Maurice Beck
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Greetings from Japan. I played guitar and bass in my school band, but since last couple of years I'm literally in fond of Jazz music from now on. And I though myself it would be awesome to learn any brass made wind instrument someday in my life. And I chose Saxophone. Trumpet was an alternative, but I couldn't imagine myself how it makes various melodies with just 3 or 4 keys and mouth pressure. Somewhat amazing. However saxophone's keys were more familiar to me, because of another instrument i learned called Recorder. (Most of pre-highschool students in East asia learns how to play it in music class.) Basically the same positions of fingers, I thought myself it would be more easy to adapt.
I bought my first saxophone in last March 17. So it isn't even been a single month. And because I live in dormitory, so I have to practice in my University's music club classroom. I handled myself and practiced a little bit, so now I managed to play some familiar songs. Cold Duck Time, Intro of John Coltrane's Equinox, etc... I basically learn myself, but yes, I think it would be great to meet some saxophone veteran or anyone learned sax before me. But I'm a mere University student, so I can't afford sax lesson by short on money and time. My embouchure and technique would hard to be perfect without some expertise management, But I will try my best of self-learning.
I bought a good shape of used Yamaha YAS-23, and Selmer SeleS Prologue for mouthpiece. Reed I use is D'addario Select Jazz 3 Strength. I didn't got recommendation of this, so I'm not sure it is a good choice. Some comment about this would be very grateful.
I will often ask intermediate questions about learning saxophone. But there might be some english grammatical misses and wrongs.
Thanks for reading.
Maurice Beck
I bought my first saxophone in last March 17. So it isn't even been a single month. And because I live in dormitory, so I have to practice in my University's music club classroom. I handled myself and practiced a little bit, so now I managed to play some familiar songs. Cold Duck Time, Intro of John Coltrane's Equinox, etc... I basically learn myself, but yes, I think it would be great to meet some saxophone veteran or anyone learned sax before me. But I'm a mere University student, so I can't afford sax lesson by short on money and time. My embouchure and technique would hard to be perfect without some expertise management, But I will try my best of self-learning.
I bought a good shape of used Yamaha YAS-23, and Selmer SeleS Prologue for mouthpiece. Reed I use is D'addario Select Jazz 3 Strength. I didn't got recommendation of this, so I'm not sure it is a good choice. Some comment about this would be very grateful.
I will often ask intermediate questions about learning saxophone. But there might be some english grammatical misses and wrongs.
Thanks for reading.
Maurice Beck
