Simple Practice Tricks That BOOST Your Technique

Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:31 The key
1:42 Importance of fundamentals
2:35 Screw F#
3:07 Playing at natural speed without a met
4:02 Finding and setting a goal
5:41 Practice Tip No. 1 Doubt-Clearing
7:43 Practice Tip No. 2 Long-Short
9:31 No. 2 Inverted (Short-Long)
10:37 Practice Tip No. 3 Dotted Eights and Sixteenths
12:29 No. 3 Inverted
13:32 Why do all of this?
13:47 Practice Tip No. 4 Grouping notes in 3
17:01 Practice Tip No. 5 Grouping notes in 4
18:14 Moment of truth
18:55 Reaching the goal
19:16 Outro
19:53 Ritual

You can literally play anything you want. It's just all about practicing effectively. Repetitions can be like beating a dead horse, so it is good to mix it up here and there. Super slow practice, rhythm exercises, note groupings and the use of the metronome are key. It's never too late or early to work on fundamentals, either! By the way, the guys at UM can PLAY. Good god. I've already learned so much and I've only had 2 days of class. Can't wait to see what the rest of the year brings.

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lol jk

dang

ur pretty far down here bro

or sis

or other

free country over here

wow you're really deep now

it's 6:57 am

I have class at 11:15 am wtf am i doing

i haven't gone to bed

these youtube videos consume my sleeping habits

i was doing so good too :/ rip sleep

its ok i'll get back in there

hey man/woman i feel like we are getting really close

you're so far down here

want to play some Smash Bros?

no?

well all right

at least i offered :/

know what's weird?

i have a reddit called saxologicYT

literally all i post on there are stereoscopic images i take on my phone

do you know what a stereoscopic image is?

if you don't, you really should!

basically, they are images you can view in 3D without the use of any sort of eyewear

all you need are your eyes (and your personal glasses if ur blind like me)

reddit is so weird though

i just post for fun and then bang you have people acting like they are a 5 star critic that do it for a living

reddit culture is a no from me dawg

who knows though; watch me be heavy in there within a month, doing the same thing lol

hey i gotta get off now. i'm gonna try to get SOME sleep

i'm a little worried because what if i don't hear my alarm? i am a very heavy sleeper

i'm literally gonna put an hour's worth of alarms back to back to back to back

i will NOT miss class

i spent 560 on a parking pass. big rip dude. bank account is hurting

but it's worth it

good music education is always worth it

i can't get enough of it

i can get enough of writing papers though sheesh or learning about atonal theory. that is the literal worst.

lmao before i go i have to tell u:

i was walking across campus and talked to a super talented tenor sax playing freshman

and he told me he heard a basson player outside playing the mario kart lick

idk why that is so funny to me. what have i done to society? i am sorry everyone. you must bear the consequences because of me. oops!

see u later fellow reader thanks for making it this far wow ur incredible!

[Saxologic]

This was my FIRST (and probably only video lol) to have a over 1K likes and 0 dislikes. Thank you for the incredible streak!!!

[ahmedajabi]

"We tend to overestimate how much we can do in a day, but we tend to underestimate how much we can do in a month"
That's pure wisdom!

[phukaoprommolmard]

Love the direction this channel is growing

[racehoglund]

This is gold right here. People don’t talk about HOW to practice enough

[onesyphorus]

_"We tend to overestimate what we can learn in a day, but also tend to underestimate what we can do in a month."_

- some random guy on the internet who happens to play sax.

[reubenbotha]

this is the best ad for a study book ever

[fdaehbcswcfaqgh]

That part with the “it’ll take about ten years” killed me

[zoaltamam]

You are doing something not many people do in the education community! You are showing people what it means to practice slow, and to have purposeful practice, by demonstrating these concepts and making them less theoretical.
There are lots of things in this video that would take students a lot of time to figure out, through trial and error and lots of disappointment, such as the different grouping of notes. By providing this guidance you are doing many of us a huge favor bro.
Thank you very much for a unique approach

[NelsonDellis]

I'm always asked for memory tips for learning music. Dude, some of these techniques are some really clever strategies to help you learn the music you're playing. Thanks for this!

[raginbakin]

Last time I came this early I became a father.

[noelbeltran]

Youre an amazing divine soul for posting these to help is beginners out. Thank you for your presence and energy, your comedic inserts, facials, and how you create such an ease to watch video from beg-end. The fact that you post the mess ups gives me hope to continue to better myself.

[NicHasegawa]

Hey man, I'm just gonna take this time to tell you that I'm a bass player and I don't play sax, but I love your channel my man. Thank you <3

[brittanyatterberry]

Seriously! This is Gold Content. College level info. Bravo for sharing.

[ruefinj]

I personally would like to see "Simple Practice Tricks That Improve Your Sound"

[joshcharlat]

The empathy you show is an important quality. Breaking it down in so many ways shows how much can be done with one sheet of music.

[HB-vewi]

This is so good! The key is to know not only what to practice but HOW - and you've got it! Thank you!

[Cthepro]

Holy crap this is one of the clearest and most honest practice aid video ever. As I Clarinet player shredding through baermann exercises (college freshman woo) this is an EXTREMELY helpful video. Thank you

[EricLevrard]

Thank you a lot for that video. There aren't that many videos that show the progress of a practise session. It is very good for the confident...

[aaronrobinson]

I really appreciate the video and how you show your mistakes. A lot of times I feel really bad about my sound and intonation, and just everything about playing in general, even though I practice about more than an hour a day. Thanks for the motivation.

[CORE.MINISTERIES]

I want to thank you. I am restarting learning the saxophone. Started learning in 4th grade and played till 8th grade. I tried off and on during high school but that was hard. There was no one else to play with and now I am 43 and on dialysis 3 times a week. I need to get back into this so I can play in church