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It's the best explanation I never ever found about the subtones! You deserve many compliments. While I was watching at this video I was thinking to "Moonlight Serenade". Its warm sound, when a tenor sax player plays it, is remembering me this explanation.

OH MY GOD I DID IT!!! I literally have watched this video 4+ times along with many others over the past few years and TODAY. TODAY was the day. I always thought it was just a really quiet note, no, it literally feels and sounds entirely different! Thank you!!!

In my opinion better way to get great subtone is Play as normal embouchure, but you must Control your breath as much as possibile. Very softly breathing, sometimes got feeling like you loost your air on left/right site of your mounthpiece. Same like Ben Webster

Best teacher ever seen on youtube! Many blessings to you Jamie 😇

Brilliant explanation ... best I have seen just so detailed! Great channel Jamie only just discovered you!

wow, I've been doing almost nothing but trying to achieve a nice consistent even low note subtone for the last month or two. like literally every practice session I just play from E downwards trying to isolate only the subtone, except I didnt even know it was called that... while I'd stumbled my way to discovering the relaxed lip and diaphram-driven warm air aspects for myself, it still just wasn't at all reliable and higher harmonics would keep honking in somehow...the 'jaw back' thing has made an instant improvement. thanks!

Watched loads of KZfaq videos on subtones. Never really understood what it was all about. No one that I have seen has ever explained it so clearly. " I "get it now". Thanks for the great content.

Your teaching is awesome 🎷

Hi Jamie, great detailed explanation, your master class on this topic was clear. Phil Woods applied this sound on alto sax in a beautiful way and Stan Getz seemed to do it over the whole range of the tenor sax. Thank you!

you save my lift eventhrough I watch your clip so many time and now I can nail it 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks

Спасибо! В ваших уроках всегда доступно и понятно объясняете!) Спасибо!) Всего Вам самого светлого! 😊

This was very helpful !!!!

Hi, you have a really nice mannerism in explaining. Thanks Gary, Adelaide, Australia

Phenomenal Jeimy. I'd appreciate it if you made a video about Lou Reed's final solo "Walk on the Wild Side". Thank you

Thanks Jamie, saxtastic 😂

Very cool and useful lesson!!!!

Thanks for the lesson..

Very useful and nice video. Thank you.

This is so helpful! Looking forward to trying this on my vintage 1936 Buescher Aristocrat alto.

Thank you very much Love it

What a coincidence. I just saw someone doing that today while playing and I really had no idea what was that and how should it be done. Once again thank you for this

well done Jamie excellent lesson, easily understood.

GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!

Your videos are awesome and I love that you explain a bit of the physiology (is that a word?) behind the techniques. What would be nice and easy tunes to apply the subtones to?

Brilliant video lesson Jamie. Cheers

thank a lot

Great info, it's never been explained to before now, so thanks 👍

Thanks for sharing! i really liked the video, Keep it up!

Such a good explanation. Nice one!

Dang, I was actually looking for this. Thank you.

Superb, thanks again 😊

Very useful video about subtone. I apply all the rules that you said in video, its ok from low g to low d, but when I come to low c, c sharp, b, b flat, nothing came out, no sound at all! I have to blou really hard to get those lower notes. But when I want to get subtone, the problem happen. Sax is ok, no leaks. Tongue is in the lower position in the oral cavity, and still nothing happens! I really dont know what to do...

Awesome! thanks for the tip

Hi Jamie! Just recently found your channel and I am loving the way you are teaching! Tried to use your technique for the subtone and indeed your description of the technique is incredibly effective. One thing I have noticed though is that this leads me to seriously flatten all the notes I try to sub-tone because I am putting less pressure on the reed. Is there a remedy? I guess a quick examination of your other videos suggests that I may need to modify my vocal tract? Also, is the above observation suggesting I should not be controlling the pitch with the pressure on the reed...but with the vocal tract? Thanks in advance for your reply! I do love your videos!

That's mad...but good!👍

Hi Jamie, I find tenor is best for subtone, Alto do not play it prop

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This technique Jamie your are describing is the very opposite! of the „traditional“ embochure in many of your other videos…, i.e lower lip out teeth about 1.5 cm into the mooting piece and else, for me it works for the low notes like low b flat c and d but is completely contra productive if you play the higher notes like everything about the middle c…, if everything is “back” , I.e lower teeth, lower lip and upper teeth how can you possibly maintain a functioning embochure? Upper lip is where?? Thanks for your help and great channel, congrats!

MERCI A VOUS

Clever !

Thank for your video. On my tenor sax, I succeed in producing subtones until C, but for B and Bb, it seems impossible... Could you give me some advice ? Thks

I'm a little late to the party Jamie, but I notice big differences in my ability to play subtones with different reed strengths, different mouthpieces. Is there something to be said about tip openings or reed strengths in producing quality, repeatable subtones? Or is it limited to your 6 pointers in the video? (Really concise and well described - great video as usual!)

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Thanks for the lesson ! it seems my subtones are flat. I work on it daily trying to bring it up to pitch. Does it take time or are there any secrets to bring up the pitch. I have been gripping the mouthpiece /reed and the pitch is getting better.

Thanks for this lesson. Does softer reed strength help in subtone ?

Thanks. I followed your method and successful got the subtone. However, all the notes are flattened at least 25 cents. Is it common? I have already move the mouthpiece the maximum inward but still flat about 25 to 35 cents for all notes. Would you please advise what I should do? Thank you.

Hi Jamie thanks for the sub tones video, really want to master this. Could you clarify please - you say about upper teeth being almost off the mouthpiece but also retracting your lower jaw? I cant quite manage this successfully. Thanks

Possibly one of the more informative videos on the production of the subtone. The instructions would have been even more comprehensive if details of the mouthpiece and reed had been included also the anatomical structure of lips, jaw most likely to render the production of the subtone more facile. I have been trying to develop playing in subtone for the past ten years on and off and have only succeeded in the ability to play very very softly with no characteristic subtone quality and no breath sound. In fact I am not able to even produce the slightest trace of breath sound. To add to my woes, I cannot retract my lower jaw even a fraction of a millimeter and my lips are just thin lines across my lower face. As if all this were not enough, I live in a third world country where no one has even heard of subtone and the only contact with civilization is via the Internet. Any help by way of suggestions, advice, instruction, references etc would be greatly appreciated and thanked for.

Whenever I practice subtone on tenor sax sometimes the low notes like d e and e flat gurgle alot. How can I fix this?

I have been trying unsuccessfully for years on and off to be able to subtone. While there are a sufficient number of videos detailing the embouchure, position of lips , jaw etc no one seems to have bothered to mention the type of mouthpiece and reed combination conducive to subtone production. My prolonged attempts at subtoning seems to indicate that not every player can subtone as so much depends on the anatomical structure of the player. In my own case, the lips are meager, my lower jaw in its natural position is just forward of the upper and cannot be moved back to any extent. Has anyone dealt with the subtone subject with any degree of scientific rigor, so that the technique may be adopted by just about all players regardless of lip, jaw and other features. I hope you might have some answers to my questions and possibly suggest a method taking into account the undesirable lip and jaw configuration that I have been bestowed with. Thank you,

Hello from France, I cannot find a good translation for Subtones into French... could you help me ? TIA Marie-Hélène

This used to be the normal sound for saxophonist 😁 plus I find that the sax needs to be completely ‘leak’ free.

Here is another lesson on subtone. It's good to have different perspectives I think. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7x4jJN7uLSce6M.html Sirvalorsax