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
Improve Your Tone While Learning a New Melody
Another “kill two birds with one stone” practice strategy. Great way to work on tone while also memorizing a new melody.
Half (Ghost) Tonguing
How do you get that sound that’s kind of articulated, kind of not? The one you hear in so much bebop?
Developing a Sound That Fills the Room
What should you do when you feel like your sound isn’t projecting the way you wish it would? Change mouthpieces? Reed strengths? Both? Here are some practices I use to develop a big sound—at any volume.
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.
How I Split Altissimo G
How to get that slightly broken, or cracked, sound on altissimo G.
B Flat Overtone Series – Play Along with Bob
How to play/practice the Bb overtone series.