welcome Gary – don’t waste money trying to get a better tone by buying different mouthpieces, aint gonna happen! – just buy the ‘daily practice routine’!
My tone improved in a month, by 6 months my tone sounded great!
i would buy the ‘Altissimo course’ 6 months down the line!
The 1st two lessons of the ‘Altissimo course’ are an extended version
of the ‘daily practice routine’ – i wouldn’t be in a hurry to do the
altissimo,as most of the sheet music hardly goes beyond high F#.
If you intend to go down the improvising route – then altissimo is great
for that! As yet, a year since doing the altissimo course, i still haven’t played any songs with altissimo in it.
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