Tenor saxophone question??!
Question: Tenor saxophone question!?!?
ok, so I'm in high school and we just got our music for our 08-09 field show!. Our opener is Whodunnit!? and our closer is The Jazz Police, both by Gordin Goodwin(GENIUS) and in probably like the last minute and a half(!?) of Whodunnit!? we have sixteenth notes(at tempo where the quarter note=168) that go high D, high E flat, back down to high D, and then to high C!. that is repeated 3 times!. what do you suggest I do about having to move my hands SO fast!? is there an easier way I can get back down to the C without messing up the whole thing!?!?!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Study your left hand technique in the mirror!. The palm keys are called such because they should be played using the upper palm of the left hand, yet this does not occur effectively when the saxophonist's left elbow points inward toward his/her ribs!. If you haven't tried this before- a literal following of this direction would create a gap between your palm and palm keys when the fingertips are on the pearls; this gap is easily closed b\y slightly leaning the top of your left wrist towards you just enough to make both techniques more fluid!.
One other thought- you could play the second D and every other D thereafter by selecting the second palm key (like Eb but without the first palm key) and the middle finger of the left hand (as if playing C); then going from C to D is simply adding one palm key and then for the Eb you lift the other palm key while lifting the button under the middle finger)!. This fingering is definitely among the fingerings in the Rubank fingering chart if my description seems cryptic!.
Those who use multiphonic techniques would have a couple of other options: G-Ab-G-F would work off the first fundamental; low D-Eb-D-C off the second; and low Bb-B-Bb off the third with low C off the second!. I'd want to try the first one; if it blended well, then that really wouldn't be a problem!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
One other thought- you could play the second D and every other D thereafter by selecting the second palm key (like Eb but without the first palm key) and the middle finger of the left hand (as if playing C); then going from C to D is simply adding one palm key and then for the Eb you lift the other palm key while lifting the button under the middle finger)!. This fingering is definitely among the fingerings in the Rubank fingering chart if my description seems cryptic!.
Those who use multiphonic techniques would have a couple of other options: G-Ab-G-F would work off the first fundamental; low D-Eb-D-C off the second; and low Bb-B-Bb off the third with low C off the second!. I'd want to try the first one; if it blended well, then that really wouldn't be a problem!.Www@Enter-QA@Com