Saxophone Lessons

Saxophone Lessons. Welcome to the third step of your adventure in learning how to play the saxophone.

By now you will have learned B and A will happily be playing BA's all over the place.

So it's time to move onto the third note in our saxophone lessons.

Learn to play saxophone - Step Three

Now I'm pretty sure if you are here I don't have to harp on about embouchre or breathing. You are of course totally up to speed on these aspects of learn to play saxophone.

The next note we will learn is G

How To Play The Saxophone - Third Note

A 'G' shows on musical notation as the image below. A blob on the second line up of five lines.

So how do we play G? Ok, continuing our saxophone lessons from A, left hand at the top, right at the bottom.

Take the index and middle fingers of your left hand and place them on the second and third keys down as if we were going to play an A.

Now take your third or ring finger and place it on the key directly below your middle finger, as the image shows below

Heres how it would look on a fingering chart.

Now, doing exactly the same as you did with B and A blow through the mouthpiece

If all went well you just played G.

If nothing happened then try it again but this time with a little more air pressure and you should get a result.

Learn To Play Saxophone. Alternate The Notes

Now you have three notes under your belt we can really mix it up.

Start by playing a B and then straight onto G

Or perhaps you would like to try it the other way round

Start on G and move up to a A

Now you've got three notes in the bag the possibilites are endless! Well, not quite, but at least you have some options now.

Saxophone Lessons - Air Pressure

You may or may not have noticed as you go down the scale of notes from B to G you have had to apply more air pressure

As you go down the scale, especially the bottom notes, you will need to blow harder and provide much more air to make a sound.

As you go up the scales you will need to blow less. The lower notes require much more air support than the higher notes.

If you find yourself a little dizzy take a break from saxophone lessons. You can't play whilst unconcious anyway.

How To Play The Sax - Embouchre Changes

Go up the scale and it should become much tighter. Go down the scale and it should loosen off and the bottom jaw may drop slightly increasing the size of your mouth cavity

This is something you will pick up with practice. Everyone is different so how much you change your embouchre and air support can only be determined by you.

Learn To Play Saxophone - Progression

We've got three notes nailed now it's time to use them constructively.

You can, if you want stay here and continue to mess about with B, A and G or if you feel ready you can move on and put them into some sort of practice with some more saxophone lessons.

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