Hi folks I'm pro saxophonist Jamie Anderson you're watching Get Your Sax Together.
In this week's video I'm going to show you how to growl on your
saxophone.
This free sax lesson for beginners or intermediate players is
gonna teach you how to make a growling sound when you play your saxophone. This
is a question I get asked quite often from students so I'm gonna explain it on
this video. I'm going to give you two fantastic methods, the two most common
methods to help you get that cool growly sound on your sax. Before we do
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description, click the link and you can find a great PDF to accompany this
lesson. If you enjoy all these videos there's another series on sax technique
tips and tricks that's linked on the card up there. Now let's get on with it
and I'll teach you how to growl on your sax.
Today I'm going to teach you the two
most popular and most used methods of growling on saxophone, so let's talk
about method one. That is to hum a different note at the same time as you
are playing your sax and what you get is a growly sound. So just to demonstrate
what I'm gonna do is I'll hum first, like mmm, and then you blow at the same time
as you're humming. Now you're not gonna hum the same note, you don't have to hum
the same note as you're playing, in fact it's better if you don't hum the same
note you're playing. The way to practice it is you hum and then as you're humming
you start blowing at the same time so it's hmmm [blows]
and what will happen is you'll get a growl and with a bit of practice you can
control how much growl you get when you do that. So here's what it looks like...
The second method for getting a growl on the saxophone is a bit more dramatic, and
that is to roll your tongue as you blow the note. Now this is more effective, in
general, on the low notes. It's a bit more difficult to get a growl on the low
notes with the humming technique. So what we're going to do is you're going to
roll your tongue and then at the same time as you're rolling your tongue
you're gonna blow. It might be easier to learn it to start by rolling your tongue
before you start blowing, so... [tongue roll] Now this gives you a very dramatic, marked growl,
which is used more in rock and roll so this is what it sounds like when you do
the rolling technique...
So that's it for this week just a short video explaining how you can get a great
growling saxophone tone. If you enjoyed the content of the channel go and check
out all my other videos - I've got some hall-of-fame stuff which is great, all
those iconic sax hooks - I'll teach you how to play it, break it down, all the
fingerings on the screen, free PDFs, it's brilliant! Also lots of things about tips
and tricks, there's some technique stuff and there's some behind-the-scenes
welcome to my world footage of vlogs as well - they're quite
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remember I put together a free pdf which is down in the description with the main
points from today's video about how to get that growly sound. So I hope you enjoy
all that stuff. More fantastic material coming up on and Get Your Sax Together
in weeks to come, and I'll see you there!!