learning saxophone

i want to learn to play saxophone

any advice on lessons, a good used brand of sax that's not too $$$ etc, would be welcome...or just learning sax in general advice...

is it going to be hard???

its going to be hard

no i heard it's really easy

I never thought it was that hard but I'm scared to pick it back up.

no i heard it's really easy

ya me too

i mean i was terrible at it in elementary school, but i hear it's way easier than brass for ex.

Guy I know plays sax says if you want to play rock you could get going in six months. For jazz it will take longer.

so basically it's going to be really hard or really easy or really scary

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....