@@stxrmygamesI play tenor sax and the G was also hard for me to learn when I moved up from the yts 26 student version to the yts 480 it always squeaked when I tried and now it's so easy
Been playing saxophone for most my life and has done several hundred gigs . In my years of playing I commonly hear about adults who either used to play or just want to play the saxophone but doesn’t because they are “too old”. Every time I hear that I explain to them that an adult can learn way faster than almost all children simply because a adult is more intelligent and disciplined. Thanks for making this video I can show people that you don’t have to be some 7 year old son of a musician before you pick up an instrument. Your never too old to learn!
Just bought one never come close to playing an instrument before but always loved the sound of sax.I got a sound out of it after an hour mainly setting it up and holding it right.im 53 so.....probably bit old to master it
I'm sure you'll totally get this - all my non-musician friends saying "You LITERALLY did SUCH a GOOOD job" and I'm like, "no🤣 I still sucked, but thank you"
As a saxophonist, this is the easiest concert band instrument to get the basics on, but as soon as you are all done with the basics, it becomes the hardest instrument in the band!
I’ve been playing saxophone for 6 weeks and it’s gradually become easier, it’s just my teacher won’t let us learn new songs, we have to perfect the ones when need to learn so yeah
I am a fellow alto sax player and played for about 4 years. How is it going so far? What is your highest note you did and lowest? Keep going do not ice up you will get it soon.
@@jappi09Jappiim a very advanced 8th grade 2.5 year long saxophonist I got into the high school advanced jazz band last week and yeah your really right about lowest and highest notes, some beginners might just think its a contest to see who can go higjest and lowest but it is very important learn how to voicebox early on and keep pushing yourself to try to be able to play all the notes, im working on overtones right now and thank god I knew how to voicebox cause if not I would have been LOST
I find it one the of the best instruments to learn because the trigger-key combinations really leave a lot of free ground to cover with improvisation. I have tried trumpet as well and the Saxophone feels like a walk in the park when compared to it
Only playing for 4 days and learned 10 songs examples: final countdown, careless whisper, Saturn, pink panther theme song Here are the notes to the final countdown if you are curious. Alto saxophone: E D E A(hold 2 counts) F E F E D(hold 2 counts) still learning the rest!
i have been playing saxophone for 3 years and holy cow that is a lot of practice and a lot of great sounds for only a week. Anyway if you keep up practicing you could have a lot of great potential
I am an alto saxophone 🎷 player and played about 4 years and in my experience it’s pretty easy to learn but to master is hard. I am tryna play by ear but that’s very hard.
The hardest part is getting your mouth used to it. I just came back to saxophone after like 4 years and once you set your embouchure you’re off to the races
move ur mouth onto the mouth piece more... n flip it over. use fast air n line the reed up js perfect w/ the top of the mouthpiece. itll be easy from there but reading music isnt. i recommend finding how to play we will rock u on alto sax. very easy to learn for begginers.
Ok, I play tenor saxophone too but I never played alto and I've been playing for roughly 3 years and I still struggle with low notes! It's so embarrassing, I don't know what to do
I didn’t know it was one of the “easiest” 😕 I was proud of myself for getting lessons for only two months and being able to join marching band for the first time bc I caught on quickly
When I saw you put the mouth piece upside down I almost cried and when I heard you try to play at the beginning I got sad. But good for you it took me a month to learn and play decent.
Its easy to make a sound once you get the hang of it..... then the horror comes in. Trying to play in tune, dynamics that kills the note everytime you try to play softer, sore lips from embochure control, endless browsing of mouthpiece and reeds because you want better sound. You get to a comfortable zone then your ears start to get more sensitive in pinpointing inaccuracies in every note. Suddenly you realize the instrument intonation is very bad and you have to relearn your embochure and voicing again.... Thats where it got me in 18months playing as a late beginner😅
Honestly saxophone is easier when you already have experience with another instrument. For example, im a flute player and it was actually kind of easy to understand the fingerings and embouchure on my first day
Surprisingly took me like 3-4 days of practicing on and off to get Careless Whisper, Baker Street, and Tequila basically down and memorized. Technique isn’t the best and the reeds that came with my sax are kinda bad apparently, switching to plastidip tomorrow, should help with some of my squeaking issues. Extremely fun instrument and yeah, it’s hilarious when it lets out a squeak or something, I laugh all the time when I’m playing
lol i’m very advanced in sax i started playing in 2020 for school and goodness i could not even blow it took me 2 whole lessons to learn how to blow anyways it has gotten me so far if you want to learn do it it is so amazing and you just need to commit
I play the saxophone I think it is pretty easy to learn thought almost impossible to master this brought me back to the first day of elementary school band the flutes blowing randomly the clarinets squeeking the wrong fingering terrible ombushure no articulation to much slurring but somehow it came together thanks to the band teachers into a amazing band so if you want to master it or learn how to play a simple song remember it is possible with a couple toturials, hard work, determination, and a ton of practice. I will give you one tip for learning any song the CZcams channel saxplained
I play alto sax and I’ve never really had trouble with it😨😨 I switched into my saxophone band class after being in percussion for a few weeks and I just got it I guess my teachers are amazing though
I’ve pretty much mastered the flute so i decided to switch to the saxophone and learn it on the side and it is NOTT one of the easiest instruments, or atleast its hard for me bc i played flute but still its rlly hard 😭
When i was in highschool i wanted to be in marching band senior year of highschool so i learned the alto sax in 2 weeks and made it in a varsity marcher lol sax will always have a special place in my heart
I’ve been playing saxophone for two years now, and I can say this: The saxophone not a hard instrument. And that’s because there is no such thing as a “hard” instrument. It’s just unfamiliar to someone who has never played it.
Good question, I believe that observation is a skill to be developed. I also think that with good observational skills you might not need a hands-on tutor or classes in 2023. There are so many good videos online teaching this stuff! That's where I go to learn :)
Easiest to learn. Hardest to master.
Very true, I am a 8th grade student. I have mastered my solo and a Star Wars intro song. My hardest note when I first started was G
@@stxrmygamessame
@@stxrmygamesI play tenor sax and the G was also hard for me to learn when I moved up from the yts 26 student version to the yts 480 it always squeaked when I tried and now it's so easy
@@VladtheZat Same, It would always squeak normally G and E# would either squeak or sound like a rumble.
I mastered it
That hardest part about playing the saxophone is finding a place to practice in peace.
Exactly
I'm getting a Yamaha yd120 to get past this. I live In a complex and these are digital
@@ganondorrfrulz great alternative
Under a bridge
@@fig4600 can't, already occupied by a family of trolls .
Google: easiest to learn
Saxophonists: *I have been summoned*
FR
@raianz828it ain’t bro😂
i play saxophone and it’s pretty easy
i played my first song on day 1 and it was “mary had a little lamb”
Bro thank you it is not easy it took my 1-2 years to play careless wisher
@@hzydengreen how did it take you that long
As someone who plays the alto saxophone I am crying bc of the way u put the mouthpiece on 😭😭😭😭
Fr 😢
Me too-
i’m a clarinet player but this shi gonna give me ptsd
Same😭
im a bassoonist and that is gonna give tetanus stage 999
Been playing saxophone for most my life and has done several hundred gigs .
In my years of playing I commonly hear about adults who either used to play or just want to play the saxophone but doesn’t because they are “too old”.
Every time I hear that I explain to them that an adult can learn way faster than almost all children simply because a adult is more intelligent and disciplined.
Thanks for making this video I can show people that you don’t have to be some 7 year old son of a musician before you pick up an instrument. Your never too old to learn!
That’s awesome! Have only done a year of alto sax, but going strong. 💪
Just bought one never come close to playing an instrument before but always loved the sound of sax.I got a sound out of it after an hour mainly setting it up and holding it right.im 53 so.....probably bit old to master it
As a Saxophonist. This video gives me so much pain and rage you cant even imagine.
I'm both sorry, but also really appreciative for you being here😅
I'm sure you'll totally get this - all my non-musician friends saying "You LITERALLY did SUCH a GOOOD job" and I'm like, "no🤣 I still sucked, but thank you"
I’ve been playing saxophone for only 2 months but I still feel ypu
I’m a clarinet player and this still gave me an unimaginable amount of pain
Same I think I'm going into a depressive state
Playing the saxophone is easy to learn, but difficult to master. It takes dedication and practice to become a skilled saxophonist.
I can't escape this fella
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As a saxophonist, this is the easiest concert band instrument to get the basics on, but as soon as you are all done with the basics, it becomes the hardest instrument in the band!
I still wouldn’t say the hardest in the band but it can be difficult
@@mythicalmylo3275 I can agree with you on that!
Sure it becomes harder, but its still the easiest 😂
I think this applies to all of the reed instruments.
@@carriedthunder3883 Fair point!
Wait till bro finds out about soprano and sopranino
I play the saxophone too, and i can confirm your better than most of my school already😂
Ha, thank you very much! I still don't think I'm very good😅😅
I’ve been playing saxophone for 6 weeks and it’s gradually become easier, it’s just my teacher won’t let us learn new songs, we have to perfect the ones when need to learn so yeah
I am a fellow alto sax player and played for about 4 years. How is it going so far? What is your highest note you did and lowest? Keep going do not ice up you will get it soon.
@@jappi09Jappiim a very advanced 8th grade 2.5 year long saxophonist I got into the high school advanced jazz band last week and yeah your really right about lowest and highest notes, some beginners might just think its a contest to see who can go higjest and lowest but it is very important learn how to voicebox early on and keep pushing yourself to try to be able to play all the notes, im working on overtones right now and thank god I knew how to voicebox cause if not I would have been LOST
@@Sup_8 dam nice keep it up
I have played sax for over 50 years. It takes your whole entire life to be the best you can be. Then you die!!!!
Great thanks for the motivation lol
Agree, not as long just about 3 years but still agree
Hahahahaha 🤣
50 years is absolutely insane, keep up the work
Your a master then huh😂
As a saxophonist I confirm I had a heart attack when you put the mouth piece on like that
Oh heck no bro😂 He’s gonna go through hell
As a Alto Saxophone player, I was slightly offended at the beginning, but you played really good at the end👍
i play the saxophone and you’re so good, most people in my band class can’t blow into their sax
Trying to avoid using band terms in a weird way *cough* blow *cough* their sax *cough cough*
I find it one the of the best instruments to learn because the trigger-key combinations really leave a lot of free ground to cover with improvisation. I have tried trumpet as well and the Saxophone feels like a walk in the park when compared to it
In my opinion, recorder is the easiest instrument to play
Hmm, need to give that one a shot
have you like actually tried to play a chromatic scale on recorder, its so stupid
This precessional level editing
I think a lot of the fellow woodwinds were concerned that he was gonna break that reed 😭
Only playing for 4 days and learned 10 songs examples: final countdown, careless whisper, Saturn, pink panther theme song
Here are the notes to the final countdown if you are curious.
Alto saxophone:
E D E A(hold 2 counts) F E F E D(hold 2 counts) still learning the rest!
The beginning of the video had me dying
When I first tried with my saxophone I was just like you and I still am😂
I'm learning saxophone but I'm a starter and is easy
It is extremely easy to learn and with the right teacher is very easy to play some really really good music
Whoever at google said saxophone is easy, Me and the other saxophonists *will* find you
THANK YOU
The fact he did that in a week and he played better than people in my class 😂
I love playing my saxophone!
i have been playing saxophone for 3 years and holy cow that is a lot of practice and a lot of great sounds for only a week. Anyway if you keep up practicing you could have a lot of great potential
As a saxophonist, I was on the urge of crying
I thought my saxophone was broke because I couldn't get sound to come from it lol.
I am an alto saxophone 🎷 player and played about 4 years and in my experience it’s pretty easy to learn but to master is hard. I am tryna play by ear but that’s very hard.
I literally play saxophone 🎷 and I’m over here laughing 😂😂 😂😂😂😂
I am crusing through what gave me problems yesterday. Currently learning pink panther. Such a nice instrument
Pretty good quality after a week. You're not puffing your cheeks. That's where everyone stumbles.
The hardest part is getting your mouth used to it. I just came back to saxophone after like 4 years and once you set your embouchure you’re off to the races
It's actually the easiest instrument but the only hard part is to be able to make a sound when u blow into the mouth piece.
move ur mouth onto the mouth piece more... n flip it over. use fast air n line the reed up js perfect w/ the top of the mouthpiece. itll be easy from there but reading music isnt. i recommend finding how to play we will rock u on alto sax. very easy to learn for begginers.
I play tenor sax, ive been playing sax (I started with alto) for 2 years and its truly hard to master
Ok, I play tenor saxophone too but I never played alto and I've been playing for roughly 3 years and I still struggle with low notes! It's so embarrassing, I don't know what to do
@@BriannaHemkerI know you’ve heard this many a time, but try to drop your jaw and blow warmer air
@@oxmora1178 ok, thankyou
@@BriannaHemkerI had that issue before, it just takes time really
@@BriannaHemker Push your jaw forward on lower notes
I played saxophone once, until the Richardson Police Department came and told me to stop and go back inside.
😂
Wait til' he hears about Altissimo notes
Oh hell no bro he gonna go through hell
It was pretty easy for me, but so was most other things im advanced
Second part gave recorder vibes 😭
His tone at the end is better than mine and I’ve been playing for 5 years.☠️☠️☠️
What was the song you pretended to do at the beginning
Tender Years from the movie Eddie And The Cruisers, such a fav
Why don’t you have more followers, your such a good youtuber
Yea I leaned to play in the forth grade. 20yrs later still learning, always something new or different to learn with this instrument
Get this dude some cork grease 😭😭
I didn’t know it was one of the “easiest” 😕 I was proud of myself for getting lessons for only two months and being able to join marching band for the first time bc I caught on quickly
When I saw you put the mouth piece upside down I almost cried and when I heard you try to play at the beginning I got sad. But good for you it took me a month to learn and play decent.
LAMOOOAOOAKSJKKAKLKA THE WAY THE MOUTHPIECE WAS ON THREW ME OFF SO MUCH I STARTED CACKLING
Haha yea that's a painful clip to watch for me now 😅
as a 7th grade tenor saxophonist ive been doing tenor for 3 years now i disagree with google
ME TOOO
Im mainly a bassist but ive also been playing clarinet and alto sax for quite a while and that upside down mouthpiece made me die inside
You make me look terrible lol
I am a sax player and i agree with you so much
Its easy to make a sound once you get the hang of it..... then the horror comes in. Trying to play in tune, dynamics that kills the note everytime you try to play softer, sore lips from embochure control, endless browsing of mouthpiece and reeds because you want better sound.
You get to a comfortable zone then your ears start to get more sensitive in pinpointing inaccuracies in every note. Suddenly you realize the instrument intonation is very bad and you have to relearn your embochure and voicing again....
Thats where it got me in 18months playing as a late beginner😅
Honestly saxophone is easier when you already have experience with another instrument. For example, im a flute player and it was actually kind of easy to understand the fingerings and embouchure on my first day
Easiest woodwinds instrument.
as a saxophone player who showed this to another saxophone player, we are both in therapy, thank you
Surprisingly took me like 3-4 days of practicing on and off to get Careless Whisper, Baker Street, and Tequila basically down and memorized. Technique isn’t the best and the reeds that came with my sax are kinda bad apparently, switching to plastidip tomorrow, should help with some of my squeaking issues. Extremely fun instrument and yeah, it’s hilarious when it lets out a squeak or something, I laugh all the time when I’m playing
same as me getting the right embouchure is not easy and once you do its super easy and then once you start to master it it gets harder again
it’s easy to learn but hard to play after awhile
lol i’m very advanced in sax i started playing in 2020 for school and goodness i could not even blow it took me 2 whole lessons to learn how to blow anyways it has gotten me so far if you want to learn do it it is so amazing and you just need to commit
Thank you!
Same im also advanced and also started in 2020, im going into 9th grade and im on about a junior-senior level for jazz
first sound like a goose 😂😂
Me over hear playing French horn and is salty towards the woodwinds 😭 NAH I SWEAR THERE ARE SOME ANNOYING CALRINETS
I play the saxophone I think it is pretty easy to learn thought almost impossible to master this brought me back to the first day of elementary school band the flutes blowing randomly the clarinets squeeking the wrong fingering terrible ombushure no articulation to much slurring but somehow it came together thanks to the band teachers into a amazing band so if you want to master it or learn how to play a simple song remember it is possible with a couple toturials, hard work, determination, and a ton of practice. I will give you one tip for learning any song the CZcams channel saxplained
I play alto sax and I’ve never really had trouble with it😨😨 I switched into my saxophone band class after being in percussion for a few weeks and I just got it I guess my teachers are amazing though
You knew how to play already.
I learned saxophone in one hour lol
i finally found a normal person
As an alto player it’s about getting into a flow state for me. I sight read my vinyl and play by ear.
I’ve pretty much mastered the flute so i decided to switch to the saxophone and learn it on the side and it is NOTT one of the easiest instruments, or atleast its hard for me bc i played flute but still its rlly hard 😭
I did the same thing with the mouthpiece 🤣
I didnt this sax would be ez at all and I self-consciously chose it:
And MAN ITS GOOD
When i was in highschool i wanted to be in marching band senior year of highschool so i learned the alto sax in 2 weeks and made it in a varsity marcher lol sax will always have a special place in my heart
As someone who plays the alto the mouth pice part hurt my tiny little heart😔
It’s so easy tho😅(as long as you have played a woodwind instrument before)
Fr bro my band sucks idk how you did it so fast
that's a lot better than some of my juniors who've been at it for months some for more than a year💀
The mouthpiece upside down triggered me so bad 💀
Try the french horn next! In very curious now
As a saxophone player this hurt me😂 but hey we all start somewhere!😂
When I saw the thumbnail I had to check
The ending of this video 😅😅😅
I learnt Violin and Sax in both 3 days, one of the hardest and easiest instruments according to google, Idrk how I did it tbh lol
as an alto sax player, I am crying, screaming and throwing up all simultaneously because of the way you put the mouthpiece on
It look me 3 hours to learn with a teacher and when i moved i was as good as beginners that have played for months 😂
I’ve dedicated 8 years to saxes.
Were you bending notes with your mouth at the end?
Been playing it for 7 years
I learned the basic of alto sad and played in 2 days
Want also to learn but i cant afford to buy
I learned how to play the saxophone in a day not even a hour of me playing before i learned how to play jingle bells it’s like a recorder lol
THE MOUTHPIECE- 😰
What you played is very easy.
Saxophone was so easy I literally learned it in a day
I’ve been playing saxophone for two years now, and I can say this: The saxophone not a hard instrument. And that’s because there is no such thing as a “hard” instrument. It’s just unfamiliar to someone who has never played it.
It is one of the easiest instruments to learn. But like anything else you need a lifetime to muster it.
Bro I got one two like yesterday and I already know a song on it
How do you learn if
you don’t take classes?
Good question, I believe that observation is a skill to be developed. I also think that with good observational skills you might not need a hands-on tutor or classes in 2023. There are so many good videos online teaching this stuff! That's where I go to learn :)
@@cameronbrig Alright thanks for the info, also this is coming from a band kid.
Easiest to learn got to be Euphonoum
Trust me it is easier than you think
I played sax 🎷 14 years ago in high school and I m 22 I still play it
I feel like it's the coolest instrument to get good at.. I need more practice, ha
@@cameronbrig yah
When math doesnt math no more