Mike Masnick ✅I am trying to relearn the saxophone after decades of not playing it. It is not quite like a bicycle, where you never forget. But... also, I remember way more than I expected.
Ed Williams@mmasnick I was a sax music performance major MANY decades ago. I put it down for 15 years or more, and when I picked it up again, I was totally amazed at what my fingers remembered to do!
Mark McCahill@mmasnick
Cool - how is your embouchure ? That is what kills my attempts at getting back into clarinet.
Cool - how is your embouchure ? That is what kills my attempts at getting back into clarinet.
@mpm that's the main part i need to relearn... readjust too. But it was better than I expected. But... the high notes still... need work.
Jeff Korte
Wrensame same but the piano.
Fortunately for others within hear shot, I am relearning on an electric keyboard with earphones so nobody else has to suffer through my practice sessions. 🤣
@wren there's an electronic saxophone that came out last year that I am so so very tempted to purchase for this very reason. But... I don't think it'll be useful for getting my embouchure back and that's the most important part
Carry on and IF anyone complains, let them know at least your not starting from scratch. They’ll immediately be grateful. 😁
@wren see, i'm assuming my neighbors will assume it's my son (who's been playing for a few years and was terrible, but is now quite good), so I have a cover story for a bit. 😂
That works!
Pwnallthethings@mmasnick Post videos!
@mmasnick (at least, if you're comfortable with posting. Always nice to see folks being musical🙂 )
@Pwnallthethings trust me. at this stage, no one wants that...
RiderExMachina@mmasnick I started learning earlier this year, but already had experience with clarinet so I've picked it up pretty well
Michael Stanclift@mmasnick I also played sax. I got it out a couple times during lockdown just to make noises for the kid. It was funny to me that I could still play the first few bars of my schools fight song.
@vmstan my son used mine for the past 3 years, and has now moved on from alto to tenor, so gave me back my old alto.
@mmasnick yeah mine is also an alto. I wish I still had the bari I used for jazz band. That was fun.
Chris@fooeynet @vmstan if you're a bari fan, you should check out Leo P and his band Too Many Zooz. They're amazing, and he has taken the bari to new heights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMyqasy2Lco
Too Many Zooz - "Bedford"
Alexander Yellen@mmasnick My advice is to do long tones to rebuild stamina. It's exhausting to pick it up again; I tried after a 13 year break...
@yellenesque oh yeah. i'm spending a lot of time doing long tones to try to bring the feeling back.
Nathan Stambro@mmasnick Now you can join a post-black metal band. Saxophone is all the rage these days in that genre.
Elliott@mmasnick I can confirm that after a couple of decades, you *can* in fact forget how to ride a bike 😅
Francis Kim@mmasnick I played violin from ages 4 to 13. When I think about music, I still think in violin fingerings. Yet when I picked up the violin 10 years after quitting, I couldn’t even keep the bow on the strings.
Galadriel of the Noldors ★@mmasnick i miss playing. Someday I'll buy me a 🎷!
Julie Webgirl@mmasnick Drink. Not fall down drunk but in that nice fuzzy space. I say down and played the piano after years of not playing and I was shocked. I actually played better (I had a sober witness)!
@mmasnick I've been working on Shofar. Musically speaking it's a high pitched bugle
@bramcohen very familiar with the shofar and used to own one... (a small one, not one of those fancy curly ones!)
Mike Taylor 🦕@mmasnick I had a similar experience a few months ago when I picked up a clarinet for the first time in 25 years.
Nate@mmasnick
I played my trombone for the first time in 20 years when I briefly joined a ska band last year. It was surprising how much I remembered; muscle memory and whatnot. #LosOcupados
I played my trombone for the first time in 20 years when I briefly joined a ska band last year. It was surprising how much I remembered; muscle memory and whatnot. #LosOcupados
Hugh Goggins@mmasnick still have the fingerings memorized decades later, but I'll bet my embouchure is a nightmare
blobert@mmasnick I had a neighbor in Brisbane who pick up bag piping again. He forgot *a* *lot*