Playing Saxophone Tones; Holding The Aerophone; Embouchure; Pressing The Performance Keys - Roland AE-10 Owner's Manual

Playing Saxophone Tones

Holding the Aerophone

Attach the neck strap, put the strap around your neck, and hold the
Aerophone as shown in the illustration.
Place your left thumb in the middle of the octave keys, and place
your right thumb on the thumb hook.

Embouchure

Hold the mouthpiece lightly between your lips and teeth, and blow
into it in the same way as a conventional saxophone.
5 The strength of your breath affects not only the volume but also
the sound itself.
5 By using tonguing (using your tongue to control your breath)
and legato you can control the sound more expressively.
5 The force with which you bite the reed will raise or lower the
pitch (producing vibrato) just as a conventional saxophone.
Pitch falls
4
Basic state

Pressing the Performance Keys

These are the performance keys. You can perform using the same
fingering as on a saxophone.
& For details, refer to "Fingering Chart" at the end of this manual.
Right index finger
* Use the ball of the finger to press the side keys (C1–C4, Tc, Ta).
Playing harmonics (overtones)
By using special fingering and blowing techniques on a saxophone, you can
produce harmonics (overtones) that sound notes in a range above the normal
range.
5 On the Aerophone, you can easily produce harmonics simply by pressing the
performance keys, without having to adjust your breath in a special way.
5 For the fingering, refer to the "Fingering Chart" at the end of this manual.
5 You can also edit the fingering to suit your preference (p. 8).
Pitch rises

Using the Thumb

Octave keys
Switch the octave. Operate them using the left-hand
thumb.
* The octave keys can be assigned to +1 / ±2 / ±3
octaves (p. 8).
Thumb controller
Use your right thumb to operate this
controller.
Bend up/
Down
Portamento
Growl
* With the factory settings, these are
the functions when a saxophone tone is selected. The operation
differs depending on the tone that you select.
X
C
2
C
1 1
P
C
4
2
C
3
3
G
#
T
c
C
#
B
T
B
a
4
5
T
f
6
E
C
Bends the pitch up/down.
Makes the pitch change
smoothly.
Growl
Applies a saxophone's growl
technique.
Left index finger
+2
+1
-1
-2
Bend up
Portamento
Bend down