Are Fingerings Important For Learning Altissimo?

[@sttroy2]

Stumbled on you channel while looking for tips.... thanks for all the info....cleared up a lot of playing challenges for me...great stuff

[@mmmdisciple]

U da man Adriene! I purchased your Tenor Altissimo ebook the day you released it. It is worth every cent! Thankyou for the free tutorial videos that compliment your book. Invaluable education!

[@Sirvalorsax]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@christophemaximin337]

Let's buy Sivalorsax' book on altissimo

[@docholloway530]

I would love to purchase the sivalorsax book on altissimo. How do I purchae one? My name is Gary "Doc" Holloway and I play tenor sax. My email address is [e-mail]

[@stveloop9452]

Another bomb of knowledge, thanks Professor S.

[@MikeSmith-go8wk]

I first started to understand altissimo from your channel. Thank you once again.

[@Butterking99]

King of altissimo does it again your altissimo technique is like a new level that’s never been seen or unlocked before on the horn everyone should be buying the book!

[@Sirvalorsax]

I know right!!!! LOL

[@GetYourSaxTogether]

Yeh, I love this debate. To the people referenced in this chat who say fingerings don’t matter - why do you have a set of fingerings that you’ve worked out and that you use every time you play altissimo then if it doesn’t matter?! It’s such an incomplete part of the equation. I think the player referenced was just trying to say that people think the fingerings will let them play altissimo, which isn’t true.

[@mmmdisciple]

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[@GetYourSaxTogether]

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[@Sirvalorsax]

I agree totally. It is important to understand that our goals are the same but our methods for getting there will be different.

[@Xavier_Dimoff]

Fingerings don’t matter doesn’t literally mean that there is absolutely no use to them. The point is that the fingerings aren’t the soul determiner of wether or not you can play efficiently because it’s not the same as in the natural register. You can rework your fingerings to be vastly different every year until the end of time because the fingerings don’t matter nearly as much as the embouchure.

[@bluegoose555]

Thanks Adriene.. super lesson... building on previous content

[@Sirvalorsax]

You're welcome 😊

[@nairdazitro7460]

Thank's man. I'm fed up of pro saxophonists barking " FiNgErinGs doN't MattEr " when you're asking them how to hit a G#. As if they wanted to mystify that skill. That's pretty annoying that they try to complicate a concept just to fulfill their ego.

[@Sirvalorsax]

That is an interesting point. A lot of it comes from struggling students that can't get fingerings to work and also the tendency for people to just regurgitate what they've heard without understanding the deeper principles involved

[@peedrowchan-man102]

Like #100 - read em and weep! Great stuff Sir! I’ll be chewin on that.

[@Medicine1477]

Can you do a lesson for beginners to intermediate players? Any topic. Just something that we can follow and work on.

[@grammsax3866]

Good job, keep going man!!!

[@gregorydutton349]

Wow, how can two great sax players/technicians be so far apart in theory. Just listened to interview with Ben Wendel on Better sax and was informed that fingering does not matter, all about the voicing. I’m at that awful intermediate stage where mastering altissimo is still a bit of a mystery. Two very different theories, hard to know where to focus my time. Anyway, discussion has certainly got me interested and I am guessing you will continue to get some engaging comments from your clip. Cheers, really enjoy your science approach to music. Greg

[@Sirvalorsax]

When people say fingerings don't matter they are usually referring to struggling students putting too much emphasis on one aspect of increasing their range on the instrument. In short, it comes down to embouchure and air pressure, voicing, and fingerings. You can get different kinds of altissimo sounds from the way those 3 are manipulated.

[@kinoglaz777]

I'd like to say just one thing. Piece o' Cake!

[@Sirvalorsax]

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[@davidsmusic]

Mr. Sirvalorsax thank you so much for your explanation, I appreciate your videos and I hope soon get your book. I wanna write you an email to show some ideas as a graphic designer about sax and jazz. Regards!

[@curtisvalle5141]

I wish more stuff had a ... pressure reduction button.

[@rickyhoward8025]

Thank you so much for your videos and knowledge. As far as alto sax are there similarities with fingerings? Will some of the same concepts work? Thank You 🙏🏾

[@Sirvalorsax]

Yes, absolutely. Tenor is an unusual sax and my book would have just been too long if I added the alto stuff in. An alto version in in the works right now

[@rickyhoward8025]

@@Sirvalorsax Thank you so much! I’m so excited and thank you for responding! I appreciate you for all of your videos and sharing your knowledge.

[@ChrisTenor]

Sirvalorsax VS Ben Wendel about altissimo philosophy ;-)

[@arturomagana778]

Altosax version of ebook?

[@Sirvalorsax]

Coming soon...

[@UserUser-pv2wo]

two questions: 1. can you rework the book for alto? 2. which online store offers that awesome cap?

[@Sirvalorsax]

I'm working on an alto version and the newsboy cap can be had on Amazon 😆

[@yee3545]

Do you mean the techniques on the tenor book doesnt apply to alto or soprano? So I may have to wait for your new books😭

[@Nanoci62]

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[@carloscarcella8628]

caro amico non si capisce nei tuoi vido cosa vuoi fare o dire, per rgistro altissimo non fay vedere le mani in particolare la mano dx. sompatico ma inutile.