Improve Your Sound

A Complete Approach to Sound for the Modern Saxophonist

Air Support and Embouchure
Breathing and Air Support

Pulsing Breath Support Exercise

Benefits of Subtone Practice and Diaphragmatic Breathing to Tone

Air Support: The Key to the Saxophone

Overtones & Altissimo
A Couple Overtone Hints for Bb and D

A Complete Approach to Overtones: Vivid Sound and Extended Range
Why You Should Practice Overtones
Overtones and the Octave Key
The Best Long Tone / Overtone Exercise
Slurring Up the Overtone Series

G# and Easier Altissimo
Altissimo Crash Course

Embouchure

Leaning Out Your Embouchure: The Chris Potter Effect

Keep a Loose Enough Embouchure
Jerry Bergonzi's No Embouchure

Tweaking Your Equipment
Ligatures and Lubrication

Ligature Position and Sound (older posts here & here)

Matching Reed Strength and Mouthpiece Placement to Tone

Pull Your Neck Strap Up (older post here)

Listening and Sound

Intonation and Your Ideal Sound
Audiate Your Tone

Recording and Perception

More on Sound...
Quarter Tone Technique, Sound, and Book Review
Strident, Harsh, or Stuffy Sound: Breaking the Habit
Improving Tone and Response in the Low Register
Keep Your Sound Alive
A Journey in Saxophone and Sound
Inflection and Improvisation
Shaping Your Sound