Multiphonics For Altissimo Part. 1

[@drewismynick]

never stop, man. you are one of, if not the, best saxophone teaching voices on youtube.

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@rachella7866]

You're a sax. MASTER and Master teacher on harmonics .A sax. clinician that the education system needs.

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks. :)

[@jeffreytodd9157]

Man, you are the master of extended saxophone technique! Thanks for this! So helpful.

[@Sirvalorsax]

Cool, thanks a lot!

[@ちっきーん]

After I did it my normal tones were amaizingly changed!!! I appreciate sooo much your super video🤩

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks.

[@memunns]

you're a god damn genius. thanks for sharing all this technology

[@gangofgreenhorns2672]

I love it when people use "technology" to refer to techniques as well. The term too often gets associated just with new products, when important innovation can--and should (also)--come from what already exists. Learning to use things in a new way. In philosophy of science the best example we were taught was Lister, developing the practices for medical hygiene--and the lives saved by that over any gadget.

[@Sirvalorsax]

I thought the term technology was an auto-correct for "technique". LOL

[@grahamwalker8389]

This is really instructive and fascinating information. I never heard anyone explain these aspects of saxophone sound production as clearly as you do. You should be getting paid for this! :-)

[@elbacacha]

Thanks Sirvalor, now i really News the second part 🙏🏾

[@stevecaststringtheory8691]

Just want to compliment you on everything you do on your channel. I’m a things with strings and things with keys guy by trade and don’t really play wind instruments (I own a clarinet but don’t give it much time) but love jazz and have been curious and fascinated for years how guys like Coltrane and Pharoah were able to get the sounds, pitches, and controlled noise that they did/do. You are a fantastic teacher and your videos are compelling and easy to understand. Despite not being a wind musician I plan on watching a lot of your vids, keep up the great work my man

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@gangofgreenhorns2672]

Hope your channel gets monetized soon, or you actually get knighted. You definitely deserve something for doing all these vids. 10:30 that's a really helpful way to think of embouchure during altissimo actually; you get your embouchure right, and then you feel the notes like lock-in via your throat position. Baffling does increase the airspeed in the mouthpiece so it can "effect" altissimo--if not necessarily help it. It's bc of the Bernoulli Principle I think.

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks. On baffles, high baffle mouthpieces make the mouthpiece tip opening feel smaller making it necessary to get stiffer reeds and/or a more open tip for that mouthpiece. Using a more open tip and stiffer reeds will make altissimo easier. In short, its the inherent amount of resistance within a mouthpiece that matters most. This is why classical saxophonists don't use high baffle mouthpieces with large tip openings and they can have phenomenal altissimo. I'm working on this video now. With that being said though, modern mouthpiece manufacturing is ABSOLUTLEY SUPERB! Many attributes can be designed to effect the way a mouthpiece performs unlike any other time in sax mouthpiece history.

[@DynamixWarePro]

I have started learning multiphonics on my alto and this is helpful, thanks.

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@jacquelamontharenberg]

Another great video man.... great stuff to work on.

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

As thorough and effective as always you are, champ!

[@Sirvalorsax]

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[@wkrnalrib4445]

Well my neighbours are going to hate the fact i saw this vid

[@Sirvalorsax]

LOL!!

[@petercheney8316]

Same. Also the cats and the dog probably won't like it.

[@comionpewrio]

@@petercheney8316 who the fuck cares if the dogs dont like it all they do Is bark like little shits

[@m.c.4458]

Great teaching skill, your gift is very appreciated

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@Michael-ol7wm]

Thank you for sharing your video.

[@mrfacts802]

i love this guys voice

[@Sirvalorsax]

Lol, Thanks

[@mattdoran218]

Great stuff!!! Keep on doing this stuff...the word will spread...

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@danilchev]

Bro, you're really cool teacher! Thanks much for your stuff!

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@Gabriel-wp7qk]

dude, thanks for the vids keep them going :) greetings form Peru

[@Sirvalorsax]

Cool. Will do.

[@nehemiahstewart]

Awesome bro!! More of this style please!!

[@Sirvalorsax]

Cool

[@SkylersRants]

Unpleasant sounds made fun. Good job.

[@Sirvalorsax]

LOL!

[@gnaagren]

To anybody beginning to dabble in overtones and multiphonics, I'd like to recommend having a look at Sigurd Rascher's book "Top Tones for the Saxophone." You probably mentioned it somewhere in your videos, but I'd like to drive home the point. Even people who don't want to play altissimo can benefit enormously by working it through. (Thoroughly!) Fattens up your sound, gives you overall better control.

[@liuyangwhsjinyi]

Hi, thank you for very informative presentation. What is the name of that app showing the real-time graph?

[@markelcopprue4684]

Can you please do some alto saxophone videos soon. And I really enjoy your videos

[@ldever3]

He doesn't have an alto. But if you send him one I bet he will do a video for you.

[@Sirvalorsax]

LOL!! I know right, I'm still working on that.

[@FunPreach]

Please alto!! Are the fingering the same?

[@FunPreach]

*fingerings

[@ldever3]

@@FunPreach Try them and see. There is no one set of fingerings for every horn or every player. I try every altissimo fingering I find.

[@avonriver2891]

How about the alto saxophone? Its same?

[@lewis2255]

Thanks, gonna try this in a solo

[@Sirvalorsax]

Cool

[@Imsoflattered0]

So helpful as usual

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@michealoxlong4157]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[@zachattack4982]

Is that a cannonball vintage reborn? If so, what are the differences between the vintage and the big bell stone series. I would probably get brute finish either way.

[@Sirvalorsax]

Yes, it is. I would recommend against the Brute if you live or will be working in a high humidity environment. Mine turned greenish and accumulated a lot of muck and the patina will keep patina-ing. The VR is a more traditional saxophone design closer to vintage saxophones and the BB is a more modern large bore and bell design. I've had a lot of Cannonballs over the years.

[@zachattack4982]

@@Sirvalorsax I actually like the dark amber slightly better than the brute but its only on vintage reborn. Oh well I'm leaning that way anyway.

[@freiretrompete1174]

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[@KrisVComm]

Great stuff! Thank you

[@Sirvalorsax]

Cool

[@rmewyf1237]

Treble & bass clear

[@mattinakari2424]

Ok now I understand. I have started to play couple of years ago. My teachers talk about chords and I thought that it was for me wrong impression. But now i understand that the sound of a Saxophone contains more harmonics then other instruments. I have studied Fourier analysis in the Technical Unversity. It makes sence what You are talking. Like they say the music is made of harmonics. ie The music contains many distortions

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks for watching

[@coffeewalker561]

Thanks this really helps a lot

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@bluegoose555]

sorry accidently sent (below thread etc) ...anyway..Donald Harrison Jr ...he played to most Outrageous Sax Ive ever heard (Alto) ...he had that thing so wide open it was like he was playing a didgereedoo....almost like you could hear the air swirling thru it (all harmonically) ... in fact it sort of reminded me of Hendrix and feedback . I dont know if DH Jr. has ever recorded that "Phenomenon" (but it was truly phenomenal to my ears ). You are the only other person (I've heard)..that seems to have the keys to that universe..thanks agains for sharing your knowledge...and all that fine ear candy

[@Sirvalorsax]

I'll check out DH Jr. Thanks

[@brianpite0893]

Very informative. I knew nothing about this before. The sound reminds me of of some of the things Coltrane and Sanders were doing in Japan 1966. Could I be right?

[@Sirvalorsax]

You are correct.

[@curtisvalle5141]

Good Sir, very nice. Thank you. Off topic but pic of OL mpc setup hit me. Do you always place lig that far back? Do you have a gen. rule of thumb? Seems straight forward that farther back allows as much reed to vibrate as pos. but level reed and table is critical. Multiphonics nuance grit. Excellent insight, as usual, Captain.

[@bluegoose555]

Sir, your amazing productions (and your playing) has altered my universe. There is now a "free app" available called insTuner,...I find it very nice and easy to use as its much like a tachometer (clock face) with a needle...so one can also visualise the circle of 5ths ( tritones 180 degrees) and hence I have been able to sort out my pitch issues...and better learn to trust my ears. I also wanted to tell you I saw Donald Harrison Jr (with the New Orleans Music Maker Foundation

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks for the tip. Check out my video for Saxophone Intonation for more tips if you want. I'll look into that tuner for my phone

[@bluegoose555]

@@Sirvalorsax thanks again man... Ive been into all your stuff for some time now (I think Saxophone Intonation may have been the very first one ?)....like I say...you have altered my universe (soooo inspiring) I just ordered a T6 small chamber yesterday (very pleased to find the whole kit at $320 on Amazon (with lig and cap etc) cant wait !

[@juanangelcardonalopez2479]

Dude!!! Ur the Best !!!

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@zombietwin7713]

What is the song in the outro called

[@Sirvalorsax]

Original composition called "Saxsolus"

[@songstitute8292]

Hey, is there any way I may get into contact with you?

[@Sirvalorsax]

I use this platform mostly. I just got an Instagram account but I'm still not used to it.

[@songstitute8292]

@@Sirvalorsax May I contact you via email?

[@kcatyra]

Master did you have book for altísimos?

[@Sirvalorsax]

I just got my copyright info for it. Next step...publishing!!

[@golfprochen]

Great info!

[@Sirvalorsax]

Thanks

[@salvadorsanchez2450]

Do u have any videos on altissimo ?

[@Sirvalorsax]

Go through my channel. I have lots

[@josealberto063]

Gracias !!!

[@Sirvalorsax]

Cool

[@parkerpeterson517]

Does this work on alto, too?

[@Sirvalorsax]

I just bought an alto and I will be reviewing it very soon!!!

[@FunkOsax]

I love your tutorials and reviews, but can you clear something up for me? I think I'm really misunderstanding something.... In your 2018 video "Are Overtone Useless for Learning Altissimo" you say that they are, but appear to be suggesting the opposite in this video "Multiphonics For Altissimo"

[@Sirvalorsax]

Overtones are clearly important in our understanding of how a saxophone produces notes but I am addressing the standard way overtones are taught for the purpose of playing altissimo. This most recent video is a departure from the standard method of overtone production. The standard method relies on focusing on the bell notes for overtones which work well. However, above them the sax is a disaster. I address this disaster by making lessons out of this inherent problem. I think the standard was overtones are taught is what is useless because the sax only behaves this way on the bell tones.

[@claragary]

Thanks bro!!

[@juanangelcardonalopez2479]

Is your tonge making any changes no you altísimos?

[@Sirvalorsax]

Yes. I use the tongue to adjust the airflow while keeping the embouchure mostly in place.

[@goonyougoodthing]

Why am I watching this. I'm a guitarist.

[@Sirvalorsax]

LOL!!

[@JustADerpySheep]

Because saxophones are better

[@kamarienedwards1757]

Derpy Sheep you can’t play chords, I’m a guitarist but imma have to say piano is the best instrument, playing the bass and melody to a song, and also being able to play different sounds on a keyboard

[@Sirvalorsax]

@@kamarienedwards1757 you can actually play useful chords with other fingerings but it isn't very practical in performance unless it's coordinated ahead of time.

[@JustADerpySheep]

@@kamarienedwards1757 are multiphonics a joke to you?

[@breauxskitm2841]

chewbacca at 6:35

[@Sirvalorsax]

Lol

[@vividbeatzz]

4:04 Am I the only one who noticed she combed the front part of his hair😂 fr tho keep this up

[@Sirvalorsax]

Lol

[@jela2000]

Damonusess Brooks it looks epic

[@johnfilardi]

K I s s , keep it simple stupid, 😂 excellent explanation for an amateur player like myself. I get it

[@Sirvalorsax]

Lol, thanks

[@seandarager]

nice though im not a saxophone player myself, i see that you make good teaching, and the sounds sound like some animals

[@Sirvalorsax]

Lol