The Most Optimized Sax Ever? - NASA Vlog

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

The saxophone scene must be very healthy -- literally, all doctors were in that event. "Dr. this, Dr. that … ". Incredible.

[@AkkiLad]

I like to think that saxophonists are all nerds who can fake being cool very well. 😄

[@pgroove163]

Dr.woo

[@TAM-10]

Likely not medical doctors, but have a doctorate in music.

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

@@TAM-10 Doctorate in music: how to resuscitate your reed after drowning; how to measure pad pressure; immobilising the bent key; … and the list goes on.

[@Vershembly]

@@zvonimirtosic6171 yes

[@calkig]

Never thought I could get so jazzed up for classical saxophone...

[@ultimawerewolfbluephoenix9670]

Welcome to the club

[@zoulekSAX]

Just so everyone knows, Saxologic's presentation was truly excellent. Thanks so much for this vlog, Nathan! I love this community, and you captured so much of the joy that comes along with the event.

[@Saxologic]

Thank you man!! 🙏🏽

[@Chad.Lilley]

Always happy to lend a horn - nice meeting you! Can’t wait to link up soon.

[@Saxologic]

🙏🏽🙏🏽 Great meeting you as well, will setup our hang soon!

[@tjeffersonb]

Ah, Giancarlo is my idol. He’s only a few years older than me, but I swear he’s so much better than I could ever be. It’s astounding!

[@YoPaulieMusic]

Thanks so much for sharing this! NASA has grown so much... I won the jazz competition in 1990, I drove from Denton, TX to Washington DC to attend, first prize was $350, which basically paid for my travel expenses. I remember practicing while driving some of those long highway stretches in Arkansas and Tennessee. I had a CB Radio in my little red Mazda B2200 pickup, had fun talking to truckers on the trip. Fun times, so long ago. Thanks again for sharing!

[@chancestine2659]

A big thanks for the shoutout! Great to finally meet you in person too. And what a great idea to make this NASA vlog, I don't think anyone has ever made one like this before for NASA. The only thing you left out about the Hattiesburg experience is how much money all us saxophonists put into Raising Cane's that weekend...

[@shaggy.patches]

Of all the sax players I recognized, I knew I was going to see Liz Ames at some point. Lol, great playing!

[@Ofairley_Music]

Hi everyone! I am in the Saxophone studio at USM and I hope everyone had a great time. It was a thrill to help host!

[@AndrewStineSax]

Love the video! Super cool to see the world I love broadcast like this! Thanks for the shoutout too!

[@eliwyatt2292]

Hi

[@AndrewStineSax]

@@eliwyatt2292 shalom

[@noahguajardo2775]

meeting giancarlo is amazing i watched him his senior year at state marching band

[@SAXCCENT]

Thanks for the feature! Humbled out of all the things going on, you were able to make it to my performance. Nice to meet you, hope to again soon!

[@Saxologic]

Hey man you gave me the time and date and I said I’ll be there! Haha, sounded awesome. I wish got footage of the other piece as well. Some of those arpeggios you did in that one were crazy

[@eddierivera7197]

Hey Nathan! Great to meet you finally! Some great sounds all around at Hattiesburg. Hope you enjoyed my fuzzy bird excerpt haha. You’re goated 🐐

[@Saxman_sam]

Hi Eddie!! You’re goated

[@jimmymiller6068]

I have ishimori ligatures for my alto and tenor. After 25ish years of playing I am convinced what makes a ligature great is how well it is designed to fit the mouthpiece you are using, not so much what it's made out of.

[@braidenmesserschmidt3626]

I'm glad to have made an appearance in one of your videos! I was playing one of the duets with Stine!

[@Saxologic]

Ah there you are! Sorry I did not catch your name! Next time

[@maskedfox1728]

I moved from clarinet to learning the tenor sax and I had to get used to the looser embouchure if you are supposed to call it looser and I love how two woodwinds can be so similar and different at the same time

[@lyntedrockley7295]

I got that SVI in my teens, (in the 1970s) went to hospital doctors to investigate. Couldn't get anywhere with a diagnosis. It would be brought on by tonguing practice, and would come on sooner and sooner until meaningful practice was impossible. It felt exactly as in that line diagram. Loss of the seal to prevent air coming out of the nose. When it was bad I could barely talk. It was ok if I didn't play much, which was ok for me, but obviously not for a student or pro. I see little progress has been made in understanding it. I've never until now seen any other reference to it, yet alone a name for it. I thought it was just me. I play much more now and have so far only encountered it if I really stress the palate with trying to develop double tongue. And that figures. So I'm careful. I really sympathise with you Nathan. And yes there NEEDS to be serious research into this.

[@williampeak7617]

Awesome video, and it was a great conference! A lot of sax nerds were definitely hungry for some NASA after two years of covid cancellations. Also, wow, thanks for the shoutout and kind words! “…he’s got all the math and the science of it down…” I hope nobody asks me about the math!😅 Looking forward to having you visit KC in June for the sax workshop!

[@Saxologic]

Thanks for letting me try the horn and for all the awesome innovations you continue to make! You’re the man!

[@supergmony6938]

Chad actually came to my high school with a local sax quartet playing a saprano sax, which was super cool. Very talented musician.

[@inspir.edmusic]

I went to go compete with my saxophone quartet years ago... I went the year that Donny McCaslin was the guest artist. It was awesome!

[@kodokuxx]

yoooo i got to meet you at the breathtaking booth! glad to see some of my pics ended up in the video :)

[@beth7467]

Mind. Blown. Some of those classical ensembles gave me a whole new perspective on what can be done on saxophone. Thanks for sharing your conference experiences!

[@johnnysalinas]

Excellent Vlog! Sorry I missed meeting you in Mississippi, but I am hosting the next NASA Biennial Conference at Oklahoma State University, March 14-17, 2024... Hope to meet you there!

[@rosstones1]

Fascinating event!

[@neonx6568]

I attended the UNC Jazz workshop last year, at which both Rahsaan Barber and Alex Upton were instructors. I had Alex as a combo instructor Really nice to see them getting the recognition they deserve!

[@verysmallensemble]

I had Alex as my combo instructor that year at the same camp. What instrument do you play? I was on piano

[@CodySirkSax]

So many of my friends featured in this video! 🤩 Nice shoutout to my professors in h2 and Capitol! Wish I would’ve gotten to go this year. Great video!!

[@VeggiesbyEos]

Hi Cody! :)

[@VeggiesbyEos]

It was so nice meeting you at nasa and seeing your presentation!! Also glad I made the background of this video at 13:06 🤣🤣. I'm glad you saw sound session, they are amazing people and saxophone players!

[@arcticflames]

your reaction at 12:33 was very relatable lol

[@racehoglund7251]

Man Chance sounds truly phenomenal! I got to hear him and meet him when we both auditioned for pershing's own and I was blown away by his sound!

[@BassFunMusic]

The tunes on this channel are straight bangers! 🔥💓🎵 Keep 'em coming!

[@alanhirayama4592]

Thank you for sharing your NASA experience, Nathan! Incredible players incredible Music!

[@paddylandreville8501]

Awesome video Mr. Bro, thanks for posting and sharing so many top-notch saxophonists with us.

[@cheknfaks]

Wow what an amazing experience that must have been. Now i see why i need that classical in my life.

[@giovannifranzetti6214]

So much life in the classical/contemoporary saxophone world there, it's inspiring! Nice!

[@KleinkMusic]

3:32 Hey! I know Kyle! He's an adjunct professor at FAU, a local university around where I live! Super cool dude, got to have a mini-lesson with him once. He also taught some early-season technique for my marching band. Fantastic player!

[@pgroove163]

always into jazz but seriously getting into classical saxophone just love it.. just discovering so many incredible players in that genre past & present

[@luisthehippo]

A comment that'll probably get lost, but anyways him coming to Kansas and teaching is AWESOME. I started sax 2 years ago and man it's been an adventure. When I was first starting out I stumbled across this channel, and the stuff that he taught in his videos has helped me get to where im at now. I don't want to toot my own horn, but I picked it up faster then ever with his help. I'm thinking about signing up if I don't get hooked on the ukulele. I hope I get to see you there saxologic. Thank you so much for making helpful and entertaining videos, they helped me alot. :)

[@sitarnut]

One of your best episodes... so happy to see a thriving environment for Reed Men and Women.

[@Sue20022010]

Thank you for service, Sgt Stine

[@StephenPageSax]

Great to meet you, and thanks for the kind words! Can’t wait to see what’s next for you!!

[@Saxologic]

Great meeting you as well!!

[@ryank09]

HAHAAAAA the guy walking up to the front at 3:31 is the director at spokane falls community college where i played in a community band! hes cool

[@jamescps8799]

Super great Vlog, so many saxophone super stars, all are my idols.

[@Arsaxophone]

This guy is so humble a súper cool. God bless you… thank you for the video.

[@masonthomassax]

Man Rahsaan is so good, one of my favorite modern players for sure

[@lukeserrano62]

“True to the music, but also true to ourselves” ❤

[@emmarawiczsax]

Yep.

[@bunkerz5326]

Brilliant and breathtaking to watch.

[@Jonathanhsax]

Great to meet you dude!! Best of luck with your DMA. I'll see you around I'm sure. Also, pink gold ishimori on alto gang 😉

[@McGillMusicSaxSchool]

Wow Nathan, that sounds like an awesome event. Would love to come along next time.

[@Saxologic]

Hey man! Thanks for checking it out! Yes, please do!

[@wyndhl8309]

Nathan, certainly you are a man with a mission; so unselfish and honest you are. In the future, you may want to discuss and/or write a comparative analysis of European Classical Music and (Authentic) Jazz Music. Very informative 👏 Thanks, sir.

[@larsenjazzmusic]

Fun video about NASA. One of my students caught the fact I was in the background of your video, the Bari Sax Player standing behind Branford during the big band concert. Love to get the video if you have one of the jazz concert.

[@Saxologic]

Yes, and I got your email! I’ll send you the video soon! I think I still have it

[@larsenjazzmusic]

Thank you

[@DNS0875]

I’m a classical saxophonist and I enjoy every second of it 🎉

[@Dannelophone]

Thank you for coming to the conference this year and doing an awesome job with this video!

[@WorldoftheWoods]

Nick Zoulek was a grad student and was an assistant to the marching band at BGSU when I went there. I am primarily a flautist, but play sax and clarinet for jazz and pit orchestras, and I had no idea that he had risen in fame in the saxophone community. That’s awesome!!

[@DoctorEngrish]

I had no idea this was a thing 😮. What an awesome video. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@SP-hr8fb]

These NASA Dr. Professor and student players were mind blowing! 🤯

[@Jasparniewboer]

Love you man! Thanx for sharing!

[@francistaylor5097]

Great video. Love that Vandoren lanyard. You've recommended so many great players to me in this video; that's my viewing sorted for a while.

[@Sue20022010]

Welcome back, my Dude-io! Sic with a hard S and C

[@gbortizmusic]

It was awesome meeting you man!

[@Saxologic]

You too! Drop me that curly hair routine brother

[@gbortizmusic]

@@Saxologic I got you bro hmu

[@gusmarrero]

How awesome, meeting people is one of my favorite things because it creates networks..... awesome! congrats!

[@benjordan3565]

10:00 Matt Hess!!! Love him

[@FranckWolf]

Fascinating video, thank you for this report! 👍🎷🙏

[@elijahfreeman6940]

Alex is the best part of this video 🔥 love you homie! Crazy to see you here

[@FoolishFrankie]

Woah I was in the 8 O'clock with Brandon Kelley!! And Clint Bleil who wrote that quartet piece is a good friend of mine. Great vlog man I hope I get to go one of these soon!

[@shishbish9489]

i love sound session dude, so much fun to watch them play.

[@mitchparker6319]

I also got to hold Will Peak's horn. That thing felt so good.

[@lakawaithaka3778]

This is amazing, and THANK YOU SO MUCH for telling us about SVPI!!! I've experienced it a couple of times and was so confused as to what was happening. I honestly hope we learn more on this soon.

[@danielbowerly9111]

This was great. I haven't been to one of those events for years... life, and teaching has gotten in the way. Thank you so much for bringing this video to us so we could share the experience. The art of saxophone playing has come so far!

[@jonathanmunoz2449]

8:11 my hero Big Man McHann holding it down back there.

[@EricTorreborre]

So much talent, wow

[@jim6929]

I had the soft palate collapse problem - it was bad bad bad! I didn’t get any professional advice but went back to basics / really thinking about the diaphragm breath support, etc and so far so good it seems to have gone away

[@clementbrely846]

Hey, I am a french oboist and teacher and the same soft palate problem happened to me when I was studying. Appart from the side that we should manage to blow in a way that doesn't over pressurize the "face", a professor of mine gave me an advice that at first I found weird (like not music related) but actually worked. He told me to yawn with the mouth close in order to build up muscle around the soft palate. You can even "fake yawn", juste make sure that your lips touch. The problem was actually resolved pretty quickly after that, like a few months (for something that was happening since 10 years...) Hope this can help, thank you for your vidéos and great talent!!

[@Saxologic]

Thank you! I will try this!!

[@clementbrely846]

Hey! So have you tried it ? Am I winning anything ? 😌💥

[@lilygrace15]

BROOO i’m in 8th going into 9th and i auditioned for the hs band. i got 1st chair in the top band 🎉 i came back here because this channel motivates me to try flavored reeds 😊 lmaoo

[@hwynne]

I've had issues with the soft palate fatigue/collapse and doing longtones everyday has really helped. I'm not sure what else can be done to fix it, but they warm me up and I can play for way longer without issues

[@ScarRach]

There's an article about SVPI by Julianne Kirk Doyle actually refering to clarinet, but probably is still interesting for you. It's called "Eliminating the soft palatal air leak" published in "The clarinet". Also an exercise I was given by an incredible trumpet professor was to lay the tongue on the mouthpiece, at first without a reed attached, getting the tongue inside the mouth without letting it get all the way back into the throat, and trying to breath in and out through the mouthpiece and the nose at the same time. Closing one nostril helps a lot at first. Then doing the same thing with the reed attached and playing some (4 or so) notes with tonguing while breathing out through the nostril and then breathing in again through both instrument and nostril while still tonguing. It's a great breathing exercise, helps to have a relaxed throat and face and to build awareness of the soft palate. Maybe that helps ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[@kaedenparks9111]

NASA was such an amazing conference. The performers were amazing, highly recommend to anyone if you can make it

[@denny8886]

As always, great content! I so appreciate what you do!

[@BHAKTIBROPHY]

Adam Larson and his entire band were *on fire* in the little live clip; glorious rhythm section. Can you recommend an album or link to more live footage with *that* particular trio? Thank you, kindly. A guitarist, drummer, keys, mandolin, etc, since the mid '70s, a drum set was my first *real* instrument at age 5, but I did *"play"* a $13 plastic sax before that. Guitar is my main instrument, but the last concert I saw before spine injury 18 years ago was one of my first favorite jazz musicians, Sonny Rollins. I love listening to sax players. I'm grateful YT recommended your videos. You are so talented. Keep following your passions and make your dreams come true. Big smile, and much gratitude for the joy you bring to world. PS *Mingus* is such a cool name for a cool little pup! Cheers

[@hoyvintagecycles2936]

The answer that Alex gave to your question was so good. You could apply that answer to anything!! great job. Sorry, i found you through your brother LOL you are both hilarious!! and talented!!

[@natedowney3300]

Nice meeting you there!

[@emusqueak]

Wow! I wish there was something like this in the uk - so many doctors of saxophone!!

[@tidnid1869]

I guess the RNCM saxophone day would be the closest thing

[@GeeMannn]

I didn't even know this existed. Would love to show up some day!

[@DynamixWarePro]

Great video! Loved hearing the different players. I have Ishimori solid silver and brass ligatures for alto my sax and I stopped using the brass ligature as it was raw brass and tarnished a lot, has green spots and started to have that metallic and didn't like that. I like the solid silver, feels freeblowing and adds a little brightness to the sound.

[@iitsspicy5643]

Dang I was there too. With my college studio I wish I had been able to meet you. The conference was just a great experience though

[@Luisxpro10]

It’s incredible seeing appreciation for the classical arts from a predominately jazz player. I’m a trumpet player, and the trend tends to be the other way around haha. Start off doing the classical stuff and branch off into jazz

[@Freitagsblues]

Isn‘t your side-reading with Chance Stine at 14:18 a Greg Fishman etude? BTW a cool video!🙋🏻‍♂️😊🎷👏🏻🤘

[@MHsax]

Great meeting you! And NICE ligature ;)

[@jaysax90]

Ayyy! Rahsaan! Miss that dude!

[@817slbav]

As a trumpeter, I can relate a lot.

[@gengee21]

Chance Stine is a good buddy of mine! Great video!

[@acow1239]

The humble masterrrr

[@iconictea4066]

outro gets me every time

[@SedonaMTB]

Saxophone is the greatest of all woodwinds. Great ligature.

[@kensworld1979]

Wow you were in Hattiesburg a year ago.Pretty 😎. I used to live there.

[@aaclar]

Y’all I went to a NASA even in Lubbock pre pandemic and it really was as amazing as he did and the convos and love they showed me even as a hack hobbyist was so cool so willing to help and some of the old cats had amazing stories

[@DavidHallidayMusic]

Great video! Thank you!

[@jopeckproductions782]

I just heard Adam Larson last week at Smalls!

[@scottsalinas2049]

At the university of South Carolina everyone and their parents have the breathtaking neck strap the professor has been preaching it as the best for years and years

[@scottsalinas2049]

I love how the ishimori ligature is right after that cause he also preaches ishimori as well but my private lessons teacher in hs was a die hard fan

[@JamesLee-yn4wj]

Dr. Shults shredding as always

[@joewilson9361]

I'm so happy we have the North American Saxophone Alliance! Somebody has to fight back against the Galactic Saxophone Empire.

[@shakazulu365]

When you're in KC check out the many jazz jam sessions and various jazz clubs.

[@DavePollack]

Didn't hear you play "Rocket Man," "Stella by Starlight," "Constellation," or any other song that would be fitting for a NASA convention. Disliked, unsubbed, reported.

[@troysmithfr]

Yeah, man. I'm honestly disappointed.

[@disgruntled_llama]

No "Fly Me to the Moon" or "Stardust" either.

[@vincentvega9863]

3 months on, I hope you've found someone to kiss your boo boo better

[@HelloIAmNextToYou]

@@vincentvega9863lol

[@nuclear4569]

No How high the moon either 😢