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Don Menza - Lesson on Tone - Cannonball Saxophones

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Uploaded by on Apr 1, 2010

Don Menza talks about technique vs. tone, and the importance of watching, listening and imitating sound; discusses embouchure, subtone, reeds, & mouthpieces; demonstrates the differences in tone of the great jazz masters: John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt, Michael Brecker, Ben Webster, and Gene Ammons.

Saxophone: Cannonball Vintage Series Brute with Lady Godiva Engraving and Fat Neck

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  • I really dig that split tone he did on the high Bb while playing like Hawk... Anyone know how he did that?

  • @cabe277 Good question. The effect Don is using at 7:39, 7:52, and 7:57 while demonstrating Hawk's sound is a growl, which he produces by humming while he plays. Thanks for asking!

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  • he looks like a white sonny rollins

  • Yeah I'd say that saxophone works alright lol

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  • He's right about everything he's saying. But the fact that he can just mention someone he's heard play, then go and replicate that player's style AND sound so accurately, puts him on another level. To do from Coltrane and Stan Getz to Gene Ammons, then Ben Webster, and nail it each time....

  • You're my little son's hero!

  • this a great video, priceless information in fact. Please keep this on youtube always!

  • @teejay5962 yeah dude I know how to do the texas wobble. But that definitely isn't it. I'm talkin' about the split tone, like the growly, almost gargly sound he gets. He only does it for a split second at a time

  • @cabe277 I think you might be talking about the Bb/Texas Wobble. You finger mid-range Eb, but you lift the third finger on the left hand while using gratuitous amounts of vibrato. You hear a LOT of it in the blues.

  • this is the biggest genius out there. damn. Learned more from him in 8 minutes then i did from one of my old teachers in 5 years.

  • nick menzas dad

  • Play some poison was the cure and capitive hounor! jk awesome swing, great jazz like this cat

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