Get Soaring ALTISSIMO ON SAX with Neck Overtones

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In this week's lesson you'll learn how to use mouthpiece and neck overtones exercises to improve your soaring altissimo
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00:00 Introduction to Altissimo
00:25 Mouthpiece and Neck Overtones
02:41 How Do You Play Altissimo
03:17 Images by Dr Mark Watkins*
06:00 Overtones Revisited
06:20 Short-tube Low Resistance Exercises (palm key fingerings)
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@GetYourSaxTogether 26 күн бұрын

Grab your free altissimo cheatsheet🎷 www.getyoursaxtogether.com/altissimo

@robfairbrother3014 24 күн бұрын

In this part of Canada where I live, if I did overtones on the neck like Jamie does then every bull elk within a 10 mile radius would come running my way with love in his eyes. 😂😂😂

@GetYourSaxTogether 22 күн бұрын

Ha! 🤣

@thewarhenk 25 күн бұрын

Interestingly enough, one of the greatest masters of the Altissimo, Lenny Pickett ‘thinks’ it’s about airspeed. As Jamie points out, so long as we ‘get it,’ it doesn’t much matter how we visualize what we’re doing.

@GetYourSaxTogether 25 күн бұрын

That’s right. Good point. 👍🏻

@enoffz8021 23 күн бұрын

I think "air pressure" means more than "air speed". It's possible to feel air pressure in your mouth, throat, and lungs and it effects what note come out. How can anyone know their airspeed while they are playing??

@stratusphunk 13 күн бұрын

For a while, I devoted a good amount of practice time to overtones in hopes of being able to play altissimo and was unsuccessful. I still practise overtones from time to time but, after more than 20 years, have pretty much given up hope of ever playing altissimo. After watching this video, I tried getting overtones with just my neck and mouthpiece and couldn’t get above the first overtone. However, focusing on shaping my oral cavity in the manner shown in the video is helping with my overtones. I had been arching my tongue as if to make an “ee” sound. Now I drop my tongue, and the overtones often come more easily.

@GetYourSaxTogether 10 күн бұрын

Boom!💥

@ubustudio 25 күн бұрын

Great advice. I’ve always advocated learning stuff with just neck and mouthpiece before complicating things with the body of the sax.

@GetYourSaxTogether 25 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@MarkPeotter 26 күн бұрын

Incredible lesson! Amazing skills demonstrated! The "in the throat" camera was gross, but also educational.

@GetYourSaxTogether 25 күн бұрын

FYI that wasn’t me!!

@pavelpatsenkov 26 күн бұрын

Great tutorial, Mr Anderson! Very useful, as always. Thank you very much. Your lessons give to me a lot of help.

@GetYourSaxTogether 24 күн бұрын

🙏🏻

@duncanmcintyre4410 23 күн бұрын

I've recently broken into altissimo after overtone work starting to pay off. Will try the crook thing. Bit worried about neighbours. Tips welcome.

@GetYourSaxTogether 22 күн бұрын

Talk to them. Get an iso booth!

@gangofgreenhorns2672 25 күн бұрын

Finally getting a sense of what sirvalor means when he talks about air speed for the second octave, the resistance on the reed increases a ton, so the reed feels like it wants to close even with equivalent pressure from the embouchure so you have to push your air stream harder which feels faster when in reality the air probably isn't speeding up at all in that range (possibly slowing, as I know you've mentioned before). edit* in the second octave my tongue is lightly covering the sides of the reed to only let the center vibrate, if I'm thinking about it. It's like you're trying to shoot air down a coffee stirrer made from your tongue on the reed.

@GetYourSaxTogether 25 күн бұрын

Wow. That’s crazy!

@robinmarwick1982 26 күн бұрын

Wow! Pretty much your limit...I'll be happy if I ever get that 1st octave overtones. Great video, thanks.

@GetYourSaxTogether 26 күн бұрын

You can do it!

@travlak 25 күн бұрын

If you’re tuning the resonant frequency with your vocal tract as you play higher, then I wonder why the space in your vocal tract keeps getting larger as you play higher?

@GetYourSaxTogether 25 күн бұрын

Great question. That is well above my pay grade to answer though I’m afraid!!

@markhadfield6408 26 күн бұрын

OMG ~ INCREDIBLE THROATAGE!! We simply and fundamentally love you Jamie! You are ever so kind! Higher and higher we soar!! Our hearts will go on! Yay, lead me to your Cavern!! Thank you for your message to all the peoples. Say AH. Here's the really interesting thang: Sir ValorSax is sure gonna be blown away by your altisimistic adroitness! 4 sure!! Ya! Heya.Why does your tongue hate going to the dentist? It always leaves feeling depressed! 🙂 #ThankingYouJamie #ThroatCam

@GetYourSaxTogether 26 күн бұрын

Ha! Missed you. 😘

@enoffz8021 26 күн бұрын

Great video for showing how altissimo is actually played, somehow getting a camera inside as it happens. 3:36 This shows how throat and tongue position is so much more important than fingerings. (It's just a neck, no keys)

@GetYourSaxTogether 24 күн бұрын

👍🏻

@user-xi9bv9sg9f 26 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot.Your videos always help me.❤

@GetYourSaxTogether 26 күн бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@enoffz8021 10 күн бұрын

Using a sax neck like this can take the place of one of those keyless saxophones (which are surprisingly expensive)

@GetYourSaxTogether 5 күн бұрын

Right. Like Sigurd’s one?

@Marcosls2015 26 күн бұрын

Fantastic! Thanks Jamie!

@GetYourSaxTogether 24 күн бұрын

My pleasure!

@cheknfaks 25 күн бұрын

Excellent description on training your altissimo notes. Thank you Jamie. P.S. Don't forget to thank your dentist for recording the video of your tonsils

@GetYourSaxTogether 25 күн бұрын

Ha!

@MrCECGUIMARAES 25 күн бұрын

Grato pelos vídeos...todos são excelentes!!! No aguardo dos vídeos sobre superagudos no sax soprano. Um abraço.

@GetYourSaxTogether 25 күн бұрын

You might be waiting a while for that! 😂

@rameshrao3792 26 күн бұрын

Nice video ! Seems like you are shaping the wave by changing the morphology - and selecting the particular wavelength

@GetYourSaxTogether 26 күн бұрын

Yeah, in a real sense you’re increasing acoustic impedance in your vocal tract and tuning the resonant frequency.

@enoffz8021 22 күн бұрын

When I slide up and down from very high notes, I sometimes hear/feel a clicking sound like the notes are resonating in my throat or ears.

@rameshrao3792 21 күн бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether makes sense - high/low pass filtering - it's amazing to be able to dynamically attenuate and get overtones or subtones - explanation makes it easier to experiment !!

@robstevens9590 26 күн бұрын

Good one!

@GetYourSaxTogether 26 күн бұрын

Thank you! Cheers Rob.

@robstevens9590 26 күн бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether This exercise is going to take some time!

@enoffz8021 26 күн бұрын

I play on just the neck like at 2:11 as a warm-up for my reed and embouchre before a show. I can play it in my car, so no one else has to hear the extreme high notes. 💥 I can get up to four octaves range on my tenor neck, and the top octave is like a scale. (using a Beg Larsen metal 130/0 SMS mouthpiece)

@GetYourSaxTogether 24 күн бұрын

Very Lenny set up!

@enoffz8021 22 күн бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether Even after I got the Lenny Pickett setup it took about a year for me to get the full 5 1/2 octave plus range with it. I've seen many of Lenny's interviews and clinics and he gives a lot of information about altissimo but doesn't really say how he reaches the top octave of his range that he's famous for. I reach my highest notes with a combination of tightening the embouchre, increasing air pressure, and blowing in the mouthpiece a little sideways, as in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i92Xmbh6nraxh5s.htmlsi=xcydKHfehnPo_xGb (The highest octave is all low Bb overtones)

@FFSS60 26 күн бұрын

Does your voicing feel different on sop., alto, tenor, and bari as you play the first altissimo partial on the neck? Thanks!

@GetYourSaxTogether 24 күн бұрын

Yeah I think so. Same principle though.

@Rockplayer01 23 күн бұрын

YA CRACKED MY COMPUTER MONITOR... 🤣😂

@GetYourSaxTogether 22 күн бұрын

🤣

@averagemaverik5715 20 күн бұрын

Played for nearly 9 years and that’s the first I’ve ever seen inside someone’s mouth while playing, disgusting but interesting and educational none the less 😂😂😂

@GetYourSaxTogether 18 күн бұрын

Yup. It wasn’t my mouth btw! 🤣

@grahamdaucourt6731 26 күн бұрын

I'm probably unusual in that I play baritone (Yanagisawa 901), but none of the other saxes, so something (fingerings, etc.) aimed specifically in that direction would be appreciated.

@GetYourSaxTogether 24 күн бұрын

Yeah. Fair point. I’m not particularly qualified re bari altissimo.

@enoffz8021 22 күн бұрын

A baritone sax can work great for altissimo. I recommend practicing overtones on low A/Bb. In this video I played six octaves of range all with a low A fingering: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b85zlpZ5nbDOpKs.htmlsi=JXcotuboBi1iSW8K

@enoffz8021 22 күн бұрын

Once you can learn to control the pitch by practicing overtones, you can better figure out what fingerings work best. Many baritone altissimo fingerings are different from the other saxes. I use altissimo fingerings for the first half octave, palm key overtones for the next octave or so, and low A overtones for the very highest notes.

@OttoLinked 25 күн бұрын

Hitting altissimo for saxophonists has become almost like a right of passage. I see it like Musk’s desire to go to Mars. Cool but not entirely necessary.

@GetYourSaxTogether 24 күн бұрын

Pretty much!