Blowing Techniques for Baritone Saxophones

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For Expert Village, I'm EJ John Erickson with Vital Flame Productions, and thank you for joining us on our sessions focusing on the baritone saxophone. We started making some noise, so in this section we're actually going to put it on the bari. And start doing the first steps in playing the bari. O.k. so we had our mouthpiece, we just talked about that, we had our neck with the cork. I'll show you how I fixed this in a latter session. But the first thing I want to do is put a ton of cork grease onto that cork section and then bring your mouthpiece on over the cork so that the reed lines up with the curve back to you. That's your neck, reed on the bottom, plastic on top, and that goes onto our bari. The only thing you want to notice when you put this onto the bari. Is there's this little hammer, or a little key that gets triggered by this bar right here. You just want to make sure that you don't just quickly put it on and jam the tube, but watch closely as you put it on to make sure that you're not jamming it. So we're putting on the neck; here's that little bar I was talking about. You just want to make sure that you don't accidentally have this one down and that they jam, but that they actually clear each other as you bring it down. There you go. Now from the bell in the front to the neck you want the bell to come through the body, to come up through the neck to your mouthpiece. And that's the alignment. Now, again this can go left or right, you do have flexibility there, but as a general practice it comes straight up through the horn to your mouth. So we're going to make a sound now, our neck piece is on. I'm using a stand; just it's convenient for the shoot here. We'll talk about neck straps in a later session. But let?s get back to making a noise. So breath, support, air, laser, O. That's the note you should be looking for, you shouldn't be... that's not a noise, well it's a noise, it's the wrong noise. The first thing you want to do; I'm not even showing you where to put your hands, just hands behind your back, is to see how long you can play that note with your breath. Join me for the next session where we'll actually talk about where to put our hands, where to put our fingers, and start to begin on some warm up exercises for you.

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