Jazz Saxophone Techniques 

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for your kind words. Keep watching the videos.

Thank you, Emanuele! Thanks for joining us. Check out the Chapter 23 video which goes even a little further.

Thank you!

Yes

Oh, of course! Thank you!

Thanks so much! I’m glad the videos are helpful. Check out the new one today on the soprano saxophone!

@@charlesrsmith7 I'll check them all you can be sure of it. Just the idea of playing slightly flat opened my sound in a way i never thought it would!!!🙏🙏🙏 Thank you so very much Sir

Thank you!

Alot of people really like David Sanborn. I honestly can't get past his sound, to me it's just grating.

@GRiM2.0 To each his own. I can get into his screeching tone, it's the smooth jazz commercial style he played that I didn't like so much. But I do appreciate when he sits down to play standards and what not.

@@PaddieFunk I'm not into any of it. I've tried, I just honestly cant.

Thanks so much. I have a lot of new videos coming soon related to my new Saxophone Pedagogy Book.

Thank you! The language in the books is directed toward teachers, but it is easy to pull the content out for students. It would all be very understandable and helpful for you. The saxophone book has a lot of help for tone and intonation, etc. You need to check out the video for chapter 23 for a lot more effects that can add soul to your playing!

Yes, Ray's excellent book is 100% accessible to a student. It's been a huge help for me.

Check out Chapter 23 later in this same playlist:Jazz Effects

@@charlesrsmith7 thank you for sharing your talent to us sir.. Godbless..

I'm glad is was helpful. I have a lot of new videos coming soon related to my new book "The Science and Art of Saxophone Teaching"

Uh oh! My apologies. I just realized that I posted my comment on your channel, not realizing that you are also the prof in this video! Please excuse my ignorance. I want to thank you sooo very much for posting this video of yourself giving a real connection to the era. Your real-life, professional descriptions and playing examples of each of the mysterious sax sounds that those of us who have always adored big band but only ever learned classical techniques always wanted to learn how to do! Last night, for the first time ever, I successfully used what you call the "n" tongue, what kids these days are calling "dooden" tongueing. It gave me hope that an old classical player like me might just be able to get a handle on some of these jazz techniques after a lifetime of feeling like a total jazz failure, always sounding like a classical player trying to play jazz. Your demonstrations in this video are priceless. I will be paying close attention to your bends and scoops again and again. These skills have alluded me all these years. They were never presented in a way that made any sense to me -- until this video! I can't thank you enough. I hope I can find your book somewhere online. Would you be willing to put a link in the info section under this video for the handout you gave the education students? Thanks again. All the very best to you, Prof. Smith.

Sorry, I didn't see your questions before. I am Ray Smith, saxophone professor at Brigham Young University. The name of the book is The Real Jazz Pedagogy Book available on Amazon. Thanks for watching! Ray

@@jaykay1053 I am so glad this is helpful! I have a new book coming out soon --"The Science and Art of Saxophone Teaching"--and I have a whole new chapter on a ton of jazz effects. Some of it is repeat of the video you watched, but a lot of other techniques as well. There will be a whole new set of videos coming to this channel in the couple of months. These jazz effects are a matter of special techniques, not a matter of being born with it...!

It is the Stone Series of the Cannonball Saxophone! It plays as great as it looks. This is the black nickel version.

@@charlesrsmith7 Great! Thanks, have a nice day