Baritone Saxophone Breathing Warm Up Drills

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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. Okay, on this session, we're going to actually start to move our fingers around since we know where to place them. And just a quick, I mean this is definitely a quick start, I do recommend going out and getting yourself a fingering chart, getting yourself a beginner's book. That's where you start, there's several on the market, go ahead and research one those to get some music going. It'll walk you through what I'm going to give you in an encapsulated cell here. So, if you can think about it from when you used to play recorder in elementary school, where you had your three fingers on top and your three on the bottom, that's essentially the same configuration that you're going to have with your Bari. It's the same three and three. So we're going to start simply, with everything open, that's a C-sharp on a baritone sax, and we're going to just start doing long tones. This is what you're going to do for your warm ups. I'll stop now, but you'll want to keep going for as long as you possibly can and then put your first finger down for a B and do the same thing, long tones. Big breath, big air, long tone. And so on, which is an A, two fingers down is an A. G. So there's your first four notes. Now you can start making music out of those four notes if you wanted to. Do that whole song with two fingers. Okay, now the next thing you want to do for warm ups is octaves. This is critical. And what you're doing is you're taking, we'll start on a B which is the first finger, and all we're doing is adding the octave key. And if you can think of your air stream as blowing louder to the octave, again long notes, but loud to the octave. So. And you'll just want to keep doing octaves. And again, take a long time. I was doing those rather quickly, but take a long time to focus your embouchure, focus your air and think into those octaves. And that's how you get warmed up. That's with your breath and with the horn. Now we can talk about fingers, how to warm them up.

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