Hi Clare You and I attended Berklee together in the 70’s. Always like your playing. Good to see you going strong. I am still playing professionally also , playing Tenor soprano and flute with Russell Tompkins and the Stylistics for the past 25 Years. Keep moving forward and stay blessed. Roderick Berry
This video helped me realize how important long tones are. Lately I've just been going into practice without doing them, and my playing has suffered because of it. I'm gonna make longtones a big part of my routine from now on
Great video - thank you. I also was advised by one teacher to play long tones ppp < fff > ppp , with no articulation (untongued) and had great results with that.
What she doesn't mention explicitly here is that it's really important to focus on consistency of timbre, pitch and volume during a long tone. "wobbly" and "inconsistencies" aren't very precise words. Once you start identifying that long tones focus specifically on maintenance of timbre, pitch and volume, then you are doing the exercise effectively. An exercise I like to incorporate into long tones is keeping timbre and pitch the same, but moving over the entire range of volume of my horn from softest, to loudest and back down to softest. Do that, and combine that with overtone practicing and then you'll be getting somewhere!
Actually, the saxophonist playlist is our most heavily populated playlist. You can find it here: ua-cam.com/play/PLReW5Mv77OKCZ86QFi7RyRD0rbnYpx9LT.html
Dont forget to be realistic - you will need to do some work whichever plan you use for learning sax I've been studying different systems and found a great resource at Takiras Music Method (check it out on google)
Finally, someone who tells you the QUALITY of the long tone is what's important. I wish one of my conductors had said "stop playing when the sound is bad" instead of just counting out the 16 beats...
Is that a Jody Jazz mouthpiece? I love it when I see the pros using the same gear as me. I play a 1933 Buescher Aristocrat Bari. Its as sweet as a soft cello and as gritty as a Mack Truck. Thanks for the bari video.
Claire confirms: It's a low A Mark VI gold-plated. "If you want more history, Mark Vinci brought it back from Sweden years ago, and I bought it from him."
Why would I let the note go when it starts wobbling instead of pushing through my weakness play as long as I can and overtime overcome the wobbling or making the steadiness last longer?
That doesnt make sense. If you have to take a breath, breathe. For God's sake, breath. Use your abdominals to suppport it making a good clear sound. Then when your ear can hear the sound falter, you breathe. Before you really need to. Your lungs don't get stroger just because you force yourself to push out air even when you are struggling.
Hi Clare
You and I attended Berklee together in the 70’s. Always like your playing. Good to see you going strong. I am still playing professionally also , playing Tenor soprano and flute with Russell Tompkins and the Stylistics for the past 25 Years. Keep moving forward and stay blessed.
Roderick Berry
Thank you so much . So basic and yet tremendously useful to hear even after playing for several decades
Finally a video for us bari sax players.
Just moved from tenor to bari and am finding it's a very different animal. It's a whole new way of thinking about breath and embouchure. Thanks,
This video helped me realize how important long tones are. Lately I've just been going into practice without doing them, and my playing has suffered because of it. I'm gonna make longtones a big part of my routine from now on
I'm pleased it continues, Joe Temperley sure helped me.
Great video - thank you. I also was advised by one teacher to play long tones ppp < fff > ppp , with no articulation (untongued) and had great results with that.
What she doesn't mention explicitly here is that it's really important to focus on consistency of timbre, pitch and volume during a long tone. "wobbly" and "inconsistencies" aren't very precise words. Once you start identifying that long tones focus specifically on maintenance of timbre, pitch and volume, then you are doing the exercise effectively.
An exercise I like to incorporate into long tones is keeping timbre and pitch the same, but moving over the entire range of volume of my horn from softest, to loudest and back down to softest. Do that, and combine that with overtone practicing and then you'll be getting somewhere!
F I N A L L Y one on saxophone. Theres a bazillion trumpet & trombone vids, but sax has like 3. Gotta show the sax some more love here.
Actually, the saxophonist playlist is our most heavily populated playlist. You can find it here: ua-cam.com/play/PLReW5Mv77OKCZ86QFi7RyRD0rbnYpx9LT.html
Dont forget to be realistic - you will need to do some work whichever plan you use for learning sax I've been studying different systems and found a great resource at Takiras Music Method (check it out on google)
No that's mostly for the Bari sax part of it because we're looked over cause we're the best band
@@PrinceSwaggy Master race woodwinds, we are.
Big Chode yessir
Finally, someone who tells you the QUALITY of the long tone is what's important. I wish one of my conductors had said "stop playing when the sound is bad" instead of just counting out the 16 beats...
She explained it very well for me. I am putting to much pressure on my reed with my bottom lip. People explained but not like her. Thank you Teech
Great explanation of long tones. Thanks!
Is that a Jody Jazz mouthpiece? I love it when I see the pros using the same gear as me. I play a 1933 Buescher Aristocrat Bari. Its as sweet as a soft cello and as gritty as a Mack Truck. Thanks for the bari video.
thx this really helped..
Great video. Thanks.
If your wondering she’s playing a low A mark vi with a Jody Jazz DV metal mouthpiece
Anyone recognise that horn? Its beautiful
That's a Henri-Selmer Paris Baritone, don't know which model though kinda hard to see because of the lighting.
Could be a Mark VI bari
Yep, I believe it's a Selmer Mark VI Bari because of the lack of lacquer and it doesn't have a high F# key
Claire confirms: It's a low A Mark VI gold-plated.
"If you want more history, Mark Vinci brought it back from Sweden years ago, and I bought it from him."
just had a meltdown bc i literally cannot play my bari and am now watching literally every sax video to fix my shitty playing 🤪🤪
I was in the same spot this time last year when i got my new mouthpiece lol
What the make of the Bari sax please?
Why would I let the note go when it starts wobbling instead of pushing through my weakness play as long as I can and overtime overcome the wobbling or making the steadiness last longer?
That doesnt make sense. If you have to take a breath, breathe. For God's sake, breath. Use your abdominals to suppport it making a good clear sound. Then when your ear can hear the sound falter, you breathe. Before you really need to. Your lungs don't get stroger just because you force yourself to push out air even when you are struggling.
Who else 2019 ?
So, Lisa Simpson became a grown up.
... she kinda looks like Amy Schumer
Mike Hawk
600 pounds later lol
Mike Hawk thinking the same thing