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Rob Ewing's avatar

What are the elements that make a sax tone bright vs. dark? I know what that sounds like, but I don’t know how those tones are generated.

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Jared Sims's avatar

Great question. It is very intuitive to me, but it would be fun to attack teaching someone how to teach it.

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Rob Ewing's avatar

I’m sure just having a concept of the sound in mind is a big part of it. But I also wonder how much equipment choices factor in.

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David Hastings's avatar

Thanks for this great advice on saxophone section playing. GREAT demos and comparisons. In my experience, the use - or not - of vibrato has always been an issue. It seemed that Marshall Royal of course used it but the rest of the section didn’t? I remember being called out from the lead player when as a section member on tenor I used vibrato. Great presentation Jared! ❤️👏

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