now playing clarinet as well as sax

[Leo Salu]

Great story, sorry about your sax, that must have been a shock, would hate to lose my primary horn the Yamaha. Tried playing the clarinet many years ago in High School (1962) did not have much luck with it, and stayed with the sax, at least till graduation then let it go for about 55 yrs, back again and loving it. So welcome back to the forum. Leo

[saxomonica]

Am so glad to see you abiding with us in the Bb habitat mate! Ya great news on your clarinet mojo too, wow, spiffing hey what, jolly good show olde chappie. I guess you shudder in relating about dropping your alto sax, but the digital sax sounds rather interestin’ hmm we must remember this a kiss is just a kiss and a loss can be a gain .. 🙂 ‘it grows as it goes’

[sxpoet]

thanks Leo and saxomonica.

nowadays on the alto sax, all i do now, is just pick a new music sheet and then i just learn to play the whole sheet from memory. The last sheet ‘somewhere over the rainbow’ took me several months to memorise, currently working on ‘sweet georgia brown’.
It varies some sheets are easier to memorise, but the lack of faster progress is down to only spending under an hour each day on the sax.

on the clarinet, the notes are a lot easier to play in tune than on the sax, however with the clarinet you have to really seal the mouthpiece more with your lips than on the sax, otherwise it squeaks very loudly. On the clarinet, i’m working my way through 4 different beginner music books – so not ready to play proper music sheets just yet.

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