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Hi,
In august I posted that I was going to start playing again, after a 10 year break,
and asked some questions about buying a new bari sax.
Now I made my choice and it is a Yanagisawa.
I doubted between the Yani and a system 54, but some pro players convinced me
the Yani was a much better choice.
Now I am starting to play on my old mouthpiece (Selmer SA80-F) and a n° 3 Vandoren bluebox reed,
but I find it is a bit too hard to start with, so I switched to the stock N° 5 Yani mpc.
No probs with the lower (pp on low A, and high register, but the sound of the middle register (mostly D-F-G-A)
is not so good and sometimes drops an octave lower, or I get a mix of the lower and middle octave,
and things are not always in tune either, it is difficult to get control on things.
As I play more (lots of long tone scales, along with my keyboard to hear the tuning of each note),
and my brand new reed starts getting a bit more flexible,
I feel things are getting better.
in order to have some fun also , I switch between these long tones and some tunes I like,
while playing the tunes I uncounciently start moving my embouchure in all kinds of unwanted ways,
at a certain moment, I even caught myself playing with a double lip embouchure.
So I feel I really have to go back to the basics of embouchure building and sight reading again.
I guess there are no shortcuts :crying:.
Anyone have some tips to get up to speed again asap ?
In august I posted that I was going to start playing again, after a 10 year break,
and asked some questions about buying a new bari sax.
Now I made my choice and it is a Yanagisawa.
I doubted between the Yani and a system 54, but some pro players convinced me
the Yani was a much better choice.
Now I am starting to play on my old mouthpiece (Selmer SA80-F) and a n° 3 Vandoren bluebox reed,
but I find it is a bit too hard to start with, so I switched to the stock N° 5 Yani mpc.
No probs with the lower (pp on low A, and high register, but the sound of the middle register (mostly D-F-G-A)
is not so good and sometimes drops an octave lower, or I get a mix of the lower and middle octave,
and things are not always in tune either, it is difficult to get control on things.
As I play more (lots of long tone scales, along with my keyboard to hear the tuning of each note),
and my brand new reed starts getting a bit more flexible,
I feel things are getting better.
in order to have some fun also , I switch between these long tones and some tunes I like,
while playing the tunes I uncounciently start moving my embouchure in all kinds of unwanted ways,
at a certain moment, I even caught myself playing with a double lip embouchure.
So I feel I really have to go back to the basics of embouchure building and sight reading again.
I guess there are no shortcuts :crying:.
Anyone have some tips to get up to speed again asap ?
