Comment améliorer le son au saxophone ? 3 exercices simples et efficaces !

This channel aims to help you: understand and use some essential musical concepts progress in your saxophone learning and practice Every two weeks, 15 minutes (or thereabouts...) are dedicated to a specific question. All videos follow the same format: definition, examples, exercises, and tips. The goal is to help you: play the saxophone and make music, whatever your age or skill level, quickly connect practice with theory, progress steadily, gradually, and consistently. —————————— Today: HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SAXOPHONE SOUND? Sound is a very important element in instrumental practice, especially for wind instruments. In this episode, I offer three exercises and some simple but very effective tips to improve your saxophone sound and understand how it is developed. Thanks for being here, have fun, and feel free to leave a comment! —————————— Other topics have been or will be covered in dedicated episodes. Here are a few examples. KEY CONCEPTS 1. Music Theory • Intervals, the main ones, their uses • Concepts of scale, tonality, transposition, modulation • Constructing and recognizing major scales, the order of sharps and flats • The circle of fifths/fourths • Minor scales, natural minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor • Relative scales • The blues scale • Bop scales, altered scales, diminished scales, whole-tone scales? • ... 2. Rhythm • The signs indicating the duration of sounds and rests • The concepts of tempo, pulse, rhythm, and groove • The most common time signatures • Playing and counting simultaneously. Counting 1s and 3s, 2s and 4s • Playing in duple and triple time • The concept of an air note • Using a metronome, improving timing • Sixteenth note figures • The quarter note triplet • ... 3. Harmony • Chords, inversions, extensions • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • Harmonizing a scale • Which scales over which chords • The main cadences (plagal, perfect, II-V-I, Anatole, Christophe, ...) • Substitutions, tritone substitution • Understanding the chord progression • ... 4. Reading and deciphering sheet music • The important symbols in sheet music (clef, key signature, time signature, tempo, cross-references, repeat bars, measure repetition, coda, indications of dynamics, articulation, and phrasing, ...) • 9 Steps to Speed ​​Up Sight-Reading • Learn a Piece by Heart • ... SAXOPHONE PRACTICE 1. Posture, Support, Embouchure • Grounding, the Role of the Pelvis and Throat, the Upper Body • Placing the Mouthpiece in the Mouth, Positioning the Tongue, Lips, and Jaw • Holding the Instrument: Hands, Forearms, Shoulders, and Neck • ... 2. Breathing, Working the Air Column • Inhalation, Exhalation • Practicing Without the Instrument • Opposite Push, the Most Common Faults • Flow, Pressure, Centering • ... 3. Sound, Attacks, Articulations, and Dynamics • The 6 Essential Parameters of a Sound • Attacks • Enriching the Timbre • Volume Dynamics • Intonation • Ending a Sound • The Main Articulations • Ornaments and Approaches • … 4. Practicing Scales and Chords Exercises by key, by type, on cadences 5. The Basics of Improvisation Beginning, ending, rests, important notes Developing listening skills Using melody Rhythm Harmony Some tips and tricks Transcription Examples I hope you find them useful and enjoy watching them. If so, subscribing, leaving a comment, or sharing these videos is the best reward. My name is Jean-Jacques Bernard, and my training led me to the conservatory of the 9th arrondissement of Paris, the CRR of Cergy-Pontoise, the American School of Modern Music, and the CIM. I currently teach saxophone and/or music theory and harmony in various institutions in Paris and the surrounding region, and regularly play in trios, quartets, quintets, and big bands for workshops, festivals, corporate events, and institutional or private functions. Contact: [email protected] (rhythm, placement, tempo, pulse, metronome, exercise, eighth note, quarter note, half note, meter, duple, triple meter, timing, teacher, learn, understand, progress, improve, music) Rhythm and timing: how to progress in rhythm and improve your placement?