im currently a clarinet student and i want to switch to the alto sax but i dont know if its the right thing to do...

any advice??


thanx

well, saxophone embouchoure and clarinet embouchoure arent much different, just tighten the corners of your mouth more and only curl your bottom lip. Fingerings are easier on sax, but if you ever play clarinet again, be careful in the low range. that is where fingerings change more. Good luck and go and have some sax! lol

Many people switch from or double from clarinet to sax and the other way round. If you want to play professionally then you'll be expected to double in any case.

As has been said, the embouchure is similar, technique a little different, but knowing clarinet will hold you in good stead for sax. The fingering is pretty much the same as the clarinet's middle register, except for one or two notes, usually at the top and bottom of its range. To shift up an octave uses a combination of embouchure and the octave key, as the sax overblows on the octave rather than the clarinet's twelfth.

Unless you have a real yen for a particular sax, start with alto. It's a very forgiving instrument. Tenor and bari can be a bit much to handle physically, if you're not very big, and soprano, although lovely, takes a lot of controlling, more so than the clarinet.

yeah ill probably play both though....

will i hav trouble?