I have a Trevor James classic II Tenor “The Horn”, I bought it off a lovely old lady who couldn’t handle it, it looked like a Bari on her. It was brand new with a case, lots of reeds and all the cleaning equipment! I am taking lessons off a reputable teacher and am having great fun. I’ve played guitar for over thirty years now and needed a new challenge, and have always wanted to learn the Saxophone but could never devote the serious time and effort it takes to learn a new instrument, luckily now I can.
These are my thoughts after playing for about three weeks. One of the first exercises my teacher taught me was to learn how to blow consistently by using scale exercises as long tones. I found this really helpful because as a beginner you can easily blow a note, but getting that note to sound even and consistent is quite difficult. On a guitar I could show you how to sound a perfect note with very little effort, on a Saxophone you really earn that note! From another beginner to any other out there the best bit of advice would be to take things slowly and learn a few scales, then get playing with backing tracks etc to see how they work, it’s so much more fun. I wish I had sites like this when learning guitar all those years ago, and with regards to Saxophone the educational material Johhny puts out via youtube has been so helpful. You need to work on accuracy as a new Saxophonist, and for the first week or so the change from C-B went blap-blap-blap lol, it drove me nuts.
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