 The Fingering Forum
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Author: Trish
Date: 1999-08-13 04:23
hi everybody. I play clarinet. but i wanna be jazzier. i started the clarinet in the beginning of the 6th grade. right now im going to the 8th. do you think i could learn the sax quickly? the summer's almost over.!
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Author: Joe
Date: 1999-08-15 18:50
Although I would suggest as a clarinetist for you to stay on the clarinet, learning the sax will be easy. I started to learn it and most of the fingerings are the same. The fingerings are the same as a clarinet's upper octave. The finger keys are also close. There are just a few different. The hardest part will probably be scales, the altissimo notes, and the pinky keys. These aren't that hard either. Hope I was a help!
~Joe
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Author: Brett Rexroat
Date: 1999-08-16 12:44
I played clarinet for the first time last year in 7th, and got a sax, and it's been really easy for me to learn. The sax, I think, is easier to learn than the clarinet.
the SAX...try it, you'll love it!
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Author: Stephanie
Date: 1999-09-04 15:47
I was in your position there too, I just got into 8th grade and now I'm learning sax, as well as still sticking with clarinet. The fingerings are nearly the same.
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Author: Matt
Date: 1999-09-22 23:38
The Sax will definatly be easier tonewise. The Sax can have a rougher sound while the Clarinet should have a darker and nicer tone. You will find the high notes a lot easier to play on the Sax than the clarinet. A major diffrence between the two is the weight. You will probably have a sore shoulder after you practice for a long time (if you play the tenor anyways.)
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Author: anna
Date: 1999-11-23 09:37
i found it really easy to switch from the clarinet to the sax. however, i play tenor and i don't know whether the alto is easier, bearing in mind that the fingerings are the same, and you just require bigger lungs to play the tenor. Hope you're successful
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Author: Christine
Date: 2000-12-27 18:17
I started the clarinet in the 6th grade a year later than everyone else. Then in the 2nd to last week of 7th grade I started playing sax. All the upper register is the same. i believe sax is easier than clarinet because you do not have to cover any holes on sax. I would recommend tenor sax because clarinet and tenor sax are both B flat instruments. Good Luck
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Author: Frosty
Date: 2001-05-12 18:00
I wouldn't recommend it. The Sax and the Clarinet, even though they both use a reed, are completely different instruments with completely different fingerings. After two years of clarinet, I'd stick with it unless you really don't sound good with it.
You can sound jazzy with a clarinet, in fact, the first time I heard a clarinetist sounding jazzy I thought it was a sax! LOL!
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Author: Morgan Waldeck
Date: 2001-06-27 02:58
hey, I am doing the exact thing you are. Although I am switching, I will stay with the clarinet in concert band and play the sax (tenor) in jazz band. Everyone except that ignorant Frosty you have gotten a reply from, and my teacher and many musicians I have talked to, have told me that it is one of the most easy switches you can make. I beleive that the Frosty person is probably a clarinet lover, and doesn't beleive in any other instrument. It will be easy, but stay with the clarinet also, it will make you better musically.
-another 8th grader
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