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  1. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    Im struggling to get it - have done so for a long time, but for the past 3 months I have worked the overtones and (Bb: 1-4) every day for abt 20 mins … progress is very slow - if any, on the 4th. Yeasterday I apparantly started on the 2nd overtone (F5) - thinking it was the first (Bb4) and then...
  2. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    I've been playing the alto-sax for at least 7 years and I have a serious embouchure issue (old bad habit). Every time after practicing there would be dent marks on my lower lips because I bite too hard and occasionally my jaws are so tired my mouth starts shaking and I can't keep a stable note...
  3. Eb Alto
    As the title implies, I’ve plateaued in my playing, and I think my embouchure is to blame. I’ve played bari for most of my career so I’m definitely more used to it, but I’ve been playing alto daily for the last 2 months or so because most classical rep is written for alto. Every time I look at a...
  4. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    Hi :) I was playing a reed that is just too hard for me for multiple days last week and now that I came back to the reed that I was used to (Legere AC 2.25) it is so much easier to play on. I used to struggle playing for 30 minutes but yesterday I played for more than an hour without even...
  5. Embouchure & Tone Producing Basics
    I'm struggling a bit with what feels like contradictory advice around playing in tune. I see a lot of experienced players say the following: 1. Your embouchure should not change across the range if the horn. 2. The note you produce from the crook only should be concert E. 3. Some notes play...
  6. Eb Baritone
    I started playing the sax 6 years ago, never had any problems playing with both lips over my teeth. It doesn’t affect my tone or my reach, my embouchure works the same, I only discovered this was uncommon or even unheard of when looking for lip remedy’s after a long concert. I play all 3 saxes...
  7. Embouchure & Tone Producing Basics
    Today, I am sharing a video that talks about a very easy way to understand and learn proper saxophone embouchure. It is all too easy to get lost in anatomical terminology and nitty gritty when explaining embouchure to beginners. Rather than falling into this pedagogical trap, us teachers instead...
  8. Late Bloomers
    I've been a serial sax flipper for at least 25 years and now my focus is learning to play. Having had extensive dental surgery, I've recently come to grips with my need to start over, so I'm mainly focused on developing my embouchure. I also dabble with clarinet, thinking that it would help the...
  9. Embouchure & Tone Producing Basics
    Hey everyone, I’m new here but have been “playing” sax for about 7 years now (very inconsistently, which sucks because I could have been pretty good by now). My playing, fingering, tonguing and sound are all definitely not bad, but my embouchure is awful as a result of all the inconsistency and...
  10. Embouchure & Tone Producing Basics
    Hello, friends. I'm an intermediate alto player, but, since I have been "teaching myself" for so many years without having any real teacher to help me, I am afraid that I may have picked up some bad embouchure habits over the years, that I am now finally trying to correct. This is why I am...
  11. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    For the past seven years, I have only been studying Classical music mainly on Alto. I recently completed my rounds of College auditions, where I auditioned with the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto if that gives you an idea of my playing ability. I decided to do a 180 and study jazz at the College of...
  12. General Discussion
    Hi all. I've been practicing a lot over the past month or more. I am haunted by my past clarinet experience where my lower teeth are crooked at the tops. They are not straight across and the most prominent one is very sharp. Therefore, not only does it cut into my lip which cuts my practices...
  13. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    Dear friends, I am sure that the question must have been asked in different ways, over the years, but at least I took the precaution of searching YouTube first, and then searching this corner of SOTW before starting this thread, as I still could not find an answer to my question. Even so...
  14. Embouchure & Tone Producing Basics
    I'm in high school, and it's my first year playing the sax. That might be why. I got a new mouthpiece (Rico alto 3c) and ligature (Rovner dark 1rl). I'm having more issues than I used to, and I can make low notes with a rolled lower lip. The problem is, when I use the lower lip embouchure, my...
  15. Announcements and Bulletin Board
    Hello everyone, it's been awhile since I've been on this forum, as life tends to take us different directions and then back to a familiar place :-) I've decided to start a YouTube video channel sharing the knowledge I've gained over the last 30+ years of studying saxophone and 20+ years of...
  16. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    Like many others, I had issues in the inside of my lower lip, but it's not only the teeth-mark: Near the damaged area, I felt poppy seed-sized (or bigger) roughness in or under the mucous, which hindered me from maintaining a proper embouchure. I've changed mouthpiece, and after a while, as I...
  17. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    I've been playing tenor for about 15 years and have developed what I believe to be a nice sound with a loose embouchure. I don't rest my lower lip on my teeth either (fwiw). My setup: Buescher Aristocrat 156, Phil-Tone Sapphire .080 mpc, Vandoren Java Red 2.5, FL Pure Brass Llg). A few months...
  18. Tone Producing & Embouchure
    hi, Using an older/used reed produces more hissing. However, a thought occured to me: isn't it a good exercise to use an old reed rather than a good one, to be able to produce a good sound without hissing and having a better embouchure? Seems to me that it would enforce proper embouchure; sort...
  19. Embouchure & Tone Producing Basics
    Hi all, So I have been starting to practice my altissimo in the last couple of months and things are starting to come out, but whenever I do, I find myself using my teeth Waaay too much to get the sound. I know this is bad technique but for some stupid reason I stuck with it. After practicing...
  20. Eb Baritone
    Bought the above a week or so ago and had it serviced by a respected technician. My instructor can play it but I have a terrible time getting notes above middle G-- i.e., when the sax 'pipe' is short, I get very poor results, sometimes just a weak tone, no tone, or a lot of squeaking. I can...
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