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| I was born with a sax in my hand! |
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 Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:56 pm
hey who all plays the alto saxophone? I do!!!
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:13 pm
I loooooooooooooove the Alto Sax. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:22 pm
I play the alto, tenor, and bari saxophones. They all are fun ^.^ I play in my High Schools Marching, Symphonic, Pep, and Jazz bands.
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:13 pm
I'm gonna see if I can try out the school's bari sax after our concert next week. I was talking to the high school band director and the sax section leader (well, not sure, but he'll probably be section leader), and he was talking about how he's gotten to play all of the saxes. Alto was his first, playing soprano for a couple songs in their concert, tenor for jazz, and he marched bari in the New York St. Patrick's Day Parade. (And he's only a sophmore right now.)
He's an amazing sax player. xd I hope I'll be that good...=D
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:05 pm
I'm an Alto Sax, although i would like to switch to Tenor, i feel that i'm not ready it yet, I wanna master Alto it first. My favorite Brand of reeds in Rico (2 1/2) and I've been Playing for 4 years so far.
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:26 pm
Hey, I had a question that I hope someone will PM me an answer for. Whenever I get up into the upper register on my alto sax, I get waaaaaay flat, especially past the sax fingering A. Any suggestions, because I've tried alot of various techniques, but no luck. sad
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 9:35 pm
does anyone think that it would be hard for a flute player to switch to a sax? i really want to play alto or tenor. the berri is way to big and the soprano is a little small(i dont want to play another tiny iinstrument). i think it would be cool to learn it over the summer because i know i dont have time to learn to play it in one month, do i?
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:20 pm
Monkey_Kaboodle does anyone think that it would be hard for a flute player to switch to a sax? i really want to play alto or tenor. the berri and soprano are way to big. i think it would be cool to learn it over the summer because i know i dont have time to learn to play it in one month, do i? Hun, the soprano sax is TINY. It's about the size of a clarinet; I think you're a little confused about that. It goes (in order from smallest to largest): soprano, alto, tenor, then bari. I'm a former flute player myself; and it's actually really easy to switch, a lot of the fingerings are the same. I switched to tenor in grade eight, then played tenor and bari in grade nine, and now I'm a full-time bari player. Sadly though, my bari sax is broken! Yeah, our school's funding is lacking; and we have very few good bari saxes. I got stuck with the crappy one while Simon got the BRAND NEW ONE and Alex got the one that was recently fixed. But does the only female get a good one? Nooo. She gets the crap one that is missing screws and one of the keys just fell off. Like, those keys that are on the neck of the bari? One of those fell off COMPLETELY. So now I'm sort of screwed; though I might be playing soprano or something for a while... *sigh* Today sucked.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:42 am
hawkmoon93 Hey, I had a question that I hope someone will PM me an answer for. Whenever I get up into the upper register on my alto sax, I get waaaaaay flat, especially past the sax fingering A. Any suggestions, because I've tried alot of various techniques, but no luck. sad
I have no idea, sorry. D: Maybe you could try adjusting your embouchure?
I've been having a couple notes flat lately, too...Noticed it yesterday. Especially C sharp. It sounded reaaaaally weird.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:33 pm
alright i play a 50 year old summer bundy and it sounds better than a the schools 2000 dollar selmer lol so ya i've been playin for about 6 to 7 years i'm learning tenner and about to get me a berry sax i like #3.5 reeds the give me the sound i want and i realy dont need much more for school but after school its a 4
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 8:01 pm
Gah, I don't know what to do about the broken key on my sax! *waves it around like a wand* I'm panicking here! We've got our final concert in less than a month!
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:00 pm
Twilight Scribe Gah, I don't know what to do about the broken key on my sax! *waves it around like a wand* I'm panicking here! We've got our final concert in less than a month!
Take it to a music store to get it fixed, I guess. One key shouldn't take a month to fix.
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:02 pm
I don't know, it apparently took a month to replace a couple pads on my sax. But maybe they were just uber busy that month. And they didn't even clean it! That made me mad. evil But how'd you break your key?
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:33 pm
well... i play the alto. i got it as a gift from my uncle, so im not that good at it yet. ive been teaching myself =D. my main instrument is the clarinet hehe =D
but the alto sax is fun. i learned to play sadness and sorrow from naruto on it!!
hehehe im such a nerd Xp
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