ok i dont know exactly wat yall are talkin about with this growling thing but ive found that if you finger low c without the f key (right index finger) it makes a pretty cool noise, but i can only do it on that one pitch so i guess humming is still ur best bet if you can do it

he im in grd 8 now.... and i could humm when i started in grd 5...... its really not hard at all...

i am a seventh grade tenor sax player. i amm in the jazz band and in the marching band. i knnow this sounds dumb but wut is growling.

sorry but this is my first year playing

I growl two different ways 1. I hum while i play. I dont really know what note im humming it just happens. 2. This might be called something else but another method i use is using your tongue in a fluttering movement on the roof of your mouth while you play. It`s like how you make a machine gun sound with your mouth, or how in spanish you roll your R`s. In the movie "Pulp Fiction" the scene where they say bring out the gimp theres this mean sax song that has this guy doing it

I totally agree with alex{cool name} and JazzyJessica AGE DOESNT MATTER im 13 going into 8th grade and i can growl and i own a Yamaha yts 62 so vintage doesnt matter ether.

try makin a gargaling noise, while blowing through your horn.

To all those young players,

Learn your hurn first, them learn all the accessories to your main toolbox, your saxophone technical skill, more important than that, your musicality.

Hey I play the Tenor Sax, and I still can`t figure out how to growl. Maybe if someone could give me some useful tips that would be nice

i just turned 13 a couple days ago i play tenor sax by the way and i was surfing the internet on how to play jazz and i wound up here with all these things on how to growl and stuff ive been playin for 3 years and i never heard any1 use the term growl ...ever... so if any1 culd explain 2 me wat it is (unless its like vibrato ...i doubt it though) and thx in advance ...(just cuz i asked this question doesnt mean im a bad saxplayer, serously >:-[ so dont even ask ...thx again

Yea. It`s the Alex from replying in the frist page, and i have changed my playing ability alot now that im in 9th grade. Growling was hard at first but that tip from some guy saying to hum then bring the mouth piece into your mouth while blowing helped. So did the humming a third above the note your humming. I did understand the sqealing on a high note, but i guess that is growling on a high note (maybe?). Growling is alot of fun though, it was worth practing to learn how. I can`t believe two years hav gone by.

wow how did this thread get revived it is like 2 years old!!! But ya how I growl I purr with my throat and it comes out. And the dude who posted like a year back about playing the low C and lifting the F finger thats split tones or multi-phonics I think.

HI. IM GOING TO BE A SEVENTH GRADER . SO HERS MY PROBLEM.I JUST GOT AN NEW SAXAPHONE AND I CANT GET A SOUND OUT.WHAT SHOULED I DO? ANDREW

You need to make sure that the reed is correctly placed on the mouthpiece, and check to make sure that all of the pads on the sax seal correctly, other than that, I don`t know how to help you.