Tone. It's important.
Let's talk about some ways to get your tone ready to make angels cry.
The Simple Trick to Make Your Mouthpiece, Reed, and Ligature Work as a Team
Getting a good sound starts with positioning your reed in the sweet spot on your mouthpiece.
Strengthen Your Tone with These 3 Mouthpiece and Neck Exercises
Strengthen your embouchure, focus your tone, and improve your intonation…without touching the horn.
A One-Note Exercise to Significantly Improve Your Sound
Using middle D to address tone quality (and avoid “high school” tone).
Long Tones 101
What’s the secret to a great sound? Think it’s the mouthpiece? The horn, or reeds?
Simple way to get started with overtones
Doing this exercise for 10 mins each time you practice will have a radically positive impact on your sound, intonation and overall facility on the horn.
What to Do About Wimpy High Notes
How to make those palm keys speak as naturally as the middle range of your horn
How to make your saxophone sing! (Vocal techniques applied to saxophone performance)
Here’s a KILLER example of saying a lot with a limited selection of notes.
Uniformity of Tone Character – An Exercise to Achieve a Balanced, Full Sound in All Registers
Working on this chop-buster long tone exercise will help get you a uniform, balanced tone in all ranges of your instrument. And if you work on it the right way, it will be great for your time-feel.
Chromatic Long Tones with a Drum Loop – A Great Workout in Under 10 Minutes
This under-10-minute long tone exercise will give you a great workout!
Vibrato: Common Mistakes, Practice Methods, and Performance Suggestions
Vibrato is an expressive tool, but many saxophonists overuse it (without knowing). In this lesson I’ll show you when and how to most effectively use it, as well as a great exercise to practice it.
Subtle Nuances Give You That Pro Sound
I’ll show you how I use mini grace notes, lack of vibrato, direct-attack (vs. bending), pre-hearing intervals, and more, to get a polished sound.
How I Split Altissimo G
How to get that slightly broken, or cracked, sound on altissimo G.