The importance of practicing saxophone with long notes

Saxphone is a performance wind instrument with expressive and singing qualities. Playing saxophone directly and expressively involves practicing scales and vocalizations. Scale practice is a warm-up exercise before finger playing; Vocal practice mainly involves the coordination and coordination of breath, tongue, and fingers.

Because long note practice is an important part of saxophone timbre and breath control, just as singers need to practice regularly every day, wind instruments also require long note practice every day. The reasons and importance of practicing long notes can be summarized as follows:

1. The lip muscles of untrained individuals are in a completely natural state. Through long tone exercises, the facial and lip muscle groups can be relaxed and controlled with ease, allowing for a good grasp of vocalizations.
2. The mouth shape of beginners who have just started learning is in an unstable state. Through long note practice, the mouth shape can be consolidated and endurance can be strengthened.
3. Long note practice is essential and also requires good breathing training. After each deep breath, it is necessary to play a very long note. Generally speaking, the time for each note should not be less than 15-20 seconds. At the same time, the process of playing long notes relies on the support of the diaphragm to use and control breath, which is a comprehensive process of training vocalization by mobilizing lip muscles, breath and other factors.

In summary, based on our years of sales experience at Mansdone, the Mansdone sax is also a preferred saxophone for practising with long notes.