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Jazz doublers

Author: SVClarinet09
Date: 2007-09-25 20:20

This year our jazz band will be going to the state music convention. What really stinks is that we have lost a good amount of people on the sax section. My director is having me fill in for Bari and has made other kids switch around making our lead alto go to tenor and etc. I started out on Bari today and my director told me to make sure that my embouchure was rounder. I looked around at the other sax kids and I tried to mimic them. What exactly is a sax embouchure? I'm starting on an old Buescher 400 which I am not sure if it is of good quality or not but some small research point to it as high intermediate, very advanced for it's time period so maybe it's the equivalent of a Selmer Artist USA Sax? The mouthpiece I'm playing on is a Selmer S80 C*. I noticed the chamber is squared off. I dipped it into hydrogen peroxide to eat up all the gunk it had but I still need to clean it at home. What reeds should I use? Are the jazz reeds any good? I've heard from sax players that soft reeds=harder to play low notes. Right now i had a Rico 2.5 but it's just not working. I can get many of the middle notes and some of the low notes but once I get to G on the staff things sort of fall apart.

EDIT

Did some more research. The 400 I have seems to be a 2nd gen Selmer Stencil

Post Edited (2007-09-25 20:23)

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