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Re: Clarinet to soprano sax

Author: William
Date: 2014-04-21 20:52

Two additional suggestions: 1) be sure to put the mouthpiece all the way on leaving as little cork showing as possible. This will bring the little sax in tune "with itself" and you can use a more flexible embouchure to aid in tuning; 2) hold the sax more straight out in front of you so that the mouthpiece enters your embouchure on an almost 90 degree angle, not the downward angle that you use for your clarinets.

And play with a much more relaxed embouchure--I like to use an almost double lip to help with the special scooping and vibrato effects that make a sax a sax. Forget the long tones--BORING. Just listen to some sop sax recordings (preferably jazz) and play what comes to mind. Basic rule is HAVE FUN--DONT MAKE IT WORK!!!!!!

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