Saxophone Effects - Fluttertongue 
Taming the Saxophone:
Exercises & Patterns:
- Fingering Exercises (1)
- 1|1-1|1-2|1-3|1-4
- Fingering Exercises (2)
- 2-1|2-2|2-3|2-4
- Cycle of 5ths
- 3-1|3-2|3-3|3-4
- IIm7-V7-Is
- 4 |4-1|4-2|4-3|4-4|4-6
- Chromatic
- 5-1|5-2|5-3
- Studies in 4ths
- 6-1|6-2|6-3
- Diminished Patterns
- 7|7-1|7-2|7-3|7-4
- Whole Tone Patterns
- 8-1|8-2|8-3|8-4
All of these in full (and many more) in the book:
Fluttertongue (aka Flutter-Tongue)
This effect has been in use for all woodwinds and brass instruments for centuries. It involves vibrating the tongue while blowing a note as if rolling
the syllable r
. It was initially a classical effect which has not been used much in mainstream jazz, but has been used in R & B saxophone playing, notably by King Curtis and Lee Allen. Some people find it difficult to do the R rolling, in which case it may be possible to adapt the uvular
flute fluttertongue to the saxophone.
This is fluttertongue on a low G on the tenor:
This is an example of flutter-tongue by Lee Allen in a solo:
