It is the most important thing you can do whenever you start to practice or perform....warm up! Many young players do not understand what purpose a warm-up serves. Basically, it allows all components of playing the saxophone to be engaged. Breathing, dynamic control, embouchure, tonguing, technique, vibrato and especially tone control are all addressed in a warm-up exercise.
Always Think About:
- Producing the best tone quality that you can
- Playing with a relaxed embouchure "Ooo" formation
- Intonation, paying attention to the "trouble notes" and correcting before they go out of tune
- Total control of the dynamic range from pppp - ffff, especially the soft end
- Vibrato: width and speed control at will
- Breathing correctly using diaphramatic support...MOST IMPORTANT STEP!!
- Even, exact, relaxed technique with a metronome
- Using the correct articulation for the exercise.
- Playing with a good FOCUSED sound/ airstream
Remebering these points will make your warm-up routine highly focused and productive.
Warm-Ups: In both the PDF and GIF formats
Exercise #1 PDF = 5 to 1 Long Tones or Exercise #1 GIF
Exercise #2 PDF = Intervals or Exercise #2 GIF
Exercise #3 PDF = 2 to 1 Overtones or Exercise #3 GIF
Exercise #4 PDF = 3 to 1 Overtones or Exercise #4 GIF
Exercise #5 PDF = Overtone Intervals or Exercise #5 GIF
Exercise #6 PDF = Matching Overtones or Exercise #6 GIF�
