How to properly maintain your Saxophone

Take good care of your saxophone, it’s worth it in the long run. Every time you play your saxophone for a significant amount of time, you need to clean the instrument. You should always run through the mouthpiece and neck with some cloth or rag. These parts must remain free of food and gunk accumulation. The neck will quickly build up anything that comes from your mouth. This changes the shape of the inside when it builds upon the sides of the mouthpiece and the neck. Over time, this can change the way the instrument plays. It’s so easy to do, but this is neglected by many young sax players. If you eat food or drink, you should always rinse your mouth out before you play. The food stuck in your teeth and mouth could get in your saxophone.

The body of the sax is the next thing to worry about. It would be best if you ran a cleaning towel through the body from the bell. In the bell, stuff the string and rag in the bell, then pull the saxophone and pull the weight through the saxophone to the other end. Do this with the neck and mouthpiece. Run the cloth a few times. For this, you can buy kits from a music store. When you look down at the instrument where your neck is attached, you will notice a minor key. The cleaning cloth sometimes gets stuck on it, and you have to push it back with a kind of stick and then try to pull it out. If you pull too hard, the string can break off, and it’s harder to remove. The next step is to polish the instrument outside. It’s pretty much meant to keep it looking nice.

So you would like to learn the saxophone?

The saxophone is a woodwind instrument, commonly known as sax, but is made of metal. Click here to learn more about the saxophone. It has a cool, sexy and distinctive tone. Sax is fairly easy to learn and is a good tool for anyone over the age of twelve to play a few simple tunes without a lot of musical knowledge. It has a vibrating reed that sits on one end of the horn via a mouthpiece that is tight at the end of the reed and at the other end it extends to a broad ‘bell.’ The horn bends into the characteristic ‘S’ shape to make the saxophone easier to handle, with the exception of the very small Saxons such as a soprano, directly like a clarinet.

There were about two octaves of the original saxophones. With today’s saxophone raises the range and has about two and a half octaves, although much higher notes can be made by using techniques. Modern Sax also has a better designed key mechanism to facilitate playing.

Getting Started You should start learning the Alto Saxophone. The soprano is good for a beginner, but you don’t recommend starting with a tenor or baritone sax – start with an alto, you can always switch later. It will be much easier to change. If you put the effort into it, you can play tunes very easily.

You must have arms strong enough to support the instrument and hands large enough to reach the keys to play the saxophone. Especially for beginners, there are no small tools, although the little soprano sax is easier. Children aged 11 or 12 can start on the saxophone. Please note that developing a good mouth (shape of your mouth around the mouth) from the beginning is a must because this affects the overall sound quality of the sax, so children with their milk teeth are not advised to learn to play saxophone.

You will definitely need good resources to teach you fingers, scales, exercises that help you develop a good mouthpiece, etc. Learning to play sax requires you to put a great deal of time into practice. Molding your skills and playing like a pro comes regularly with determination and discipline, and training. Take an ample time to practice the technique and know-how to improve your weaknesses.

It is highly recommended that you find yourself a good teacher in the area where you live who can keep track and follow up on your progress.

Buying a high-quality saxophone will give you the best start on your musical journey. Remember, you always get what you are paying. You may be tempted to buy the cheapest, but you are likely to pay off in the long run, or you will not be satisfied with it very quickly. Think of it as an investment rather than an expense. The purchase from a renowned producer of a good quality horn will put you in good stead over the long term, not to mention having a better tonality and a more precise intonation.