Best Tip – for learning the sax

[Leo Salu]

SP would agree with you on personalized instruction if that is available, in my area there is not even a music store never mind a sax teacher, so the internet has filled in that need nicely, Johnny is very helpful, many times i would ask him a question by email and he always offered great advice, latest was the MP i was using he suggested i use a metal MP over my selmer S 80 c*, got a ottolink 5 and love it. BTW i took lessons from a pro when i first started playing, but that was back in 1954 to 1961 then 3 yrs in a high school band helped immensely. (followed by 55 yrs of not playing which did not help at all).

[john]

great points from both sides…
there are a lot of good sax teachers online so it’s a good alternative to no teacher at all.
But you can’t beat a one-on-one lesson with a good teacher. The problem with learning yourself (especially at the beginning) is you’re very likely to do something wrong and so a bad habit will start to develop. A teacher would be there to eliminate this, if not that bad habit can take a while to unlearn… this happened to me when I started out and was saved by a good teacher.

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