Beginner Saxophone Quickstart 3 - First 6 Notes on Alto Sax

ALSO IN THIS SERIES:

IN THIS LESSON: Now it's time to learn first notes you need to play your very first song on Alto Sax! check out lessons 1 and 2 for help with setup and how to start notes. Tenor or soprano players use the lessons for your sax above.
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Chapters:
0:00 - About this lesson
0:43 - Your hand placement: Your Left Hand
2:56 - Your Right Hand
3:32 - Both Hands
4:00 - How Sax Works
4:44 - The Middle C
5:13 - How Music Works
6:07 - Learn a Song: ‘Walking Home’
8:30 - Let’s play together!
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[manuelvalencia]

Great lesson. Very thorough explanations!

[wally]

Hi, thanks for so wonderful lessons. When I was following your lessons, my dog was singing too😂. I recorded it😅

[DaveOfSpades]

Thank you so much for these tutorials!
I just got my alto sax yesterday and I’m following your guidance, and I keep getting more and more excited!
My only issue is that I slightly hinged the reed yesterday by accident so it’s really affecting the quality of the sound.
I ordered a pack off of Amazon though and I’ll be good to go in no time.
Thank you so much!

[nathaniziah]

This was very useful. Im currently struggling to make all the notes sound out clearly.
The position of the Reed seems to make a huge difference.

[gorggy]

super helpful, and bonus cool song. great tutorial!

[tinadonohoe]

I'm very new to sax! Loving this! But, should i be able to play this tune all the way through using one full breath or breathe whenever I need to?

[walterplays]

This is really useful I just have to say thank you

[christinesmith]

I have a question for you? I just purchased a saxophone off of eBay brand new. It's an alto, and I'm listening and watching your videos and I'm learning. I'm i'm getting by pretty easily. But then again, I don't think my saxophone is working properly, because I can't get the notes off of my saxophone of what your sounds like to what mine sounds like. When I press the alto key, when I get down to the letter d for middle d. It eaters squeaks, or it fades out completely. And it doesn't seem to work on any of the lower keys at all? And I notice when I press the lower keys, the top part doesn't rise up at all. It doesn't seem to be functioning properly. My next alternative is to buy a different mouth piece, and synthetic reeds because I go through those bamboo reads, like it's nobody's business. They just hmm, I can change them out and they make totally different sounds. None of them are consistent until I can get some consistency. It's frustrating. Oh sure. I can beautiful notes on it, but it doesn't sound anything like yours. It almost sounds like a tenor sax,

[dehaizhu]

It would be nice if the practice part had an accompaniment so I could practice along with the accompaniment, anyway, great video, thank you very much

[paultyso]

When I play an A on my tuning app its coming out as a G#, what do I need to change please?

[Iirandomizexx]

When I hit The G note it goes an octave above and when I hit B they sound slightly out of pitch compared to you. I get that I'm doing my embouchure wrong for the B but the octave switch is beyond me.

[awesomeintiagowolf]

I'm watching from the playlist and it skipped from L1 to 3