Altissimo voicings

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This video will explore how to find the voicings used for playing altissimo notes. It will explain what happens in the mouth and how to do various overtone exercises.
Recommended books
“VOICING” An approach to the saxophone's third register: Donald Sinta
Top - Tones for the Saxophone: Four-Octave Rang: Siguard Rascher
Saxophone High Tones: A Systematic Approach to the Extension of the Range of All the Saxophones: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone: Eugene Rousseau
Ted Nash's Studies in High Harmonics: For Tenor and Alto Saxophone
The scribd website has many of these books. If the book is restricted with blurred words then open the website and book with a different search engine. For example, I could not view the Ted Nash book on this site through google chrome but was able to view it through microsoft edge. I was able to view the Donald Sinta book through google chrome by right clicking on the restricted page and choosing the option of viewing the page in another tab. Here I simply opened each page in a new tab. The scribd website usually allows new viewers to view 2 books for free without joining.
The siguard Rascher book and the Eugene Rosseau book can be found online with a quick search.
Altissimo fingerings videos
Check out the following channels:
Sean Hurlburt music: lots of videos on alto sax altissimo notes
dallassax: lots of videos on alto and tenor altissimo notes
getyoursaxtogether: a video showing many altissimo fingerings
Patrick Bartley: a video showing the fingerings he uses and how he discovered them.
Most of the popular channels will have a video on altissimo fingerings.
Time chapters
00:00 Common altissimo tips
05:12 Voicings explained
09:48 trial and error method
25:12 systematic method
32:21 playalong alto sax tone scale

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@tomaszszlapanski5988 Ай бұрын

Right, I've private tuition with great teacher, I ve been watching a lot KZfaq tutorials how to play altissimo. I had no probs to play Ab but no way to go higher, only because I was missiconcept voice movement and I was pushing downward. All this for entire year (just to learn alts)!!! Until last night when by accident I found this video. Although all others say similar principles but you made it for me. Next morning (today) play (unstable but play) altissimo D with no problem! Never thought I'll be able to do. Many, many thanks

@GetYourSaxTogether 10 ай бұрын

Amen to someone else talking about "From The Inside Out"! Nice one. And thanks for the reference! 🙂

@Saxcomprehensive 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I love your channel and the way you present your content. I have learnt a lot. Always a pleasure to watch your videos.

@GetYourSaxTogether 10 ай бұрын

@@Saxcomprehensive likewise. Thanks 🙏🏻

@Oi-mj6dv Ай бұрын

Singing (even if done badly) helps a TON. It teaches you to not "pull" the chest voice and instead have the head and chest mix so you go up with no strain, your larinx does change and if you take that same concept to the sax you are more than half way there already

@MrSomeoneserious 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this great video. It's nicely detailed and helping video. I'll be back for more :)

@GardensoftheAncientsHerbal 10 ай бұрын

Dropping jaw not moving it forward and tongue placement, wider mouthpiece helped me and finding a good reed mouthpiece combo. Each mouthpiece works good with a different reed

@raseshgandhi6702 5 ай бұрын

Great information thank you so much 🎉

@unclemick-synths 10 ай бұрын

It's funny but although I've never felt the urge to try altissimo for musical reasons, the notion of improving my voicing and control of the instrument is appealing. You have piqued my curiosity to give this a try! 👍