorial in YT and here, i think it' best. Wow
Very clear and helpful explanation. Thank you!
Excellent!!! You are a gifted teacher I must say
Btw, my favorite sax player from years back is Vicent Abato there is a great recording of him playing a Porgy and Bess medley on RUclips thanks for sharing your masterful skills!
Thanks Maestro. Very clear explanation 💪
Thanks for sharing the secret , now I use nanananananana
Wonderful lesson! Thank you.
Excellent! Please, show us how to slap tonguing. Thank you!
Thank you
🎉thanks a lot for the explanation
thank you so much!
You’re welcome Doctor Appleton!
In my opinion "T" and "D" are better than "NA".
Excellent! I like your strategy. So helpful.
感谢老师专业的讲解，非常有用👍
thank you!
WOW - THANKS !!!
Great tips! Thank you so much Mr. LEE
Thank you so much,it’s really helpful!
Awesome!
Great video!
VERY helpful - thank you! Great Glazunov licks BTW!
Great video. Really helped me. 👍
You are awesome!
love this! well made video
wow super！
Do you use the tip of the tongue or a little further back
I would say it's closer to the tip of the tongue.
Sorry it should have said “I discovered the wealth of using...”
Nice
Can you make a video of you playing Aria by Eugene Bozza?
Very soon!
👏
my middle g still has a thudding sound even after doing the half tounging
Hi Adam, I think that has to do with your oral cavity and tongue position. Try to close the space by saying "hissing sound" which will bring your back of tongue to go higher.
May I know what reed you are using?
Hi Jimmy, I use D'addario Reserve 3.0+ for alto. (And voicing!)
@@wonkisaxlee thanks. Can I buy the voicing? :)
Haha you can start with this! www.amazon.com/Voicing-Approach-Saxophones-Register-Revised/dp/B007BPJ3UK
@@wonkisaxlee Thanks for recommendation.:)
I haven't found a single video that can help me yet. How in the world do you say "NA" with a mouthpiece stuck in your mouth? All the explanations make zero sense to me. I can slowly tongue on one note, but how the hell do you do it while changing fingering?
For example: if I am in 4/4 time and there are 4 quarter notes in a row in one measure, doesn't the second note begin EXACTLY where the last note ends? How am I supposed to tongue that in time without losing some sound somewhere.
I just do not get this concept at all.
Been playing guitar for 25 plus years and this seems to be very similar to muting a string so that it doesn't ring out, but i am having a major issue with this.
Thank you for the comment. Tonguing is hard! You are exactly right about saxophone tonguing being similar to muting a string. We need to stop the reed from vibrating, but the problem is that we tend to also stop the air stream at the same time. Then many issues come up. So I would say check your air stream while tonguing a single note and see if that makes it easier.