What is Saxophone Embouchure?

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Hi! This is Dave Birkin and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am going to talk to you a little bit about saxophone armature which is, how the mouthpiece and reed and how your mouth is around them. Alright, basically you are going to put your lower lips, so it is kind of like acts as a cushion between your lower teeth and your reed and that if you want to, kind of, develop something, it is like I said like a cushion and then your teeth is going to fit on top of the mouthpiece and your lips will be around it kind of, almost like this. When I have the saxophone in my mouth it is a very… it is a relaxed kind of thing, because you do not want to pinch the reed in anyway to prevent it from vibrating, that is you want that reed to be vibrating as mush as possible and the way you do that is your lower lip should not be tense in anyway, it has got to be firm and have, you know, the cushion effect that I talked about it earlier and that it should not be pinching the sides in anyway. It is almost as if you had the reed like this, and you wanted your teeth and your lip to be kind of parallel to the reed, not grabbing it like that, but parallel and that is the way you are going to get the best possible sound.

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