How to Play In Tune - 5 Min Play Along Workout!

Use this 5 minute play along saxophone workout/exercise to help you develop your tuning and sense of intonation on the sax.

[jimm]

I was recording with my son using my soprano sax and was "nicely" told that I need an exercise like this... thanks Paul

[tunakuyucu]

Great exercises, as always! Thank you Paul!

[janjung]

Never thought of this before. Brilliant exercise. Thank you.

[arsdigitalDE]

Thanks a lot! Beautiful exercise with a perfect background track. Very useful for hearing by using 5th and 3rd (ev. 4th & 6th), too.

[tkannen]

Excellent! I often use drones with long tone workouts and these play along tracks are great. I especially like the chord swells, and jumping the octave is a great tip. Thank you,

[SanDerSonDF]

excellent teaching, thank you for your teachings! 🇧🇷

[laziamarta]

Great for singers too! Thank you!!! :)

[joancarles]

Very good lesson!
Muchas Gracias Master!

[MichaIsraelKovler]

Fantastic exercise! Immediately recommended it to all my students. I was thinking it might be a good idea to add to it a visual tuner (like TE tuner - no affiliations (-:) and glance over to it every once in a while to double check my tuning, especially over the low and the high notes where it seems more difficult to discern a shift.

[postmodernjambox]

I find it interesting you didn't mention overtones/harmonic series at all. I'm getting back into tenor after a decade but trained as a clarinetist and played jazz tenor a lot. I did a overtones exercise where I held say a D and lipped it up an octave and then another octave up, for clarinet in 12ths of course. This helped teach some tuning centering but especially listening for those overtones in every register to make your tone richer. A decently made instrument should be pretty in tune if you are playing in a way where you can hear all the overtones. They're supposed to be designed to resonate the harmonic series the best while playing in tune.

[JanvanKnip]

Great exercise, Paul. Would you recommend doing this with alternative fingerings as well?

[giuseppepapagni]

Purtroppo non capisco l'inglese ma vedo che sei bravo...

[priscilaclavijo]

Hello what is the name for the application please¿

[mohammadsartagh]

Hello please English Man in New yORK--