Try "presurising" air behind the mouthpiece. It should be like you are about to blow up a baloon, but your tounge is keeping the air back. When you want to play, release the air and it will explode. This makes low notes so much easier.
Sounds like you just need to practice using a softer reed and/or smaller tip mpc; your embouchure is not a good match for your setup. Or, maybe your reed is slightly warped and it's leaking air out the side somewhere.Daniel Scott said:Hi All,
I'm trying to get full facility in all areas of the horn. At the moment low notes are giving me trouble.
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However starting them, either quiet, or especially forcefully (think Tower of Power's Gene Kupka on barry - BUP!) is giving me a lot of trouble.
It's almost like the reed doesn't want to start vibrating. When it is I can go to the low notes easily, but when I hit them from "nothing" they usually have a minor squeak at the start (although they come onto pitch pretty quickly (less than a second) and I don't really have to think about it to make this happen.
....-Dan
Keilwerths have easy emission of low notes due to the bigger bow/bell section of the sax.Durand said:Hi:
I have two altos (Conn with N prefix, flower engraving; and a JK The New King from 1958).
My question is: Why I can get the low notes (C and below) easily on my JK and I have problems with the Conn on these low notes?. I use the same mouthpiece, same reed and both saxes are recently repaded by a good technician that says both saxes have no leaks at all. It is possible that my JK is easier on low notes than Conn??
Hope my english is not too bad!!
Thanks