Saxophone introductory self-study course

Saxophone is a western musical instrument, among which jazz instruments need saxophone. It can play not only jazz but also classical music. It is the most commonly used instrument in improvisation. The timbre of saxophone includes glide, vibrato and spit.

0 1 When we get a saxophone and want to use it, we should first place a bamboo mouthpiece and a piano neck. At first, we put the bamboo pieces in the position to be blown, then put the blowing nozzle around our neck and tighten the screws to tighten the beam, so as to fix the bamboo pieces and the blowing nozzle together. Pay attention to the alignment of the bamboo mouthpiece and the bamboo mouthpiece during installation, and don't tighten the screws too tightly or too loosely, otherwise the sound will not be blown. Be careful not to damage the bamboo pieces. Generally, when installing bamboo chips on new musical instruments, it is necessary to coat some cork oil first, which is convenient for installation, because the new bamboo chips may be dry and thick.

If you want to play a musical instrument, you must first learn to include a mouthpiece. At first, we wrapped the mouthpiece with our mouths, and the upper and lower lips were wrapped inward. Then our upper lip gently bit the teeth set. At this time, the mouth looks like the English letter O. In order to observe, we can put a mirror in front of us when practicing to see if our mouth shape is correct. Remember that your mouth must be O-shaped, not E-shaped.

Pay attention when biting and blowing your mouth: if you bite too shallow, the sound will be dull, and if you bite too deep, the sound will be sharp. Remember to bite at 1/3 of the bite slope when biting. Beginners need to try many times to find it correctly. In case they can't find it correctly next time, they can gently bite on the bamboo piece when they find it correctly and bite according to the tooth marks next time.

Next is pronunciation. We completed the above steps (1) to install the bamboo pieces of the tuyere and (2) to package the outlet tuyere, including the tight tuyere. (3) After making an O-shape with a tight mouth, exhale into the mouth. (4) Exhale many times, try to blow out the sound, and remember to keep the mouth shape unchanged. [6] Exhale to make a sound. If there is no sound, exhale at home. If there is still no sound, it may be that the bamboo pieces of the mouthpiece are not installed properly or the bamboo pieces are damaged. If you are a beginner, it may be because the bamboo pieces are too thick to blow out the sound easily. At this time, you can flip through the knowledge about bamboo chips and blowholes, and you can also flip through the introduction of reference accessories you bought. Pay attention to distinguish between No.3 or Selmer D or above and Yamaha 5 or above, because there are different solutions according to different models.

After 05, there is a long sound exercise: practice the above steps. If you can blow out the sound, try to lengthen it. At this time, when we play, we blow with the abdomen, and the abdomen pushes outward forcibly, because this will help the player to keep the blowing force stable, and may make different sounds when playing. Pay attention to whether it is accurate at this time. Sound quality should be accurate. If it is too sharp, it may be too deep. At this time, you need to bite shallowly. (2) The pitch must not be larger or smaller on average. If it gets bigger or smaller, it may be because of you. When you blow, you blow casually, without control. Blow gently at this time, not too fast, not too messy. Pay attention to push the force up slowly with your abdomen. For beginners, long notes are not very easy to play, because the mouth muscles of beginners are still very weak and need long-term practice.

Next, let's talk about his playing posture. When playing, put the strap back and adjust the strap to the appropriate length. The hook should be hooked on the hook ring near your body, the mouthpiece should be just at the height of your mouth, and your hands should not be supported. Then fingering. The index finger, middle finger and ring finger of the left hand are placed on the three white keys above the instrument. Then the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of the right hand are placed on the three white keys below the instrument. Before placing the left hand and the right hand, the thumb of the left hand should be placed on the thumb pad on the back of the instrument, and the right hand should be placed under the thumb hook. Remember that this is the basic starting fingering.

Play scales and put them in a good playing position. If you press the middle finger of your left hand, that's fingering. If you want to blow, press the middle finger of your left hand and blow at the same time. If you want to play different sounds, you need different fingering: Do = left middle finger Si = left index finger La = Si+ left middle finger Sol = La+ left ring finger Fa = Sol+ right index finger Mi = Fa+ right middle finger Re = Mi+ right ring finger Do = Re+ right little finger. As a novice, fingering is very unskilled and stiff, which requires novices to practice hard.

Then we will practice music. When practicing, we'd better follow the beat, which will make us feel more rhythmic, sound smoother and grasp the melody more obviously. So, we still have to practice counting the beats. First of all, at first we set the beat to 60, which means 60 beats a minute. Then when playing, every note should be aligned with the beat until you can align each beat continuously, so that you can increase the speed of the beat, for example, first accelerate to 60, then to 65, 70, and then add five to the speed.

Next, let's look at the staff. Most people can't understand it, so as a novice, we should learn how to understand the staff. The staff records music expression and is also an international standard notation, so we must understand the staff. If you can play a tune, then the next thing you need to practice is to add your own feelings. Music without feelings is soulless.