Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I've forwarded the link to my wife who is a good classical pianist but has an obsession with learning the Xaphoon but has been having difficulty finding a good, consistent tone. This is going to help enormously I think. Thank you for posting.

Thanks for the help. You made playing my xaphoon possible immediately!!!!😂😅😅😊

Brother! So excited for this video been learning how to play and was looking for something like this vid. Awesome to see it’s a recent post, please keep up the beginner tutorials!

@mbensonmusic

Жыл бұрын

Can do, thanks!

Thank you for this!

Glad to see ya uploading my dude!! Great video!!

A good video. Would be nice to see some hints regarding the reed setup of a bamboo Xaphoon. The mouthpieces of those are often cut flat and not round to be parallel with the reed. I figured out, it might be an easy setup to shift the reed backwards by the strength of a finger nail in order to avoid a mini area where the air blows the reed upwards.

Nice this is a big help, thanks for the tips! Would love to see you walk through picking out some songs in different keys and the process of figuring out the fingering. Maybe even transposing the song so that’s easier to play on the Xaphoon. Geared towards beginners

@mbensonmusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the good idea!

Love your shirt;)

I have just started to learn the xaphoon the trouble is I get a lot of saliva dribble out of the end where am I going wrong. Great and clear tutorial

@mbensonmusic

Жыл бұрын

Dripping saliva is very normal/expected, welcome to wind playing!

@howlinhobbit

10 ай бұрын

it’s simply condensation from your breath. you’re not drooling.

Thank you, a very good tutorial for us beginners! I also play the guitar but when I saw Rory Hoffman play one of these I fell in love and decided I need one. Hoping to sound a good as you on it I have read to be careful not to buy the cheaper knock offs, and to make certain that it's a Maui. Ebay has one for around 80$, does that sound about right? Thanks again!

@mbensonmusic

9 ай бұрын

Yes, that’s about how much mine cost and it’s held up very well!

@Rod_Daigle

9 ай бұрын

@@mbensonmusic Thanks!!

Hello. I appreciate the videos. I have questions please. I have no musical experience and I have a mini sax in C. Where or what kind of sheet music will work. Or is the sheet music dedicated to just this instrument. jan

@mbensonmusic

Жыл бұрын

Anything that's for a C instrument (piano, guitar, flute, violin, etc) will generally work that doesn't play below a middle C- You'll find some sheet music from my other videos that are specifically for the Xaphoon.

BRO WHAF HOW DID I JUST REALIZE THAT THE MOUTH PEICE IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE A SAXOPHONE

My problem currently is that I can comfortably get the sound out every time, but covering the holes tightly is super hard, there is always some „fake air” coming out of one of them. Also, I tried this against a tuner and the problem is that the tuning varies a lot with how deep the mouthpiece is in my mouth and that changes with the note I play. Eg. I play a clean, in tune Eb and then I let open the hole to make it an F and it’s like 25 cents out of tune and I have to adjust the depth othe the mouthpiece by a few milimeters for it to be in tune, which means I have to constantly adjust it at each note I play. I’ve never played a wind instrument before, is this how it’s supposed to work or am I doing something wrong?

@mbensonmusic

6 күн бұрын

Keep the position in the mouth consistent over anything (don't care about the tuning too much when you're first learning). You could get your F or G in tune and keep that mouth position solid.

What reeds will fit these? Is it reeds for an alto sax, or? Mine is a cheapo that only came with one reed, and it has a small knick on it right at the edge of the thunder section of the reed. No spares came with it. Thinking of ordering some 2.0 reeds, as this thing is a touchy bugger!

@mbensonmusic

Жыл бұрын

Tenor sax reeds are what you want! Good luck!

Sir is it available in india

@katzzzyyy

7 ай бұрын

yeah it is, its on amazon only

How to blow smoothly the xophoon when it comes to play music as a begginer sir.

@mbensonmusic

6 ай бұрын

Think of a small stream of fast air- like you're blowing out a candle. Breathing exercises can help, too- look some up on youtube!

pretty sure this is Zack Galliifinakas dressed up and playing character???