Best description on reed placement on KZread as I have watched all of them and none mention the beveled edge at the top of the mouthpiece. Which is quite important. Thanks Paul for your honest approach.

I found that I had to work on various positions until the playing was loud, clean and without resonant vibrations occurring. I was taught to place the reed at the top of the mouthpiece as you say here, and had nothing but trouble, to the point I was ready to quit the instrument, until I started making minute adjustments to the placement of the reed, and that made all the difference. So I suggest you try various positions within a 16th of an inch either way, as this can really help or hinder your playing. I suspect the exact best placement is based in part on the reed you are using (both brand and size) as well as the type of mouthpiece you are using, and also your own playing preference. There is no one size fits all "perfect" placement that will be best for every situation.

Ligature position also has an affect on the reed. I'm finding that I'd rather have the ligature a little further back toward the base of the mouthpiece. It's amazing how subtleties can make big differences. Good video! Thank you.

Thanks for this reed placement video-glad the algorithm gods brought me to you🎷

I've been playing sax for 30yrs but I don't remember where to put my mouth piece on for a good tune, I'm a drummer as well and I can't play both instruments at once

Omg those teeth marks

Good lesson and good advice. My mouthpiece, however, provides very little choice because it has almost no tip rail. A mere sliver...well delineated, but a sliver. It's a terrific mouthpiece, but not very forgiving.

Brilliant...thanks for the closeup and the topic of fitting the reed on the small flat part of the tip to make the seal...haven't heard that one. Enjoying your lessons. Never thought I would be learning the sax but here I am and will add it to my Gospel Blues Music when I have learned how to play some pentatonic scales.

Cool, this is the way I line up my reeds too, and for the same reason. I do find it more difficult with Legere synthetic reeds to see due them being clear, though that might not be an issue with everyone.

thank you sir

Great explanation of how to figure out where the tip of the rain goes. Very helpful.

Great video with easy to grasp explanation…good detailed close ups too 👍..

I will second the opinion that this is the best explanation of reed placement on youtube. While I feel the detail on the tip placement has been the biggest benefit to me, I still hear Paul’s in my head every time I place my reed on the mouthpiece table “Keep it central” lol.

Superb camera work provides superb clarity of message.

Thank you - excellent and clear guidance and advice. Helpful. Now to try it all in practice.

Thank you for the nice information. It's really helps me to do it with my mouthpiece in alto saxophone.

Very helpful, that's a good demonstration and instruction, thanks for sharing.

Excellent!! Thanks very much

Very helpful. Thank you.

Very good lesson you taught dear... thank you....❤❤❤