some horn tricks for all you horn player

[theunit]

It's me, The Unit and ive been playing horn (saxophone alto ) for years so I just want to share some horn tricks with my fellow saxophone players ....ok! trick nunber ! when playing low Bb  turn the bell of horn toward your leg and you  will get low A. ok! lets try trick number 2....    whlie playing  (A) or your upper rergister A    ..press f, e, and  D  leaving the G   open.....that A will increase in volume by   40% percent.........try it....... and hit me back!!!


Peace unto tthe sax players
The Unit aka kevin davis

[theunit]

opps i for got   press   f, e, d ,  all at the same time


the  unit

[csedwards2]

yeah, I knew the low A trick already. You gotta be a monster or super coordinated to pull it off live. Me, I'd probably trip and fall.

[csedwards2]

Did the High A thing today and realized I did that too in the past but I disgarded it as effective because it sharpens the note so much. But after a lil practice today I now know you can lip down to keep it in tune and effectively blast the heck out of that A in Jesus name.

Thanks Doc,
CSE2

[theunit]

yes doc it will work check it out......trill that A.........it does or it will play a little sharp  so relax......it should give you the power of  dave sanborn......

[Jbroad572]

Did the High A thing today and realized I did that too in the past but I disgarded it as effective because it sharpens the note so much. But after a lil practice today I now know you can lip down to keep it in tune and effectively blast the heck out of that A in Jesus name.

Thanks Doc,
CSE2

Yea, I remembered figuring that out while watching and playing with a recording on Bet's "Jazz Brunch" In a song by Bob James called Night Crawler. I don't know the sax player, but he used that as an effect in his solo.

[csedwards2]

on the original it was Dave Sanborn, but I havent seen the BET joint

[ifiwereu]

I've heard Richard Elliot play the same note with different shades. He likes to growl which I've been trying. They say you have sing a different note than what you're playing into the tenor sax.

Another technique he's mastered that I'm almost done working on is the glissando. It's a fast playing scale up to an high note but barely hitting each note.

How about grace notes. Kirk Whalum uses them a lot.

[visionmike]

Does anyone know how to do the circular breathing?

[keynote]

Growling... you gotta hum a different note than you play. It's kinda tricky, but if you play around with humming different note intervals like 4ths, 5ths or half-steps it changes the frequency of the growl and it can be kinda cool. It's kinda like humming and whistling at the same time... weird, but cool - and you can annoy the heck outta somebody with it too (lol)

You can get a similar effect by flutter-tounging, but I like to growl better

Circular breathing.... you gotta puff out your cheeks, and when you need another breath, blow the air in your cheeks through the horn while you take a quick breath through your nose. This is also pretty tricky and takes practice - I almost choked the 1st time I tried it. It's the same concept as playin' bagpipes, it's just that your horn's the pipe and your cheeks are the bags - be careful w/ intonation here too.

Here's somethin cool I like to do on sax... play a middle register D, just without the B key (left index finger)... it'll make this kinda weird sound that you can lip up to the D to make it sound like one of them cartoon horns (aaaoooooggggah).

Anybody ever experiment with harmonics and the overtone series on the horn?

[david johnson]

i've seen bari-saxers put a foot in the bell to add a bottom note.

dj