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
Vibrato
Is there some kind of exercise you do to get a narrow vibrato?
How To Get a Bigger, Fatter, Warmer Tone
Here’s why—and how—to drop your lower lip.
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!
Get a Full-Range Subtone Like Stan Getz (The Darth Vader Trick)
Want a full-range subtone that sounds like Stan Getz? Try this technique.
Ways to Practice Intonation
In this video I address several ways of focusing on accurate pitch, including different practice techniques, the pros and cons of digital tuners (hint: develop and trust your ears, not your eyes), how professional jazz saxophonists setup differently from beginners, tuning overtones, voicing and air flow, and what part reed strength plays.
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.