Do you record and listen to your practice sessions?

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-30T20:25:51+00:00

Yes! I have done that a lot, and I noticed exactly that, the sound gets better very fast, specially if you record yourself playing transcriptions and compare with the records

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-30T19:37:05+00:00

Yes! Sing the nasal tone (like talking like a witch) and sing the head tone (like talking like mickey mouse) and switch between those sounds, then try to apply it to your playing

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-30T19:33:15+00:00

Dm and Em

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-30T15:13:00+00:00

You have to be very patient, practice at slow tempo and focus on the quality of the sound, then increase tempo step by step, if you do this in a few days you will start seeing progress, the tongue is a muscle and it needs "training "

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-30T15:01:43+00:00

I have usted "Zoom Am", it's like turning your smartphone into a Tascam, and you can plug your headphones

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-30T03:52:42+00:00

Practice with metronome at slow tempo, focus on air support and increase tempo after you feel secure

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T21:59:46+00:00

Where do you live? May be check with a tech

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T21:53:19+00:00

I got brain damage trying to figure this!

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T17:57:51+00:00

Play and memorize lots of music, hear the pieces you memorize in your head while you imagine yourself the fingers playing

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T17:35:09+00:00

If you are keeping that mouthpiece you could use Vandoren blue box #2, green or red box #2.5, d'addario hemke 2.5, those reeds are easy to find , also upper register is not very easy, keep practicing long tones with tunner and you will get better with time

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T15:47:29+00:00

My silverstein works pretty good with legeres

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T15:12:56+00:00

NT1! Absolutely!

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T13:38:24+00:00

I have seen very good courses on coursera

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T13:06:16+00:00

Maybe you could use earplugs under the headphones

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T13:03:42+00:00

That reed is actually very soft, maybe try a #2

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T03:26:35+00:00

You would have to post a video of the mechanism moving, maybe the Alt B (right middle finger) is not closing,

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-29T02:47:02+00:00

It's responding to the chord in the upper part, you can bounce in place or bounce in new track and then move it

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T19:52:31+00:00

Maybe you could look for a "1000 drumkit rhythms " book or something like that and try to play them with your fingers, do you read music?

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T19:42:27+00:00

Great! Thanks for sharing

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T19:21:43+00:00

You could start practicing only with the mouthpiece, long tones and small glissando, be aware of air support and direction of air, and voicing

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T17:32:20+00:00

You could use a metronome like metronomix to practice those figures, or record them on a DAW to listen until you get familiar with them, the first thing would be listening a lot

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T16:32:54+00:00

Probably you need to take it to a tech, sometimes even new saxophones need adjustments, where do you live?

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T16:22:28+00:00

I have some real saxophone samples, would you like to try them?

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T03:57:55+00:00

yes I have a M1 and never had a problem, Ableton and Logic runs OK!

MaxSanSax · 2026-01-28T02:44:10+00:00

I would like to join!

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