Saxophone Power Tones

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Summary: Support power tones through a saxophone with the abdomen. Learn about making power tones through a saxophone in this free music lesson video from a saxophonist.

Views: 696 | Tags: exercises, embouchure, muscles, brass, parts, reeds, instruments, sax, positioning, tones, woodwinds, saxophones, mouthpieces

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Nazim Rashid Nazim Rashid has been playing saxophone for more than 40 years. He plays the tenor, alto, and saxsolo. Rashid started in Chicago, Ill. playing with some of th... read more

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Saxophone Power Tones

And now we have to actually look at how we blow through the saxophone now. Alright? Now the horn's warmed up. Now what do you do? We add another brick onto the last brick. Very important to understand. OK? So, we actually do it this way. Now we're going to start on C. You know I'm going to talk about the finger later on. You know, always start with middle C. Middle finger here, there. Now power tones like I taught but with the mouth piece is the same way. It's the attack, the quality or the length of the note, and then it's the termination of the note. Three things there. It has to be straight in and then it goes Ta, Ta, see Ta, Ta, Ta. Like that. Without going up and down. Without it sounding like this. Not like that. Air is going all over the place. Has to go straight in and straight out. It's supporting from your abdomen. Right here. Real important. Alright? In and out, in and out. Like that. That's the power tones. And we'll talk about more about a power tones and long tones on next segment.