well, I am no expert but I'll share my thoughts with you , a sound clip would be helpful though..... I guess it is ok as long as you are trying to produce subtones and besides a little " fffff" you can hear the sound of a sax
Long gigs in between lapses in practice can cause fatigue leak i agree with Ten Ten---LONGTONESTenTenTooter said:To fix this you should play long tones and focus on pushing the corners of your lips forward while you play.
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I think it is important to remember that Joe Allard worked with saxophonists who were already highly skilled players when they began to study with him. Taking nothing away from his advanced concepts of tone production that produced many fine professional players, I think it is advantageous for players just starting out to master the more traditional embouchure and tone production concepts to give them the proper foundation upon which to build these more advanced skills later on.Pgraves said:Joe Allard had an exercise where you deliberately leaked from one side then the other. On this as well as several other things he disagreed with Larry Teal. Joe's thinking was that a little leak was fine.