If any of you night owls are still up(it's 8:00PM here) I had my first lessons today.
Lessons went pretty fair-not near long enough for a first visit. He did stay with me about ten minutes over while someone else had to wait a little. I squeaked a lot, that didn't make me happy as it was worse with that first lesson than at home. I had brought the Yamaha 5C and put a Plasticover #2 on it. It didn't seen to work very well today so, I'm going to practice with the Legere 2 1/2 and see what happens.
He did give me some homework and I think he must have thought I was further along that I really am He had given me a sheet of music in the C, F and G cleft to do and there were notes way below and above the top staff line I hadn't seen before and of course they weren't' marked as B-A-G, etc. like I'm use to seeing. Nothing was marked as such so, I told him I needed to stay with C for a while and asked if he'd mark what notes those dots represented. The F and G cleft must be played with the octave key as those notes on the sheet he gave me are well below and above the staff lines. I'm not that far advanced yet. I see him again in a week. He also told me I was trying to blow too hard and had my mouth too far on the mpc so, I tried to adjust that. In my haste to get there and not be late, I had put the reed on the mpc, tightened up the ligature but got the reed just a bit off center. That caused part of the squeaking I'm sure.
All in all, not too bad for a first visit. I showed him the music for Danny Boy(Sil Austin style) I had bought and he looked at it, took his smart phone and brought up YouTube and that music and listened to it while he looked at the sheet music. He said it was pretty much right on but in another key and played slower. If I can talk him into it, I'm going to ask him next time to take my sax and play a little from the sheet music as I know exactly what it's suppose to sound like. Later, I'm going to try and get him to teach me that song.