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Re: fall & sub-tone

Author: Matt74
Date: 2018-08-30 04:40

I always think of Tenor Saxophone when I see “subtone”. Like Ben Webster:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VihgeOi0Rn8

Like Chris says it’s the breathy part, usually at the beginning or end of a note. Softly sound the note, sometimes even to where you can hear the vibrato but not the tone. It shouldn’t sound like a bunch of air, like “WHooSH!”, but like some of the air is just escaping through the mouthpiece. It might sound kind of “covered”. More than anything it’s “velvety”.

You can do it by lowering your jaw, so that there is less (or no) jaw pressure, and thickening your bottom lip to provide the necessary pressure.

- Matthew Simington

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