@@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!
@@roccothepuppy8332 there’s for sure great benefits to starting out really young. But trust me lil 6 year old Lucy’s first practice looks a lot different than Mr. Browns first practice whose spent 40 years developing his brain I used to be in this jazz academy and eventually I was able to tell what year someone was in based on how their band played. Most people in this academy were in high school and played music all their life like me But one day the academy director brought an adult beginner orchestra that he had been working on and teaching for a year at that point (none of them knew any music previously) And although those guys did miss a few notes that not many of us whose been familiar with our instruments all our lives would’ve missed I would’ve still say they did better than the 1st year high schoolers and most of the 2nd years. And mind you these adults only learned for a year where as everyone else was kids and been doing it before the academy for like 3+years min
I just started at 32!!! I wish I started when I was 25 but my dad told me I was to old and should have started as a kid. Worst advice I ever got. Your never to old to get into something you love. ❤
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 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
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
Dude I’ve play sax for a about a year now and not being able to play a note was such a struggle for me at the beginning, but it’s very easy to get into it
I played sax in elementary school and it was the best instrument. Always been my favorite. I just got a new one and started relearning and it’s been real nice.
I play the tenor, very easy to start but once you get into the advanced stuff it becomes terribly difficult, for playing for one week you are playing better than most people could in a year
i’m learning saxophone for jazz band but i already play clarinet so to me it’s not too difficult, just working out having to constantly drop and raise your jaw for notes gets me, but i’ll get it soon
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.
Something to think about. You press a key, you get a note and it's the right note for the most part one the sax. On other instruments that isn't the case all the time BUT there are few instruments where tone matters as much as on the sax and for that reason it's one of the hardest to get great at. Make all the runs you want and press all the right keys and still sound terrible. Here the reverse is in play, you press the key you get the note but now you need that note to change a bit but the sax wants to play the same basic note. This is the batte and to be great you're forcing the sax to your will over a number of years/decades. Same applies in the upper and lower registers. Couple that with the various styles of play, intonations etc and it's a major undertaking. Many instruments require a clear and precise tone to be great but few are as intricate as the sax in this area.
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
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.
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
A hard part is having very little time to practice and so many places yourr safe feeling in because you gotta be comfortable to do it and the squeaking makes me so inconfident
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 TH-cam channel saxplained
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
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
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 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
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
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
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😅
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 😭
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 .
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
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
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. 💪
As a kid though ,you know it longer.
thank you for this message! i have just started the clarinet at 25 and i am sooooo happy about it!
@@roccothepuppy8332 there’s for sure great benefits to starting out really young. But trust me lil 6 year old Lucy’s first practice looks a lot different than Mr. Browns first practice whose spent 40 years developing his brain
I used to be in this jazz academy and eventually I was able to tell what year someone was in based on how their band played.
Most people in this academy were in high school and played music all their life like me
But one day the academy director brought an adult beginner orchestra that he had been working on and teaching for a year at that point (none of them knew any music previously)
And although those guys did miss a few notes that not many of us whose been familiar with our instruments all our lives would’ve missed I would’ve still say they did better than the 1st year high schoolers and most of the 2nd years.
And mind you these adults only learned for a year where as everyone else was kids and been doing it before the academy for like 3+years min
I just started at 32!!! I wish I started when I was 25 but my dad told me I was to old and should have started as a kid. Worst advice I ever got. Your never to old to get into something you love. ❤
Playing the saxophone is easy to learn, but difficult to master. It takes dedication and practice to become a skilled saxophonist.
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stolen lol
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
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
Real lol! ❤God bless you!
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
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’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
Dude I’ve play sax for a about a year now and not being able to play a note was such a struggle for me at the beginning, but it’s very easy to get into it
"People say that sax is easy to learn. Its really not *nervous laugh*"
-my band director
It is extremely easy to learn and with the right teacher is very easy to play some really really good music
As a Alto Saxophone player, I was slightly offended at the beginning, but you played really good at the end👍
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
I played sax in elementary school and it was the best instrument. Always been my favorite. I just got a new one and started relearning and it’s been real nice.
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😂
it's one of the easiest WIND instruments. All wind instruments have a huge hurdle that is learning to actually make a sound
It is the easiest woodwind
I play the tenor, very easy to start but once you get into the advanced stuff it becomes terribly difficult, for playing for one week you are playing better than most people could in a year
I am crusing through what gave me problems yesterday. Currently learning pink panther. Such a nice instrument
i’m learning saxophone for jazz band but i already play clarinet so to me it’s not too difficult, just working out having to constantly drop and raise your jaw for notes gets me, but i’ll get it soon
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*
Guys a saxophone is actually hard to play (I’m in band and I play saxophone)=google isn’t always correct yall :D
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😅😅
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.
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.
I think a lot of the fellow woodwinds were concerned that he was gonna break that reed 😭
This precessional level editing
Yea I leaned to play in the forth grade. 20yrs later still learning, always something new or different to learn with this instrument
As a saxophonist, I was on the urge of crying
Whoever at google said saxophone is easy, Me and the other saxophonists *will* find you
THANK YOU
Bud had the Reed on top 😂😂😂😂
Something to think about. You press a key, you get a note and it's the right note for the most part one the sax. On other instruments that isn't the case all the time BUT there are few instruments where tone matters as much as on the sax and for that reason it's one of the hardest to get great at. Make all the runs you want and press all the right keys and still sound terrible. Here the reverse is in play, you press the key you get the note but now you need that note to change a bit but the sax wants to play the same basic note. This is the batte and to be great you're forcing the sax to your will over a number of years/decades. Same applies in the upper and lower registers. Couple that with the various styles of play, intonations etc and it's a major undertaking.
Many instruments require a clear and precise tone to be great but few are as intricate as the sax in this area.
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
I play the saxophone and it’s one of the hardest instruments, and I’ve played other instruments before
Bro got so good he learned to play drums on the sax
My favorite thing with sax is it’s so easy to learn how to play songs by ear
The fact he did that in a week and he played better than people in my class 😂
My first time on my saxophone is took me 1 day to figure out that I needed a reed 😭
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.
It's so easy to learn but really hard to keep being good ( I play the tenor saxophone 🎷)
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
As an alto player it’s about getting into a flow state for me. I sight read my vinyl and play by ear.
To me it's funny how hard some people find it to play a note on a sax, then again I play clarinet which is way harder to breath through
What was the song you pretended to do at the beginning
Tender Years from the movie Eddie And The Cruisers, such a fav
When I first tried with my saxophone I was just like you and I still am😂
I love playing my saxophone!
Why don’t you have more followers, your such a good youtuber
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
I thought my saxophone was broke because I couldn't get sound to come from it lol.
Try the french horn next! In very curious now
As a fellow saxophonist I have been summoned
Just started playing saxaphone! It’s easy to learn-ish. it’s difficult to get right
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
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
A hard part is having very little time to practice and so many places yourr safe feeling in because you gotta be comfortable to do it and the squeaking makes me so inconfident
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 TH-cam channel saxplained
I literally play saxophone 🎷 and I’m over here laughing 😂😂 😂😂😂😂
I just got a saxophone and did the same thing with the mouthpiece. It was humbling lol
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
Imagine, dude! Your mouthpiece! I need to teach you fr.
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'm learning saxophone but I'm a starter and is easy
His tone at the end is better than mine and I’ve been playing for 5 years.☠️☠️☠️
Pretty good quality after a week. You're not puffing your cheeks. That's where everyone stumbles.
as a saxophone player who showed this to another saxophone player, we are both in therapy, thank you
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
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
HELP THE BEGINNING 😭😭😭😭😭
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
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
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
I think the universe wants me to play again
it’s easy to learn but hard to play after awhile
I’ve dedicated 8 years to saxes.
When I saw the thumbnail I had to check
The beginning of the video had me dying
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😅
The mouthpiece upside down triggered me so bad 💀
Get this dude some cork grease 😭😭
Second part gave recorder vibes 😭
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 😅
OF COURSE he has been playing sax his whole life but yes, you can learn to play sax in 30 days if you get to it
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 am a sax player and i agree with you so much
As someone who plays the alto the mouth pice part hurt my tiny little heart😔
I've been playing for the past five years and I'm still struggling to get a decent tone
As a saxophone player this hurt me😂 but hey we all start somewhere!😂
Hi! Do you have any resources that you used to learn saxophone. I'm desperate pleasee
i can help
the resources he used to learn is:
google
Been playing alto sax for 10 years, im still having trouble playing it like a jazz player😂
Bro that was at the San Antonio pearl! I busk their on the weekends
Lol ty so much im starting band saxophone soon lol
It is pretty easy I got a saxophone and it took me 15 mins to learn how to make it sound good
What is the name of the last song
Easiest woodwinds instrument.
Just bought an alto sax it comes in two days any tip?
It’s so easy tho😅(as long as you have played a woodwind instrument before)
I play the saxophone from 2 years! Im finally gonna get a new one