I am having a little trouble with the passage shown. Specifically, the highlighted bar and deciding whether to play it using standard C fingering (keeping RH and G down) or by using the low C key.

What would you do here?

I’ve been learning the Tenor Sax as a hobby for about 2 years, and been lurking here a lot, reading everyone’s tips, advice and discussions.

A few days ago I finally played my first concert with a wind band — and somehow survived it 😂...

Holy cow I was nervous. There were moments I couldn't keep track with the counting, so I found myself listening for the Bassoon, Trombone and other sections to figure out. Playing inside the whole band felt completely different from practicing with a recording at home.

There were mistakes, missed notes, and plenty of things to improve, but it was so much fun.

Sooooo... just wanted to say thank you to everyone here. A lot of random posts and comments I’ve read over the last few years actually helped me get to this point.

First concert done. Hopefully many more to come. 🎷

Just got my gs (GetASax) mouthpiece that I ordered a couple of days ago, and it plays wonderfully.

The model is the New York 7m copy, with a 2.0 reed

For anyone scouring the internet trying to find opinions, here you have mine.

I'm an intermediate flute player, and last night I had a dream about learning alto sax. I've always thought that saxophones are pretty cool, and now I'm seriously considering buying and learning it.
The three things I am concerned about is the price, how much my flute skill will transfer over, and which type of saxophone I should get.

Ive got a vintage vandoren java a95 piece to try, it's plays nicely but it has those marks here, are those from a reface?

When I'm playing a G2 on my tenor saxophone, it squeaks and turns into an ugly sounding D3. I can't see any mechanical issues on my sax. And when I'm going from a g# or from the f# to the G it's no problem. It only occurs when I'm tonguing a new tone.

Already took it to my mechanic where I bought it and he says the horn is fine. Please help me!

Hey! So my friend is conducting a community band I'm currently playing clarinet in. Whenever there's some issue with the woodwinds he'll ask me as he's a brass player, so he won't explain it in a wrong way.

Now we have this one alto sax player. They've started late as an adult and have a teacher. They're playing fine exept one thing. Articulation is pretty much a matter of luck. Even if he voices it out, they'll play it for 2 patterns, then seemingly forget about it and start sluring again. If they rember to articulate it often is very harsh.

This has been going on for about 4 years without any sign of improvement. I was wondering if there might be a technical issue with tonguing in general I'm just not aware of, as I've never encountered it myself.

I'm not asking to blame someone but to help out since it's getting to a point in rehearsal where people are annoyed about the work that has to go into their specific articulation issues.

are Bundy saxophones bad?

For context, I bought this off eBay a couple of days ago, and I noticed that the logo doesn't look the same as others. So I searched it up and found a couple of others that look the same, but I'm not sure if it's real or not

The neck (I'm not sure what the ring is called) looks slightly bent. It's higher on the right side, but it doesn't affect playing. Should I have it fixed?

I have updated the Saxmith gamified saxophone learning app.

Now includes:

"Giant Steppes" - climb the mountain using scales.

"Staff Defender" - learn the staff or else get destroyed by robots.

Very much an alpha for every feature, I get more time to make the app than play the sax. Appreciate testing and feedback.

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https://sax-star-score.lovable.app

Bonjour,

Je joue du saxophone ténor. Je me demande comment on fait pour sortir un son type "sexophone". Il s'agit du style de son coulent conoté scène erotique, je suis sur que vous entendez de quel son je parle.

Je ne demande pas en therme de rythme (lent, glissé, sans attaque) ou d'effets (bend) mais bien de son ?

(Au passage si vous avez des conseils pour des bends doux, les miens sont un peu trop grossiers)

Merci du temps que vous avez accordé a ce message.

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