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| I was born with a sax in my hand! |
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 Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:18 pm
Dudes, you all rock. I play the alto sax in my school band. nad will be soon in jazz band!!! biggrin
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:59 pm
i play flute n ma bd just told me n one o ma friends that were gonna learn alto sax n be in jazz next year!
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:41 pm
kandymom13 Dudes, you all rock. I play the alto sax in my school band. nad will be soon in jazz band!!! biggrin Yeah! Go Jazz bands!!! I love jazz. It's great because of the improvisation solos and the hard rhythms! I never got to do this kind of stuff in the concert band, so I was overjoyed when I saw it all! mrgreen
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:12 pm
Musical Doom Yo! I play Alto. This morning I was moved to Tenor(Those jerks!) against my will because five saxes is apparently to many. Any tips for the ex 2nd chair Alto that can't seem to get any air through her new horn please? find a different mouthpiece and/or reed biggrin example:mouthpieces with bigger tip openings need softer reeds, skinnier openings need harder surprised hope this helps(NEVER GET A HARD REED BECAUSE YOU THINK IT MAKES YOU A BETTER PLAYER o.o it doesn't...a good player realizes that harder reeds aren't always better...[sorry if you already knew this]) biggrin
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:05 pm
pezhi Musical Doom Yo! I play Alto. This morning I was moved to Tenor(Those jerks!) against my will because five saxes is apparently to many. Any tips for the ex 2nd chair Alto that can't seem to get any air through her new horn please? find a different mouthpiece and/or reed biggrin example:mouthpieces with bigger tip openings need softer reeds, skinnier openings need harder surprised hope this helps(NEVER GET A HARD REED BECAUSE YOU THINK IT MAKES YOU A BETTER PLAYER o.o it doesn't...a good player realizes that harder reeds aren't always better...[sorry if you already knew this]) biggrin Hah... That reminds me of when I ordered my box of 4 1/2's without trying them out first. Boy, was that an experience! They took forever to break in, and then I realized that you can just sand them down. mrgreen So yeah, 3 1/2 work for me now.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:14 am
Hiya!I play Alto and Tenor sax, alto during marching season and tenor during concert.I'm hoping that the band director will let me play Tenor year round though...
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:26 pm
megamanfan66 pezhi Musical Doom Yo! I play Alto. This morning I was moved to Tenor(Those jerks!) against my will because five saxes is apparently to many. Any tips for the ex 2nd chair Alto that can't seem to get any air through her new horn please? find a different mouthpiece and/or reed biggrin example:mouthpieces with bigger tip openings need softer reeds, skinnier openings need harder surprised hope this helps(NEVER GET A HARD REED BECAUSE YOU THINK IT MAKES YOU A BETTER PLAYER o.o it doesn't...a good player realizes that harder reeds aren't always better...[sorry if you already knew this]) biggrin Hah... That reminds me of when I ordered my box of 4 1/2's without trying them out first. Boy, was that an experience! They took forever to break in, and then I realized that you can just sand them down. mrgreen So yeah, 3 1/2 work for me now. Ooo... Sanding reeds.. *cough* dangerous! *cough* There was a kid who brought in a box of reeds he tried to sand down. Yeah, I don't even think about thinking about doing anything close to that. *screams* *thinks about those reeds* *screams* Sorry, just... too scary to think about... *SCREAMS!!!!*
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:30 pm
i play alto on 2 1/2 reeds...that's the hardest i like to go...if i can i usually use a jazz 2 reed...(vandoren java or something like that) surprised
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:17 am
I play all three but i pefer tenor. Bari 2 heavy! lol
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:21 pm
Are you guys doing concert music?
Mine are-
Jurassic Park
Song of the Desert
and Phantom Ship.
My fav. though is Phantom ship.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:23 pm
pezhi i play alto on 2 1/2 reeds...that's the hardest i like to go...if i can i usually use a jazz 2 reed...(vandoren java or something like that) surprised Yeah i use 2 1/2 too. It takes forever to reak in new reeds.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:23 pm
Iam_Nobody17 megamanfan66 pezhi Musical Doom Yo! I play Alto. This morning I was moved to Tenor(Those jerks!) against my will because five saxes is apparently to many. Any tips for the ex 2nd chair Alto that can't seem to get any air through her new horn please? find a different mouthpiece and/or reed biggrin example:mouthpieces with bigger tip openings need softer reeds, skinnier openings need harder surprised hope this helps(NEVER GET A HARD REED BECAUSE YOU THINK IT MAKES YOU A BETTER PLAYER o.o it doesn't...a good player realizes that harder reeds aren't always better...[sorry if you already knew this]) biggrin Hah... That reminds me of when I ordered my box of 4 1/2's without trying them out first. Boy, was that an experience! They took forever to break in, and then I realized that you can just sand them down. mrgreen So yeah, 3 1/2 work for me now. Ooo... Sanding reeds.. *cough* dangerous! *cough* There was a kid who brought in a box of reeds he tried to sand down. Yeah, I don't even think about thinking about doing anything close to that. *screams* *thinks about those reeds* *screams* Sorry, just... too scary to think about... *SCREAMS!!!!* Hahaha! I know how to do it correctly! Don't worry! I spent $50 on a glass reed resurfacer, and it works just fine!
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:16 pm
megamanfan66 Iam_Nobody17 megamanfan66 pezhi Musical Doom Yo! I play Alto. This morning I was moved to Tenor(Those jerks!) against my will because five saxes is apparently to many. Any tips for the ex 2nd chair Alto that can't seem to get any air through her new horn please? find a different mouthpiece and/or reed biggrin example:mouthpieces with bigger tip openings need softer reeds, skinnier openings need harder surprised hope this helps(NEVER GET A HARD REED BECAUSE YOU THINK IT MAKES YOU A BETTER PLAYER o.o it doesn't...a good player realizes that harder reeds aren't always better...[sorry if you already knew this]) biggrin Hah... That reminds me of when I ordered my box of 4 1/2's without trying them out first. Boy, was that an experience! They took forever to break in, and then I realized that you can just sand them down. mrgreen So yeah, 3 1/2 work for me now. Ooo... Sanding reeds.. *cough* dangerous! *cough* There was a kid who brought in a box of reeds he tried to sand down. Yeah, I don't even think about thinking about doing anything close to that. *screams* *thinks about those reeds* *screams* Sorry, just... too scary to think about... *SCREAMS!!!!* Hahaha! I know how to do it correctly! Don't worry! I spent $50 on a glass reed resurfacer, and it works just fine! I just use a really light sandpaper bebcause i'm cheap xP Oh and i know how to do that properly as well. I had a box of 5's that i used in marchingband and it lasted me for quite some time. I dont care about reeds much when it comes to marchingband anyway but with my mouthpiece combo i had such a great STRONG sound with that box of 5's <333
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:04 pm
playin sax is AWESOME. i play the alto and tenor. i used the alto with a three during marching band and a three on the tenor during concert. switching wasnt that hard. the only BIG differences is i need a LOT more air for the tenor and all the scales change. its weird, but fun. mrgreen
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:22 pm
MHHornfreak: you use 5's? Holy moly. I can only sound good up to 4 1/2; any higher and it gets really airy. I have to try that, though... 5's for marching band. Sounds like a good idea.
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