Long Tones For Saxophone 

I always come to you when I need to learn something or hear a new mouthpiece that I want

Man!! I wanted you to keep playing... I feel cheated and I think you should give your subscribers the rest of that song. Sincerely yours. Saxmo lol Come on Man. Also I love love love the content you put out and I believe I will accomplish one of my goals by following your content. Thanks a lot.

9:58 he points at the purse. It's full of mouthpieces.

I’ve been doing a lot of altissimo work on tenor lately and yesterday I picked up the soprano and couldn’t believe how easy it was to play the full range in tune.

Thanx for all Your efforts, really helps a lot! All the best!! 👍😎

Thanks for your kindness!!

I always enjoy your videos. Keep up the good stuff!

Excellent

dude you are amazing! thanks for making these videos

Always something new to learn.Thanks Sitvalorsax. Anthony.

Long tones are super important. I’ve been a teacher/player for many years (43 actually), and it’s only been recently started revisiting these and having my students do them too . All kinds with crescendos & decrescendos . This is helpful ! Thanks

I like what I am hearing so far, plus I also use the Cannon Ball Brand of Saxophones, You surely have given me food for thought as an elderly person who has started playing.

Sirvlorsax, you sure have my full attention I like what you do, Thanks!

The more I watch your videos the More I like and learn ..Gods continued blessings in your life...thank you for Giving us your Instructional detailed well recorded productions

"Listening deeper into the sound" - great point. Maybe listening closely to your own sound like this, or playing with a snapshot of a recording you like the sound of, helps like seeing colors side by side vs trying to remember what that shade of purple was like or whatever. I definitely find listening to a favorite player while I'm playing helps me shape my tone much more easily. Plus you get the immediate A/B. But to your original point, I believe I'm listening to my sound when I'm really not, or I am very superficially. Those long tones help with that.

Thanks. I enjoyed that👍🙏

Thanks for the interesting, useful information. Previously I was using long tones as a warm-up and a means of increasing time playing one note, but I will try some of your ideas.

Hello from England. Just discovered your great content. Many thanks brother!

Thank you for the info, appreciate your content. We as horn players know... do long tones & overtones so you sound better. No easy way to get it....no magic pill or super swoopie ligature heavy mass screw. Playing slow ballads has helped me in the past. Keep the content coming we dig it.

Thanks master!,, so clear explanation

Love your perspective on things. We do the multiphonics thing in classical, but I never would have thought to use it as a tone development exercise. Will def explore those other features of T.E. Also, I'm a big fan of doing long tones against a drone especially in the C4-etc.. range.

Very valuable advice

Much Thanks . I always leave a little smarter on Lil sax things.

Show more of the tuner while you are playing! Great video!

My master

Greetings from the Philippines..

Gold

You give many useful tips and practice suggestions. Thank you! While on the topic of long tones do you have any other suggestions to build embouchure strength and endurance?

Thanks so much for this video: I've been practising longtones for a few years now and this has really given me some fresh ideas. I've got a question. Sometimes I hear alto and tenors players making their horns sound as is they were sopranos. Do you know how it's done and do you have any tips for that? Cheers, and thanks again for this great work man!

Awesome, I wish you were close by so you could listen to me and my sound. I’ve been able to play for hours lately but I am not sure I am getting any better. I cannot hear it at least. I feel I need someone who has understanding. Since the lock down I play for hours ....???😳🙄🤔🤫 Everyone is crying around me... telling me stop 🤪 They say why, why, why? I say isn’t it obvious?🤔😋😋😋😂😊. But seriously I am not hearing what I think I should hear or what I want to hear???? My sound sounds nothing like yours... I don’t think at least. 😊 Your the man!!!

2:19 “you can seeeeeee...” (but it was a D!) 🤪

Still doing them

Hey whats up! I know this video isnt about reeds, but what are some good brand of reeds besides vandoren and daddario. They have been inconsistent and im only getting 1 or 2 good reeds out of a box of 5. So what are some other good brands?

What are differences between the regular Otto link, New York, Florida, and I believe modern vintage. What makes them different. Also have you ever played on a Dave Guardala King Curtis mouthpiece.

Adriene...again thanks for another very helpful practical methodology (the relaxed lip out.. is a Godsend)..I may sound like a major fool here...but is there a way to get to a G at the very bottom of Bb horns ?

You are good and a all round player, I would like to be ur neighbor 👍🏾🎼🎶💯

I just got a Otto Link STM and I love it!😻 I’m trying to pair it with a reed. What’s your suggestion? Also based on your experience, with what reed makes it easier to hit the altissimo notes with the STM. Thanks

You said it! It is very weird...multiphonics and vibrato.

Great video. What's your soprano mouthpiece? Thanks

My palms and above are 10-20 cents sharp. Is this because my reed is too soft or my embouchure is too tight? Thanks for the videos, keep em comin'!

I got Tone Energy tuner (before I saw you mention it), but it wasn't settling on a single tone. It just kept jumping between different notes. :(

lol...@2:18, his 'C' ('see-e-e-e-) is actually a Db!

What method do you use to produce vibrato? Dipahragm, throat, tongue motion????

Do you have any advice about translating the pitches we hear in our head into the right fingerings on the horn? (The "mind-body-horn connection" it could be called). I always assumed it came automatically through transcribing and practicing, but recently realised I need a lot of work on this. Say I hear a simple line in my head and want to play it on the horn: so I try to find the first note on the sax, sometimes I get it right first time, but more often than not I'm at least a semitone off. But once I'm "calibrated" to the horn with that intial note, it gets easier. I just imagine the next note and if my fingers are confused I just use relative pitch to identify the note name and finger it correctly: "that sounds like a perfect fifth so it's a G" After practicing intervals for some time I can now hit intervals with *ok* accuracy without actually vocalising the relative pitch to find the notes (and assuming I'm "calibrated" first). But it's so easy to get "un-calibrated" again when there's a rest or key change, and I have to use my memory to get on track ("B section is in E major, starting on the tonic"). Any tips for getting better at hitting the right note first time? Is it a case of getting more deeply connected with the instrument or the inner music? Also, it would be cool if you did an ear-training video sometime! Or step by step transcription techniques! Love your channel :D

teacher know the group IRAKERE DE MUSICA AFRO CUBANA?

Is that a stand-alone tuner, or something that can be downloaded?

That was a long one.

I'm trying to go offline and 'dumb' as possible, and I'm a total beginner at the saxophone. So, for the time being I will be without a tuner, and since I don't want to sit at the computer anymore (I'm so sick of sitting at it...) and don't own a smartphone...well, I gotta do it without a tuner. How damaging could that be? I mean I'll get a tuner at the end of the month, thinking of a korg 60...but. In the meantime. How detrimental would it be to play without a tuner as a complete beginner and without a teacher? Does it form bad habits, or a bad ear? Or should I not worry about it because once in tune it's going to be okay and it would be just like transposing the instrument a little? I do not have perfect pitch...

What tuner is that?

You should try a SYOS mouthpiece