I love you both individually, but together you're amazing. You should do this more often to teach us and entertain us.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

I’d love to, personally.

@jamesboyle5812

2 жыл бұрын

You guys are awesome

@Piwowo2010

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

Awesome! seeing you two-MY FAV INSTRUCTORS - together!!! Omgs🎉I love it and thanks for putting this tone tutorial together! Cheers and happy playing! 🎉

Thanks to You both. 30 years in and now I am getting somewhere…

There seem to be a lot of us that watch both you guys...can't be a coincidence! Thanks for all the great material

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Liam, and absolutely. Jamie and I aren't in competition, we're enjoying collaborating and getting more people playing the saxophone!

“Overtones have nearly gotten me divorced.” I felt that 😂😂😂😂

Great session guys! Really wonderful teaching here.

Two of the best teachers on the web come together, Brilliant!! Super video, real fun and very educational. We’ll done Jamie and Dr Wally

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks 🙏🏻

Two big hearted men!! Thanks 🙏🙏🙏

Hey! The only two sax channels I have subbed to and here you are together! Nice!

Hi doctor Wally, I look to the book I cannot find the long tones exercises. I would like to felicitate you for your great work to teaches people how to play better the saxophone. Thank you!

I watch both you guys often, Great team and entertaining while learning....MORE

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

😎

Abbott and Abbott! You guys should do this more! Love you both and trying every bit!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

😎

I think it's time to acknowledge that Jamie Anderson deserves an honorary doctorate in saxophone from the Saxophone Academy or at least a Blazer or Jacket... Great collaboration guys! The real bonus came when Jamie clearly demonstrates at 31:26 where all this foundational stuff leads. While the scene at 10:35 demonstrates the big fear most young saxophonists visualize as their sound, the big ah-ha moment starting at 11:20 and when Dr. Wally acknowledges at 13:10 the amount of pressure that leads to his little buzz fail at 13:30 that most others will also do. You guys packed so much good stuff into just under 40 minutes! Kudos? Cheers? I think you get my drift. Every band teacher and even sax teacher needs to make this the #1 video for all their sax students. I'm certainly paying this one forward with my students.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. What a lovely comment 🙏🏻

@lyntedrockley7295

2 жыл бұрын

You saved me writing this, absolutely agree, wonderful video!

Dude, the tone matching....so simple why haven't I heard this before? What a fantastic practice technique! For ear training, developing alternate fingerings, and of course breadth control. I've spent TOO many years of long tones helping sustain bad technique. I mean I've done overtones for years but not the tone matching. It's one of those simple techniques that lit up the bulb in my brain which is important because the lights are off most of the time lol Also great way to introduce new students into loosening embouchure.

20:05 - oh my god, yes!!! There's heaps of stigma, with looking pregnant, when you're a male, playing the saxophone. That's why I had such a hard time playing standing up in my first 8 or so months. Now I push out my stomach on purpose at the start of the session. Let it hang! Do I look attractive? No! Do I feel like I'm playing better? Yes! Such an amazing video guys! Packed to the brim with useful tips! Going to be rewatching it a number of times for sure! I definitely do agree that lots of teachers don't teach this stuff well at all and I believe that I learnt much more from your channel than I have from my two teachers, at least as far as embouchure, breathing, voicing - basically all of the core and most important skills. I find that teachers seem to kind of just skip that. I keep getting told that I'm overthinking it and that it "will come naturally". I could not disagree more. I feel waiting for something to come naturally is a waste of time. I think we need to self reflect and be thoughtful in our practice, in order to make efficient improvement! It is only after I started practicing the "Exercise Zero" every single day for 4 weeks (not going to stop either) that my low Bb started coming out, at least most of the time. Before that, anything below low E was an issue. Fantastic channel! Fantastic videos! Thanks fo much!!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing comment, wow. Interesting points as well. We didn’t evolve on the African Savannah 200,000 years ago playing saxophone, so there’s no reason to assume it should come naturally 🤣

Jamie’s always had a huge sound. Great player.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Great screen name! 👌🏻

@jamieforjazz

2 жыл бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether Ain’t it just :-)

My favorite KZread Sax teachers together, great.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Yay!

Love this guys. Lots of fun. I love hanging around musicians because they are so "Off the Wall". great work

fantastic teaching and really learned a lot. practicing voicing is the key to make the sax sound great.

God damn, Dr. Wally came out strong with the jokes on this one! Ten minutes in and I'm dead already! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh wow. As a former brass player, I was told the embouchure between sax and trumpet would be totally different, but I never fully understood that until now, and I'm seeing why I tend to struggle with playing too tensely. This was an incredible video! (Yes, I'm 8 months late, but better late than never :D)

Very cool. I constantly search for useful teaching content being self-taught and around 99% of the really useful stuff comes from just these two channels. My daily practice routine/warmup is a combination of Dr Wally's Fundamentals course and Jamie's exercises including that overtone matching. Thanks guys!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! 😎

The best sax teachers online, great to see you together!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pat 🙏🏻

Two of my favourite sax guys in the same video!!! Thanks guys, as always, I learned something new! Appreciate all you do!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Julie 🙏🏻

Best laugh I had in weeks!!

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Jamie is a hoot.

After watching this I worked on my breath, using all the air, and I can now reach extremely low pianos. Thank you guys so much!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Yay 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Pretty awesome seeing the two of you together! Loved it. Thanks. Hope to see many more videos with you two.

So much great ideas straight out of the gate! Tone is one of my number one annoyances with my playing. Super helpful!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. I think you’ll love the Get Your Tone Together series then!

THank you Wally! This is so awesome and supprising to see right now.I also watch and save alot of Jamie's videos as well as yours so to have him on with you really blows my mind. Love you both!

Dr. Wally, Jamie, that was by far the best tutorial since ages ! I watch both of your channels and it helped a lot to come to a good level on Alto within 2 years. For sure I have a pro as teacher but it is even more efficient to listen to you guys. Thanks and … Go teaching !

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏻

great union to help thousands... Thank you for you time & sharing your impeccable knowledge..

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Sure thing 👍🏻

Jamie honestly is a genius at teaching this stuff. His one video literally unlocked all of altissimo for me. 19:26 I bet a lot of us actually have "two-packs" though lol

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Aw shucks ☺️

An absolute gem of a lesson, and all for free! What a hilarious double-act presentation of that ‘holy grail’ quest for perfect tone production. Two lovely, hugely talented guys on a mission to transform all us hesitant mortals into …Sax Gods?🤔mm, maybe not….but certainly committed improvers and confident, sonorous players (Yes Jamie, sonority is THE word!). Thanks so much, guys.👏👏👏Hope to see you teaming up again soon!

Great to see you two together 💯👍🏾😄🎷

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man 🙏🏻

I’m a flutist who has figured out loose embouchure on flute but not on sax…until watching this video. Thank you!!

Neat ideas! Embouchure relaxation can also be achieved through playing appropriate pitches with the mouthpiece alone. It’s the kazoo/party-favor from hell!

Thanks for the tone tips! I taught myself how to play sax and bit through 2 mouthpieces before discovering mouthpiece pads and learning to loosen my embouchure. Now a mouthpiece pad lasts for at least a year. Also, watching clips of myself helped me realize how tense my shoulders get, so I made a conscious effort to relax. Great to see you both, my favorite sax teachers, together!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Rob, thanks. 🙏🏻

Very entertaining and concise. The best video on breath and tone I’ve seen.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Ta Dino 🦕 (couldn’t resist it)

Thank you guys. I learnt so much from you both. Generous teachers.

That. Was. Wonderful!. Seriously, that has to have been one of the most entertaining sax videos I've ever seen... And really, really useful too! Thanks guys - a great lesson!

Saying "relax, relax, relax" ad infinitum results in semantic satiation

@drwallysax

Жыл бұрын

Just relax Chris, that won't happen. Seriously, relax. Just relax.....relax....relax..... Wait......ah crap.

So great Dr. Wally and Jamie...Yes, great pairing. On tone, one would have had to hear him live, and that's Paul Desmond. We were lucky as teens to hear him in three performances, the best one at NTSU. Paul's real tone, from even thirty feet away, was so all encompassing, warm and cool at the same time I still cannot get over it. It filled the entire auditorium. The LP's of course show his tone as what we all loved, but to hear his tone live was the living end. And the way it carried through the air was magical.. Peace out.

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Love this, thank you for sharing. Wish I could have heard him live!

Love you both! Great to see the collaboration!!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

Excellent stuff. I've been following both of you for quite some time. I'd been a pro player in the distant past, but not at a very high level (in any sense), and I wish things like this had been available when I was younger. I've learnt more and become a better player in the last 10 years than in the previous 50 years. Thank you once again.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome david

Amazing video, amazing teachers, amazing tips! Thank you guys !!!!

Thank you for sharing your years of training and experience. Excellent

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Anytime 😊

excellent tips! Thanks for this great video Jamie & Dr Wallace!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Anytime 👍🏻

Thank you soooo much!!! I love you both. Together you are realy inspiering!!! You put a big smile on my face today :-)

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

And you’ve just put a smile on mine! 😊

Thanks to both of you, that was packed with information. I'm looking forward to trying the tone masterclass.

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent, happy practicing JM!

This is GREAT. You guys are excellent and entertaining too.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏻

Excellent video, Doc and Jamie. Thank you.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

Priceless! Thanks guys

Duo perfection for all saxophonists and errrr….. Saxophone-ists (?) You two are my favourite go-to instructors. Well done, great data, fun and hilarity. I’ll second many of the previous comments - can we have more of you together please?

You guys are fantastic! Love you both…Thanks for the great content 😊💛🎷

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex, happy Saturday!

I can feel a bromance in the air. No Bait Click here boys 👍👍👍 Scruffy Jamie 😝😝😝😂😂

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

Been playing sax for just a month, besides trumpet for a few years. So on trumpet you pretty much need to know the overtones or harmonic series because thats just how it works with 3 buttons. Now I understand why sometimes a high note comes out on the sax lol its all about air speed probably! What you guys say about voicing sounds so familiar and alike to the garden hose analogy. Time to start practicing this as the tone Jamie demonstrated clearly has a nice quality and would be so cool to be able to do something like bugle calls on the sax, maybe even economize on finger movement

That's only the mailman at the door with a big fat paycheck for you in leu of this great video. You deserve it and Jamie too. Thanks for the detailed info guys.. It was very helpful! and inspiring for sure.

Great vid guys, thanks, please do more.

Brilliant Need more of this

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

😎

You just nailed an issue I had on my alto. I got a new sax and use the original 56 mouthpiece and wanted to try the mouthpiece that came with the sax to see the difference. It played well, but pinched a ton and I had no idea why. I thought I was doing something wrong. I went back to the 56 and had no problems. Now I get what the tip opening actually is (it's probably common sense, but i never had it explained until now).

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Full disclosure, it was years before I knew what the tip opening was. *shame*

Love this! Great job guys :)

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

😎

Great video. I learned a lot. I started playing soprano sax early in January. People said it was going to be hard. I refuse to accept that. Not hard, it's challenging. It's also been a lot of fun. I use the Tonal Energy app and practice long tones with a drone. At first, I was watching the app to make sure I hit the tone. I want to train my ear, so now I close my eyes and use my hearing to match the drone. I hope to one day, be able to train myself to the point that hitting the right tone will be automatic. I'll probably always do long tones this way as a start of practicing. I find it meditative.

Great collaboration!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

Hey you guys are such a lot of fun!! Serious fun, of course..

Fantastic video. Thank you.

I like very much your explanation really fantastic

I was taught in anatomy that the diaphragm is a dome shaped muscle. Inhalation is the contraction and flattens the dome. This pulls the lungs down through surface tension. Exhalation relaxes the muscle recreating the dome and pushing air out. Beyond the neutral point stomach,rib and chest muscles combine to get the last bit out.

Great stuff guys. I lost it with the Gondor thing :D Time for a second breakfast!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

intercostal muscles. used to be an opera singer and they ache if you're doing it right.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Yup!

Apologies for double commenting, but I just want to make a comment on overtones and voicing. 10 months into playing I'm still struggling with that. Both teachers of mine seemed unable to explain how to so it "right" and both seemed to indicate that using jaw pressure is A OK. What I found through experimenting (and thanks to Sax Academy overtone videos) is that, for me what works to play overtones and generally clearer and crisper higher notes is to: * Low Bb - breathe as if you are fogging up a mirror with as much steam as possible. Slow, hot, moist air. Alternatively imaging yawning. That seems to so the trick for me. I actually end up yawning infrequently when playing low Bb lol... * 1st overtone or 2nd Bb - hardest overtone for me, compared to 2nd or 3rd overtone. Breather normally, but imagine circle of condensation that you created with your breath for the low Bb on the mirror and try to breathe (not dog up) an area around 50% of that as well as giving it a bit more air pressure * 2nd overtone or F - focus the air on an even smaller spot on the mirror. Add more air as well. Actually imagine this. This helps me a lot. * 3rd overtone or 3rd Bb (this is where I start to question my methods as I can't go higher). Imagine shooting a blow-dart or attempting to blow I to a small hole from 10 cm away. Actually do this without the mouthpiece. You will notice that you produce a much more pointed, targeted and faster airstream. Now try that on the mouthpiece. If it doesn't work - give it more air, even more air, but be careful not to bite down on the reed as it is counter productive. Anyways.. long rant. Sorry! Curious to see if anyone has any feedback or other useful tips. Am I doing it right? Am I doing it wrong? How do I go to 4th and 5th overtones? I feel like I'm unable to produce even more air and focus it even further

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Sheesh! That was a free PDF download right there! Thanks for the long comment. Hey, if it works, it works! The altissimo OTs are harder and you need to create extra resonance by closing your glottis, but that’s another story. I haven’t worked out a jungle blowpipe analogy for that yet. Wally??

😂😂 thank y’all man. I love this!

Jamie - not to worry. I wear flip flops to The Saxophone Academy,

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Crocs for me 🤣

Great video! You need a "Wally Says Relax" t shirt for your lessons.

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

It's DOCTOR Wally to those little turds......

As to the diaphragm point at about 19:00, the way I talk about it to people is to punch yourself in the stomach, or at least almost do it. You feel the muscles tighten to brace, and that’s the muscles to use. I personally don’t really work out, but I do crunches or planks regularly to keep those muscles strong

This video was great!

Great videos. You guys rock

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks my friend, happy practicing!

You guys are a scream. And the techniques really work!!! As a converted Altissimo Trumpet player I have the chops to bite with the best around, however using the slack jaw and easing my lower lip into contact with the reed the tone is so much richer. Almost like gently kissing the reed and poof solid tone. It is a little strange to touch the body your Sax while playing and feel it vibrating, but the tone is dead one.

I needed to hear this. I'm hoping that single lip will improve my tone.

When I practice, I always wear my blazer. It has pockets. That's where i store extra reeds. Good collab video. Thanks.

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

To wear less is simply uncivilized. I obviously like Jamie to put up with his barbarian attire :)

@vincescuderi

2 жыл бұрын

@@drwallysax 😁🎷

both of you veryyyy cool guys; and the embochure drill reminds me of golf: when you try to change your swing for the better, you feel like you have changed a lot and then on video it looks absolutely the same again, so you have to do actually the very opposite and completely overdo it to get better results.. (first time ever I understood of the concept of loose embochure with your drill ;-))))

Two masters...

Not sure why the algorithm hasn't suggested this video before!

Fab video guys, almost had to do a double take seeing you both on the same video…thought KZread was playing up 😄😎🎷🙈👍🏼

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Worst KZread glitch ever!

Great video!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏻

Do it again guys!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

Great video, thanks! What is Jamie Anderson's mouthpiece/reed setup?

guys this is an amazing video thank you very much! Starting from the exercise with the neck and mouthpiece alone taught me that they use way too much pressure. It feels like I need to relearn how to play. Also the voicing exercises taught me a lot and I manged to get my Larings down 🎉 I have two questions: 1. Should I always lower the larings ? It seems that I'm flat on the higher register (especially palm keys) 2. I noticed that when I use my tongue to articulate, the lower jaw rises involuntarily, and I feel more tense. I actually need to rely on how to articulate can you please guide me to a video that focuses on both keeping the lower jaw relaxed and articulating with the tongue. Cheers!

Great lesson from my two most watched instructors. I like the loose embouchure approach Jamie! Tone is an elusive skill/quality to attain because it is so subjective. My biggest issue is identifying "good" tone while I practice in a 12'x12' room. I don't know when I achieve it, although I know when I'm not! When I record myself, it sounds different than what I hear live. How do I assess the quality of my tone objectively? I also have to practice rather quietly which makes it even more difficult. Any good advice for me to work on getting there? Thanks to you both for putting in the time to get this video together. It was great!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Have you tried recording yourself and seeing how it sounds every month or whatever? I agree that’s it’s hard to assess it, but you know Sonny Rollins sounds good and you know Johnny age 8 who just had one lesson doesn’t, so there must be SOME sort of criteria.

so funny about the dress code!!!

Good stuff!!

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

I really wish they were together in person

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Unless he smells funny.

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

@@GetYourSaxTogether I smell like Vanilla and Leather you asshat.

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

@@drwallysax 🤣

Very me... I imagine for everyone. In my case I was lucky enough to buy a 7 Ottolink (not metal) and I HAD TO put a lot more air through it, and THAT probably put me in the right direction. I still need to check myself now with all of what you have exposed today.

Loved this! I play a lavoz medium soft. I'm not sure what that equals to. Would you say a harder reed improves the thinness of the higher end?

I teach Pilates, which has inadvertently helped with playing sax, and other wind instruments--- or is it the other way around? =D Thanks for such a great video. I love you guys.

Very useful!!!!!!!

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Josh! Have a great weekend!

"Es wächst zusammen, was zusammen gehört" (Willy Brandt)

Subscribed !

You're both great teachers and players, and I'm happy to see that you're pals. Nice to see Wally's normally reserved demeanor looser and having fun. FWIW, I'm a pro player. I think that another key element of good tone is the ability to truly hear what good players are doing. I think that if we truly listen, we can mimic that sound in an almost autonomic way. What 'blows me away' is how many technically accomplished players I hear, even with altissimo command, that have really poor tone!

@drwallysax

2 жыл бұрын

Hey now, I'm always having fun!

Thanks for the vid but one thing : the Moment i switched from Yamaha 4c to vandoren v16 on alto - it definitly FIXED my sound. Of course it was Not Perfect but it was day and Night right away

Such a cool video. I did not understand though how I am supposed to play less loud, if not by pushing less air into the instrument? Doesn't pushing more air into the instrument means playing louder usually? What am I missing here?

@GetYourSaxTogether

2 жыл бұрын

Air support isn’t air volume. Air support = mains water pressure, volume = how much you turn on the tap 🚰