27 Saxophone Practice Tips You NEED to Know 

Intervals over drone notes 🎉 This is what I needed to hear today. Thank you!

Great advice all round. On long tones and scales my teacher in the late 60s/70s said something like this “imagine you get a call from the Rolling Stones and they want you to finish the last tune of the night, solo, by doing your scale slowly up to a long note which you will hold at least 30seconds, and they’ll pay 10 000, more if you make the audience go wild after. You’re prepping every day of your life for every note you’ll play in the future. Start making it MUSICAL from right now” and that’s how I approach the ‘boring stuff’ since. He had a saying “stop chewing gum and start chewing steak “ when I’d be just doing an exercise just to finish it. Eventually the penny dropped - the boring part of the ‘boring’ exercise, was me. He used to Naima to prove his point - brutally - “does it sound like that man thinks long notes and slow scales are beneath him, does it sound boring, well does it. Does it sound like an exercise, boy”. Good times.

Thank you! Invaluable information. Especially the advice about "No zero days". Better to have six months of only 10 minutes a day, as opposed to looking back at six months of no practice at all. Even the little moments can yield great, but results over time, including good time management, learning to get the most out of each practice session time. Check it Out! Ciao!!!

So much good and wise advices here!!! Thank you 🙏

Wise words...a really helpful video thanks.

Excellent and uncompromising! Thank you!

Great work. Thanks. I would also add: buy a leak light. They are cheap. And one can rule out or confirm a leak that might be the cause of certain notes suddenly not playing well. Have a great day.

This was genius tips❤

killin!

Julian all this information is the gospel truth. Thanks very much. I need help with site reading. I want to be able to site read faster. :)

I would add.. play JS Bach. you will find no other route to transcendent beauty so clearly mapped out, and it jumps all over the instrument in unexpected ways..

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At the beginning of the video you have a digital practice log ...what program is that?

If I only followed #2…lol