[littlewailer]

Hey all,

I bought a really cheap alto the other day because it's something i've wanted to do for a while as supplement to my tenor playing.

My question is.... I play a lot of long tones on tenor already. When I switch to alto. Do I have to play long tones again because its a new instrument and the tonal conception is different? I think you should but i don't know.

IMO alto is a lot of fun when your a tenor player YOU CAN PLAY FOREVER.. LOL

 

[Dr G]

Oh, I don't know...

How's your tone? Do you care?

 

[littlewailer]

haha, I'll take that as a yes....

FYI. I love my current tenor sound but the alto needs some work. So i guess my question has been answered

 

[Dr G]

It's only fair that, if you expect other people to listen to you, you spend some time listening to yourself.

Work to develop the alto as its own instrument with its own sound.

 

[JPSaxMan]

I agree. The fallacy that a saxophone is a saxophone is a saxophone is total bullcrapola. I'd be foolish to think that even though for the past three months while at college I've been working relentlessly on alto and soprano, that I could pick up a tenor or a bari that I haven't touched in some time and magically have the wonderful (being a relative term) tone that I have on soprano and alto as of now. It takes time...patience is a virtue .