Saxophone: Fuzzy Bird Sonata, 1st Movement

[thisisnotdom]

Amazing tone and sound! Sounds like Nobuyo Sugawa. I really need to learn this!

[theshannon3211]

How do you do that note thing at 1:23? amazing!

[shysaxguy]

@theshannon3211 I believe he bends a altissimo note up

[456cres]

Amazing performance! A senior at my school is performing this and it sounds totally amazing. But did anyone else notice the cut in the video at 5:18?

[sttsaxophone]

Wonderful performance! Congratulations!

[makinasaxoal18]

puto chino que makina

[rasen0405]

how fast can u move your tongue for click? sounds so quick!!!

[sandrovin100]

que cincronismo perfeito entre o sax e o piano.

[kinigit]

Excellent!

[MrHooper411]

Saxophone rules. And I was going to play the trumpet!!!! Good thing my braces made me play the sax!!!!

[Cykus71]

@MrHooper411 hah man trust me saxophone is great !!! ;) best of the best haha ;D

[CyanideReplica]

I was listening to this and was thinking how awesome it was... then I noticed I could upscale it to 480p and make it more awesome!

[MansoonSpennyFilms]

This is an incredible performance. I play saxophone and I watch this for inspiration.

[tilcheksaksofonist]

Your tone is very bad it is almost jazzy:), you should play more relaxed, at the start, as that mistake or it is written in notes, and the low tones are very hard played, your vibrato is very similar to flutes vibrato witch is wrong on sax, and you are playing with no felling.

[saxophobia]

What a load of malarkey!

Your tone is fine, so is you´re vibrato and your "Felling"

[2zeller]

shut the fuck up

[facemash]

@tilcheksaksofonist

Ahahahah. This is the most hilarious post I've ever seen. You must not know anything about saxophone. Can you tell me exactly how he is doing vibrato? Do you know for sure he is using a throat vibrato or are you just making a random assertation? And even if he were, who cares? If it sounds good, use it.

And that mistake at that big smear into the altissimo is part of the written music.

[DCATPYEO]

@tilcheksaksofonist you don't know dick about saxophone.

[saxbari]

@DCATPYEO Music isn't a 7-inch dick competition you prick.

[facemash]

16 years old? Good lord. That's some serious talent. My sax professor played this for his recital. I can't imagine having played this almost 4 years ago. I was just starting to get serious with sax then.

[chakatania]

Wonderful tonguing technique. Great control of rhythm and harmonics. Good job at such a young age.

[lugapsax]

YO YO SU FOR PRESIDENT!!!!! I'll be waiting for you playing "Dialogue de l'ombre double"... ;-) oui c'est moi!

[TheWombleizer]

Kudos for memorizing!

I've always loved this video, your technique and tone (especially through the legato sections) are fantastic :)

[KlassyKamikaze]

Wow! I never sounded like that when I was 16.

[royallighting7]

Very well done. Nice altissimo and technique. You could be more musical and continue to work on altissimo control. You're a good player and I hope you go far.

[clasmusicdude]

Oh my goodness, you memorized it!!! What amazing talent. AMAZING!!!!

[baller88688]

good technique but too fast

[DidSax2]

Defenitely unbeliveble, but bit too fast.

[protestxday]

wow you're good

[Johnny800s]

Loved it. Saw your ad in the paper. How did you manage 6 hours of practise at such a young age?

[NatalyKameridea]

Good!

[shinka1911]

het is good

[saxinjax0730]

I'm not much of a judge in the best of times, just a fellow saxophonist, and there's nothing I could think of to say to that other than that its spectacular! Great work!

[stelleoooo]

You make really precise movements between notes, really good articulation and excellent altissimo. Well done.

[pawel603019]

Wcale nie jest zagoniona, w końcu to jest tępo allegro vivace a na nagraniu jest wszytko doskonale wygrane.

Very fast but very nice. You have great altissimo

[paraglide2008]

Zbyt mało muzyki w tym graniu no i trochę zagonione, ale sonatka wyśmienita;)

[asianvag]

my name is chris dmuchowski and i am very inspired by this

[lastsnare]

sounds awesome ! great low articulation, really snappy =)

[joethemusician]

seems a little quick/rushed for the style to me. your tongue is truly world class but I'm not convinced you can really "jive" to this. I'd love to hear this relaxed just a tiny bit so i could really get into the flow.

[njdearing21]

Another impressive performance. In case I can't research where you're studying/performing now myself, where/with who are you studying?

[plutoniiumxsteph]

Bravoooo! This is sooo prettyyy. Awesome job.

[broknsaint]

whoa, bravo!

[soraferret]

Why is this called Fuzzy bird? It sounds like a normal bird to me.

[qwasyx]

bravo janez. lepo da svetuješ na youtubu :)

[Janezursej]

joooooj no ne vem ka mi je blo ........... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[lengland010]

We should be friends. This is amazing I ordered this music because you played it so well.

Luke

[DidSax2]

So amazing! you have a realy good clarely in your song!

[battlestupid]

GOD

IT's incredible performance for a 16 years old kid !!!!

you played so well !!!

[did212121]

Really good! Your harmonics are very precise and clear. slowed down a bit your speed, but you have a very good interpretation of the piece! good job!

[joshuaw021]

It's just like SOOO pretty, lol.

[walkersaxplayer]

Nailed it. Very cool. Nice slap tongue. Great altissimo. Very exciting

[LeTombeauDeClaude]

Fabulous! Especially for being 16 at the time of the performance! Truly amazing. I would say to slow down just a tad...but just a tad. I think for the most part, you really understood the lyricism of Yoshimatsu, I felt like in the slower, middle section, you didn't allow the notes enough time...it was still a truly breathtaking performance!

-Trey

[Coastie165]

SLOW DOWN!!!!!! You can play notes.. and you can play them with good technique... but what about the CONTEXT of the music you are playing? Isn't that where the MUSIC is??? Not saying this wasn't good. I am a saxophonist as well and went through college playing these contemporary pieces. Never lose sight of the MUSIC.. Great job man!

[keilwerthshadow]

what kind of horn do you play, that looks like a yanigisawa to me but i cant tell

[xagent123123]

Nice.

Anyone know where I can get this song?

[ThaATXBalla]

if you google it, it comes up near the top i think, i dont know where exactly though. sorry

[kohjikun]

very very good!your musicaly is perfect.thankyou your post.

[ENsaxist]

Definitely well played, you indeed have a very good grasp of the horn. Good tone, and everything. My only comment of constructive criticism might be that at times it may have been even TOO fast. The only reason I think of this, is that the piece is supposed to portray a bird, and in the opening part, the Mortons (I believe... the little trill sounding spots) were fast to the point where the bird would have almost been frantic.

Very good though!

[R0aId]

This is AMAZING!! You're so good! I wanna play like you..

[jazsax]

16 Years old?!?

No Way!

you play like a pro!

Keep up the good work!

[JergenBerger]

Thank you for posting this! You have a very bright future ahead of you.

[donnie7dark4o]

great, just great! a fine way to celebrate birthday, wasn't it?=)

[saxophoney]

Bravo!

[Choadeymcgriff]

Sounds great! Keep up the great work.

[kennethzhewong]

awesome!~~~~

[themducksII]

wait this kid is 16???

[autaktak]

Very talented..very well done also

Keep in mind that you have all the time you need in cadenza...make the slow part even more beautiful...good job...

[kangaroo1992]

So many memories attached to this piece...Fuzzy really took off that night! It's moi, D.

[Selmerftw]

Wow, a truly amazing performance.

Hopefully one day i can play like this :)

[steviemaboy]

Is this Iwaki ABC?? LOL Again, great playing!

[rjgrill]

That's impressive at 30.  Wow. 16

[livinlegend1000]

good stuff impressive at 16! Bravo!