Hi,
I've had my sax 3 weeks now and have been doing okay on the whole but have had some problems with sounding low notes (G downwards) consistently without them jumping the octave and with high notes (2nd G upwards) being a bit flat.
After a bad couple of days when I seemed to go backwards, a discussion with my tutor and lots of (very often conflicting) internet research on embouchure I had a really good practice session yesterday and the low and high notes were much better.
What made the difference was rolling my bottom lip out more for the low notes and pulling it in closer to my teeth but not over them for the high notes with an in-between position for the mid range notes. I just wanted to ask if I am on the right track before continuing to use that technique, I don't want to start doing something which might become a problem later on and I don't have a lesson with my tutor until the week after next.
I've had my sax 3 weeks now and have been doing okay on the whole but have had some problems with sounding low notes (G downwards) consistently without them jumping the octave and with high notes (2nd G upwards) being a bit flat.
After a bad couple of days when I seemed to go backwards, a discussion with my tutor and lots of (very often conflicting) internet research on embouchure I had a really good practice session yesterday and the low and high notes were much better.
What made the difference was rolling my bottom lip out more for the low notes and pulling it in closer to my teeth but not over them for the high notes with an in-between position for the mid range notes. I just wanted to ask if I am on the right track before continuing to use that technique, I don't want to start doing something which might become a problem later on and I don't have a lesson with my tutor until the week after next.