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Perhaps my experience will encourage others just starting out. I played alto sax in small rural high school, and it's been a sporadic hobby for me during the 50 years since, but was never in contact with any professional sax players or teachers to get any direction. I picked up Sigurd Rascher's book on altissimo in a music store somewhere at least 40 years ago, and picked up other books on altissimo along the way, but could never figure out how to produce any overtones other than the two or three above the low Bb. Of course, I was squeezing and biting for all of those years. But 7 months ago I discovered and got your courses. (Thank you YouTube!) Along with your initial Pentatonic course exercises, I daily spent 5 minutes or so on my around 1990 Yanagisawa Elimona tenor working on the Bb overtone exercises as you presented them. One day, I seemed to be having some success with a few of the altissimo fingerings. I switched to my Yamaha YAS-875 alto, and all the notes magically appeared! Now I can play them on the tenor as well. Of course a relaxed lower lip cushion and solid air stream are essential, but I find that for the notes above the front E and F the tip of my tongue is slightly above and maybe slightly over the tip of the mouthpiece with the rest of my tongue high in my mouth as well. F# and G are the hardest to control for me using your fingerings, but the notes above (G#–C) are easy. I'm also finding that most of the Sigurd Rascher fingerings work for me now that my brain has figured out what needs to be happening in my body (mouth, tongue, and airstream). Thank you, Jay, for helping somebody in their 60's solve the mystery of producing a reliable altissimo register!