🙏

Thanks! You're welcome

Thanks 🙏🏻

Could you make a video of how to blow saxophone easily

Thanks so much for that awesome testimonial david and I’m so glad you’re enjoying the course!

Very true.

Great. Thanks

Awesome thanks.

I see what you did there! 😜

I’m trying to see how I could move my shoulder blades down and FORWARD? I get the down bit, but can’t see how they could move forward from my back?

@@GetYourSaxTogether if you first extend your arm forward below the plane if your shoulder you will feel the scapula move around the ribs. It's not a huge movement. Also try wrapping your arms around your shoulder as this also gets the same movement. Once you have done it these ways it's easier to feel how to depress and rotate the scapula on their own. If your back is tense, then the trapezius and rhomboid muscles maybe tight, so you will feel these muscles start to relax as you do the arm wrap process

Elaborate in a KZfaq comment?

Thanks! 🙏🏻

True.

which exercises

Ta 👍🏻

👍

Thanks 🙏🏻

You’re very welcome ☺️

Thanks 🙏🏻

You’re welcome ☺️

Yup. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZeiesWGreDNmKc.html

🤣

Thanks!

I’m not crystal clear what you’re saying because I think there were some typos in there? Are you saying you should only take in a small amount of air for a short phrase etc?

Yes. Not exactly small but the right amount of air for whole phrase. There is not needed to breathe in the maximal capacity of lungs (but of course training of lungs is doog idea). Body (lungs and blood) do their job even if we play sax or not. Air in lungs becomes de-oxygenized automaticaly and then is needed to change it for fresh air. So in very short pauses between phrases is needed to breathe out and after that breathe in. In case of correct amount of air we naturally breathe out the air during playing, we don't have feeling of lack of oxygen even of full lungs. Sorry for typos (if are), I do the check but on phone is tiny keyboard. I hope I explained my experience as best as I knew, I am not englishman.

You’ve got mail!

Ah…good question! Drop me an email info@getyoursaxtogether.com

You’ve made a bit of a physiological mistake there. Your lungs DO have a degree of elasticity (used during quiet passive breathing) but they don’t have any muscles. Also, the natural elastic recoil of your lungs isn’t sufficient to produce a good sax sound. You have to drive the air out using your trunk and rib cage muscles.

@@GetYourSaxTogether thank you this has been so helpful. Applied this to my practice and I had so much more control from the beginning of the note on. You nailed it with that response. The beginning of every note was wild and then equaled out after I gained control with my rib cage and diaphragm.

Yeh I understand that problem. I used to get it when I had a narrow tip opening classical mouthpiece and I could get the air through the horn enough.

Take a big breath and use the minimum amount of pressure on the mouthpiece!