 The Fingering Forum
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Author: mango_2003
Date: 2000-02-27 19:43
I am a 3 year sax player how has (not to be cocky) learned just about everything on a sax. The thing I have never been able to do is to play altissimo notes. I just heard of them a few weeks ago and I need some pointers! Please help if you can!
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Author: Kyle Jubenville
Date: 2000-03-09 00:32
when you play altssimo, you almost have to bite the reed, or squeeze really hard with your embechoure. The trick is to almost make it squeek, but you have it under control. Actually, a squeek is a altissimo note played by harmonics.
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Author: Kohei
Date: 2000-08-04 03:24
I disagree about the biting part, though I agree that squeeks are part of the harmonic series. I play soprano and altissimos are fairly hard, I can only get to A regularly.
I experiment with tongue/larynx/vocal code etc. One thing I stay away from is biting. Take more mpc into mouth, but no biting. Maybe worth trying double lip embouhure in the normal register.
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Author: sdkjlskja
Date: 2000-10-21 04:33
hey men. controll your air that you blow men,master the pitch of the altissimo that you tryn to cope and here is the site that show a complete fingering chart of altissimo range (www2.potsdam.edu/CRANE/mcllitp?Altissimo/... o.k.....)....practice daily men at least 5 minutes a day
hornman
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Author: Brian Lim
Date: 2000-11-14 06:00
altissimo is not free for all.i have a mark 6 from 1967 and a golden mouthpiece (otto link super tone master) they are worth the cost.
it will depend on your embrochure the kind of mouthpice, reed , ligature, the saxophone, the serial number(the year and style). since altissimo is unconventional addition of the scale, therefore you have to be able to have a mass strengh on the jaw.
even though the fingering is as shown, the changes are that it will vary because of hte diffenrent features as discussed before. so everything is trial and error your have to build your own technique or niche to play.
good luck!
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