Overtones (octave) Warm-ups for Saxophone

This exercise will help get your saxophone  chops together in a hurry! Great for your embouchure, great for overall control. This is also the entryway to overtone and altissimo (above natural range of the horn) production. Here is what the Google says an overtone...

Blues Scales for Saxophone

Lets talk about the blues scale. For the saxophone player, a very important tool. And when used in the right places, a very hip sounding tool. I like to identify blues scales in two forms, a Major blues scale and the more traditional Minor blues scale. Here is the breakdown. A Minor blues scale is the tried...