Yeh, fair point.

I think that is a food comment. I was thinking that it's about SOUND. If I try to play something like Mobley's RECADO BOSSA NOVA, I can record myself to understand if I'm getting close to how it was recorded by Hank himself. When I CAN'T do it, I have to understand why not. It is excellent feedback.

Good comment!😂

Great job! Keep going my friend!!

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You’re welcome!

Thanks!

You're very welcome!

Thanks!

Glad it helped!

You're welcome!

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Thanks so much Cindy! 🙏🏻

Thanks Max! Glad you find it useful 🙏

Great. Thanks for the comments. 👍

Thanks! 🙏🏻

You're welcome!

Thanks so much!

Thanks 😅

Thanks Tony! Cheers for the suggestion. I'll look at adding to the ideas list!

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Cheers Kaisan! Yeh, noted.

Obrigado. Você é muito bem-vindo. Que bom que ajudou!

Awesome! Glad it was useful!

See my other comment on your same question.

Yeh, that’s kinda common - you’re not alone!

What piano? Never saw it until you mentioned it. Just focus on what Jamie is saying

Yeh, sometimes I have that sometimes I don’t. It kinda helps the pacing. That’s the idea.

I like it, but I definitely see how it could be distracting for some people too. I think it's good including sometimes and leaving out other times as is.

Id personnally find it dull without some background noise

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Right. this is completely misleading imo.

@@sfxjura8834 sorry - what’s misleading?

@@GetYourSaxTogether sorry bad wording…not misleading…it’s just completely wrong

@@sfxjura8834 again, what’s wrong please? This method of tonguing you mean?

Ha! The syllables are just trying to copy what it sounds like, don’t get too hung up on them. The best you can do is learn a simple solo from the record and try and copy exactly what you hear.

@@GetYourSaxTogether Thanks Mr Anderson. I will be try.

Thanks! Yeh, good idea

I can’t remember which part of the video that is as I’m answering comments away from the videos.

I had the same thought. Jamie & Scott are my two top gurus. But I guess it’s about seeing which works best for each of us.

Scott is correct, tonguing with the tip of your tongue doesn’t sound good, unless you want to tongue mute a note. Way before KZfaq the great Mel Martin did an articulation masterclass in Jazz Player magazine where he talked about using the syllables do, da and dit to create clean articulation. These syllables mean the tip of your tongue is away from the top of the reed. Mel had great articulation and a fabulous tone and never scooped notes, unless he wanted to. If you keep your embouchure still and don’t move your lip/jaw with your tongue you won’t get scoops in or out of notes. The key is to not move your embouchure when you move your tongue and don’t start blowing until your embouchure is properly formed.

John - yeah, that’s called anchor tonguing. Lenny Pickett does it too. I don’t teach it as it’s a bit more unusual, kinda like double embouchure or something. Scott is a mega funk player, and so is Lenny Pickett so maybe that’s a good technique for funk, I dunno! See what works best for you I guess.

Andy - yes, see what works best for you. Anchor tonguing is more unusual but hey, give it a go!

Sounds like you’ve got all the answers there DJSilversax. Awesome!

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I think you might be overthinking it. The tongue is super nimble and can “shrink” inside your mouth and move almost anywhere with ease. Ultimately, try stuff and go with what works best for you. 👍🏻

Ha! Great

Yeh, different approach. More unusual but that's cool. Whatever works for you! 👍

Thanks!

Now that's not what I said... 🤣

Hmmm. Not sure I agree on that point?

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If you weren’t so disrespectful and rude I might have taken some time to answer your comment. There’s no excuse for this kind of comment in this friendly saxophone community.

@@GetYourSaxTogether Wow, disrespectful and rude? Just because I dont agree with you? Where did that charming, happy guy disappeared? Disrespectful and rude is posting these kind of videos for masses to see and Im being mild with this statement.

@@sfxjura8834 Okay. The temptation to “ban user from commenting” is real, however, let’s try one more time! First of all, you know me but I don’t know you. You’re obviously a saxophone authority, so before you tear me down anonymously, what’s your name, where are you from, where do you play and what are your notable career highlights please? Let’s not hide behind screen names with letter and numbers if we’re gonna have an adult debate. Now, an apology: maybe I overreacted with “disrespectful and rude”. For that, I’m sorry my friend. I will admit to being triggered and defending myself a little disproportionately. I’m not the Buddha. You poked the bear and I roared. Let me explain why I was triggered. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the term passive aggressive, but that’s what your comments were. Saying I’m “completely wrong” (twice now) and adding “in my opinion” as a disclaimer is textbook passive aggressive. As is “I expected more”. You’re either naive not to expect a reaction, or you’re deliberately provocative. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say you’re naive. Bear in mind that you’ve said you’re a saxophone teacher. That means we’re practically colleagues. Would you treat someone you work with like that? Especially publicly? I hope not. Next point: anyone that’s been round the sun a few times will realise that absolutes in saxophone pedagogy are dangerous. People do different things which all get good results. Look at the double embouchure debate. Do you think John Coltrane told Sonny Rollins he was “completely wrong” for not doing that? My awesome colleagues on KZfaq (Dr Wally, Jay Metcalf, Scott Paddock, Patrick Bartley etc) each have differing opinions and that’s healthy. We don’t get on each other’s comments saying “you’re completely wrong” though. Unlike you, as fellow educators we RESPECT each other’s valuable opinions. If you want to be a valuable member of this community I’d invite you to cultivate a more open minded communication style. That way we can engage with each other in a healthy way. I am more than happy to debate saxophone pedagogy with anyone. I don’t profess to have all the answers. I generally try and teach the method that has the greatest result for the greatest number of people. It’s KZfaq. You can’t cater for every individual. Also - I know that when people try and tongue with the tip of their tongue they inevitably end up using the spot back from the tip. That’s experience. Experience you choose to, yes, disrespect. As for saying that me even releasing videos is “disrespectful and rude”. Well, I don’t think we need comment on that. You can always ask all the enthusiastic saxophonists who have seen awesome results from this channel what they think about that. There’s 4.5 million of them though, so it might take you a while. 🤣 I look forward to finding out who you are and, hopefully, having an adult debate about all this. The ball’s in your court.

​@@GetYourSaxTogether Omg...no need to add anything more after that. Listen, I don't know your real name and I'm not interested in knowing it. Look at the main picture of your video. It shows, in my opinion, proper tonguing or at least it looks very similar to proper tonguing and what did you write next to it? "FAIL". As a teacher how can I not be triggered and shocked with it....I'm sorry that many people will look at this video and think it's the only way and learn it the way you do it. I'm sorry for them...oh and btw you are in my opinion completely wrong x 3. Get your sax together man....

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