I have learnt clarinet and want to learn Soprano Sax. is it easier for clarinet player to learn Soprano Sax than other Sax.?

Is it only possible to play Kenny G`s song using Soprano Sax?

Which Soprano Sax should I buy? is Yamaha good? could i get it around $600 - $800?

Thanks!!

I don`t know if you played clarinet it make it easier... it`s hard for me as a sax to play clarinet.
I`m sure u heard by now that alto is the starting sax, i remember i wanted to be tenor way back , but in school alto was the starting sax and i never went away from it.
Most of Kenny G`s songs are on the soprano sax. well the ones you here the most of anyways.
You can definately find a nice yamaha for that price. just look around. i`m not a soprano player, so i`m not sure how it would fancy. but as a golden rule, u can never go wrong with a yamaha sax.

Clarinet to soprano sax is going to be easy as pie. Seriously. You`ll probably find it a lot more fun than clarinet too...and it`s a lot easier to get a good tone out of it (especially if you`ve practiced long tones or other excercises on the clarinet).

And if you`re looking to get away from the Kenny G image while playing soprano...buy a curved soprano. They look just like any of the other saxes but sound like a soprano. Fun stuff.

Hey,
I`ve wanted to play the sop. sax for a while. I saw Andy Sheppard and Courtney Pine play live and I just loved the tone. I`m a clarinetist and I was wondering how easy it would be to switch over? What`s the fingering like? Is the blowing pressure different?

switching form any to any is pretty easy, it takes minor embo-thing changes and fingering work, but the fingerings are practicaly the same. ITs easy. and saxes dont squeak.

of course it depends what sop sax you have, but thinking about it soprano is pretty tough to get used to. ITs like a different sax with the same fingerings (compared to say alto) ans tuning the things are a pain to do. My curved soprano sounds real good, but man is that thing out of tune! One notes flat, the other sharp. Took me awile.

Hope the random blabber helps.

and the curved saxes look a lot cooler. no offense to clarinets, but straight sops look like metal clarinets. Of course, they did make some metal clarinets.

well from my understanding all saxs have the same fingering. I`m a clarinetist. I`m learning saxophone, on an alto. And I have no prob. Actually I think it probably would make it easier playing clarinet 1st. I tried playing clarinet 2 yrs ago and I couldn`t do it. Then I took up clarinet and went back to sax now and I`m great.

Switching from clarinet to soprano sax should not be difficult. When playing the sax, the mouthpiece angle from your mouth is different. Clarinets should point down at about a 45 degree angle, while saxophones come out of your mouth at about a 90 degree angle.

The sax will take less air pressure, and be harder to keep in tune up and down the scale.

The fingering on sax is almost identical to clarinet fingering above the break. (with the register key) The new fingerings will be those below the clarinet break. Saxes have an octave key, which raises the note one octave, while clarinets have a register key which raises the note an octave and a fifth.

I think I remember you saying the exact same thing to someone else a while back. Not an insult, since it`s correct; just a comment. You a band director? (from the email im guessing)