Absolutely Abe!
i remember the day when my teacher got a new mouthpiece he wanted, i said to him – ‘well go on then,
lets hear you play it’
He played jazz up and down the sax, and then stopped and said there’s lots of harmonics in the notes
that i don’t want to hear, it’l take my at least 2 weeks to get it to sound (embouchure wise) how the
notes should sound correctly – at that time i was just starting the altissimo course on overtones, so i
didn’t have a clue what he was talking about, i couldn’t hear anything wrong, but he could, obviously being
a pro, he’d developed a very good ear over the years.
Long tones & full chromatic scales – work wonders, in a matter of several weeks
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