learning saxophone

alto or tenor?

if i was going to pick up sax i would listen to lots of lester young and coleman hawkins and johnny hodges, pre-bop dudes with really nice tones. i'm glad i'm not picking up the sax though.

I would listen to lots of Madness.

i'd listen to this guy too

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my "its going to be hard" was mainly based on the precept that learning any instrument from a different school when you are already a skilled player is always, in my experience, v v frustrating and thus hard.

ah yeah, i spose it would be all mary had a little lamb at first.

but that's sort of what i want, i have been playing bass for so long it gets sort of autopilot after awhile....

i would like to learn jazz sax. or maybe if i suck no wave sax.

i mean i could always just run it through some guitar pedals and be a noise band.

you could learn jazz bass?

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sorta been learning to play tenor sax, but i've been really lazy about it. the toughest thing so far seems to be that if you go a while w/o playing that you lose all your breathing/mouth stamina that you've built up. similar to guitar/bass callouses, i guess - once you build them up you have them for a while, but it's painful to get to that point and you have to be consistent about practicing

I need to pick my sax back up. I haven't touched it in years.

still a better deal compared to trumpet, where even taking a couple of days off is noticeable (so i hear)

I remember my trumpetist middle school band teacher saying that when he'd been x-rayed they discovered that his lungs were 3 times the size of normal lungs/

superlungs!

superlungs! ie: BANGING

mod pls change title to: learn to work the saxophone

I bought a student alto on a whim 9 months ago and have been playing it at least 4/7 days a week since then. I'm not a disciplined student, especially since I'm teaching myself. Anyone out there play, or trying to? I'd love some dialogue on the mechanics of this instrument, which I still find the most fun thing in the world even despite making the same mistakes every single day. Embochure, man....