You can find many tutorials for these on YouTube.Īnd yet, Taking a human teacher is highly recommended (I currently taking saxophone lessons).Īny saxiphone teacher could teach you improcising with the EWI, and you don't have to choose the saxophone sound preset. You should learn to read chord changes by playing arpeggios and their variations before diving dipper into improv. You may start by learning the blues scale, which is a 6 notes scale that sounds good over various chord changes. I'm guessing that you want to learn to improvise because thats what horn players usually do (very few of us wanna play classical pieces out from written notes). The other modes are for making it eaisier for saxophone players transitioning to the EWI, etc. Would oboe, saxophone or flute be the best to start with, if it is indeed the best route? (Ruling out EWI and EVI fingering styles for I imagine obvious reasons.)Ĭhoose the default Fingering mode because it is probay the most convenient one.
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I think a good place to start would be choosing a fingering style from those the EWI offers, and learning how to play at first from a preset of that instrument via book, video or any helpful medium (for example, learning the EWI with its saxophone fingering and a saxophone preset) I could then branch out from there.
I am open to any and all suggestions on how to set forth. I've also several years of enjoyment invested in playing, mostly improvisation-style, with Native American and Native American-style flutes. I learned how to play the recorder passably well many years ago and taught myself enough of reading notation so I could play songs I knew. I intend and would love to learn how to play it well. I was recently blessed with a gift of the EWI 5000.