Klarinet Archive - Posting 000639.txt from 1995/06

From: Sal Lozano <Solzano@-----.COM>
Subj: sax to clar
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 20:23:22 -0400

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Date: 95-06-27 18:06:44 EDT
From: csmith@-----.com (Chad Smith)
To: Solzano@-----.COM

Sal Lozano,

I must agree with you in regards to your comments about switching to sax from
clarinet. I played clarinet for 6 years before I started playing sax. I
taught
myself how to play and even became good enough to play lead tenor in the SMU
jazz ensemble (not that that's really anything to brag about!). I started
teaching clarinet about 5 years ago and was offered several sax students to
teach a couple of years ago. I decided I'd better take a few sax lessons
(4 years after I'd started playing myself) because playing an instrument and
teaching someone else to play an instrument are two completely different
things!After a couple of lessons from Earl Haberkamp, I found out that I
really didn't know crap about playing the sax! I never realized that you had
to lower 4th line D and then raise the C directly below. In addition to
several other aspects I was clueless about, I became very humbled after
thinking I was pretty good.

So the verdict is, I still believe it is easier to go from clarinet to sax
than
from sax to clarinet, but I know now that, as a clarinet player, the sax may
have been easy to pick up and play, but it is very difficult to pick up and
play WELL!

regards,
-chad smith
csmith@-----.com