Chords for Saxophone teacher - Getting the rock & roll sound on the sax - A few more tricks!

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Hi there, we're just doing an additional video here to the growling video and just looking a little bit more in-depth at some of the
_ other little tricks that you can play on your sax to achieve that rock and roll sound.
_ We did a previous video about bends and scoops, lip-ups if you want to call them that, which give you this type of thing. _ _
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_ _ _ [N] _ And there I'm just using the lips, so if you _ look at that earlier video that we made, that would explain a little bit more about bends and scoops.
_ _ Fall-offs, spills would be another thing that we can deal with here, which is the very rapid running down of the fingers _ whilst you drop your jaw out of a note.
_ Accompanied again by a very rapid _ _ _ decrescendo, getting very quiet.
So this type of thing. _ _ _ _ _
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It's _ _ _ _ that type of thing that you're doing with your jaw there, okay? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So I'm just running my fingers down the main body of the instrument and I'm getting quieter as I do it very, very quickly.
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Another little trick that we used was this _ _ sort of wider vibrato, which can be put together almost like a sort of a shaking type of vibrato. _
_ This can give you quite an authentic sort of 40s, 50s rock and roll honking type of sound.
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_ _ _ with a fall on there.
So that's really just vibrato.
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [C] And _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ gives you quite an effective rock and roll sound there, okay? _ _
Another thing which you can get involved with this rock and roll technique is the use of false fingering.
Some guys call this false tabbing.
_ _ Get yourself a book, say, such [Eb] as the Mark McGee book, Learn to Play Rhythm and Blues Sax. _ _
[N] That gives you virtually all of these false fingerings written down.
But just to show you one there, if you're using the A fingering on your saxophone,
and rather than depressing the G key, leave that open, and just using the three notes that are on the side here, and it'll give you this type of thing. _ _ _ _ _
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Use it as a rhythmic tool.
Suddenly you've got something which sounds very rock and roll-y. _
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fact, if you listen to _ people like sort of Rent Price, those, Big Jay McNeely, those kind of players, Illinois Jacquet, _
you would hear them sometimes doing notes which are just, sorry, solos which are [Eb] just purely based around one note, but using [Abm] the false tab fingerings,
[N] which just make them interesting, adding some rhythm in there.
So, worthwhile getting to know those.
There are a few different options for each of the different fingerings.
So, get yourself _ a book or ask your teacher, and no doubt he will show you what the best ones are for each particular note.
But you can actually run through all 12 notes, and you can get a false tab fingering for each note, which can give you some great [G] options when you're playing blues and rock and roll solos.
_ _ _ So, good luck with this.
_ _ It's a very interesting way to [N] approach solos. _
It isn't always the only way that you should approach them.
If you just want to be a pure rock and roll sax player, that's great, but most of us want to play other things as well.
[Gm] So, use _ it sparingly.
This can be [N] like salt and pepper on your dinner.
Don't put too much on because it can ruin it.
But used in the right places, some of these rock and roll techniques can be really fantastic.
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