24hrs with my soprano

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Chico222

Discussion Starter · Jun 3, 2007

Man this thing is something else! As some of you already know from my other post, I put on order a sweet yas-82z in black laquer and rented a jupiter student soprano. I played it for a few hours and man is this thing hard. I thought I was bad ***** and tried to play it like I played my alto......but no way. I was squeaking, my fingers weren't used to the smaller instrument and my intonation is WAY OFF!! Everytime I hold a note it's almost as if my breath is shaking, the pitch goes up and down continously and I can't control it any.

Also, and not to say that I should sound anything like Kenny G, but the overall sound of the horn sounds extremely different from what Kenny G's and other sopranos I have heard. I know I know soprano saxophonists have their own sound, but when I play my soprano you couldn't even tell I was playng the same instrument as them. My sound is so "whiny", for lack of a better word.

I guess it's time to practice.

Any thoughts?

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Seasax

· #2 · Jun 3, 2007

yes, LONG TONES LONG TONES LONG TONES,
every time you practice alto or sop, start with going up and down the full range of notes holding each for as long as you can focusing on maintaining a steady note, not too much waviness. do this on both alto and soprano, this might take between half an hour and an hour and for me it started to show results within a week, my lips were bleeding by then but everything played and sounded so much better.
you might want to look into mouthpieces aswell if you havent already.

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