Learn Bending, Growling and Vibrato on Saxophone with Grace Kelly and Leo P

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Learn how to add extended techniques to your saxophone playing with Grace Kelly and Leo P in this exciting tutorial video! 🎷🎶 In this video, you'll discover three techniques that will add some pizzazz and unique sound to your musical lines: bending, growling, and vibrato. 🤩 Grace and Leo will guide you through each technique, giving tips on how to do it correctly, exercises to help you practice and master each one, and suggestions on when to use them stylistically. 🎵 Whether you're a beginner or an advanced player, this video is a great resource to take your playing to the next level. 🚀 So, let's get started and learn how to add some spice to your saxophone playing with extended techniques! 🔥
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This video is part of our Saxophone & Performance Masterclass! If you want to learn more from us, we have 40+ lessons and over a dozen practice tracks to jam along to! 🔥 Click below to get started! 👇
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🎵 Band: Elliott Skinner, Zach Mullings, Liya Grigoryan.
🏫 Filmed at Power Station at BerkleeNYC.
Some tips from this video:
🎷 Adding extended techniques is a great way to spice up your phrasing and add some pizzazz into your musical lines.
🎵 Bending involves playing the pitches in between the notes and is a great way to transition from one note to another.
😔 Bending gives a melancholy feeling and is great for playing ballads.
🌟 Practice slowly lifting your index finger off the pads to help you bend and work your way up and down the horn to improve your flexibility.
🎤 Vibrato creates a consistent pulsating vibration and can add a stylistic quality to your playing.
🎼 Start by focusing on hearing the pitch change and accentuating it before making it more subtle.
🎭 Listen to different saxophonists and vocalists to develop your own style of vibrato.
🦁 Growling is a distinct and powerful technique that can add excitement to your playing.
🤕 Take it slow and have a cup of tea or water nearby to avoid hurting your throat when you first start growling.
🎸 Growling is like distortion in a guitar and requires opening your throat like a distortion pedal.
🎨 Extended techniques are like paint on a palette, and every phrase can be colored how you want.
🍴 Extended techniques are like ingredients in a dish, and you can create a different dish every time you play.

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@thebmxboys3204 Год назад

Well I'm gonna watch this religiously

@underdoggoethe8971 Год назад

I will too. And I don't even play an instrument. ❤

@hecateswolf6007 Год назад

Me too it's an excellent lesson

@sabaka-joulik 10 месяцев назад

Me too. Thanks a lot Leo P and G. Kelly.❤🇫🇷🍀🤗😊

@mason2solidddd 5 месяцев назад

Same

@gunfoogunfoo2287 5 месяцев назад

Surprised by the way they speak, like in classical education movies. I thought his speach should be something like Sid Vicious manner 😂

@phill3583 Год назад

I love the first growl moment segment. I think any sax player remembers that milestone. Mine was many decades ago, but still fresh in my mind. The late great Bobby Keys was my inspiration to learn this technique. He was in constant growl mode, with amazing tone and control. At first I thought it was that I didn't have the right gear. I was like...what mouthpiece and reed combination is he using? How's he getting that sound to come out of the same horn I've got? I was never taught how to growl, just told. I tried and tried with little success. I almost gave up. One day when visiting a shop on 48th st. I heard a repair tech growling on a tenor. He showed me that it was possible and told me to be patient and keep practicing. He said it'll just come to you. I took his advice. When I was finally able to do it, it was like getting a new toy. You guys are really amazing musicians. The NYC subway system misses you both hehe.

@malirk Год назад

0:21 If they ever do more Cowboy Bepop, this should be opening theme. Awesome tunes Grace Kelly and Leo P!

@teacher-sean 2 месяца назад

Brilliant. I can't wait to see how this ages. This is going to be the next level of awesome in a decade or two. It reminds me of 80s/90s instructional video cassettes. Love it.

@hb5399 Год назад

I love how Leo is a pro and he still listens to the instructions and yawns like it's his first time learning. That's what's called passion.

@williammurray1620 Год назад

Great video! As an old guy still playing Bari, wish we had this information as a youngster. Love what you are doing for a great instrument Leo! (Grace you are awesome too!!)

@NicolasdeFontenay 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for this tutorial and most importantly thank you so much for showing us Grace what it sounds like when a beginner starts and what being on the right track is like!

@tmcunlimited 7 месяцев назад

Thanks to you both for explaining how to growl .. I totally didn’t go there until I watched this . You guys are great Teachers !

@nyoaeuikhoudu Год назад

Watching this right now with my friend (me a bari, my friend a Tenor) and this is so helpful! We've been trying to bend for weeks now and now we've finally got it.

@stevebeimler2579 Месяц назад

I am not a sax player - but I just love 💕 watching your two -- !!!

@JimaFouesnant Месяц назад

je vous vois depuis tellement d'années et là, en studio... C'est génial..... Merci pour les tuttos... bonne continuation et hellllloooooo de Bretagne FR

@YeOldMuppetMan Год назад

I play clarinet and I'm switching to baritone sax and you've been very helpful

@ajhauter5049 Год назад

That's quite the change. Be warned of the air required from the saxophone family. I started on clarinet and bought a tenor a few months ago. It takes a lot of air, so don't be afraid to use a softer reed.

@q12aw50 Год назад

@@ajhauter5049 other way around for me. I’ve been playing saxophone for 7 years and tenor for 4 but I need to use a softer reed on clarinet because I’m just not used to it and the kinda breath you need

@ajhauter5049 Год назад

@@q12aw50 that's wiggity-wack, yo

@flyingcheff Год назад

Soo great to hear this, see this and hear your directions. Note: for future videos like this: your dialog SOUNDS stiff and overly rehearsed and slightly contrived - even though it's not. It almost sounds like you're speaking to 6-year-olds (harsh to 6-year-olds - sorry). Just throwing a but of loving feedback to ya'll. Teaching doesn't mean yelling louder or speaking s-l-o-w-l-y.......Your students are whip smart - that's why they chose your channel!! Woot, woot! ❤❤❤❤ I'd love it if you'd teach, just like you play: like melted butter sliding down your tongue into the sax, and into my ear! You two are fabulous!

@matthewrayner571 Год назад

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. It just seemed a bit too awkwardly formal, like they were reading off of a sign behind the camera. Great tips and playing, though. Never heard Leo play classical before - I like it.

@ilkaengelhardt3659 Год назад

Totally!

@cici-mama 4 месяца назад

Good Lord a whole paragraph abt it. That’s some serious petty negativity. Just get what you came for and hope that they’ll continue to post more!

@flyingcheff 4 месяца назад

@@cici-mama chirp!

@user-jk5um1om8l 2 месяца назад

Hmm I like the script and clear enunciation. They put a lot of thought into it clearly, and it’s STRUCTURED, instead of riffing off the cuff. I like that!

@randallw6677 Год назад

Wow!!! Excellent Master Class and top notch Pedagogy. Thank you Grace and Leo P.

@kellymiller6737 Год назад

Jesus. Quality of content! C’mon RU-vid! Millions of subs! Let’s go!!

@Vocalzone_covers Год назад

I don't play an instrument although I do sing in a band but I still found this video really interesting to watch. Really professional..

@davidleontieff-smith2347 5 месяцев назад

I loved Louis Jordan's growling on the alto. Such booting rock-n-roll, and raunchy blues sounds. I never thought the alto would suit these styles until I heard Louis! Another favourite was tenorman Willis Jackson.

@Megamember678 Год назад

Huge thanks for this!❤ I’m sure, that all the viewers want to see more videos like this one!😊

@leslieswiman4813 11 месяцев назад

ABSOLUTELY 🎷🎷♥️

@milamber82 3 месяца назад

I played a Trumpet about 34 years ago. See if we had this tool back then to learn? |Might have played it again. Top stuff.

@danaewood4158 3 месяца назад

She exudes emotion! I'm in love

@alexeichikish2221 Год назад

Thanks, very simple but productive, looking forward new lessons.

@andrewbergstrom5599 Год назад

Oh, so #SAXY! Thanks for all of those great tips and exercises!

@Marlon_c_v Год назад

I am barely practicing this and for bending notes going down, I highly recommend engaging your core (imagine as if someone were to hit you really hard in the stomach, that “pressure “ is engaging your core), it makes it a lot easier

@Marlon_c_v Год назад

Also engaging your core sort of works with the vibrato, try to use it to your best 🗿

@hecateswolf6007 Год назад

Thanks

@JimsIrish76 Год назад

Really good information. Over time i did naturally start to bend using the throat, but i see a lot of newer players (as I had) try or get in a habit of up scooping up/lipping up down. Sometimes it can become a habit too in their reg playing. Wish i had seen this back then . Great class.

@livingtheapocalypse8248 Год назад

Great clear tips and advice thank you so much you two maestro's xx

@andresilvaitaocara-rj4604 9 месяцев назад

Os dois forma uma dupla fenomenal! Agradável de se ouvir! Parabéns!

@huongngt8102 10 месяцев назад

Very good teaching technique , thank you two both

@FarsansTorraOrdvitsar 11 месяцев назад

That baryton sounds so dope!

@Dally_Sparkles Год назад

you guys Rock!! Hi from Australia.

@musicmakerabani2088 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for Lerner❤❤❤

@wraithify_ Год назад

Its Fire Boy and Water Girl.

@hecateswolf6007 Год назад

Lovely lesson lovely people

@goomgoom5504 Год назад

Love your instructional videos! awesome!

@bluessax5089 Год назад

Great video

@chaisaxsoul Год назад

Thank you ❤❤❤

@PR.creation7467 6 месяцев назад

Please teach about clarinet leo p

@samson6415 Год назад

Awesome lesson ❤❤2 cool

@unclemick-synths Год назад

My student Buescher would let me bend notes really easily. A pity I traded it instead of keeping it. It would also do lovely delicate tones which my exuberant Yamaha also hates to do.

@soccerbeast4782 10 месяцев назад

I’m a freshman but for some reason I can growl pretty decently I just rolled my Rs into a sax and it worked

@ryanlin5997 Год назад

Totaly didn’t think that was the start of the mario kart lick 1:38, anyway, amazing video!

@marcelosax_ Год назад

Like from Brazil ! Haha

@wyndhl8309 Год назад

Johnny Hodges was the master "bender" . I ❤️ it, the bending. Great tutorial lesson 👍 Thanks.

@drumbum3.142 Год назад

It's like the (musical) equivalency of opening or shutting a door.. (And) just like (in) music, the door sounds different in different explicit situations and circumstances.. ...as well as sounding different dependent upon how quickly/with how much force it's open, shut.. ...it's REALLY Hard.. ...to bend a snare drum.. o.O (Though not impossible.. .)

@jacksonthering5978 Год назад

U guys should go to minnesota

@donatosabrina Год назад

❤ Hello! Im a brazilian singer that is trying to learn sax for the first time and i dont know how to start, what are the first steps... alto saxophone? I read about xalophoon , is it cool? Thank you in advance! Love ya ❤

@dynSAMIA Год назад

"The enemy Stand-user could be anyone" The enemy Stand-users:

@dannihermanehlejr2269 Год назад

Those are some amazing outfits not accompany those great songs

@dannihermanehlejr2269 Год назад

Amazing sounds

@dannihermanehlejr2269 Год назад

This a great lesson

@voicisalyre1971 Год назад

It's not easy for me to teach growl, bend and vibrato to m'y teenager students.

@elliroux Год назад

the besties leaking their secrets, love to see it

@bill6662 Год назад

Out of curiosity does anyone else think flutter tounging sound like a growl with more spice. I feel like it creates more space almost

@q12aw50 Год назад

I feel like they sound a little too different

@michaelmcleod6203 Год назад

It is very common for people to use flutter tonguing and growling interchangeably. You see this a lot with saxophone quartet music that calls for flutter tonguing. Not everyone can flutter tongue, so some players will replace it with a growl.

@hughjayn1s Год назад

It’s better to flutter tongue on brass but better to growl on wind

@ImNotFaire Год назад

Love the vid, just wish they talked a lil more naturally

@dusseldorfkrakow Год назад

They forgot slaptonque.

@ilkaengelhardt3659 Год назад

Great content. Needs better delivery. It was just so awkward to watch.

@rhodigian Год назад

10/10 teaching 11/10 performing. respect

@alecj3454 Год назад

Two of the coolest teachers in the universe. These technique videos are great. Thanks Grace & Leo!

@davidharrison3074 Год назад

I actually love this video of techniques. Being a trumpet player, everything is so close to what I do except the growl. I've done the growling exercise and like you said, the technique takes a lot of practice. With a little bit of throat issues from years ago, I choose not to incorporate this in my playing. Bending is one of my strongest exercises for warming up, bending up and down throughout the scales. Learning over 45 years ago to work on playing with the tuning slide all the way in and use the throat muscles etc and play in tune. Then when you actually play regularly, it is so easy to hear your pitch and able to adjust a note if playing with someone who might not hear themselves to be in tune. Thank you both for such a wonderful video and I hope you both had a wonderful Easter. Can't wait to hear more music or tutorials. 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎺

@davidharrison3074 Год назад

@BudgetGuitarshow. I didn't know what VIA telegram was per this request regarding a prize.

@q12aw50 Год назад

I’ve always found growling easier on brass but maybe just low brass

@mydogsareneat 7 месяцев назад

I was taught all of this in my first week and it sprung me ahead of my class to a weird level. But i was just really good at mirroring sounds.

@snakeyes20cqc Год назад

As a trumpet player/teacher, I can say all of this is exactly applicable to brass!

@mydogsareneat 7 месяцев назад

MY SKIN JUST CRAWLED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I GOT A HEAD INJURY BECAUSE OF GRACE PLAYING THAT WAS THANK YOU

@BoundUnderground Год назад

You two are THE BEST. I hope to see you live at some point.

@NicolasdeFontenay 4 месяца назад

Same!

@dannihermanehlejr2269 Год назад

That's awesome!! Love the Growl!!

@steveharvey3016 8 месяцев назад

I loved the comparison of growling to Louis Armstrong. I went downstairs and started growling right away and like it more than humming. I also love references to when you both were learning. When we see you play its hard to ever imagine you as a new student trying to figure things out and learning the basics. It helps me believe that I can get from a simple learner to a confident and versatile player down the road.

@learnsax Год назад

Wow! Fantastic tutorial with both Grace and Leo. Love the way you both bounce techniques between Bari & Alto.

@MadsaxFrance Год назад

Mais je les adore !!!!!! Bravo de France pour vos Vidéos, C'est Merveilleux !

@JazzManhattan Год назад

Have you ever heard of growling by humming into the instrument while you blow?

@HonestSaxSound-unEdited- Год назад

Yes friend, it is a finest or softer way to growl.

@q12aw50 Год назад

@@HonestSaxSound-unEdited- it’s also much more limited based on your own range. I can’t growl above a middle F on tenor because I just can’t comfortably hum while I play like that

@lucasashley2398 7 месяцев назад

You remind me of Dennis Reynolds

@dannihermanehlejr2269 Год назад

Sounds of amazing

@mikeciul8599 Год назад

I've been trying to learn to growl as a singer (and do a little throat singing and subharmonics) - and I'm learning how to engage the false vocal folds to do that. The description of growling here sounds like it requires the false vocal folds. But when I try to growl on the sax, I just create combination tones by adding some voice to my breath. That sounds to me like what Grace is doing, but not so much what Leo is doing. Is it common to growl without using the false vocal folds? How would you describe the difference if so?

@Eniral441 Год назад

I've been a bari sax player for over 30 years, but somehow missed out on some advanced techniques along the way and gained some bad habits along the way too. So I'm loving this video and adding it to my collection of instructional videos. I've always struggled with growling. I can't seem to do it when I'm trying to, but I've sometimes done it kind of instinctually. Almost like it's an accident but it's usually in a good place when soloing. Some people have told me to talk or sing to growl, but I find that even harder. I'm looking forward to trying your techniques. I'd love to growl like Ronnie Cuber Also my vibrato seems to come more from the same place my natural vibrato comes from when I sing. But changing it is harder. So I plan on trying those techniques too. (BTW, I love Harry Carney! I grew up listening to big bands, especially Duke Ellington's. My grandmother used to sneak out to go dancing at the Cotton Club back in the day and often talked about his band... and others, of course).

@MatthewMorris-kg3uq 7 месяцев назад

I learn so much in general composition from you guys. Thank you!

@dylannguyen6652 11 месяцев назад

band music now sounds

@abdulmajeedahmadi1990 Год назад

I have a quick question should I play alto sax first and then go to bari sax or go straight to bari sax? This is my first time playing sax.

@emdubumusic Год назад

I started alto last year and started bari this year, they are both in the same key and it’s easier to start out on alto

@gamersden30 Год назад

Whichever one you like the sound of the most, each of the big 4 have their own distinct flavour

@auriels1451 Год назад

I started on Alto and played bari like 4yrs into alto. Personally, bari took a lot more air to play and controlling my sound in the lower register I found was harder initially. Also being a kid, if I started on Bari - holding it would have been difficult/it is heavy. So i think Alto is easier to start (less air, probs easier to control maybe? not as heavy), but ultimately if u want to play bari and ur old enough (thinking high school or older), might as well go for it :) Find a teacher and see what they recommend - also consider cost and what u have access too! Less bari players compared to alto players as well maybe? Bari parts tended to be technically less challenging tho in terms of finger speed (huge generalisation but thats the case I found). Hope some of that helps!! Might differ to other people too so would be cool to hear others! :) (will say I played more classical sax stuff - but did do some big band stuff/jazz).

@q12aw50 Год назад

Alto alto alto alto alto alto alto. But I 100% support moving to bari it’s a much better instrument but learn on alto please

@abdulmajeedahmadi1990 Год назад

Why shouldn't I go straight to bari

@jamesblinzler7421 10 месяцев назад

Wish I had you guys back in high school concert band. I was a bari sax guy I was practically the bass section. You guys rock. Keep teaching.

@bigsarge2085 Год назад

Awesome!

@jan-pieter3695 Год назад

Technique is everything for any wind based instrument, even the wilder or the more unusual sounds need a lot a practice.

@wermachtdermacht3350 Год назад

You rock!

@LittleSaxSquig Год назад

Wow that's so helpful

@hillarycourchaine6829 Год назад

Absolutely love this video, definitely going to use these techniques for sure.

@vivianastridge2167 7 месяцев назад

Can you please give me a link or links to videos instructing on producing jazz subtone with double lip embouchure. I have been informed that the jszz subtone can only be produced with the the single lip embouchure and this seems to be so as all my efforts at producing the jazz subtone have not succeeded as I play with the double lip embouchure . Thank you for your help.

@이광호색소폰 Год назад

Wonderful! Thanks a lot!

@saliyawimalaratne6195 Год назад

I think I can hear the 'hrrra' and 'vooo' sounds distinctively when you both growl. Am I imagining this? Is this a bass/alto thing? Should people start by picking the word they want to sound like?

@kenaileblanc8181 3 месяца назад

I wish I saw this video when I had to go below the scale for a song while playing Bari sax. I kinda just had to figure it out

@danaewood4158 3 месяца назад

I like you better in ripped up jeans, boots and the tough guy look. Just my opinion! LOL

@Thatoddonein 7 месяцев назад

I am currently playing alto sax in the music man Musical I have not yet cleared out how to grow, but hearing a piccolo growl is pretty amusing

@vivianastridge2167 11 месяцев назад

Do these super proficient instrumentalists have anything to offer by way of a no nonsense approach to the Jazz Subtone?

@alireza1967 Год назад

Great lessons ! Thank You very much guys !

@esaurnberg1651 4 месяца назад

I just love these persons, also ready movie-consept for Marvel

@michelebellocchi8151 Год назад

Grazie.

@KA0T 8 месяцев назад

feel like im watching a sex lesson with batman & robin

@banized7323 9 месяцев назад

Then playing in the start hit me like a train

@Zebrahead6000 Год назад

Sponsored by hair dye. Or Cotton Candy... I can't quite tell. Beasts on the sax tho.

@starwolven 8 месяцев назад

Dyed hair is like a poisonous frog warning others to stay away!

@donotfret 3 месяца назад

Amazing video

@marcioramosfoto Год назад

Beautiful girl, come to Brasil, please. Thanks for all.

@stilesthissell Год назад

😂❤

@FunnyShorties1 11 месяцев назад

pros... lovers :)

@drfiberglass Год назад

Thank you for taking the time in making this video. Love the lava lamp...

@pushistik_doma 9 месяцев назад

❤❤❤❤❤

@TimHoundDog Год назад

I HUM.

@anderszapac Год назад

Where were people like you 30 years ago? My late teacher, may he rest in peace, had me go through three books of basic saxophone school. Then we played song books with piano accompanyment for two years, then I played alto duets with my section partner in the youth concert band, followed by trios and eventually quartets where my teacher joined three students into the time of two. It was good practise, but I asked him what about the rest: vibrato, bending, altissimo, growl and so on. He gave me a photocopy with a fingering chart of possible altissimo notes and said that technique is so boring/difficult to teach. I would like to add that he was a brilliant jazz musician himself, just that teaching the advanced stuff apparently was not his forte. Eventually I purchased my own book with demonstration tape, Rock & Roll Saxophone by John Laughter with foreword by Scott Page. I never quite got the hang of vibrato, but I figured out some of the other effects somewhat. Perhaps it is not too late to learn (and practise!).