Huh, interesting. I never played in band in high school/middle school (though sometimes I really wish I had) so I don't have exposure to learning curves and quirks of particular instruments from there -- sounds educational in more ways than the obvious.
Re sax vs guitar vs piano -- different shaped learning curves, maybe, shallow then steep vs steep then shallow. My goal playing piano is to be able to amuse myself and maybe play with others, not to play Rachmaninoff pieces or something, and it feels like getting to that good-enough state on piano was way easier than it will be with sax. (Or maybe I am discovering that it is harder to learn stuff as a more-or-less grownup than it was a little kid, surprise surprise. :p)
Fiddling with mouthpiece is easier than fiddling with strings? Really? Heh, hope I get to that point eventually. :)
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Date: 2009-03-04 05:22 am (UTC)Re sax vs guitar vs piano -- different shaped learning curves, maybe, shallow then steep vs steep then shallow. My goal playing piano is to be able to amuse myself and maybe play with others, not to play Rachmaninoff pieces or something, and it feels like getting to that good-enough state on piano was way easier than it will be with sax. (Or maybe I am discovering that it is harder to learn stuff as a more-or-less grownup than it was a little kid, surprise surprise. :p)
Fiddling with mouthpiece is easier than fiddling with strings? Really? Heh, hope I get to that point eventually. :)