Thursday, August 25, 2011

Bringing the saxophone back into my life

I really wanted to play the alto saxophone in seventh grade band. They made me take a semester of clarinet first, which was great, but I was super excited to get my first sax.

That was the only year of band I took, but I missed playing saxophone after we took it back. I always wanted to pick it up again (not that I was very skilled at it in seventh grade) but had neither the time nor opportunity.

My chance came with a music minor requirement, which stipulates I must have so many hours of instruction in an instrument. I've already taken a piano class at BYU; this time I wanted to try sax. They say there's no minimum skill level required to sign up, so I'm going for it. I sold my soul to Summerhay's yesterday in return for a student model and I've been doing my best to brush up on what I learned six/seven years ago. My accomplishments so far: remembering where my hands go, one scale, and parts of a few songs I just played by ear such as the Star Wars theme, Amazing Grace, the U.S. Navy song and taps.

1 comment:

  1. You are sounding work. I'm glad you keep after the things you want in life - like learning to play the sax. Keep up the good work.

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