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Is it hard to play alto sax?

After I play trumpet, my mouth hurts after I play a song on alto sax?

  • I play alto sax, and in January I bought a trumpet mouthpiece. For a while now, I've been going to school a half hour early, so I can practice trumpet. Lately, on the days I play trumpet(pretty much every school day) after I practice trumpet, then when I play alto, after I play a song, most of the time as soon as I take my mouth off of the mouthpiece my top lips hurt for a few seconds. I'm beginning to think it's because of the trumpet. Because on the days I haven't been able to play trumpet in the morning, my mouth didn't hurt on sax. And, just so you know, I've been playing sax for a while now, and my embochure is set. I'm not a beginner

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    Your mouth is just adjusting to the embouchure change. The pain will go away once the muscles get used to being worked. It's nothing much to worry about. Soon, it will be possible to switch fairly quickly between the two.

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Your mouth is just adjusting to the embouchure change. The pain will go away once the muscles get used to being worked. It's nothing much to worry about. Soon, it will be possible to switch fairly quickly between the two.

Red-haired Trumpet Player

if your embochure is set on sax and assuming you relatively new on trumpet your mouth is probably so used to being in that sax playin position when you are forcing it to do something else that its not used to doing it may cause discomfort. play through the pain and you will get used to it same way that you mouth felt weird and hurt learning sax the first time you picked it up assuming that you played alot.

Robby

It's because your embouchure is different for a trumpet compared to the Sax. You're embouchure is changing to conform to the trumpet.

thebenniebabyninja

if your embochure is set on sax and assuming you relatively new on trumpet your mouth is probably so used to being in that sax playin position when you are forcing it to do something else that its not used to doing it may cause discomfort. play through the pain and you will get used to it same way that you mouth felt weird and hurt learning sax the first time you picked it up assuming that you played alot.

Robby

It's because your embouchure is different for a trumpet compared to the Sax. You're embouchure is changing to conform to the trumpet.

thebenniebabyninja

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