When you play stuff you know on saxophone, it sounds good.
When you play stuff you don’t know, it doesn’t sound as good at first…..
So it might be tempting just to play stuff you know.
However, if you never grow as a player, you won’t be that interesting to listen to and you yourself might start feeling bored with what you play.
The learning curve on saxophone means that when you play something different, something challenging, the level that you play it at will be lower than something familiar. It will ‘dip’ (phrase from Seth Godin) and then rise again.
When you have mastered the new stuff, your level of saxophone playing overall will rise.
But it can be tough to get through the dip.
i like to know is cannonball horns is a good horn.are jupiter,amati.i have a amati tenor sax.about 10 years.it need some spring work.it play realy good . but it is made of soft metal. the only thing i dislike about it.
Hey James,
Cannonball horns are supposed to be decent, I’ve heard good things about them anyway.
Haven’t played an amati myself. Soft metal probably isn’t great, but sounds like you like it otherwise, no?