I've played sax for a few months now, therefore some topics are beyond my skill; but I want to tell you that I love your videos anyway. You are a great teacher and (being Italian this a plus for me) your speech is very clear and easy to understand (so I get English lessons included for free... 😜). Thanks for your great work!

Blowing my mind with the subtone altissimo relationship! I’ve always felt like I could do subtone only up so high until I had to change to a regular embochure for higher notes. And I love playing out... Back to the woodshed!

Just wanted to applaud you again for how articulate you are. A fantastic communicator you are!!

Thanks. Been playing and teaching for years. Imitation has always been easy for me so subtone was a natural thing. Teaching it to someone else was always a challenge.

I think you've just made me realise that I'm a lip-out, sub-tone player. I hadn't really thought about my sound in these terms before. This is quite a revelation for me, and explains my choice of mouthpiece and why I swap depending on what kind of music I'm doing. Guess you're never to old to learn something new about yourself eh? 🎷

Wow thank you so much. I've watched so many videos trying to figure out how to play altissimo, and this one honestly helped me more than anything else.

This is one of the best sax yt channel, i often look for short videos, but everytime I saw your vids I got a lot from them, you are a very good teacher, keep it like that :)

Special! Thanks so much, Sirvalorsax, for your focus and forthright clarification about these mysterious tones of adventure! Big effort, and, it's certainly very much appreciated. Thanking you for sharing your hold on thangs in respect of air and embouchure manipulation with us. See ya!

Learned what subtones are last month. Been practicing ever since. Stumbled onto your technique before seeing this and it WORKS and I mean easily. Now thank you Sir for having qualified "my" technique.

I got my first sax for chirstmas and I was having a hard time getting notes out, 8:09 perfectly shows what I've been doing and although this video isnt about how to make a proper sound, it still helped me to do so now that I know what I was actually doing 👍

I have seldom seen better explanations, and really excited to hear and see more. This is my first time seeing your channel and I am deeply impressed.

Thank you !! Just what I needed to hear. Been working on the foo foo sound for awhile. This is actionable info. Cheers !!

Excellent lesson, now to practice for 2 months. Thank you from Scotland.

Love vids adrien you articulate in a relaxed way no bs

Very interesting! My main piece is a super tone master seven*. As I continue learning and begin to go past F # on the top I’ve been working on G, has not been easy. All of the sudden in the last couple weeks it started popping out as I relaxed my embouchure more. Fascinating. Thanks for all your efforts. I always learn something valuable.

You are great sax teacher! Thanks!

Great advice as usual. Many thanks.

You're adding mega science to my game. Thank you so much.

recently i ve bought the SML gold medal tenor in south korea. so let me check the subtone out based on your instructions by sml tenor. always thanks a lot !!!

I was checking subtone videos from different players ,how controversial subject the lip out embouchure.Someway your explanation stand closer to me. Your sound proof for that!

Mestre o senhor tocar muito. Brincar com o sax. Deus te abençoe por esse dom.

Hey Adrien good to see you again. Thanks for another informative video. I hope you have had a great weekend and are staying safe.

Thank you Sir, very informative

Thank you , it was very helpful. You kick ass

yo wtf i didn’t even realize i literally only play with a subtone then

Awesome teacher !!

Helpful as always

Fantastic video and thorough explanations, as always. Super thanks :)

Great lesson 👍

Thanks Coach!

Wonderful thanks

Well done, I’m always looking for new ways of learning things.

This is very interesting. Every other saxophone teacher suggests moving the jaw down and back for producing subtone. Your approach is definitely interesting and unique and deserves to be tried.

Fantastic video, thank you!

Thank for your great knowlige!

Once again, amazing video

love ur content

Great video my brother

Dude, it just hit me..... you got that Dizzy Gillespie thing going on! All puffed up.... rockin it! Subtone def'n - that 'stick'em to the chair' sound.

Hey, I got that Super 20 from MRS. They give you a 1 year warranty and when you first get a horn (in my experience) you need to go over it and note anything you need them to fix up. So they replaced a couple of pads and put on some new pieces of cork and stuff for me. Plays great now. I never had a bari before so i just spent the first day learning how to voice all the notes and make them sound good. Using a Berg 105/2 SMS and Legere 2.25 Signatures.

The idea that subtone fundamentals improve altissimo technique is a big eye opener for me. Always appreciate your insight!!😁 Have you ever done a video on clarinet embouchure for saxophonists, or saxophone embouchure for clarinetists for that matter? Thanks!

What kind of mouthpiece patches do you use? Thanks! Love your vids man!

You're an awesome saxophonist!!

Thank you for the video . Your instructions or suggestions seem to run counter to what is generally and universally offered as to position of the mouthpiece. All of the subtone instructions offered on the Net and articles published state as a matter of established fact that the mouthpiece be positioned so that the very edge of the reed rests upon the mid section of lower lip with the axis of the mouthpiece being some unspecified angle upward from the normal, while you suggest that the mouthpiece be moved forward a little from the usual playing position and the axis of the mouthpiece be inclined some forty five degrees downward. I notice you do not mention the position of lower jaw so assume that this is not of any importance vis a vis subtone production. Your approach is most certainly a breakaway from the normal and most decidedly deserves to be tried out. Thank you very much for the video and the very best to you.

You do deserve more subscribers..... ! Your approach is so clear and pedagogical. It Would be great to see u doing some collaboration with @saxologic or Augie Bello ! 🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝

Have you tried Boston Sax Shop reeds?

Yamaha 7c 2.5 Rico( orange)?

Ahh your videos never disappoint 👍... also I play soprano so, generally, my embouchure is always pretty tight to keep intonation... any tips to subtone for soprano players?

How can you say "phoo phoo sound" with such a straight face 😜

Does this involve moving your jaw forward to achieve that 45 degree angle? Many instructors online suggest moving the jaw back for subtones, so I just wanted to clarify. Moving the jaw back seems to do nothing for me.

Qual o nome da sua boquilha ????

Great lesson Thanks Dick

hi, any idea why I can't play low notes other that using Subtone and with double cushion. If I try the full sound with my teeth resting on the mouth piece, the notes just break or stay high. Actually I never learned how to play with my teeth resting on the mouth piece, and I hate it. please what am I supposed to do in this case?

Can you please explain the “lip out embouchure”?

Those intros always seem so goofy but then I realise you're way older than you look and actually in your late 30s or something :-) Makes you very likeable. Thanks a lot for the video though. I am trying to get a lot of subtone in the lower register of my alto so I sound more clean and soft and still be able to start the notes fast and quietly. My teacher told me to use more of an overbite and have less of my lip around the reed for subtones as opposed to what you said, so I'm a little bit confused here since your approach has been very helpful to me over the past couple of months. I have been playing without my octave key for like 4 months now and been experimenting with playing everything a semi-tone lower than what I finger while still keeping the notes up in the higher register. I play a Meyer 6 Medium Chamber with strength 4 reads. Do you think I should change anything about that if I want a sound that feels like Bix Beiderbecke, Edmond Hall, Chet Baker, Lester Young, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Dorsey (I know they're not all saxophonists) ?

So what about when practising subtones and having thoses multi-notes at once like you had on the G? Having some difficulty to get clean sound unless I come down from low E let's say. Is it that my reed is too soft?

Is the aibay #7 considered a high baffle mouthpiece?

I’ve heard a lot of teachers say subtone means less mouthpiece in the mouth rather than more🤔

0 dislikes nice

:)

Me gustan mucho tus clases pero, por favor, córtate el pelo.

Kenny G A musicians musician Wonderful human being Does not use subtones cos he's really smart can really do it and doesn't have to. However, if I feel I'm coming up short, well there's no end to the tricks I'll try....and it's all good, but maybe not that much, I'm a bit of a flash in the pan really... Sorry..