Voicing and Overtones Lesson for Saxophone

Since it's all happening internally, VOICING can be one of the more elusive and mysterious concepts for saxophone players to grasp. It also happens to be one of the most important aspects of saxophone playing. To help saxophonists understand how it works and how to use it, and perhaps to give saxophone or woodwind educators some different ideas for how to introduce the concept of voicing to students, I've attempted to approach voicing from a variety of different angles. I've also included an introductory guide for learning to practice OVERTONES, which I will cover in much greater detail in another video.

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00:00 Intro: What is VOICING?
1:18 Who this video is for
2:10 the mystery of voicing and my approach
2:55 voicing consciousness
3:10 singing
5:24 VOWELS
6:28 mouthpiece "Ahh"-"eee" exercise
7:15 classical versus jazz
7:53 vowels with mouthpiece
8:26 GREMLINS Flashback!
8:48 Vowel demo on sax
9:52 general register approach
10:26 Why AHH and eeeee?
11:20 voicing an octave key Bb
11:51 Ahh and eee summary with scale demo
13:01 Biting reed for high notes
13:54 other vowels
14:20 WARNING- a tangent
15:13 tone colors - Kenny Garrett or Ben Webster?
16:25 WHISTLING high notes
17:35 WIZARD Level Unlocked
18:13 OVERTONES explained
19:05 RIP Pythagoras
19:18 Intro to playing overtones
21:51 How to practice overtones
23:13 TONE IMAGINATION
23:48 long tones
24:30 alternating, skipping, melodies
25:40 Overtone "scales"
26:30 MATCHING exercise
27:51 Conclusions/Summary and Advice
29:01 Coming soon

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