I have now decided to learn to play the sax. I am a great jazz music lover, and I have put off learning to play an instrument since. Now, I decided that I could start it. Not like I never really tried to learn an instrument. I tried my hands on the flute a while ago but it didnt work out too well between us, partly because I didn’t have the right teacher, and partly because I wasn’t really motivated. Yes, the idea of playing a flute was appealing, but I guess the instrument itself didn’t do it for me. Now, I know it is a cliche for a jazz lover to learn to play the sax but who cares? One of my colleagues helped me take the first steps by lending me her old tenor sax – great thanks to her, really. A good Yamaha beauty costs a lot, just Google it – and I will buy mine in a couple of months into the lesson. The next step is to get an instructor. Well, I have started by doing what any self-respecting internet-savvy guy does: Google around. Discovered a couple of sites. Most of them try to sell me DVDs and guides etc etc, but I have decided to put that off for now. What I’m gonna do is to study the ones that are available for free online and then decide whether to go with the local €20 per lesson teacher in my town here or get a DVD/study guide, or do both. We’ll see, really.
Yeap, the fact that I am blogging about this shows how much excited I am about this. I will not let it go the way of the flute.