Alto Saxophone
B5 on the Alto Saxophone
Written B5 — sounds concert D5. Tap the diagram to hear it.
B5
Concert D5
Left index finger and the octave key. It is easy to let this note sag flat when the air relaxes at the end of a phrase, so keep the airspeed up right through the release.
About this note
Left index finger and the octave key. It is easy to let this note sag flat when the air relaxes at the end of a phrase, so keep the airspeed up right through the release.
- Primary fingering: Octave key + Left index key
- Written pitch: B5 · Concert pitch: D5
- Sounding frequency: 587.33 Hz
Alto Saxophone fingering data last updated . Every diagram here, in the printable PDF and in the chart image comes from one dataset, so the paper and the screen cannot disagree.