First, learn saxophone with good vibration.
For saxophone beginners, your mouth shape, flute head position, pronunciation, breathing, posture of holding the piano, hand shape and method of touching keys all start with a good vibration. In order to understand this concept correctly, let's start with the pronunciation principle of flute head.
1. Location of flute head
First, we choose a standard flute head and flute blade. When the flute head and flute blade overlap, the separation point between flute blade and flute head can be seen from the tuyere of flute head, which is also the vibration point of flute head I want to emphasize. Our lower lip will be placed at this vibration point, and when the airflow blows through this vibration point, the whistle in our mouth will get the maximum vibration.
2. Mouth shape
In the process of playing saxophone, the mouth shapes of different music styles are different. The classic snapping mouth is basically that the lower lip wraps the lower teeth as much as possible, and the intersection of the lower lip and the lower teeth is the same as that of the lower teeth. * * * The vibration point of the flute head (we can't see it in actual performance, we can only rely on the feeling, which is also the easiest feeling to get correct pronunciation). Our upper teeth and lips are also placed in corresponding positions according to the impact point of the flute head.
pronounce
When we have a good grasp of the * * * vibration point of the flute head and the correct mouth shape, we can start playing pronunciation practice, but please note that there are two kinds of air in the process of playing saxophone: one is hot air, the airflow speed is relatively slow, and the tone produced by the hot air saxophone is softer and the sound is pure; The second is air conditioning, which has a faster airflow speed, so the tone of saxophone becomes rough, and the sound is unclean and lively. Compared with the two, the former is the correct pronunciation.
breathe
Breathing plays an important role in wind music performance, just like the power system of a train. Only by mastering the correct breathing can you keep the music coherent and fluent. Here I want to emphasize that friends must master the correct way of chest-abdomen breathing. There are many introductions of this kind of knowledge in domestic music bookstores. You can refer to related performance tutorials.
5. Hand shape
When we stand, please keep your hands relaxed naturally.
Touch the key
When practicing, the correct way for our fingers to touch the keys is to put the protruding part of our fingers in the depression of the keys.
Writing here, I want to explain some common sense of buying musical instruments to my friends. As a saxophone player, the biggest headache is missing keys. When buying an instrument, you can turn it off and play it by tapping the keys with your fingers. High-quality musical instruments should be kept airtight for a long time, so that they can be bought. And the strength of touching the key should be just right so as not to leak, and not to exceed this strength. You will feel the vibration of your fingers when you play.
7. Attitude
When we have a good musical instrument, whether sitting or standing, we should keep our body in the most comfortable state, so that after playing for a long time, it will relieve your fatigue and help you play the musical instrument correctly.
The above points are all centered around the vibration of the reed driving the vibration of the whole instrument. When playing, please pay attention to the breath, the strength of your fingers touching the keys and the posture of playing. Simply put, it is to ensure that your exhaled breath becomes sound as much as possible, not air sound. The slower the airflow, the purer the timbre.
Common sense: Please don't mix flute and whistle for different purposes. For example, classical flute and jazz whistle should never be mixed. When choosing a flute head and a flute tail, you should first know whether the flute head and the flute tail you want to buy are classical, jazz or popular. Some foreign products are very detailed with instructions. If this is not ready, you will waste a lot of time.
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