Domzey sax

The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong time, but then, you take a breath all the way from the center of the earth and blow. All that heartache is forgiven. All that love we humans carry makes a sweet, deep sound and we fly a little.

Joy Harjo"

My best saxophone ever. Julius Keilwerth SX90R Edition 75

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That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

Learning to Play the Sax.

Although the saxophone is simple enough to learn, It’s not an easy thing to do well, because that process takes time and effort, just like any learning process. They say, that to master something, anything, you must spend about 10,000 hours at it. You can read more about this theory in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success

What?! 10,000 hours. That’s a life time! Well actually no, it’s not. More like, an hour a day for nearly 30 years. (fine, let’s remove school holidays) Yes, playing an instrument or a sport are 2 prime examples that are physically easy to see the hours involved in practicing. A lot of intellectual pursuits would follow too like any complex math, engineering, or even medicine. Auto mechanics fits too if you’re expecting the mechanic to be very good. Coming up with a number of 10,000 hours seems somewhat arbitrary, but it’s probably a decent ballpark figure. The point here is that, it may be more or less, but 10,000 hours is a workable, manageable goal that you can chip away at. So if you’re looking for a precise answer for how long to learn saxophone. There may be some benefit in keeping a timesheet, marking off how much practice you do. Remember that one intention of completing the practice is to build a habit from regularly picking up your horn. Day after day, if you continue, the benefits will come.

If we look at Sonny Rollins, he started playing music at age 11 and moved to Saxophone very soon after. By age twenty he had at least 8 solid years of practice under his belt. Let’s say that looking back he was twice as devoted as the other Sax player in the school band. If he continued to practice for no more than 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, and had a few weeks off each year, then by age 20 he may have been getting close to 5000 hours. I’m sure he was pretty good by this point – well he was jamming with the Pro’s like Charlie Parker by then. Still, another 10 years with plenty more practice and he was

10 facts about the saxophone and it players
. Adolphe Sax moved to Paris in 1842 and registered his invention the saxophone in 1846.

2. The saxophone has a metal body and is played with a single beating reed, which the player controls through his or her mouth tightness.

3. There are eight different sizes of saxophones in the sax family. The highest pitched ones are known as the Sopranino and Soprano sax. The more moderately middle toned saxes are the Alto and Tenor, while the lowest pitched saxs are Baritone Sax, Bass Sax, Contrabass Sax, and Sub-Contrabass Sax.

4. Only four members of the sax family are commonly used today: the Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass Saxophone. The most popular are the Alto and Tenor.

5. Although the saxophone is usually thought of as a jazz instrument, it has been used successfully with symphonic music such as Bizet, Massenet, and Berlioz.

6. Although the saxophone is closely related to the clarinet, the fi*****ng of a saxophone is much easier. Because the higher and lower octaves of the sax have the same fi*****ng, it is much easier to play than the clarinet, which over blows at 12ths, meaning a clarinet player must learn different fingers for higher and lower octaves.

7. When the saxophone was first introduced to jazz, the clarinet was much more popular and many musicians resisted the saxophone for a time.

8. However, the tenor, alto, and soprano saxs soon caught on and became very popular in music from New Orleans jazz to rock music.

9. Gene Ammons, founder of the Chicago school of Tenor Sax, recorded The Big Sound and Groove Blueson a single day in 1958.

10. John Douglas Surman was a remarkable player of the soprano and baritone saxophones (as well as many other instruments). He attended the London College of Music and was a member of the Jazz Workshop at Plymouth Arts Center. His solo album, The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, features many different saxophone sounds.