Saxophone: Creating an Embouchure

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Uploaded by on Jul 6, 2009

www. Music In Reach .com presents:

Taimur Sullivan, Artist-Faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and member of the PRISM Quartet, with another video for beginning saxophone players.

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  • how do you play low notes on a tenor sax =/

    i use to play alto now i have to play tenor and i cant hit any of my low notes past "g" ='(

  • THIS IS WAT U CALL A GREAAT TEACHER (ESPECIALLY FOR US BEGINNERS!

  • hi for jazz: don't roll the bottomlip in, see George Garzone. The lip supports the reed just before the lower teeth. result:  the reed vibrates the best: good sound and more space for the tongue to articulate. greetings Eddy

  • What piece is that in the beginning?

  • is the saxophone embouchure suppose to hurt?

  • This is a very good basic description of a proper saxophone embouchure.  I will certainly use it as a resource for my students.

  • Thanks. Most useful and descriptive video on sax embouchure I have seen.

  • @FantomOfFear Your bottom lip rolls over your teeth. Roll only as much as you need, about half of your lip. Your reed needs presure to get a sound, by using your jaw u are going to have a bad sound and it hurts. Do not depen on you jaw but your facial muscles. Remember like a rubber band. The biggest thing is to pull in the corners. I have fix a lot a bad habbits on my embouchure, it takes time but it TOTALY pays off. What MPC and reed do you use? You will most likely have to get a softer reed.

  • I've been playing alto sax for four years and I recently realized that my embouchure might be wrong, no one has ever pointed this out to me.. My bottome lip is completely tucked in and my teeth go up into it and it hurts when I play for a long time. In the embouchure in this video are his teeth touching his bottom lip or what?

  • i have an old Mach 7, and it's a bit rattly....any tips on how to get a smooth sound out of it?

    P.S. not sure if i spelled "Mach" right.

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