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16. Keep the pressure on

Don’t let your air pressure (breath support) drop between notes! Keep the pressure on, just like when talking. This way, you connect the notes together nicely, and they become a real sentence. Of course, you stop blowing when you put a comma or for breathing. If you have to play short notes in a row, […]

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13. An important TIP about TIPS

What should you do with all those tips that often contradict each other? Every saxophonist, sax teacher, repairman, seller, etc. has its own package of ideas, knowledge, and preferences with regard to: saxophones (brand, type, series, year, paint, serial numbers, material), reeds (thickness, brand, plastic/bamboo, cleaning, processing), reed clamps, pads, wipers, cases, straps, standards, posture,

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11. The b-syndrome

The note b is very often been skipped on the saxophone when improvising, strange but true. While improvising with students, I repeatedly noticed that they hardly use the b. I’ve come to call this the b-syndrome. And I found the following explanation for that: our fingers don’t like it, especially when playing down, and also

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10. The concert key

What does it mean when we say: ‘The concert key of this piece is Ab?’ It means that the piece is composed in Ab for the C-instruments. It’s not so easy to explain, but I’ll try.  In most orchestras we have mainly C-, Bb- and Eb-instruments.C-instruments: piano, violins, flute, guitar, bass, guitar, keyboard.When you play

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06. Don’t play-in-sy-lla-bles

You can very well compare articulation on saxophone with speaking; and with the latter we have a lot of experience. One of the many possibilities of the saxophone is that you can do almost anything that you also do with your voice. Loud, whispering, screaming, many variations in articulation (from staccato to legato) and sustain.

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