Saxophone Mouthpiece Facings

Video Transcript

"Mouthpieces. Now we also have to talk about what's called the facing. The facing. Now that's the point where the reed separates from the mouthpiece. Alright. You see it on the diagram here. But actual practice I put the reed on the mouthpiece and it is, when I hold it with my thumb here, the point where the reed and the mouthpiece separate usually about right here to the tip. That's called your facing. There are short facings and long facings. Some facings are here. Some of them are here. Usually they are in the middle. Medium facings. They can be short facings which will be from here to the tip or long facings from probably about here to the tip. Here to the tip. So short facing from about here to the tip or longer facing from here to a tip. This is a medium facing. Goes from here to the tip. We always started with medium facings. And after muscles are developed, than we can look at a person having a longer facing or shorter facing. No one has a shorter facing, by the way, either medium or long. Okay? Because shorter facing, the reed closes too easily. Those are the parts of the mouthpiece. We'll continue on in the next section with the reeds."