i do about 15 chromatic exercises (play bottom Bb all the way up to the 1st altissimo D#) in different ways – flutter/growl/triple tongu etc as many bizarre sound/articulation effects i can think of. The result it’s a great tone/expression and builds up the altissimo/embouchure muscles.

without doing all these strenuous exercises – i would have an incredibly dull monotonous tone, wheresas with these bizarre exercises, there in the tool box to pull anytime playing.

After playing all those special effects – the guy in the video shows a lovely tone at the end – pays off in the long run

it’s not the liking of squeaky music – as part of my daily practice i spend half an hour working on my sound.

i feel my sax sound is the most important thing along side my rhythmn. If i dont sound good the average listener will be wasting their time listening, and if i’m out of rhythmn the experienced listener will be annoyed at having to listen.

I think we all play within our comfort zone, which stifles growth. So in order to make our comfort zone sound better, we need to play outside of our comfort zone.
So to go outside the comfort zone, start practicing overtones, growling, fluttering, slap tonguing ,double/tripple tonguing, all these sort of squeky exercises like this guy shows.

to start playing this sort of stuff pretty as it may not sound, needs a hell of a lot of controll on the sax. if you can do that, when you start playing on your comfort zone, you will have a richer sound, and amazing control over normal sounds.

quite right squeeky doesnt sound good, but if you can do it – just look how easy normal stuff will be for you

compared to drumming it would probably the equivalent of a strenious gruelling work out? a hard warm up session?