Hi Saxophil, I just got my Travel Sax 2 today!! I love it!! Now comes the hard part. Learning to play it. You really make it look so easy and effortless. Well I have managed to get some notes out of it (no idea what they were tho). Lol. Any tips would be appreciated . I do have 2 more requests for you. Mull of Kintyre by Paul McCartney and You Say by Laura Daigle. Thanks. How long have you been playing saxophone? Julie
Hello Julie, i hope you are doing well! Yeeeeah thats great to hear and as i said you will not regret it :) what color is your sax? Beginner playing the sax or in general with music? How can i help you? Of course i will play them tomorrow. I've got the travel sax since september last year and playing the saxophone in total about 6-10 years but there were long pauses between.
Hi@@Saxophil, My sax is the standard black. No I definitlely don't regret buying it. Sweetwater just started carrying them and I ordered one from them. I have not conneced it to the app yet. How long does it take to charge it? Is it the alto sound when you first get it? If you change sounds from the app, does that sound stay on it if you disconnecct from your phone till you change it again? Also where would be a good place to find what notes are where on the sax that I could print it out. I wish they had given a more detailed printed manual. It would make it much more convient than to have to look stuff up on the app. I am a complete beginner on the sax. I have played guitar for years by ear. No formal music training tho. I taught myself how to play. Can you maybe put notes down on the songs you play or maybe where I could find them? Thanks for the songs and your help. Julie
@@julieburke4687 This man is incredibly sweet and generous, but it will take more than tips via RUclips comments to teach you the keywork on any sax. From what I gather, the keywork on the travelsax 2 is the same as a regular sax, which means that you could use any printed saxophone teaching method. Honestly, printed music books on a music stand are easier to deal with than RUclips videos. A New Tune a Day for Alto saxophone is a decent method. The method has been around for decades, of course it has been updated several times. It will teach you to read music in treble clef and while you are doing that you will learn your way around the saxophone key set. I'm guessing that your ultimate goal is to play by ear and I totally get that, but you have to learns the keys and the notes first and this is really the easiest way to do it. It's cheap, you don't have to pay monthly subscriptions. It will start off with simple baby songs but someone with natural musical talent should progress very quickly. Once you have learned the basics and can play a chromatic scale confidently backwards and forwards there are online sax classes that could be helpful. But I would use "A New Tune a Day" to get started.
@@lkj974 Hi, Yes Saxophil is incredibly sweet and generous and I love hearing him play. To me he gives excellent examples of how good the travel sax 2 sounds. Much more so than others just doing a lot of fast fingering and not really playing songs. Thank you for your help. I do want to be able to play by ear and I know I need to learn the fingerings. I just ordered the book you suggested . Thank you.
@@julieburke4687 I agree completely about the short fast notes thing. Never got the point. I learned to read treble clef when I was 9 and got public school violin lessons. When I picked up new instruments later I worked from sheet music because that was what I knew. And I am glad I have that ability, even tho I am not a great sight reader. But it also makes it harder to play with musicality. I have been trying to play by ear more and use my musical memory. At my age it is challenging.
I love it! Thank you!! It sounded great! 😀🥰Julie
Thanks :)
Hi, What speaker do you plug in to? Love your sound!
Hi, im not using any speaker :) it's an interface. Thanks!
@@Saxophil Thank you. Do you mean on your computer?
Hi Saxophil, I just got my Travel Sax 2 today!! I love it!! Now comes the hard part. Learning to play it. You really make it look so easy and effortless. Well I have managed to get some notes out of it (no idea what they were tho).
Lol. Any tips would be appreciated . I do have 2 more requests for you. Mull of Kintyre by Paul McCartney and You Say by Laura Daigle. Thanks. How long have you been playing saxophone? Julie
Hello Julie, i hope you are doing well! Yeeeeah thats great to hear and as i said you will not regret it :) what color is your sax? Beginner playing the sax or in general with music? How can i help you? Of course i will play them tomorrow. I've got the travel sax since september last year and playing the saxophone in total about 6-10 years but there were long pauses between.
Hi@@Saxophil, My sax is the standard black. No I definitlely don't regret buying it. Sweetwater just started carrying them and I ordered one from them. I have not conneced it to the app yet. How long does it take to charge it? Is it the alto sound when you first get it? If you change sounds from the app, does that sound stay on it if you disconnecct from your phone till you change it again? Also where would be a good place to find what notes are where on the sax that I could print it out. I wish they had given a more detailed printed manual. It would make it much more convient than to have to look stuff up on the app. I am a complete beginner on the sax. I have played guitar for years by ear. No formal music training tho. I taught myself how to play. Can you maybe put notes down on the songs you play or maybe where I could find them? Thanks for the songs and your help. Julie
@@julieburke4687 This man is incredibly sweet and generous, but it will take more than tips via RUclips comments to teach you the keywork on any sax. From what I gather, the keywork on the travelsax 2 is the same as a regular sax, which means that you could use any printed saxophone teaching method. Honestly, printed music books on a music stand are easier to deal with than RUclips videos. A New Tune a Day for Alto saxophone is a decent method. The method has been around for decades, of course it has been updated several times. It will teach you to read music in treble clef and while you are doing that you will learn your way around the saxophone key set. I'm guessing that your ultimate goal is to play by ear and I totally get that, but you have to learns the keys and the notes first and this is really the easiest way to do it. It's cheap, you don't have to pay monthly subscriptions. It will start off with simple baby songs but someone with natural musical talent should progress very quickly. Once you have learned the basics and can play a chromatic scale confidently backwards and forwards there are online sax classes that could be helpful. But I would use "A New Tune a Day" to get started.
@@lkj974 Hi, Yes Saxophil is incredibly sweet and generous and I love hearing him play. To me he gives excellent examples of how good the travel sax 2 sounds. Much more so than others just doing a lot of fast fingering and not really playing songs. Thank you for your help. I do want to be able to play by ear and I know I need to learn the fingerings. I just ordered the book you suggested . Thank you.
@@julieburke4687 I agree completely about the short fast notes thing. Never got the point.
I learned to read treble clef when I was 9 and got public school violin lessons. When I picked up new instruments later I worked from sheet music because that was what I knew. And I am glad I have that ability, even tho I am not a great sight reader. But it also makes it harder to play with musicality. I have been trying to play by ear more and use my musical memory. At my age it is challenging.