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Free online saxophone lesson teaching you how to avoid those beginner-sounding lip bends up to the note. You'll learn 3 alternatives for note bends that really sound great.
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[@GetYourSaxTogether]

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[@lanphanh]

The best sax instructor!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@cheshirecharlesmahoney4353]

Liked this very much. Your improvisation at the end tell the whole story...rich, full, and powetful but sounding relaxed and with a consistent tonal character.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Many thanks! 🙏🏻

[@brandifrewin8921]

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!! i was waiting for this!! thank you sooo muchhhhh!!!! :D

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re welcome!

[@AlejandrodeSouza]

Hi, Jamie, greetings from South Korea. THis morning I aaplied Your teaching of altissimo and embouchure and it was the first time in my life I could play the altissimo G and sustain it, not only with my main mouthpiece, but also with other cheap mpcs! Thanks! SO far I have watched many videos and everytime I faild to get the G

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Great job!

[@geoffbeckett9743]

Great tips Jamie thank you. I like the shorter format. Little and often is great. (The longer videos are great as well by the way)

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Thanks Geoff!

[@davidsmookler9730]

This is a really great lesson. One of those ones where a little thing can permanently change how I approach tone control. Well worth reviewing and practicing a lot to lock in. Thanks Jamie!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Anytime David. 👍🏻

[@3107197000]

Excellent tutorial Jamie.. Greatly appreciated👍👍

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Anytime.

[@stefangeorgiev6529]

Great, as usual! Thank you for the useful tips!!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re very welcome Stefan.

[@Ot_Tokn]

Thank you so much !!!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@robstevens9590]

Thanks Jamie! I was just learning a new song with a very simple melody (Little Bitty Pretty One), but trying to imitate the vocal line needed this added tip to make it sound right.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Perfect!

[@sheoldred7177]

Great tip! Will definitely be applying this to the "Just The Two of Us" solo

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

👍🏻

[@RitvaPaananen]

I was listening a recording I made a year ago: was a total master of lip bends😂. Now hopefully a bit further away from that! Thanks for the alternatives!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Anytime man! 😊

[@Zarraman]

Thanks God! I think you're the first KZbin teacher that talks about the lip scoop as an error. I'm studing classical alto sax embouchure and it's a real help in recording sessions. It´s a shame that a lot of teacher talks the opposite. Thank you, Jamie! PS: Could you show us some transcriptions of your solos in Incognito' songs?

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Thanks 🙏🏻 Don’t actually have any transcriptions of my incognito solos I’m afraid!

[@xethanndonttryme6983]

Even jazz greats define scoops as an error in some cases. It's so dreadful when trying to play with bands and you're always getting soloed out for scooping.

[@charlieboylol527]

Brilliant

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@milanysemedo2448]

I do sound like that sometimes 😅😅. I'm curious about tip n 2, I'll try it, hope to see the difference... Because i do want to sound like a pro😉 thanks for sharing those advices

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re very welcome. Good luck!

[@emmaswanwick4908]

Great advice as usual Jamie

[@emmaswanwick4908]

I tried to buy you a coffee but it won't allow me to do it from new Zealand!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

That’s really odd. Sorry about that. I make myself one now and say it’s from you! 😂

[@emmaswanwick4908]

@@GetYourSaxTogether I will owe you one til the next time I am over in the UK

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

@@emmaswanwick4908 👍🏻

[@frithsoken]

I have only been playing just under a year and am trying to tune such that I am on the sharp side and then concentrating on dropping the larynx to keep in tune. The answer to my next question is probably to do your tone mastery course which I have mulled over however for now; if my larynx is already dropped how will I drop it any further?

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Hi Francesca! Like you said, the answers are all in TTM, but unless you can blow a range of probably an octave and a minor third, just on your mouthpiece then there’s plenty more flexibility in your larynx. Don’t forget there’s a 60 day refund on TTM so it’s a risk free purchase. If you don’t like it, send it back!

[@ericwong3096]

Hi Jamie, thanks for this. Quick question: is the third option the best method if you’re scooping smoothly from way below the target note? For example from C to E (or even from a lower starting note). Or the larynx only method makes more sense for that type of long scoop?

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Yeh, that’s what I’d do in that situation.

[@saxfish]

< I don´t remember which video it was but your analogy of the " finger pressure on the water hose" witholding the air right behind the MP then letting it shoot out by just opening the reed really enlightened my wonder on how "Tower of Power" Horn section, and the like, had such a tight stacatto. There is a latency or lag from the moment one´s brain sends( diaphgram, lungs, throat, tongue,jaw, lips) the signal to the whole body to BLOW and...I guess that´s how I was blowing, you know, like a diaphgram stacatto. Correcting Bad Habit then. THANK YOU !¡!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@unclemick-synths]

Good video. Neither of my sax tutors touched on the larynx; I discovered it for myself when I accidentally yawned while practicing! 😀 I'll check out more of your videos. BTW your lighting is at a good angle to show your larynx muscles without looking freaky! 👍

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Thanks for your comment! 👍🏻

[@joepurcell6616]

Could you please make a tutorial for Masego and FKJ - tadow? Love the videos btw

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

I can add it to the list.

[@TV-lv4mf]

안녕하세요😊 좋은영상감사드리며 올해에도 건성하시고 많은발전 하시기를 응윈합니다 😊😊😊👍 좋아요누르고 갑니다 ^^ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

I can’t read it but thanks. 😊

[@janjung5651]

Yeah, that's all good but I still have to find any advice on how I practice moving my larynx up and down. It can be done by moving my jaw up and down but that then becomes a lower lip scoop. I certainly cannot pretend to yawn while I play, so please will you explain in greater detail how you practice moving your larynx to the extent it is needed to produce pitch changes you obviously master now.

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Have you got my total tone mastery course? I’m not just doing a pushy plug here, but that covers the whole thing, I’m sure other people here will back me up on that. www.getyoursaxtogether.com/ttm

[@SaxoMalte]

Hey Jamie, I would really apreciate a sound example for the unwanted scoop! If you can‘t reproduce it, maybe a link to someone who does it? Thanks for your videos and sorry for my english (it‘s fighting against the german autocorrection)

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Sure... Anything by Dick Parry from Pink Floyd, Rio by Duran Duran, Who Can It Be Now solo, anything by Fela Kuti, True (Spandau), Smooth Operator etc.

[@SaxoMalte]

@@GetYourSaxTogether Thanks again!

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

@@SaxoMalte Sure thing.

[@hanti83]

Half tone or tone scoop? Sorry for my english. Thanks

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

It’s up to you, but probably closer to a half tone scoop, or even less.

[@lisawanderess]

Pretty sure I’m guilty of the lip scoop. 😢 The more I learn, the more I feel discouraged that I’ll never sound like a pro... and wishing I’d stuck at it after high school instead of taking it back up at 50! 🤣

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Oi! It’s never too late! If you stuck at it in high school you wouldn’t have the experience and life experience you’ve got now to improve faster. And who cares if you’re a total pro if you enjoy it? 😊

[@unclemick-synths]

You'll get there Lisa. Measure yourself by how far you've come, never by how far you think you have to go.

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

At least you learned it in high school, I'm 51 and never played before in my life!

[@sergiovallejo6653]

What is you name?

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Play the first 3 seconds of the video! 😂