How to BEND NOTES! (the simple way)

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[@robstevens9590]

Thanks Dave! Your bluesy example, with lots of bends and scoops, is very different from most of the things I've heard you play.

[@DavePollack]

Thanks so much!

[@SkipSax]

Great stuff Dave. Stealing your stuff to use with students all the time. Great to hear different ways to teach this stuff. Keep em coming!

[@bobpremecz5429]

Somebody's getting better... Sounds like somebody's been paying attention to Lenny Pickett lately, especially starting around 6:23 with the ta-ta-ta-teeee screaming target to turn the phrase... As always, love your explanations. 💋KISS method works!

[@pickle1472]

Hey Dave big fan of your videos. Being that you play BSS reeds maybe you'd be able to help with this. Im currently playing on a vandoren v16 with red java three reeds on Alto, and im looking to try out Boston Sax Shop (black box) reeds, what size reeds should i lean towards?

[@DavePollack]

I would go with a 3 - should be about the same strength

[@davidolahmusic]

Fender Bender?

[@stewartwforbes]

I often think of “play a flat B, rather than a Bb”

[@etowahjazz]

bazinga!!

[@bryanchatham143]

why the change of mouthpiece from 10M fan Alto madness ?

[@DavePollack]

I was experimenting with the BSS mouthpiece and wanted to put some time on it, and I’ve just been really digging it recently for the stuff I’m playing

[@c.l.4895]

So I installed a Floyd Rose for nothing? 😢

[@Ot_Tokn]

😂😂

[@warmadden]

Lol

[@wyndhl8309]

Dave, is Johnny Hodges still alive?😮

[@DavePollack]

No, but I’m trying to sound like him!

[@wyndhl8309]

Dave, needless to say, you are among the best educators and performers of music - Organic Jazz music👌 ❤

[@philippea101]

Thanks for this video - i have a question connected to it.... I have been experiencing with embouchure, and improving towards a fuller tone. All the advice I can find - and my personal experience - direct me to a looser embouchure, and the mouthpiece further in. In that position though, it is difficult to loosen the embouchure even more , to be able to scoop up to the correct pitch, because my embouchure is already very loose.... now i am wondering how loose should be your "normal" embouchure - so that you get the best tone, but you are still able to further loosen it in order to scoop up.....

[@c.l.4895]

It may not work for you but I think of it like the way your jaw drops a little while sucking a straw (something thick like a milkshake). You’re still keeping a seal on the straw but the pressure distribution and shape of your mouth changes. Maybe it’s bad advice but go have a milkshake just in case.

[@philippea101]

thanks
@@c.l.4895

[@Osnosis]

Think of resting your head weight on your top teeth on the top of the mouthpiece (a mouthpiece patch is helpful).