As you advance, and are looking for more learning resources I think you will find the courses for sale very helpful and fun. 0000006225 00000 n In this lesson I’m going to show you the saxophone fingerings for a bunch of notes to get you started playing the saxophone. 123 12 is our fingering for E. And that brings us back to D. If you add the third finger in your right hand you get what we call low D. It’s just like the first D we learned but it’s played without the octave key and sounds lower. (G#, A#, C#, D# and F# and Gb, Eb, Db, Bb and Ab) I know getting the chromatic scale down correctly is extremely important so I don’t want to, as you say, “practice with mistakes.” For now, don’t worry about that let’s focus on one thing at a time. In your fingering chart, is it possible to add what the note will look like on a sheet of music. 0000001872 00000 n Notes in music follow the the first 7 letters of the alphabet A B C D E F G. These correspond to the white keys on the piano. As our notes get lower, the amount of air required to play each note increases slightly so you may find it more difficult to hold these lower notes out for as long. 0000559645 00000 n Many notes on the saxophone have only one possible fi… The finger work for the basic notes is the same for all saxophones, so whether playing the baritone saxophone or the alto saxophone, the fingering chart is the same. Title \.psfhomeDocumentsMyDocs copyGraphic Filessax_fingering_chart.cdr Author: ward Created Date: In case you don’t know, an octave is the distance between 2 notes that share the same name. D D/E E F F/G G G/A A A/B B C/D C High D High High E D/E D High F E F D E D E D E E B G All fingerings on this page use the octave key ( thumb key)left hand. Blow. We already know D so let’s start with that one, and work our way down the alphabet. Take some time practicing just playing and holding all of those notes. Again, make sure your other fingers are resting lightly on the key pearls. Thanks… 0000005093 00000 n Woodwinds Flute Fingering Chart. If you haven’t gone through those lessons yet, I recommend you do so now. You’ve got to use enough air to get a good sound, but you don’t want to over-blow either. Start taking the Play Sax By Ear Crash Course. 10 0 obj Next note down the alphabet is B. endobj So far we’ve learned how to set up our reed and mouthpiece properly in Lesson 1, How to form a good saxophone embouchure and get our first sounds in lesson 2, and how to setup the instrument and play with a good posture and hand position in lesson 3. These are ideal for absolute beginners who don’t want to be overwhelmed by the entire chart of all fingerings. In fact, the saxophone is the only instrument in the band or orchestra with a button that makes whatever note you play jump up an octave. Glad you are getting into the courses. Whether you play an alto saxophone, tenor saxophone or any others, the range is the same for all saxophone, therefor, the saxophone fingering chart shown below applies to every type of saxophone. While I’m sure it’s going to be somewhat challenging for a total beginner, I promise you’ll be surprised by how manageable that course is and how much you can learn from it in a week. 48 0 obj Could you clarify this for me? 13 0 obj For once, you haven’t specified which notes we’re to play starting with G. For instance, in thePentatonic, we’ve skipped C and F; obviously we don’t skip any notes in the chromatic, but I’m just not sure which precise notes go into it. 0000009901 00000 n <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/CropBox[126.611 36.8504 2507.86 1720.43]/MediaBox[0 0 2544.54 1755.78]/Contents [39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R]/Parent 1 0 R>> By the way, you are the BEST at teaching sax. After that we have charts … endobj Our next note A is just like low A. we lift up our third finger in the left hand so it’s 1 2 plus the octave key. 0000001450 00000 n 11 0 obj Moving down the alphabet, our next note is going to be C. C is played with one finger, our middle finger in the left hand or 2. That’s because the saxophone is a transposing instrument. To sound a low A, use the fingering for low C and then press the low A key situated below the thumb of the left hand. One more thing, do you recommend an app or software for writing music (typing it) For instance, B Flat…. Feel free to go back and play along with this video as many times as you want. 0000001587 00000 n 7 42 l�h� M������(�. And finally our last note for this lesson, high C which is middle finger left hand or 2 plus the octave key. For these saxophone fingerings, I refer to index, middle, and ring finger as 1 2 and 3 respectively in both hands starting with your left hand which is on top. 0 Please leave your comments below and let me know if you found this course helpful! I’ve been doing fine in your “Play Sax by Ear” course until I hit lesson 3. Thank You genuinely giddy about discovering you. As our notes get higher, I want you to resist the urge to bite down on the reed. 0000009640 00000 n In the previous lesson we left off playing the note D. Which is 1 2 3 | 1 2 3 and the octave key. So A is 1 2 in the left hand. But, believe it or not, with the notes and saxophone fingerings you just learned to play, you already have enough to start taking another free course that I offer. I have deliberately omitted fingerings using harmonics overtones. �L�B���XX'b8�-�0D$����|�{�L��KqC���������\z&B�F�#�xf�%/3%P+�#X��Ȱ9S����"�@�|�;U Check your posture make sure you are not tensing up. An octave lower in fact. 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