Note Transition for Advanced Saxophone Players

Video Transcript

"Alright when you're transitioning between notes playing the scale, exercise or any tune; you want to make sure that you're doing it cleanly. Also I want to stress the importance of keeping your fingers on the keys when you're playing. As you go faster and faster you're finger can start getting wild and, and without you even realizing it you're going to have real bad form. So like I said, one really good technique is to use double sided tape. You can just stick it to your keys, keep your fingers on it. It may not stick your fingers down hard enough to keep you stuck to the thing but you, you can actually just feel them pulling on it and make sure you that you don't come off the tape. Another thing to keep in mind is to keep your hands correctly positioned. Where I have them right now so I can reach the palm keys is a real good place to be. You kind of want to keep your watch on, if; if you don't have a watch just imagine that you have one on your left hand. You want to keep it as close to your chest as you can, that's so that your inside of your fingers can touch the palm keys real easily while you're playing. That's, that's just one thing to keep in mind. Another way to do that is to sometimes you can even attach like a rubber band around the body of the Saxophone, to keep your hand on the sax and it'll also help keep your wrist in where it's supposed to be so you got the; the access to the palm keys real east at all times. When you start plating faster it's natural to reach out with your hand to hit the notes faster, you got better leverage on it. But you don't need that much leverage to push the keys, keep your hand where it's supposed to be at when you're practicing and as you go up in speed you're going to be able to maintain that posture and position threw all your playing."