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What are the biggest benefits you’ve found from doing overtone exercises? I’ve been working through Top Tones recently and I’ve discovered a new control over my throat muscles. I had worked through overtones on my own accord but working through the book has helped me develop it further. When...

Hey all! Intermediate sax player here hoping to clear up some confusion regarding proper jaw position when bending pitch and when generating overtones. Over the years of my playing, I’ve often heard from different teachers and forum posts that one should not drop the jaw in order to bend...

Body and soul and overtones...here I used overtone fingerings to play the melody. This is a great exercise in my opinion to get more confident on overtones and to understand how to use them to make melodies and not just exercises. Hope you enjoy, I wish a happy week-end to all of you.

After practicing them fruitlessly for years, I am finally accessing them. The main things that made a difference were suggested by my saxophone teacher. 1) Keep up the breath support and pressure you would normally have for playing normally. 2) The tongue position can come forward to make a...

I've been practicing overtones a lot because I really want to be able to enter the Altissimo range. I recently moved up from a 3 to a 3+ (in between 3 and 3.5) in reed strength because I didn't want to make such a big change so fast, and now it's hard for me to hit the overtones I was able to...

So I've recently switched from alto to tenor. I've played alto for about 5ish year's but feel like I'm ready to move on. I've started renting a tenor and immediately I've noticed that in the second octave, notes play with a fairly bold overtone of the octave below (although IDK if overtones are...

Hi, this week I made a video on an important topic: producing the overtone series on the low Bb. In the video I played the tenor sax, but of course you can produce the overtone series on the other saxophones as well. The overtones are really important to develop voicing techinque, that is...

I recently bought Sinta's book on Voicings, as recommended by my teacher. However, I'm having trouble with the high-F bending exercise (where you glissando down in semitones while fingering front F). I'm having a hard time often times getting below even Eb without the pitch dropping out. Several...

Hey guys! I am looking for some help getting my overtones under control. Basically I can consistently hit high F# but whatever fingering I try for high G or above comes out as a squeal. I don't exactly know what I'm doing wrong and it's very frustrating. I've hit G once but it was very...

I've been faithfully doing overtones on my alto, thinking that I'd lead up to learning altissimo on alto and only then conquer the soprano. Overtones pop out easily on the alto--a late 50s Beaugnier with a late Selmer Airflow mp opened to a C* (V12 #3), but just getting altissimo F# is a darn...

Hey everyone So i've been experiencing some strange "undertones" (or I guess that's what you would call them) on my Alto. I recently picked up a chu berry from 26, and I absolutely love it. I'm a tenor player mainly, but I've been working out my alto intonation, long tones, overtones, etc...

After watching this video i was speechless. What Dr. Calle does in the solo is crazy. This Quartet as a whole does some pretty awesome stuff and sound really good. Here's the link let me know what you guys think.

As a newby on overtones....I'm almost afraid to ask..because it's been talked about so much already. So much that I don't know were to start reading... I read everywhere that overtones are good for your tone? in what way.... How should I practice them in order to have effect on my tone.. Anyone...

Challenging New Altissimo Performance Étude - Brass Violin BRASS VIOLIN The music is available for free download from my website (www.ChristopherCreviston.com), as is a chart of my favorite altissimo fingerings. This little exercise might make a great virtuosic encore piece - the last lick...

If you're reading this, thanks. I could use some help. I got braces a week ago and just now I've been able to play without too much pain. Braces are actually not interfering as much as I thought they would (hallelujah) and they've done wonders for my pinching issue. I have another issue though...

Hi folks, since about 6 month I try hard to improve my altissimo. I play on an early King Super 20 tenor (285xxx) with silver neck which is well set up. The horn had a full overhaul and is in great playing condition. There are no leaks all over the range of the horn and response from low...

So I've been stuck with overtones for a long time. In particular the High D and above. I was just looking for any suggestions on how to get those out without cheating. I've tried a whole lot when it come to overtones and I can't seem to get the higher ones out. Anything would be extremely...

Hello, I'm and high schooler and I have been playing alto sax for over seven years now. Overtones have been part of my daily(ish) practice routine for over a year now, and I am still unable to reach anything above the G# off of C# without "cheating" and venting a key or two. I've been trying to...

Hello forum people. So, I'm a high school sax player and I'm getting a new mouthpiece for my Alto or Tenor soon and it's going to be a Jody Jazz HR (7* or 8*). I'm never one to use stock ligs, even though I've been told that the stock one for an HR is decent. I would normally go and try all of...