Tag: Saxophone

Learning to play the saxophone (Hello Saxophone)

Learning to play the saxophone is fun! This movie is a demo of the many instructional video’s that are included in:”Hello Saxophone (www.hellosaxophone.com) The easy starters guide to the saxophone. For more info visit www.HelloSaxophone.com The first thing to do is to put the mouthpiece up against the upper front teeth in your mouth. Put your upper teeth about halfway on top of the mouthpiece (see the picture below). Its important that you dont push your teeth on the sax! but to push the sax up against your teeth! You do this by pushing the sax forward very slightly with your left thumb and by making sure the length of the neck strap is right. Let the horn rest comfortably against your belly. When you have the mouthpiece in your mouth, push the top of the saxophone away from you gently with your left thumb. You will feel some pressure on your upper teeth. The saxophone becomes sort of stuck between your thumbs and your upper teeth. This will leave your lower jaw completely free so you can breathe in easily without the sax bumbling about in your mouth. This also allows you to control the vibrations of the reed very precisely. Put your lower lip against the reed (make sure your lower teeth dont touch the reed). Curl your lower lip a little like you would if you were biting your lip or trying to say the B in the word baby very clearly so it becomes like a cushion between your lower teeth and the reed. Tthe key to producing good sound is good breathing. Pretend youre …

Is the saxophone easy to learn after you already know how to play the flute?

I might be joining marching band soon and I already have been playing the flute for longer 3 years. But I can’t play flute in the marching band and I don’t want to play the picccolo, so I was wondering if it would be a lot of hard work to learn how to play the saxophone. If it is, does anyone know if any other marching instruments might be easy to learn other than the piccolo?
Thanxz!

Sax Lesson Chromatic improvisation Anton Delecca tenor sax Learn to play saxophone and sax technique

digitalpill.tv Anton Delecca explains the uses of chromatic scales in jazz improvisation and as a warm up excercise for sax. In this video, Anton describes three excersices for warm up that improve tone and dexterity and are very useful to enliven passages of improvisation. This video works together with the pdf download available from http

Is it possible to learn to play the saxophone even though I can't read music?

I’m thinking of buying a saxophone so I can learn to play as it is something I have always wanted to do. The only problem is, I can’t read music, so I was wondering if it’s at all possible to learn to play the sax just by ear, trial & error kind of thing?

Sax Lesson: tuning the registers (Leo Dale – alto saxophone) how to play sax in tune

digitalpill.tv A sax lesson from Leo Dale on how to keep the various registers of the saxophone in tune. Using the interval of the 6th and some handy tips he picked up from studying JS Bach’s cello suites. Technique for intermediate to advanced sax players.

Can a Flute player learn to play Trumpet, without forgetting how to play Flute?

Ok, I didn’t know how to write this question lol. I play flute in my school band, signed up for high school band, and I play in a marching band. I am still going to be taking flute in high school and learning more. I am planning to have a career in music maybe when I am older, and I would like to play more instruments. Everyone says that if you play flute and want to take another instrument we have to take saxophone or clarinet. I heard that it is best to learn trumpet for a music career so thats what I was planning, so if I took trumpet would I forget flute or something? I would still continue learning flute, and playing in a marching band, I would just like to learn trumpet on the side.
Thanks so Much!
-Linz

How to Play Tenor Saxophone : What is Saxophone Embouchure?

Saxophone embouchure is how your mouth, reed and mouthpiece interact when playing a sax; learn more with tips from our expert tenorsax player in this free sax video music lesson. Expert: Dave Birkin Bio: Dave Birkin has been a sought after saxophonist for over thirty years and teaches at the Lexington Music Center and Canton Public Schools. Filmmaker: Paul Ferguson

How to learn to play the saxophone in less than 5 minutes…

We got Logan his saxophone this week for 5th grade band. We took it up to grandpa Weatherford’s so he could check it out for him. I knew it was in good shape, but I wanted him to check it out since he plays the sax. He confirmed with us that it is a very nice instrument, in good shape, and that it would make him a very nice instrument. He showed him a couple little tips, but not so much that it would cause any trouble for him when he starts taking lessons in a couple of weeks. Band instructors can be kind of touchy about that, you know. He did a real nice job, and dad looked proud too. We had a nice time.

Sax Lesson – Bebop Scales (Paul Williamson – tenor sax) Learn to play saxophone and sax technique.

digitalpill.tv Paul Williamson explains the uses of bebop scales in jazz improvisation. In this video, Paul’s first post for Digital Pill, he describes the construction of bebop scales, jazz articulation, the use of a metronome and how bebop scales place the chord tones firmly ON the beat to create an “inside” sound in improvisation. The video together with the pdf download available from digitalpill.tv explain the uses of bebop scales over major, dominant and minor scales.