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Summary: Use humming and blowing techniques when playing the saxophone as a beginner; learn how with tips from our expert sax player in this free sax video music lesson.
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Mitch Kaplan Proficient on multiple instruments, Mitch Kaplan has performed and taught music for two decades. He is also a published author of music education books and on... read more
For expertvillage.com this is Mitch Kaplan. In this segment we will be talking about humming and blowing. Humming and blowing is a technique that you would use in jazz or in more modern classical. You would actually hum, hmmm… and blow at the same time. This will give you this type of effect. It is used kind of like in a dirtier bluesy type of effect, so you can do something like this.