Marcello
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Hi Guys,
I play the tenor sax
I am working my overtones and am finding some difficulties.
Here is the issue, if I make the lower Bb position I can play fairly easy the Bb one octave above and the F above that.
However to hit that higher Bb (2 octaves above the fundamental Bb) I have to do a lot of effort ad not all the times it comes.
When I go to B the higher B (2 octaves above the fundamental Bb) is even harder.
Moving up to C, C#the problem persists.
When I move to D and D# I can't even get the fifth above the second octave.
I have seem this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be9EQnQ0MEQ&feature=share&list=PLcVPYXBKh-zIqVFxObCcvU9PTkvYJxAJt
and he mentions about tongue position and the oral cavity changes.
No matter what I do with my tongue I can't get the high pitches.
I would like to ask how you guys practice this and what is your trick to get those high notes?
I must confess that since I have changed my embouchure by moving the mouthpiece out of my mouth I also found much more difficult to achieve the palm keys notes and also keep the middle C# on tune.
Can anybody help on this?
Thanks,
Marcello
I play the tenor sax
I am working my overtones and am finding some difficulties.
Here is the issue, if I make the lower Bb position I can play fairly easy the Bb one octave above and the F above that.
However to hit that higher Bb (2 octaves above the fundamental Bb) I have to do a lot of effort ad not all the times it comes.
When I go to B the higher B (2 octaves above the fundamental Bb) is even harder.
Moving up to C, C#the problem persists.
When I move to D and D# I can't even get the fifth above the second octave.
I have seem this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be9EQnQ0MEQ&feature=share&list=PLcVPYXBKh-zIqVFxObCcvU9PTkvYJxAJt
and he mentions about tongue position and the oral cavity changes.
No matter what I do with my tongue I can't get the high pitches.
I would like to ask how you guys practice this and what is your trick to get those high notes?
I must confess that since I have changed my embouchure by moving the mouthpiece out of my mouth I also found much more difficult to achieve the palm keys notes and also keep the middle C# on tune.
Can anybody help on this?
Thanks,
Marcello