For saxophone practice, I would like to remind every saxophone student here: for beginners, you must play long notes every day when practicing; You must practice basic exercises such as scales, arpeggios and intervals every day; The practice time every day is about one hour.
Bach once said, "Whoever can be as diligent as I am, I will have the same achievements." Obviously, this is Bach's modesty, but it also shows some truth. Especially for saxophone students, diligence is the magic stone for success. Of course, the correct guidance of expert teachers is a shortcut for students to improve their level quickly.
Basic practice is particularly important in saxophone practice, and students with solid basic skills will get better grades in later study, which is not only a theorem obtained in saxophone study, but also obvious in other musical instruments and even in any technical study.
Therefore, we should invest more diligence and efforts in the training of basic skills. Whether it is part-time study or professional study, solid basic skills are the key to learning well. Of course, the practice of basic skills is very boring and requires students to have the motivation to learn. It's good to practice more.
Attach importance to long tone practice
Long tone is one of the important forms of basic practice of wind instruments. Just as a singer needs to practice his voice every day, a wind musician must practice his long voice every day. The reasons and importance are as follows: 1. Generally, people without special training are in a state of complete relaxation, but through long-term voice practice, facial muscles, especially lip muscles, can be relaxed and controlled freely; 2. The performance of beginners is still in an unstable state. Through long-term voice practice, you can consolidate your mouth shape and enhance your endurance; 3. Long tone practice requires playing a long tone after each deep breath (generally, the time of each tone should not be less than 15-20 seconds), which is undoubtedly an excellent breathing training for the performer. At the same time, the process of playing long notes is a process of using and controlling breath by relying on the support of diaphragm, and it is a comprehensive process of mobilizing lip muscles, breath and other factors to train vocalization.
Therefore, we must pay attention to the practice of long notes, especially the habit of sticking to it every day, with the focus on standing. The playing sequence can be repeated from bass to treble, and then from treble to bass, and it can also be shifted or expanded according to the interval degree.
Adhere to scale exercises
Scale practice is one of the most important basic skills in saxophone learning. Because scale practice can train the independence and flexibility of fingers and the coordination ability between fingers, and finger training is one of the keys to learning to play musical instruments. The ability of human fingers is not innate. For example, the ring finger is often stupid and the little finger is not so flexible. In order to press keys evenly and flexibly in performance, fingers need to be specially trained through scale practice. Generally speaking, scale practice needs to use staccato and staccato (commonly known as "spitting"), which will undoubtedly make the player's tongue playing skills and the coordination ability between tongue and fingers get regular exercise. In addition, the scale exercise covers 24 major and minor notes in music, which generally involves the maximum range of saxophone, as well as the chromatic scale of rising and falling. Therefore, through scale practice, we can be familiar with the tonality and fingering of various sounds, especially the difficult fingering of high and low notes. It is also very important to master and skillfully use these skills to improve our playing level.
Explain the importance of etudes.
Etudes are usually one of the main contents of instrumental music teaching. Just from the title of the etude, its function can be clarified. In terms of difficulty, etudes are elementary, intermediate and advanced; From the genre form, etudes can be divided into pure technical etudes and concert etudes. But no matter what kind of etude, its main function is to help players apply the skills and techniques they have mastered to actual music performance. Therefore, learning saxophone performance, at any stage, should pay attention to the study and training of etudes.
Reasonable and scientific arrangement of practice time music learning needs a lot of time and hard practice. Indeed, if you want to play saxophone well, you need to solve many technical problems and learn many works. For learners, it is impossible to achieve results without time investment. Concentrate when practicing, and choose a comfortable, quiet and undisturbed place to practice. There should be sufficient light and good ventilation in the room, and the seats and music stands should be suitable. If there is no music stand, the player will put the music on the table and chair. In this way, in order to see the music clearly, their posture will be very incorrect.
Pay attention to the occasion, time and place of practice. We should cultivate good and fixed practice habits. It's much better to concentrate on practicing for an hour than to play an instrument carelessly for three hours. Sound and skill exercises should account for one third of the practice time, etudes for one third, and music and sight-reading exercises for one third. In practice, it is ok to have a metronome or not. When practicing difficult paragraphs, practice slowly at first and gradually improve the speed. Patience is very important. When practicing, you must have a reliable tuning device, such as a tuner and a tuning fork, so that you can check the pitch frequently. Ensure the practice time and have enough time to practice the key and difficult parts.