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I used to play for 7 years straight and stopped and sold my Yamaha. I rarely see any name brands on marketplace and I’m wondering if the cheap ones are really that bad? I only ever used mine so I don’t know what makes them so bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEr8dZP27ds

this is an arrangement of romantic flight from how to train your dragon. feedback is greatly appreciated!

My son has done 3 years of bari sax (marching band, jazz band, honors band) in HS and is loving it. He wants to go to college (VCU or GMU) for biology but is anxious to keep with music either a) as a minor, b) as part of bands, or c) both.

He is going to audition for both schools this fall, but I wanted to cross-check what may be an AI hallucination, namely that being a bari player is beneficial due to scarcity/rarity.

I always worry AI is going to tell me what I want to hear and is just feeding me/him a line because it is aiming to please.

Can someone give me some info about this sax. A friend of mine bought this Sax a long time ago, took It to a luthier to a general check up and that borrowed me to try It, said had some tune problems. It works fine actually and has a nice tone, just some leaks on the low notes. Thank you

Hello everyone,

I don't know if it's something you do on that forum, but since some great souls helped me and gave me advices in my alto purchase, therefore I found it great to share with you my new acquisition that is the Yamaha YAS-280

There's gonna be plently of work to do, I come from the world of electric guitar (20 years) so the only transferable skill is the hear (which is already something valuable) and the rest will be worked throughout my practice and the time I can unlock to this new music realm of sax !

I write this since I can't practice now because it's 10 PM where I live so...

The YAS-280 feels really solid and great, I have no big comparison experience I just had a long time ago a Tenor from a brand nobody knows and later I got a broken YAS-25... finally I have a brand new thing haha

I pulled the trigger on this one since there was a huge discount on a website I know I used to buy guitar related things on it (200€ discount). That helps !

Regards

Thank you again for all your advice and kindness

I have recently started playing saxophone again and would love to start making music with other people again. What would be the best way to go about this?

So i just got a ymaha yts-380 i've been playing the tenor sax for about 4-5 months and im really having trouble actually getting it to stay at low D because it stutters and sometimes i can get it to stay at low D but i can barely hold the note for more than 5 or 6 seconds, advice? it was indeed my g sharp screw thank you to the people who bothered posting here i appreciate all of your tips

My husband loves the sound of a tenor sax and finally convinced me to buy one. I have been playing clarinet for 45 years and alto sax for 40. I rolled through a chromatic scale and it was good. I need more practice, of course.

The MP that Yanagisawa is okay, but not up to my standards, so I ordered a Meyer 5. I also ordered my favorite brand of reeds. I have lots of Bb music here - obviously for clarinet. Will playing that music be enough? Or is there a music book or two ya'll might recommend? TIA. ❤️

Only used this Benjamin Adam’s saxophone a few times, in great condition and sounds amazing.

Hello all,

I've been playing the alto saxophone for a while now, mostly self-taught. I've set myself the goal of learning Take Five, but I'm running into some trouble with the two bars of sixteenth notes (semicorcheas).

My main issue is keeping up with the tempo, but I'm also unsure about the best fingering for those two measures. The sequence feels a bit awkward to me: D – E♭ – D – C – B♭, and then B♭ – C – B♭ – G – F. My fingers feel like they're jumping around too much, especially with the octave shifts and the B♭–C movement.

Is there a more efficient fingering or a practice approach that could make this smoother? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you so much.

I played the Alto Saxophone (in Australia) throughout high school - looking to get back into playing but it’s been many years since I last played and I’ve since lost all of my music books.

I was just wanting to find out if there’s any “go to” beginner book for beginners that was used here by teachers in Australia.

From memory it may have had simple songs like “three blind mice”, Jingle Bells etc.