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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. Practicing
    Good morning! I will be hosting todays Practice call and hope you all can join. We hold these calls weekly and like to talk about what we are practicing and ways to improve our playing. We also touch on theory concepts as well. Multiples of us do double those are points of discussion as well as...
  3. Practicing
    Good morning. Keith will be out of town this week. So, I'll host the call. I'll post the link closer to time. Please think about what you are working on. Do you have any tunes you have been listening to a lot and trying to learn? Process, questions, and all that...
  4. Training Material
    Hello there ! First contrib, here ! I'd like to share you some material I'm working with. As I recently got back to sax and I needed some backtrack to practice the scales, in order to get some feelings back in the fingers.. So, I throw a video I re-pitched for Bb initially done for guitars...
  5. Practicing
    I’ll post the link in the morning. Here is hoping people can make it. Keith is out at a gig tomorrow. Please be ready to talk about what you are practicing and what is inspiring you in your playing these days. Scott
  6. Practicing
    I am a high school saxophone player with some big auditions coming up, but I'll be on a cruise for 8 days and my mom refuses to let me bring my saxophone because she thinks it would be too loud to play in our room. Is there a place I could play it somewhere else, or am I out of luck?
  7. Eb Alto
    Hi all- ever have that infinite feeling of not doing well enough in an audition? Well- yeah. And let's just say, that for the past 4 months, I practiced until my lips bled. With the looming deadline, I also feel the looming urge to practice more. I know that over-practicing is not a good idea...
  8. Late Bloomers
    Hello! Not sure if I consider myself a late bloomer, but I feel it matches somewhat. I played from middle school through part of college, and only have been slowly hopping back on the band wagon a year after getting my degree. So say I have had 4-5 years off. I never had any saxophone lessons...
  9. Misc. Saxophone Discussion
    Where's your peaceful practicing spot? I took some photos of my little garden area I practice in and thought I'd share. I find it very peaceful practicing out there, not so sure that the neighbours appreciate it as much as I do though! I have power out there, so at least they get to listen to...
  10. Practicing
    Everyone in a band/orchestra knows it's important to play in tune - and that that means 'in tune with the rest', not 'at 442Hz'. I was looking for ways to practice and get better at 'finding' the right pitch. Practicing long tones with a tuner is of course a great start, but that doesn't help...
  11. Bb Tenor
    Recently I bought what at first I thought to be the holy grail of reeds... It was a box of (5) Vandoren Java Red 2.5s, and first thing I did was test the box to see which ones were good and which ones were not etc... To my shock it seemed the entire box played good...like not one reed did I...
  12. Misc. Saxophone Discussion
    Hello Sax On The Web I have come to the conclusion that I need more grip and finger strength in order to continue to improve my technique. What type of exercise and what type of device do you recommend ? There is much different grip/fingers strengtheners of different force. Also hard to find...
  13. Teaching
    Hi Everyone, I wanted to share an eBook and physical book I Co-wrote with saxophone player Alex Murzyn which is now available that I have been working on to aid students learning how to play jazz. 20% OFF USING CODE THIS MONTH FOR SOTW MEMBERS USING PROMO CODE: SAXSPY...
  14. Playing Songs
    Hi all, first post here and I wasn't sure which subforum it should be in but this seemed the most likely culprit! Apologies in advance for potentially rambling a bit. Anyways, I've been an on-again off-again tenor sax player for years and a big part of not staying with it has been that music...
  15. 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...
  16. Practicing
    Before I knew what it was like.
  17. Multi Sax!
    I am placing this story in case anyone else is considering a similar action. I have two locations. In Buenos Aires the walls are thick and the downtown noise drowns out my practicing, so I can do my thing until about 11:00 at night. But in Orange County California, the walls are thin and the...
  18. Practicing
    Greetings forum, I am a junior in high school and I am a lover of all things Saxophone. I regularly read the forums and I own not only Larry Teal's book on Saxophone, I also own the Orchestral Saxophonist- so yeah, I'm kind of nerdy about it. For some reason, I have this personal ambition to...
  19. Practicing
    Hello dear more experienced player, I am looking for tips to practice blues scales. Do you have routines that utilize the blues scales but add some additional elements to break the looming monotony when going through the keys? If so, what are they? Thank you LouCo
  20. Practicing
    Mr Rascher has used triads and arpeggios of diminshed, augmented, dominant and half-diminshed chord qualities in constructing his patterns. Can anyone help with an overview of the specifiek pattern for each exercise?
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