Oh hey! I play piano and my academy has offered me a kind of scholarship(?) to study a wind instrument between sax, clarinet and tranversal flute. Can you recommend one? I have no experience with them. I jut think a sax would be too "heavy" for me. (i get dizzy easily when blowing)
I play the flute but i have friends who play the sax and clarinet. It depends on which kind of sax you play, tenor sax is heavier and bigger then the alto sax. Sax could be difficult to produce a good sounds at first, it will make honking sounds, but once you get good it at it will produce nice sounds. Clarinet and flute are pretty quiet instuments while sax is quite loud, so if you like to show off i recommend the sax. Clarinet and flute are also considered the easiest instruments, but flute migt be a bit difficult to produce a sound at first but actual quite easy once you get the hang of it. Flute you blow into differently then sax and clarinet, you don't blow directly into it, so some people can't make a sound at first. Clarinet and sax has a reed and you have to replace the reed often, so that might get pricey. Clarinet might also be hard to produce a sound at first but most get the hang of it easily, It is very easy at first but once you have to play higher notes it gets harder.
So if you want an easy instrument then i would recomend flute or clarinet. Clarinet would be easiest i think, except i've been told high notes are hard to play. I only play flute so i never tried sax and clarinet, but i think flute is easy too except getting a clear sound could be pretty hard, and high notes aren't that hard to play. Alto sax is lighter then tenor and is a bit higher pitched because it's smaller. it really depends on your preference and how each one sounds, if you just want a easy instrument i would probably reccomend clarinet, because for flute i had a hard time producing a nice clear sound. A few things about clarinet, you need to replace the reed, it might be hard keeping your hands in the same place because you have to move your fingers around, and high notes are difficult. I would prefer sax because of the nice sound ot makes, but it's your choice. I think you should listen to each instrument and see which one sounds the nicest for you.
@taeminnieah Before I played the alto sax, I had no proper musical experience yet I was able to master the basics in a year. The fingering (keying the pads) was not so difficult to remember. Hitting very high and very low notes while maintaining a nice tone was the real challenge. It's very easy to sound like a screaming mandrake root or an injured cow when you start out so don't be discouraged. As for the blowing, look up breathing and tonguing exercises on youtube and that should alleviate your experience.
@taeminneah theyre right above. if you want something with a smaller airstream go with flute but it has a strange embrocure. Once you get it its fine. Clarinet is probably your best bet because its has a steady airstream and somewhat simple embrocure. Sax is harder with an moderatly easy embrocure. it takes alot of air from your gut and getting high notes and really low notes is trickey. I know this from experience cause I just started saxophone jist over a month ago but to be quite honest, learning saxophone isnt as hard as clarienet or flute. I double as flute and it takes more precision. I wouldnt reccomend sax because of the dizzyness you spoke of.
Thank you all, Im definately leaning more for clarinet or flute, it's not about me wanting an easier instrument, just something gentle on me hahaha they say it's easy to learn a second instrument, so if the schedules work for me, I'll take this scholarship :)
I play the flute and recently I auditioned for All State Honor Band and the sight reading felt similar to this. But I'm sure with enough practice the sight reading would have been a LOT easier. I mean, the practiced piece was rather tricky, but I practiced it so many times I could almost play it by heart. I can totally relate to this :)
Holy shit what the fuck is that
I remember one time I was looking ahead in my music book for band class, and there was this atrocity near the end, and there were these notes that looked like fractions or something and it was too much
That piece at the top is Death Waltz. It was made as a joke. Idyou look closely, you can see it says release the penguin
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Kind of true. I've been doing music for about 6 years, so I can sight-read passably. I have a friend who is doing 5th grade French horn, and if you slap some sheet music in front of him, he can basically play it straight away. No wonder he converted me to horn.
No, screw you. Death Waltz is something entirely different from that song. Death Waltz is actually a song created by John Stump, originally titled Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz, that is supposed to be impossible, and it is, because there are symbols on that score that aren't supposed to be there. I don't see how you can play like a dirigible. On the other hand, the song you linked is actually a piano arrangement of a song called Last Brutal Sister Flandre Scarlet, which is a remix of the song U.N. Owen was Her, which is Flandre Scarlet's theme from the extra stage of The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the sixth Touhou game. Please remember this and spread the word to other ignorant people who aren't fans of Touhou.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDz9X2X3MTc http://socks-studio.com/2012/05/19/the-unplayable-score-faeries-aire-and-death-waltz-john-stump/
I remember one time I was looking ahead in my music book for band class, and there was this atrocity near the end, and there were these notes that looked like fractions or something and it was too much
"I can do this, no problem *cracks knuckles*"
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDz9X2X3MTc
http://socks-studio.com/2012/05/19/the-unplayable-score-faeries-aire-and-death-waltz-john-stump/