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In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to start tonguing. The reed on the saxophone if you're in the beginning stages, this is one of the most important techniques to start learning as soon as possible, because this is going to help you define every note as you play them in a song or in a scale. And it all starts by just getting your mouthpiece and neck from the Sox, you don't actually need the rest of the Sox right now, in order to start practising this tonguing technique. And the first thing you want to do is think about where to place your tongue in your mouth. So you want to make an e sound like this, E, E, and the back of your tongue should be touching the top teeth. And your tongue should be in the middle of your mouth, II, II. So that's where you want to be placing your tongue when you're trying to read. And the way your tongue to read is by using the tip of your tongue at the top and placing it on the bottom of the read here. So like this. So you're about a half a centimeter in on your tongue, and you want to place it very quickly on the read, and then take it off the read very quickly as well. So this is a hard technique to develop. But once you start doing this, it's going to help define the notes that you're playing on the sax, so it sounds like this.

And what's happening inside my mouth is I'm just using, again, the tip of my tongue and placing it against the bottom of the read going up and down like this

tah tah tah tah tah.

So that's the movement is happening in my mouth. And you want to make sure that you're doing it quickly. Some people start to do this kind of slowly like this. And they don't actually lift the tongue of the read quickly enough, and it starts to sound muffled, or sometimes a sound doesn't even come out like this. You don't want to be getting that sound, you want to be very quick like a snake tah tah.

So the tongue is in the middle of your mouth as its tongue, and then it retreats back. And you're not going to feel the tongue on the back of your teeth anymore, because it's going to be further into your mouth. So you want to start in opposition of E and go ta ta, ta make a TAS and to help you with the movement ta ta ta so when you say TA, that's when your tongue is in the middle of your mouth touching the back molars in the top teeth, but then you want to retreat your tongue back into your mouth very quickly. tah tah tah. So let's try it one more time.

And he should be able to try and get a continuous tone like that, but just separating it with the tonguing technique. But if you need to, you can actually tongue in this way where you have a gap in between each note like this

it's okay to practice it like this. Just make sure you're touching the tip of the reed and getting that defined sound when you're tonguing. The read because this is going to help you with separating notes when you're playing songs. This is going to help you with executing notes better as well. And it's going to help you with learning different articulations like staccato or legato tonguing different ways in which you tongue the read. It's also going to help you with getting low notes on the socks because getting low notes can actually be easier if you know how to tongue. The read correctly. My name is Alexander Mathias from Sachs for Master class.com. And on this channel, I show you exactly how to learn a master the saxophone. Even if you're a complete beginner, I give you step by step lessons to get you started with learning your favourite songs, learning how to improve your technique, learning how to improve your tone, it's all on this channel. But if you want to go even deeper with me on how to learn and master the socks, check out my free saxophone mastery secrets webinar.