- #Learning first and second notes on saxophone how to#
- #Learning first and second notes on saxophone free#
If you find it’s very tight, or very loose, you need to see a saxophone repairer to get your cork adjusted. ✅ Slide the mouthpiece onto the neck of your saxophone, till about 1-1.5 centimetres of cork is showing. Just put a little bit onto the cork regularly to keep it nice and soft. Your saxophone probably came with some – it looks a bit like lip balm. It’s easy and inexpensive to get fixed.Īlso, it’s a good idea to get some cork grease. Similarly if it’s loose you need to go see a repairer. If it’s super tight and you find that you can only get your mouthpiece on a very short way, that you need to go and see your repairer and get that cork adjusted. Just put it on to where it feels comfortable. If you’re struggling to get your mouthpiece on, don’t force it. It doesn’t matter if you’re on a tenor or an alto – every saxophone works the same way.Īs a guide, you want to have a centimetre to a centimetre and a half of cork showing when your mouthpiece is on. It might be better to hold the neck of the saxophone, to support it. The mouthpiece goes on the end of your neck cork and you slide it on with a gentle, twisting motion. Let’s pop our mouthpieces on our saxophones and start making a sound. ✅ Once the reed is in place, tighten the ligature to hold it there. ✅ Your reed sits just below the end of the mouthpiece. ✅ The flat side of the reed goes against the flat side of the mouthpiece When you’re a beginner saxophone player it might take a big of practice, so don’t worry. It just needs to be finger tight to hold the reed in place and allow the reed to vibrate so you get a nice sound. You don’t want to squeeze the life out of it. Once I’ve got the reed in the right position, I hold it in place with my thumb, and slide my ligature down, and then tighten my ligature to hold the reed in place.ĭon’t tighten the ligature too much. What we’re aiming for is to get that reed so that it’s even on both sides of the mouthpiece, and also just a fraction below the tip of the mouthpiece. The flat side of the reed going against the flat side of the mouthpiece. Slide the thick end of the reed onto the mouthpiece, going underneath the ligature. So slide your ligature onto your mouthpiece, and then once it’s on there, we’re going to slide the ligature up a little bit and then the flat face of the reed, the flat face of the mouthpiece. You’ll be able to see which way it fits on. My ligature goes with the screw at the bottom, but if you’ve got one of those cloth ligatures, perhaps the screw goes at the top. You should always put ligature on the mouthpiece first, because it’s better for your reed.
Wet the reed by putting the thin end in your mouth. Turn the flat side of the mouthpiece so it’s facing you. It’s really important that you get the mouthpiece assembled correctly to get a good sound. I use synthetic reeds by Légère, but you must probably have a cane reed, which is a standard type of reed that everybody used up until recently. Now there are lots of different options for reeds. There are three elements: the mouthpiece, the reed, and the ligature. So the sound on a saxophone is made by the mouthpiece, which goes on the very end of the instrument.
#Learning first and second notes on saxophone how to#
Firstly, grab your mouthpiece and your reed, and we’re going to quickly run through how to put this together.
#Learning first and second notes on saxophone free#
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