Are Fingerings Important For Learning Altissimo?

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  • Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
  • We often hear that overtones are more important for altissimo than learning fingerings. Let's Discuss!!
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  • @christophemaximin337
    @christophemaximin337 3 роки тому +6

    Let's buy Sivalorsax' book on altissimo

    • @docholloway530
      @docholloway530 3 роки тому +1

      I would love to purchase the sivalorsax book on altissimo. How do I purchae one? My name is Gary "Doc" Holloway and I play tenor sax. My email address is saxydocholloway@yahoo.com

  • @sttroy2
    @sttroy2 11 місяців тому

    Stumbled on you channel while looking for tips....
    thanks for all the info....cleared up a lot of playing challenges for me...great stuff

  • @stveloop9452
    @stveloop9452 3 роки тому +3

    Another bomb of knowledge, thanks Professor S.

  • @nairdazitro7460
    @nairdazitro7460 3 роки тому +4

    Thank's man. I'm fed up of pro saxophonists barking " FiNgErinGs doN't MattEr " when you're asking them how to hit a G#. As if they wanted to mystify that skill. That's pretty annoying that they try to complicate a concept just to fulfill their ego.

    • @Sirvalorsax
      @Sirvalorsax  3 роки тому +1

      That is an interesting point. A lot of it comes from struggling students that can't get fingerings to work and also the tendency for people to just regurgitate what they've heard without understanding the deeper principles involved

  • @MikeSmith-go8wk
    @MikeSmith-go8wk 3 роки тому

    I first started to understand altissimo from your channel. Thank you once again.

  • @Butterking99
    @Butterking99 3 роки тому

    King of altissimo does it again your altissimo technique is like a new level that’s never been seen or unlocked before on the horn everyone should be buying the book!

  • @bluegoose555
    @bluegoose555 3 роки тому

    Thanks Adriene.. super lesson... building on previous content

  • @grammsax3866
    @grammsax3866 3 роки тому

    Good job, keep going man!!!

  • @peedrowchan-man102
    @peedrowchan-man102 3 роки тому

    Like #100 - read em and weep! Great stuff Sir! I’ll be chewin on that.

  • @Medicine1477
    @Medicine1477 3 роки тому +1

    Can you do a lesson for beginners to intermediate players? Any topic. Just something that we can follow and work on.

  • @GetYourSaxTogether
    @GetYourSaxTogether 3 роки тому

    Yeh, I love this debate. To the people referenced in this chat who say fingerings don’t matter - why do you have a set of fingerings that you’ve worked out and that you use every time you play altissimo then if it doesn’t matter?! It’s such an incomplete part of the equation. I think the player referenced was just trying to say that people think the fingerings will let them play altissimo, which isn’t true.

    • @GetYourSaxTogether
      @GetYourSaxTogether 3 роки тому

      @Initek Solutions 👍🏻

    • @Sirvalorsax
      @Sirvalorsax  3 роки тому +1

      I agree totally. It is important to understand that our goals are the same but our methods for getting there will be different.

    • @Xavier_Dimoff
      @Xavier_Dimoff Рік тому +1

      Fingerings don’t matter doesn’t literally mean that there is absolutely no use to them. The point is that the fingerings aren’t the soul determiner of wether or not you can play efficiently because it’s not the same as in the natural register. You can rework your fingerings to be vastly different every year until the end of time because the fingerings don’t matter nearly as much as the embouchure.

  • @davidsmusic
    @davidsmusic 3 роки тому

    Mr. Sirvalorsax thank you so much for your explanation, I appreciate your videos and I hope soon get your book. I wanna write you an email to show some ideas as a graphic designer about sax and jazz. Regards!

  • @kinoglaz777
    @kinoglaz777 3 роки тому

    I'd like to say just one thing.
    Piece o' Cake!

  • @gregorydutton349
    @gregorydutton349 3 роки тому +3

    Wow, how can two great sax players/technicians be so far apart in theory. Just listened to interview with Ben Wendel on Better sax and was informed that fingering does not matter, all about the voicing. I’m at that awful intermediate stage where mastering altissimo is still a bit of a mystery. Two very different theories, hard to know where to focus my time. Anyway, discussion has certainly got me interested and I am guessing you will continue to get some engaging comments from your clip. Cheers, really enjoy your science approach to music.
    Greg

    • @Sirvalorsax
      @Sirvalorsax  3 роки тому

      When people say fingerings don't matter they are usually referring to struggling students putting too much emphasis on one aspect of increasing their range on the instrument. In short, it comes down to embouchure and air pressure, voicing, and fingerings. You can get different kinds of altissimo sounds from the way those 3 are manipulated.

  • @curtisvalle5141
    @curtisvalle5141 Рік тому

    I wish more stuff had a ... pressure reduction button.

  • @rickyhoward8025
    @rickyhoward8025 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much for your videos and knowledge. As far as alto sax are there similarities with fingerings? Will some of the same concepts work? Thank You 🙏🏾

    • @Sirvalorsax
      @Sirvalorsax  3 роки тому +1

      Yes, absolutely. Tenor is an unusual sax and my book would have just been too long if I added the alto stuff in. An alto version in in the works right now

    • @rickyhoward8025
      @rickyhoward8025 3 роки тому

      @@Sirvalorsax Thank you so much! I’m so excited and thank you for responding! I appreciate you for all of your videos and sharing your knowledge.

  • @ChrisTenor
    @ChrisTenor 3 роки тому

    Sirvalorsax VS Ben Wendel about altissimo philosophy ;-)

  • @Nanoci62
    @Nanoci62 3 роки тому

    SUBLIME ❤️❤️❤️💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

  • @UserUser-pv2wo
    @UserUser-pv2wo 3 роки тому

    two questions: 1. can you rework the book for alto? 2. which online store offers that awesome cap?

    • @Sirvalorsax
      @Sirvalorsax  3 роки тому +1

      I'm working on an alto version and the newsboy cap can be had on Amazon 😆

    • @yee3545
      @yee3545 3 роки тому

      Do you mean the techniques on the tenor book doesnt apply to alto or soprano? So I may have to wait for your new books😭

  • @arturomagana778
    @arturomagana778 3 роки тому

    Altosax version of ebook?

  • @carloscarcella8628
    @carloscarcella8628 3 роки тому

    caro amico non si capisce nei tuoi vido cosa vuoi fare o dire, per rgistro altissimo non fay vedere le mani in particolare la mano dx. sompatico ma inutile.