Cómo tocar el saxo: trabajando el sonido con el tudel - Lección 6-1

In this video, we'll see how to improve our saxophone sound using simple techniques. Specifically, we'll be using the leadpipe. This lesson is part of the free saxophone course for beginners from La Escuela de Música, which you can access at this link: http://laescuelademusica.net/ To develop our knowledge of the saxophone, we must not only work on scales and melodies, but also on the sound. It's useless to know the notes if what we hear isn't satisfactory. For this reason, we must dedicate a significant amount of our time to working on the sound. To do this, there are different methods. The ideal is to separate each of the elements we're working on. When working on the sound, we won't be working on scales. That way, we can focus on what really interests us. We already saw that we could feel sound with the mouthpiece. This time, we'll also use the leadpipe. The leadpipe is the part that connects the mouthpiece to the body of the instrument. It's easier to produce sound using the mouthpiece and the leadpipe than simply with the mouthpiece. The resulting sound will be lower-pitched and easier to modulate. Just as we did with the mouthpiece, the goal is to play sustained notes. These are long notes that must be played as simply as possible. This means that we will experience fluctuations in both volume and pitch. Unless that's what we want to do. Initially, we'll play long notes that have a consistent pitch. The volume must also remain the same throughout the entire sound. Over time, we'll make variations of this exercise. One of them was to rhythmically vary the pitch of the note we play. This will create an interesting effect called vibrato. Another variation is to play the sound at different volumes. That is, with a loud sound, a soft sound, and various possibilities in between.