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6:59 - Great example of "Down from the Note" is the beginning of Gene Ammons solo on "Hittin' the Jug." Those two beginning notes are a good part of why I went and bought a saxophone at age 66... with no musical ability or experience. Before i actually received the delivery of the (cheap chinese) sax I was afraid that I might get discouraged and end up hanging the sax on the wall as decoration😅, but after maybe overall a cumulative of four to six hours of practice I am falling in love with the sax learning experience and can play the notes on the first page of Dexter Gordon's version of ""Stairway to the Stars," (but I have quite a ways to go with it😄) However I cannot even come close to Ammon's "down from the note" at the beginning of his solo, so maybe if i study your video here, i can pick it up better. Thanks for the video.
This video is wonderful! I love the PDFs. I also love taking your masterclasses and every single video I can absorb because then I watch some of your older videos like this one and learn even more! All your videos are timeless and I feel like each time I watch, I learn more and more!
A Release bend my friend. Thats a bend down. I know I am 4 years into my sax journey, but I am 40 years into my guitar journey. Well done super information in your video.
I’ve always just called the gliss a scoop or fall depending on direction. Sounds great . Sometimes coming in on one solid note sounds nice too. Like Sanborns probably me solo for sting and Clapton.
you are so funny. at 10.42 it looked as if if one overblown a blimp and it is about to explode. lol. but you are a great teacher and there is a lot to learn from you. thank you
I love your vidéos Jamie, you are such a nice person giving us so many tips. I know you since I started playing an instrument (saxophone btw 1 year ago) and your vids help me a lot to keep trying and hearing/discovering about so many stuff. So Thank you a lot !
Great video and love your enthusiasm. I've tried growling a million times and just haven't gotten it with either technique. I've been playing for over 60 years and this is my Achilles heal. I'm hoping your encouraging video gets me there. Keep up the great work. Oh, and the very last part of your video had me on the floor laughing. I sit next to a fellow in big band and concert band who does that awful cat-in-heat scoop and thinks he is hot stuff. We all cringe. So, I know what you're talking about. Thanks again.
I got my alto sax about two weeks ago, and I'm self learning how to play using books and videos. I've been working on my embouchure and scales. I just want to know if it's ok to practice these kinds of tricks and dynamics or if I should wait until I get some experience. Thanks.
Hi. Just a question about scooping up to the note, eg. F to A, would you then finger each note in between and use throat and embouchure as well? Thanks for your great videos - I am learning so much from watching them
Also if i have Finale, how can i note these things? I know the gliss. notation (zig zag line) and the straight line notation but i dont know how to make the short curvy line
So...i've been playing alto ( amateur, just as a hobby ) for 10 years now. People allways says they love how i play and sound, etc... and i just can't listen to my self, it makes me cringe. watching this, im pretty sure i've developed this bad habit ( 12.06 ) and that's the main reason i just hate my own playing. Is there a way to work that bad habit of ?
I just bought u a coffee mate. I am going to have to send you a SaxophoneHero.com T-shirt if these vids keep coming lol I so wish we had a channel like this 30 yrs ago. These youngens are so lucky.
Get Your Sax Together ps have you heard stefano di Battista playing Romeo and Juliets “a time for us “yet on alto ? Glisses, bends the lot. It’s awesome.
@@GetYourSaxTogether I think. I used the wrong notes. The song is in Eb major (original C# or Db major), and I have a D (original F) and i dont know when to stop when i go down from this note. This is a song i am trying to play, but in general, how do i know when to stop?
@@GetYourSaxTogether yeah. You explained it. Falling from a note. When falling or going upwards TO a note, you can choose the beginning and the end is already chosen. But when doing something FROM a note, how do i know when i should stop? What should be the ending note, given the starting one? My question is about going down, i dont go up from a note.
@@mrsaxophone4765 right I get it. Well, there isn’t really a specific note you end on. You tail your breath off as you quickly fall the notes down and at an unspecified time the sound disappears.
dolly akrst - I already know how to play Billie Jean 😂 But of course I assume you mean can I teach YOU how to play it? Sadly (for you) I only do actual sax lines on this channel, not vocal lines from pop songs. Sorry! 🙂
I know it's the proper British way to say it but when you say saxophonist hits sounds kind of perverted I have to say that's the general consensus here at the saxophone Club in San Francisco
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Glissando technique is essential thing for a pink panther :))
Yup. It sure is! J:-)
Respected Sir.
The way you give explanations all about Saxophone, I am just overwhelmed !
Please accept my heartiest greetings!
Love 💕 from India.
You’re very welcome. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching. J😊
Thanks Jamie, I've been trying to do these for ages. Your video is going to help a lot.
John Smith - you’re very welcome man 😉
This is great! Recommended you to all my students.
Thank you so much Mark!
OMG! I never knew this stuff! Thank you for addressing this issue. Ancient secrets unveiled! Quick, get my horn!
1967stp - good luck Stephen! 😉
6:59 - Great example of "Down from the Note" is the beginning of Gene Ammons solo on "Hittin' the Jug." Those two beginning notes are a good part of why I went and bought a saxophone at age 66... with no musical ability or experience. Before i actually received the delivery of the (cheap chinese) sax I was afraid that I might get discouraged and end up hanging the sax on the wall as decoration😅, but after maybe overall a cumulative of four to six hours of practice I am falling in love with the sax learning experience and can play the notes on the first page of Dexter Gordon's version of ""Stairway to the Stars," (but I have quite a ways to go with it😄) However I cannot even come close to Ammon's "down from the note" at the beginning of his solo, so maybe if i study your video here, i can pick it up better. Thanks for the video.
Great comment. Keep going! 😌
This video is wonderful! I love the PDFs. I also love taking your masterclasses and every single video I can absorb because then I watch some of your older videos like this one and learn even more! All your videos are timeless and I feel like each time I watch, I learn more and more!
That’s awesome Hannah!
A Release bend my friend. Thats a bend down. I know I am 4 years into my sax journey, but I am 40 years into my guitar journey. Well done super information in your video.
Interesting guitar terminology. Like it!
I’ve always just called the gliss a scoop or fall depending on direction. Sounds great . Sometimes coming in on one solid note sounds nice too. Like Sanborns probably me solo for sting and Clapton.
Thanks for the thoughts Kaden. There's the music and then there's many ways to describe it! J :-)
Such a fantastic video! Thank you!
You're very welcome, as always! Thanks fo watching. J:-)
Very thorough explanation I'm very grateful thanks
You are very welcome!
Lots of great stuff to practice. Thanks again for a great channel.
Geoff Beckett - my pleasure. Thanks for watching. 🙏🏻
you are so funny. at 10.42 it looked as if if one overblown a blimp and it is about to explode. lol. but you are a great teacher and there is a lot to learn from you. thank you
Thanks Red!
I love your vidéos Jamie, you are such a nice person giving us so many tips. I know you since I started playing an instrument (saxophone btw 1 year ago) and your vids help me a lot to keep trying and hearing/discovering about so many stuff. So Thank you a lot !
You’re very welcome 😊
Brilliant - thanks for doing a great job of teaching this! (now to spend the hours getting the chromatics super smooth at speed!)
perfectcelery - you’re welcome. Good luck 👍🏻
as always a crazy effort you make there. thank you for sharing your skills with us
You’re welcome 😊
Brilliant again Jamie thanks very much. 😃
Andrew Wright - always a pleasure. Thanks for watching. 🙏🏻
Good job teacher, important explain, no have in Brazil classes this way.
Obrigado Carlos!
crikey, what a fun workout
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I love your channel.
Thank you so much!
Great video and love your enthusiasm. I've tried growling a million times and just haven't gotten it with either technique. I've been playing for over 60 years and this is my Achilles heal. I'm hoping your encouraging video gets me there. Keep up the great work. Oh, and the very last part of your video had me on the floor laughing. I sit next to a fellow in big band and concert band who does that awful cat-in-heat scoop and thinks he is hot stuff. We all cringe. So, I know what you're talking about. Thanks again.
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Great thanks...
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I got my alto sax about two weeks ago, and I'm self learning how to play using books and videos. I've been working on my embouchure and scales. I just want to know if it's ok to practice these kinds of tricks and dynamics or if I should wait until I get some experience. Thanks.
Can’t do any harm!
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Awesome! Welcome Apicha. Thanks for watching and let me know if there's anything else I can do for you. J😊
Hi. Just a question about scooping up to the note, eg. F to A, would you then finger each note in between and use throat and embouchure as well? Thanks for your great videos - I am learning so much from watching them
If you’re scooping up that amount, yeh, you’d finger the notes and smooth it out with your larynx.
Fckng high quality content man! Please start a guitar channel! :)
Ha! Errrrm...🤣
EXCELENTE , OBRIGADO (BRASIL )
Laercio Aparecido doAmaral - thanks! 👍🏻
REVERB!!!
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Also if i have Finale, how can i note these things? I know the gliss. notation (zig zag line) and the straight line notation but i dont know how to make the short curvy line
Sorry mr saxophone I've never used finale!
So...i've been playing alto ( amateur, just as a hobby ) for 10 years now.
People allways says they love how i play and sound, etc...
and i just can't listen to my self, it makes me cringe.
watching this, im pretty sure i've developed this bad habit ( 12.06 ) and that's the main reason i just hate my own playing.
Is there a way to work that bad habit of ?
Slow, regular, methodical (and CONSCIENCE) practice I’m afraid!
@@GetYourSaxTogether
Thanks for answering man. It means a lot
I just bought u a coffee mate. I am going to have to send you a SaxophoneHero.com T-shirt if these vids keep coming lol I so wish we had a channel like this 30 yrs ago. These youngens are so lucky.
BattleKAT Sax - Kaden Andrew Thompson - thanks for the coffee. Much appreciated! 🙏🏻
Get Your Sax Together very welcome brother .
Get Your Sax Together ps have you heard stefano di Battista playing Romeo and Juliets “a time for us “yet on alto ? Glisses, bends the lot. It’s awesome.
Saxophone Hero - BattleKAT - Kaden Andrew Thompson - I’ll check it out.
Get Your Sax Together word of warning it’s addictive ....driven wife mad with it past two days playing it over n over.
If i want to go down from a note, when should i stop? Lets say i have a C# in a A major song. Which note should i stop on?
Are you talking about when you do a fall?
@@GetYourSaxTogether I think. I used the wrong notes.
The song is in Eb major (original C# or Db major), and I have a D (original F) and i dont know when to stop when i go down from this note. This is a song i am trying to play, but in general, how do i know when to stop?
Stop what? Are you falling off a note, like a glissando down? Is that what you mean?
@@GetYourSaxTogether yeah. You explained it. Falling from a note. When falling or going upwards TO a note, you can choose the beginning and the end is already chosen. But when doing something FROM a note, how do i know when i should stop? What should be the ending note, given the starting one? My question is about going down, i dont go up from a note.
@@mrsaxophone4765 right I get it. Well, there isn’t really a specific note you end on. You tail your breath off as you quickly fall the notes down and at an unspecified time the sound disappears.
How can I play #3 with only notes quickly?
I can’t do it quick enough without messing up
lol Good question! You just need to be able to play fast scales I guess!
Grande Top 👍. Potresti inserire la traduzione in italiano?
Can't translate. Sorry!
Big Top 👍. Could you insert the Italian translation?
Em, not sure how to do that. The subtitles have been edited by me to be correct in English. Don't know how to translate?
Please learn to play Billie jean by Michael Jackson
dolly akrst - I already know how to play Billie Jean 😂 But of course I assume you mean can I teach YOU how to play it? Sadly (for you) I only do actual sax lines on this channel, not vocal lines from pop songs. Sorry! 🙂
@@GetYourSaxTogether
Okay how to play it.....but I want not notes I want learn on saxphone Like the first one.
Confused on how you actually go up from a note
Yeh, it can be tricky. Hard to teach with a CZcams comment though!
The fingered notes aren't to hard, but the smearing is confusing.
It happens on your larynx. Check out some of my other videos in my technique playlist, especially altissimo and overtones.
Wish you didn’t use reverb on your playing , makes your sound good but not helping others to emulate your sounds 😕
Ok thanks for the feedback! 👍🏻
I know it's the proper British way to say it but when you say saxophonist hits sounds kind of perverted I have to say that's the general consensus here at the saxophone Club in San Francisco
Can't say I have a clue what you're talking about Jake! I'm fascinated what you say instead of "saxophonist" though? lol
Saxo-foenist there I spelled it phonetically for you
Saxo-FEE-nest? Not Saxo-FO-nest? Is that the difference? 😂