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Re: Can doubling on tenor sax affect my embouchure?

Author: concertmaster3
Date: 2018-09-14 04:46

As long as you keep practicing clarinet while learning saxophone, you'll have no issue. The thing that helped me the most was to practice mouthpiece exercises on both. If you can hit the desired pitches on each mouthpiece on the first try after switching, you'll be fine. This is what I do when going back to playing a sax that I typically don't play often (like bari).

Playing both instruments is honestly beneficial to your marketability. I'm primarily an oboist, but play all woodwinds. My orchestral line-up of gigs in the next few months include oboe/English horn, flute and saxophone. This isn't even including the musicals on violin/synthesizer and whatever woodwind part I get assigned! It helps being well versed in classical and jazz playing on both sax and clarinet.

Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com

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