Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Altissimo

I have been putting quite some work into this in recent months and finally some results were showing - well I had to look up alternate fingerings for notes C and above so something must be moving.

Here are some excellent charts with many alternatives for each notes and even comments regarding suitability for different saxophones:

http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/sax/sax_alt_4.html
http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/sax/sax_alt_5.html

http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/sax/sax_alt_6.html

Update:

Check out http://tamingthesaxophone.com/saxophone-altissimo. An excellent site and useful page not only with fingerings, but tips on how to reach these notes better. Looks like there is alot on this site. I need to look closer.

http://www.saxlessons.com/embouchure-2/the-altissimo-register/ Another good site to be explored.

I found this nice article by Dr. Dave Camwell originally written for the Saxophone Journal. It contains a huge amount of advice, practice methods and excercises; an excellent read for anyone hoping to improve in this area.

http://mattlangley.com/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Altissimo_Article_PDF.pdf

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