The best instructor on the Internet! Fantastic information explained in a way that everyone can understand and learn from. Nobody does it better!!! Dave, fantastic video as always. ❤️❤️🎷🎷
Hi Dave, my name is Gustavo Dinerstein from Buenos Aires. I'm using this excercise allready for several years with my students and is really a good training exercise. I'm enjoying your videos and they let me know i'm teaching in the right direction. It's a great pleasure to empathize with your teaching resources. Good vibes fron south america !
Man, I’m so glad someone else is teaching vibrato for a change! Loved this one - I feel like you just given me permission to take the vibrato teaching debate away from a lip only phenomenon!! 😊
Great video! This is exactly how I teach this! It is nice to have a reference for students to check out when they ask me about it randomly when they are getting into jazz!
Would be great to differentiate between controlled vibrato and the warble that sometimes happens with newer players from a lack of airstream support. Great video as always, especially the demonstrations of different styles of vibrato that might be used. It's such a personal part of someone's tone, great to see it being talked about.
Phil Woods sometimes employs a kind of semit tone vibrato (or he's simply starting a note with his lips instead of using his tongue). One recording off the top of my head where he does it would be Open Doors
Is there a reason why it's so much harder for me to execute vibrato on my classical set up vs my jazz one? I can't seem to get it as beautifully on my classical set up.
@@DavePollack Not quite, I use Grand Concert Selects size 3 on an AL 3, compared to Select Jazz 3 medium on a Myer 6. Maybe I'll try a 2.5 on classical...
Just got a copy of Richie Cole’s Pop Bop on CD. I first heard the album on cassette about 30 years ago and I’m still trying to work out how he does those chromatic runs so fast. 🤷🏻♂️
Glas to hear that! I actually play a Conn 10m tenor as well. I’m coming out with a saxophone workshop (shh I haven’t made that public yet!) at the end of July that goes into how I approach and teach altissimo (that’s one part of the workshop) so stay tuned for that!
Okay, so help me understand. Coming from flute I always understood vibrato to be a variation in sound amplitude, while a variation in pitch is properly termed tremolo (the whammy bar on a guitar is a tremolo bar, not a vibrato bar). Why the variation in terms from one instrument to a other?
Honestly I don’t know why the term varies, but I’ve NEVER heard the term tremolo used for a wind instrument. I also use a breath vibrato on flute (which you *could* use on sax) but it’s really not how it traditionally has been done on saxophone.
Great technique and advice. Really enjoyed the section on "Different Types of Vibrato". There are so many more examples (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OJEA-X0Fo-0.html), but you hit the most relevant ones for most players. The big thing I enjoyed most was how you used your Bis key! I've been doing the same for 50+ years, despite being told it wasn't correct or possible!
