To love somebody

[john]

Sounds great. Wonderful backing track.

[john]

haha Jake, you made me go back to that first post too…
congrats, there are all kinds of improvements and back then you wouldn’t even been able to tackle this song (which is a great choice by the way and has been on my to do backing track list as well)
If I was working with you I’d have you spend more time on intonation. right now that is the most obvious thing and something that can be (and should be) improved upon.

[john]

Jake. How do you put yourself in the video with all the colorful decorations?

[jake]

I record the video on my phone and then use an app called video fx. Bunch of different things you can do to them.

Thanks for the replies. So what’s the best exercises for working on my intonation? I use a tuner and notes seem to be in tune. I know my Bb was a bit flat.
Long tones, octave exercises?? Thanks again

[saxomonica]

Hi Jake, as a beginner i found this link interestin’ as you may appreciate, cheers Mark –

[saxomonica]

This one too –

[john]

yes Jake, all those things but daily and record yourself doing them so you can hear it. get some tuning notes from youtube (A440 etc) and sit with it for a while

[saxomonica]

Jake, mate my opinion your high notes sound not to bad at all bud, it’s those low notes beginning about 00:42 – 00:44 on the track starting around “when you love somebody” sound a bit sour and flat / honky to my ear such that they spoil an otherwise moving rendition for the remainder of the air, i’ll be real interested to hear Johnny’s answer and solution too!

Maybe they need some vibrato or more growl,. i dunno. You certainly wind them up better later. Hey it’s easy to criticize ‘eh – just wishin’ i had a tenth of your talent 🙂 Love the lights effect and sure is a great song, and, love your work heaps. You’ve inspired me.
Hey anyways here’s more stuff from another source i was looking at –

Intonation & Tuning

[Anonymous]

Hi Jake – nice to see you back on the scene.

I’m going to throw a spanner in the works, something i came across recently from band leaders who play the sax.

To get the mouthpiece in the correct location for the whole sax to be in tune, do the following..

1) finger a Low C and blow a Mid C (blowing the overtone).
2) finger a Mid C and blow it.
3) Pull the mouthpiece out or push the mouthpiece in, until no 1) and no 2) sound closely in tone and pitch.

mark the mouthpiece position on the sax, then practice playing all the keys in tune with a tuner, by bending the pitch down if necessary.

[Anonymous]

This is edited parts of the info i picked up…

Here are some tricks I personally use and recommend. A very wise repair tech said he recommended first playing middle C then the first harmonic of low C and alternating back and forth to see if the pitch shifted. Move the mouthpiece until both pitches are similar intonation. “Now the pipe is in tune with itself.” I really like this and find it helps center the intonation and the tone quality across any horn or mouthoiece.

A cool variation on this is to play only the mouthpiece and neck (of alto sax) to see if concert Ab sounded. If so then the ‘lead pipe is tuned’ and the body mechanism can do its job properly.

Some folks go wild with mouthpiece pitch but I personally play very loose and still get the C’s playing together well and a Ab from the neck. So I am going with that.

The alto mp + neck is Ab concert
The tenor mp + neck is E concert

for a conical woodwind to work properly, the equivalent volume of the mouthpiece plus the volume of the neck must closely match the volume of the missing cone.
The missing cone is when you remove the mouthpiece from the sax.

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