Sorry for the late reply, just discovered loads of comments that never came up on my phone! No articulation on this one, but I'll do a video on that at some point. Thanks for watching J:-)
You're a legend mate, I'm 5 days in to learning the sax as an adult and your one of the best resources put there. Not sure why you don't have 100k followers yet, but keep the content coming!
Alex Freemon - wicked, thanks Alex. Take your time and work your way through everything. Especially the beginner series of course. Glad you like it - loads more to come so make sure you’ve clicked the bell 🔔 to be notified when I upload new stuff.
I have been playing now for nearly 3 years. Self-taught over that time I have scoured the Internet for useful information and exercises and found a lot of great stuff. Of all the things I have found this exercise is the single most useful one. After practising this every day for the last 6 weeks I am really starting to see a difference in my playing. This will stay a key part of my daily practise for a long time to come. Thank you for putting this and your other videos out :).
I just started sax 6 days ago, and I really appreciate your channel! I'm a professional musician and music educator, and it's so fun starting a new instrument. The good news is that I know how to learn. The bad news is that my embouchure is weak. But I've already made some huge strides just in the past 48 hours. Long tones are magic!!! Do you have any other tips for strengthening embouchure? I'm going to continue browsing your channel. Also just subbed. Thanks so much for sharing these amazing tips!
Hey Aaron, thanks for watching. Try this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cWRyouRVoBA.html and this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eGEaBkvnGZs.html. Also, make sure you're on my email list as I've go an awesome new course coming out before the end of the year. Total Tone Mastery!
@@GetYourSaxTogether Thanks so much for the response! I found the Embouchure masterclass a few minutes after I left that comment. Hope I didn't waste your time! I also got on your mailing list. :)
So glad you enjoyed the video. Keep practicing hard and you'll get there. Check out this video about practice? It might help you get structure if you haven't got teacher ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GqQZHfvCEfs.html Thanks for watching and let me know if there's anything else you need! J:-)
Thank you, I just began learning saxophone with a bari. I study piano for years but i need to try something new. I always love the sound of bari sax. But what I need to some technique. I pay attention to the sound I produce. Now I can say that my bari is a close friend and the metronome is the second one. Forgive my English and Have a nice day.
So I seriously played with metronome for the first time (ever) using your #21 PDF and oh boy I had a hard time chasing the metronome at speed 30 per min.
I'd say 30 bpm is too slow for the metronome. There's too much gap between each beep. It's too hardcore man. Put it on 60pm or 120bpm instead and have more beeps per note. J:-)
Hi @GetYourSaxTogetber thank you very much for sharing the practice. I have a very simple question to you and hopefully you may clarify for me - did you break each note in your demonstration (means your ton touched the reed every note you played) or you slurred from the first note to the last note? thank you!!
Jamie, Thank You. Side question - when you play legato B to C: B (left index) --- C (left middle) --- do you use Strap_Tension + Left_Thumb for saxophone body position control. Or Left Thumb control is enough for you?
@@GetYourSaxTogether Thank you, it was "flip-flop"-problem over passage B->C and C->B, now I have better point-&-index finger control, but also using alternative C fingering for smooth transition. Still a lot to learn)))
Hello, thank you for your very informative content! You do deserve more subscribers! Here is a question: Why do you recommend this specific exercise and are there others like it out there?
Philipp Omotayo Shakunle - hi! Thanks for watching. Appreciated 🙏🏻. Yeh, of course, there’s a thousand exercises you could do, but this one covers a lot of ground once you’ve been through 12 keys. It covers all the variations of side keys and Bb fingerings you can use, and also it’s great for going between the octaves. Any systematic 13 key study type exercise, done correctly and accurately, should work though.
Great video Jamie. I'm working through these at the moment and they are really helpful. Do you recommend getting them all up to the same speed before moving up in speed or working on one only to play it at speed. Hope that makes sense. Thanks 👍
Hi Jamie, your channel is so dense and amazing. Best tuition for sax (and other instruments too, I’d say). I must try to play what is written here but on paper I suspect there is a mistake in second part of E minor. You don’t go up all the scale but only to G and then down to D sharp and end. Second chart of E minor is strange to me. Am I wrong?
@@GetYourSaxTogether Hallo Jamie now I understood. I mistakenly expected that in each part you'd cover the full scale. But in G minor you arrive up to D and then down and in E minor up to B and then down. Notes are all covered but in two different keys! Your lessons are great. So simple explained and so much practice to do!
Thanks for the great vid! I wanted to ask: How well should you be able to play on a certain key to move on to the next? Is there a specific metronome number to reach before trying the others?
Lots of great material here! Congrats on such good content and a great site. Question: What is your general advice about tackling a 12 key exercise? Do i learn it one key at a time and try to get each one individually up to 120 then move to the next. Or is there a benefit in doing all keys in one sitting and proceeding much more slowly to get the speed up. Or is it a mix. Take 3 keys and focus for a few weeks, then move on to 3 new ones? Thx.
Thanks so much for your teaching resources... I don't read music, I began teaching myself 1 year ago how to play alto watching RU-vid videos. Don't spos you have note by note chord charts, some folks call them cheat sheets? I'm loving your videos!!! Thank you... from New Zealand 🇳🇿.
I’ve got loads of PDF music, but that’s written normally. If you go to my sax hall of fame playlist you can learn loads of sax solos with the note names and fingerings on screen. ru-vid.com/group/PLBRGEAheQrply395t4YiiCxWLeVSOf9NP
@@GetYourSaxTogether Oooosh !!! Thank you again. 💯 I've learned how to transpose all the songs I want to play.. I have a rep of 50+ songs to date and keep practicing these to improve eg intonations, dynamics, etc etc. Before he died recently, my hubby taught me to play the scales so I had somewhere to start from lol. I'm a professional musician /singer... I can play almost any song by ear, on guitar blindfolded and I'm gonna persevere until I nail this sax !!!
Can you comment which notes to tongue and which to slur as you are increasing the tempo? Tonging every note at fast tempo is impossible (at least for me), so I would like to know how to approach it methodically. Is slurring every note an acceptable approach? Is it better to tongue on first note of every bar or fourth note?
I think it's fine to just play it all legato to be honest. You can also be more aware of the accuracy of your timing that way too. It's not meant to be an articulation exercise, although of course you could do it like that, the aim is to get fast, even finger speed. J:-)
@@GetYourSaxTogether oh ok, I get it. Never thought of moving forward in 4ths, usually move backwards in 4ths for keys with flats. But as you say, it's all good, just different methods. Great lesson!
Is there a way to get in musicxml version instead of pdf so that we can easily play it in midi format first to be sure we do not mess up the notes (i'm a beginner)
Don’t tongue it. You want to be able to hear each note transition and tonguing makes that more obscure. If you did, you’d probably have to do it slower.
I'm rather late to this exercise. My performance on the simple keys is getting better, but the nasty keys are slow, and often painful... I could probably learn 3 or 4 but I doubt whether I could ever be as fast as you. Should it be a memory or a reading exercise?
Thx Jamie, sounds like a great exercise, one question though: do you tongue every note when going up to speed? Or would it be enough to tongue every first 16th note of the 4- note pattern.
Good question Kai - if you want to improve your tonguing - then tongue it, but the real aim of the exercise is to play it after than you'd be able to tongue - so play it all smooth.
Hi Jamie, thank you so much for this video ! I think it can help me a lot (sax is my 2nd instrument and my main is keys). Question: How to ' measure' the progress of this exercise ? And will it for example make you improvise easier in faster (for example) funky tracks ? CJ
Hi CJ, it's easy to measure your progress - you can fluently play the exercise faster than before, using a metronome is vital. The exercise won't specifically help you to improvise, but it will make you a better sax player, so when you come to improvise, you've got better technique.
1,2,3 1,2,3,4. 2,3,4,5 3 1,2,3 1,2,3 4 2 7,1,2 7, 1 etc......It’s a trumpet exercise pretty much....It sounds similar to what you’re doing here in the video that’s why I asked lol
@@GetYourSaxTogether I see that Jemmie but the second one at the bottom? Anyway you know much more but the Eb also confuses me. Sorry to bother you but I dont know how it works.
@@sakuntalarichardson5231 I really want to help you, but I’m just not sure what it is you don’t understand? Just play the notes of the exercise and you’ll get better.
