I've taken my alto with me for a private lesson... apparently, my tone sounds pretty decent when I put my mouthpiece on my teacher's sax (which he wasn't too hot on me doing at first)--much different from the duck noises I get out of my own instrument. After inspecting the $100 Chinese-made sax, he and I reached the conclusion that I would need to buy a better one if I wanted my tone to sound anything like it did on his one.
I decided to go for a tenor now-- and I know a store downtown that will sell Selmer tenor saxophones for roughly $900.
It would take me about 3 months with my minimum-wage part-time job to afford it, assuming that don't spend any money during that period. Let's say it takes me 5 months to buy the thing.
What should I do in the meantime? Is it worth it, at all, to continue practising on such a worthless instrument? If you guys have any suggestions for learning how to play music on an out-of-tune, horrible sounding saxamaphone, please let me know.
and if I'm annoying you with all these dumb questions and long posts--hey, at least I won't be bothering you for 5 whole months!
thanks for your help.
I decided to go for a tenor now-- and I know a store downtown that will sell Selmer tenor saxophones for roughly $900.
It would take me about 3 months with my minimum-wage part-time job to afford it, assuming that don't spend any money during that period. Let's say it takes me 5 months to buy the thing.
What should I do in the meantime? Is it worth it, at all, to continue practising on such a worthless instrument? If you guys have any suggestions for learning how to play music on an out-of-tune, horrible sounding saxamaphone, please let me know.
and if I'm annoying you with all these dumb questions and long posts--hey, at least I won't be bothering you for 5 whole months!
thanks for your help.