How to Play LOW NOTES on the Saxophone! [Saxophone Success Tips Ep. 2]

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Dave Pollack

Dave Pollack

Жыл бұрын

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Low notes can be really frustrating to play on the saxophone! Sometimes it feels like they're either incredibly loud and honking or they jump up an octave or more. In the second episode of my series "Saxophone Success Tips" I show you a simple exercise that will help you play those stubborn low notes once and for all!
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@brianismael4553
@brianismael4553 Жыл бұрын
I asked my now deceased sax tutor which is the best saxophone to buy,he simply said one that works, priceless advice.
@nyame423
@nyame423 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the advice !!! Now i can play the sax without stressing my self !!!! 🙂🙂🙂
@lukeserrano62
@lukeserrano62 10 ай бұрын
Also worth mentioning that suitable reed strength/tip opening matching really facilitates low note production.
@lukeserrano62
@lukeserrano62 10 ай бұрын
Yep, this is exactly how I mastered low notes, and how I still approach them- establish a volume of air with correct voicing before applying the required embouchure pressure to initiate reed vibration. To refine it, just make the time differential between the two moments increasingly shorter.
@sammyharrington-vp4cy
@sammyharrington-vp4cy Жыл бұрын
I LOVE the clutch example you gave, its perfect for the way I learn! Thankyou!
@dr.livesey1311
@dr.livesey1311 Жыл бұрын
thank you very much for your videos, it's like finding a gold mine in the bowels of youtube. I'm your big fan from Crimea)
@valentinguillaume6403
@valentinguillaume6403 Жыл бұрын
Ooh I've never tried this one, thanks ! I'm gonna give it a shot. My favorite exercise to play low notes is to try and get the low register while pressing the octave key. I usually start with the G and descend chromatically, as lower notes will need more effort. We can't say it's easy but I found it astonishingly effective. You have to give it time though. At first I was barely able to play G and currently I reach D consistently, sometimes C# and C.
@DavePollack
@DavePollack Жыл бұрын
I called those "undertones" and they're also a great exercise!
@manuva3
@manuva3 Ай бұрын
Bravo! Great tip, thank you very much!!!
@DavePollack
@DavePollack Ай бұрын
You're very welcome!
@10MFAN
@10MFAN Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Dave!!!!
@DcgeMaster
@DcgeMaster 2 ай бұрын
As a Trumpet player I found this very funny
@ElijahTodd-pf5ul
@ElijahTodd-pf5ul Ай бұрын
😢
@DanielsProductions
@DanielsProductions Жыл бұрын
Hi Mr. Pollack!
@jmoen
@jmoen Жыл бұрын
Nice simple exercise! But I don't think there's many manual drivers left haha (though I drive a manual lol)
@zTorjak
@zTorjak Жыл бұрын
thanks it worked :D
@DavePollack
@DavePollack Жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@alexdfries
@alexdfries Жыл бұрын
I just put my end plug in the bell of my saxophone and it mostly fixes it
@Redwane-Music
@Redwane-Music 2 ай бұрын
Why I cannot play low notes straight especially B flat , then C # and B but if I am coming gradualy from low note it's ok I am trying to play saxophone now for more than 6 years, same fricken problem. I feel like just throwing it can you answer my question please , or anyone who can help
@abrogard142
@abrogard142 2 ай бұрын
@redwane-music I am a dumb beginner, okay? for what it's worth I had big, big problems with low C and Bb. Got a player from the local band to try the thing. He said it was alright. Kept trying. Still no good. Took the thing to the pros, a music repair shop, big deal five or six guys working there and they gave it back to me said it was okay. So all I could/can do it keep trying. Got much better when I gave up trying to blow a stream of air directed through it but instead just did an open throat hahhhhh thing. I don't/didn't just get a problem couldn't get the notes I also get a 'bubbling' sort of sound, too. It helped with that. I also found I was getting them better when the music called for me get the note 'in passing', you know? Not dwell on it. And reeds. I have big problems with reeds, always have had (used to do clarinet). I play a very soft reed and have to hunt forever to find another when it dies. Out of ten I might find one. The point there is that the reed, I think, has something to do with it. I still have problems but I'm heaps, heaps better. I find a reed that works for me. I blow haahhhhh. Like one guy put it - like breathing on a window to make it cloud up. And I try to 'think' the note. Trumpeter in the comments here said it makes him laugh all this. Well I dunno why but it could be because trumpeters are all the time 'thinking' notes. They hold the same keys for three or four different notes and the higher you go the less there's any noticeable clear physical difference in your mouth how you're doing it there's the just the thing in your head 'this is what I'm blowing now'. I found that. Got a pocket trumpet and have been giving it a go. So: machine good. reed good go haaahhhh think the note and, I should have said: relax. That might be the most important bit of all. Relax. Have fun. Just my take. Might be all wrong. I told you, I'm just a dumb beginner. Good luck. :)
@Redwane-Music
@Redwane-Music 2 ай бұрын
@@abrogard142 Thank you so much, I was not expecting someone to take the time and tell me what they had to go through in their own experience :) But, let me tell you, as faar as I am concerned, coming from a guitar background, I should say that one thing I discovered about the Saxophone is that it is a dificult instrument, not like the guitar which I never had to take it to a repair shop for anything, I had my oldest guitar for 40 years and it still sounds the same, nothing needed repairing. But sometimes I wonder, since I have an old saxophone a Vigo, a Yamaha Student imitation, perhaps its padss also need to be replaced, but I am not really sure. I just hate to have it checked and be told that I have to pay big box, maybe more than what the sax is worth. Anyway, I am going to keep trying. Thank you again Sir
@abrogard142
@abrogard142 2 ай бұрын
@@Redwane-Music You're welcome. More than welcome. I hope sharing is a bit of a help That's all I can hope for because as I say: I am a total beginner and know nothing really.. my 'explaining' could be all wrong. I'm just trying... :)
@daddyjgroove
@daddyjgroove Жыл бұрын
Yeah, that’s interesting…
@IsaacSmelcZhan
@IsaacSmelcZhan Жыл бұрын
Are you related to Ben Pollack?
@DavePollack
@DavePollack Жыл бұрын
nope
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