Even when mouthpieces sound the same, they often don't PLAY the same. The feel of control, resistance, stability etc. can vary significantly even though the tone may be almost identical cross multiple pieces. This is a main reason I like to try different MP's and favor some much more than others, even if they sound very similar.

Even if they all sound the same, I always want to buy more 😂

@LalitMadhava

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Me too 😂, but in secret, nobody in my family understands this síndrome 🎷, greetings

Listen to everything! That's why we love you, sir! You have the best advice, and no BS.

@Sirvalorsax

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Thank you 😊

I have mouthpieces with removable baffle wedges and I have played with and without it back to back. I makes a big difference. Brighter tone and easier high altissimo with the baffle. I changed nothing else. Same horn, reed, and the rest of the mouthpiece. Buy a mouthpiece with the right baffle height for how you want to sound.

I'm a drummer who knows next to nothing about Saxophones, but I love the way they sound and I like your channel a lot!

Good advice! I was recently contacted by a "band" who asked me to play some "jazz/blues" numbers (on the sax) with them. It turned out that the "band" is a classical string quartet! I never played classical sax before, but, at least for the first rehearsal, I was able to adjust my sound a little closer to a classical sound (-- they are doing 1 Gershwin number, hence a hint of "jazz/blues".)

I use shoes to explain mouthpieces. Get the right size (tip opening). You don't copy other people's size. You don't run in dress shoes. You get a trainers. You don't swim with trainers, you get flippers. You don't gear up (military) for war/rough terrains/snow with slippers, you get boots. You don't go to church in bikini just as you don't go to the beach in suit/tie. Appropriate mouthpiece for the situation. You may adapt in some situation to use one mouthpiece for more than one situation but overall, mouthpiece collection is not for beginners who can't even tell/feel the difference.

@Sirvalorsax

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Fantastic analogy 👏

@Njderig

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Excellent point! I used to play on a 8 or 9 tip opening on tenor and would run out of air but I stayed with it because I thought that’s what all the pros used. Nope, turns out the sweet spot for me is a .105 tip opening which is a 7 for Dukoff and I get the best sound with a combination of volume and flexibility without running out of air.

Fantastic video SirValorsax. I totally agree with the statement at the end about loving a sound now that you never liked years ago. My appreciation for more variety has expanded very much. Even 5 years ago I barely liked anything that wasn’t a rock / funk super bright aggressive sound. Now I appreciate much more.

very good lesson

Very good presentation. I like the idea of listening to great players whose sound and style I don't like. I'm going to do this and pass it along to my students. Thanks.

FANTASTIC advice. It's about opening our ears and give our brain some time to aquire new tastes. And after a few weeks, months, years, things WILL click! :)

Your experience in college was extremely fascinating. Listening to everything with an open mind. Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Harris, andJoe Henderson, Ernie Watts, Chris Potter, Jerry Bergonzi, and others are often the brush, but, if you study what they are playing for a long time you’ll see why they are considered genius in the musical choices they make. Barry Harris unveils many insights to a essential vocabulary of music. I love this channel for really great playing by a master and amazing talent as a educator and commentator. And yes kids, Michael Brecker, John Coltrane and Bob Berg are geniuses and fantastic players. No doubt. But, we all can’t go for the same gold ring.

Really interesting topic, thanks for the insight!

Love your comments! Spot on great advice.

@Sirvalorsax

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Thanks for watching!

Good word for approaching life. Piece of cake incoming. The cake you presented tastes great -- even if maybe not always in life do we understand what's useful or good for us!

I have this one mouthpiece that, for lack of a better description, I'll borrow one of your terms. It's a "mouth cannon"! Doesn't sound like my others at all. It's piercing, rich in highs and high mids. I love it for certain things, great for rock, I use it when I'm around guitar players. I'm going to try my Otto Tone Edge with this Raggae band I just joined.

plus our sound of each one

First of all . I like your channel very much.

Eddie Harris says " Be sure to listen the players you do not like (and transcribe them) because there is a reason they are selling records" That is not his entire exact statement but the idea is correct.

@Sirvalorsax

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Well said

Great video brother! Thank you very much for this clear concepts, and for speak so good and clear english that allow us understand all (for us, the people of foreign countrys). Bless and regards😊

@Sirvalorsax

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😁

great advice 🙂

Great thanks

That's why we have drawers of them.

Lindo sax alto lo prefiero.feliz domingo 🎷

that's like having your back turned and playing different mouthpieces and saying which is which that's almost impossible

Cool! I have a C* on my soprano because i wanted a more classical kind of sound there. Still rocking V16 on alto and tenor for all kinds of music.

@theglauber

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I want to have a ton of mouthpieces, but i don't want to spend the $ they cost, without knowing if i will like them.

@insaneevillogan

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@@theglauber well you definitely should be trying any and everything before you buy it! Unless it’s under say 50$

@theglauber

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How do you try stuff, though? Do you have to (gasp!) have friends? 😂 I really would like to try some metal mouthpieces.

@insaneevillogan

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@@theglauber oh no no most in person stores will allow you to try before you buy, I’ve done it before. Even some online vendors will let you try something with a fee of like 30$, and then shipping is maybe 20$, but again, 50$ is a lotttttt better than wasting hundreds.

Oh yeah!

Hi I really look forward to your vids. Going on from this vid ,how about a follow up with the change you get when you go through a Mic, the mic seems to pick up things that you don't always hear when you play without the mic.

I wonder if you could maybe create a playlist of random saxophone sounds and players. I know a decent number of players, but as you said, I only really know the players I like.

Succinctly articulated, Professor. Close listen ....the Soloist kinda had a bassoon timbre down low.

Sirvalorsax what if I really really like almost all sounds 😭? I have a sort of “bad” issue of not being a person who dislikes any kind of music with a saxophone in it, and end up digging everything. I mean there was a little while I didn’t like mike breckers sound but it ended up really growing on me as I listened more and I like it now, but as a baritone player? I can’t name you a single player’s sound I don’t dig, even hammiet bluiett’s whos whole thing is sounded like a cacophonous foghorn

@Sirvalorsax

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I always tell people that if you like everything, you haven't listened to enough. LOL

darker or sharper or depends on the reed that's all for me

First of all I like Jackie Maclean and would like to know his Equipment. If you know wich mouthpiece, wich ligature and reeds, J. M. plays, please let me know. I have some different mouthpieces from Selmer ( classical) over Link metal and Berg Larsen metal to three diff. Meyers. But my best has always been my old ( what's the name ?) Charlie Parker mouthpiece from 1942. So I have really tried to figgur out what the diff. mouthpieces could do for me.

What is that jam on the intro?

I don't think it's possible to sound the same on every mouthpiece. There's no way in hell I could get the same sound out of a Selmer S80 and a Dukoff.

Can you tell me what mouth piece all the coltrane clones are using lol

@Sirvalorsax

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