An outlined course of study designed to follow the elementary and intermediate levels of any instructional method, the Rubank Advanced Methods are considered to be one of the gold standards of advanced instrumental study. The specially designed units provide a a complete pedagogy: · Scales and Arpeggios All of the major and minor keys are covered in the complete two-book course · Melodic Interpretation Including 20 contest level duets in each book · Solo Preparation Six contest level solos included · Articulation Studies Specialized for each instrument · Exercises in Fingering (woodwinds), Flexibility (brass) and Sticking (percussion) · Ornamentation All types are introduced Generations of musicians have been taught with Rubank methods - join the tradition! / Saxophone / Hal Leonard

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band, including: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galante, David Gillingham, Stephen Melillo, Robert Sheldon,Todd Stalter, Jack Stamp, Randall Standridge, and Michael Story. This book is a valuable resource in helping students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. Exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate to advanced difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety while accomplishing the same goals. Its flexibility makes it perfect for large ensemble rehearsals, lessons, and studio use. / Saxophone Alto

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band, including: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galante, David Gillingham, Stephen Melillo, Robert Sheldon,Todd Stalter, Jack Stamp, Randall Standridge, and Michael Story. This book is a valuable resource in helping students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. Exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate to advanced difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety while accomplishing the same goals. Its flexibility makes it perfect for large ensemble rehearsals, lessons, and studio use. / Saxophone Alto

Paul Brodie plays each of these wonderful advanced-level solos on alto saxophone. This is challenging material and just what you need to push you to the highest levels that this versatile instrument can achieve. Includes a high-quality printed music score containing the solo part annotated with performance suggestions and a compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) followed by piano accompaniments to each piece minus the soloist. Performed by Paul Brodie alto saxophone Accompaniment: Antonin Kubalek piano

One of the world's most popular jazz etude books. Designed for sax but suitable for all instruments. This volume contains 20 advanced level solo-form etudes. Includes a play along CD suitable for Alto Sax (other instruments will have to transpose to use the CD). / Saxophone

Performed by Vincent Abato alto saxophoneAccompaniment: Harriet Wingreen pianoListen as extraordinary virtuoso Vincent Abato of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra takes you further into the advanced repertoire withthese spectacular sax selections. Listen to his masterful interpretations examine his performance suggestions then you step in and make magic with Harriet Wingreen legendary piano accompanist for the New York Philharmonic. Thisdigitally remastered master class includes slow-tempo practice versions of the Schubert 'L'Abeille' and the Allegro from Rabaud's Solo de Concours. Includes a high-quality printed music score containing the solo part annotatedwith performance suggestions; and a digitally remastered compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) followed by piano accompaniments to each piece minus the soloist.

Improvisation for beginners and advanced players-With jazz being the most popular genre for the Alto Saxophone learning the art of improvisation is imperative. Therefore Charlie Sourisse's Improvisation For Beginners And Advanced Players is an essential guide for progression. Sourisse and his musical partner Pierrick Pédron saw the need for a comprehensive tool to aid jazz method progression and Improvisation For Beginners And Advanced Players provides explanatory notes and explores chord symbols basics of tonality and basics of modality. The accompanying CD aids with tuning and suppliesaccompaniments. With a significant amount of written instruction in French English German and Spanish Sourisse's Improvisation For Beginners And Advanced Playersis highly accessible to a range of Alto Saxophone players making for an essential and helpful guide.

André Jolivet (1905-1974) established his love for composition from a young age. This remained throughout his life and he held the post of Professor of Composition from 1966-1970 at the Paris Conservatoire. Fantaisie Impromptu for Alto Saxophone and Piano was published in 1953 and remains highly regarded. Jolivet himself a cellist wished to explore composition for all instruments and therefore has a considerable number of works in all fields. The composer's style is also known for its spirituality and the desire to associate the everyday with the magical and the human with the universal.Jolivet draws on acoustics and atonality as heard in hisFantaisie Impromptu. The piece requires advanced skills due to its use of complex rhythms and harmonics. For all advanced saxophonists Jolivet provides an exciting alternative piece for the instrument's repertoire.

Saxophonist Robert Bariller's understanding and virtuosity of his instrument led to the composition of his excellent Rapsodie Bretonne suitable for advanced saxophonists. Published in 1953 Rapsodie Bretonne addresses virtuosic features of semiquaver flourishes much variation in time sigantures and tempo complex rhythm and articulation and wide intervals amongst other aspects. Dedicated to Marcel Mule Bariller's Rapsodie Bretonne is an exciting and exquisite addition to the Alto Saxophone repertoire and is essential to advanced players of the instrument.

Attention saxophone players -- do you need a challenging duet book? Composed and arranged by Gordon Goodwin at the medium-advanced to advanced level, these 10 saxophone duets are completely interchangeable for any combination of Eb or Bb saxophones. You can play with a duet partner or use the CD and play duets with great saxophonists Gordon Goodwin (tenor sax) or Eric Marienthal (alto sax). On the included CD, Duet Part 1 and Duet Part 2 are each controlled by dialing in/out the left or right channels on your stereo system. Includes 10 exciting Gordon Goodwin tunes: Act Your Age * Count Bubba’s Revenge * El Macho Muchacho * Gumbo Street * Hunting Wabbits * The Jazz Police * La Pequeña Almeja * Maynard & Waynard * Swingin’ for the Fences * There’s the Rub Features: * Improve your jazz concept, articulation, time, intonation and sight-reading * Duets are playable with any combination of Eb or Bb saxophones (requires two books) * Gordon Goodwin plays the tenor sax on Duet Part 1 and Part 2 * Eric Marienthal plays the alto sax on Duet Part 1 and Part 2 * Gordon and Eric play together on Duet Part 1 and Part 2 * Play with a duet partner or with the CD by dialing in/out the left or right stereo channel * Opportunities to improvise too! Count Bubba's Revenge The Jazz Police El Macho Muchacho Gumbo Street La Pequena Almeja Maynard & Waynard Swingin' for the Fences There's the Rub Act Your Age Hunting Wabbits

French composer Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995) significantly contributed to the wind repertoire. Circus Parade Duo for Alto Saxophone or Clarinet and Drums was published in 1965 and remains prominent as a more unusual addition to the ensemble repertoire. Dubois' music is characteristically light-hearted with unusual harmonic and melodic textures. Circus Parade Duo reflects Dubois' compositional characteristics with a typical performance lasting about fifteen minutes. Dubois' work is suitable for advanced performers addressing virtuosic features such as complex rhythms constantchanges of time signature chromaticism and exploitation of the ensemble amongst other aspects. Circus Parade Duo is essential to the advanced Alto Saxophone Clarinet and Percussion repertoire as Dubois' work makes for an exciting varied and enjoyable performance for players and audiences alike.

Born in Tunisia in 1952 Christian Lauba has been a prominent contemporary composer winning many prizes since his graduation from the Conservatory of Bordeaux during the mid-1980s. Lauba is particularly noted for his compositions for the Saxophone such as Étude No. 11 for Baritone Saxophone and Prerecorded Synthesizer or Piano. Premiered in 2002  Étude No. 11 'Stan' was commissioned by Pierre Choffé for the Bordeaux Opera. The work is highly virtuosic and modern including multiphonic Saxophone sounds and other advanced technical features. The scoreof Étude No. 11 also comes accompanied with a CD of the Prerecorded Synthesizer part. With a typical performance lasting around eight minutes this Lauba study nicknamed 'Stan' is described as a 'study in virtuosity for well-tempered and well-quantized instruments'. For all advanced Baritone saxophonists  Étude No. 11 provides an alternative modern work essential to a varied repertoire.

Par ARMACOST TIM. The ultimate guide to playing saxophone, by NY jazz artist Tim Armacost ? for anyone from beginners to professionals. Rooted in practical skills and going far beyond theory, The Jazz Saxophone Book will improve your ability to construct beautiful, flowing solo lines. The book includes access to over 30 videos of the author demonstrating ideas in the book and hundreds of examples of solo phrases by the masters of jazz saxophone. For the beginning improviser, we cover: ? Creative ways to work on sound, time and building a jazz vocabulary ? Connecting your soloing with your internal singing voice ? Foundational jazz harmony - what you need to know! For intermediate players, the book offers: ? In-depth treatment of jazz harmony, with copious examples from the masters of the tradition ? Ideas for becoming a musical storyteller ? Skills needed to show up at a jam session and confi dently perform a tune For more advanced players, the book discusses: ? Using advanced harmony to build and release tension ? Taking jazz vocabulary, harmony and form into the realm of freedom ? How to practice efficiently to become a well-rounded, continually improving soloist / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Méthode / Saxophone

To The French Woman For Alto Saxophone And Piano-French composer Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995) significantly contributed to the woodwind repertoire particularly for Saxophone. Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite for Alto Saxophone and Piano was published in 1962 and remains popular in the advanced saxophonist's repertoire. Dubois' music is characteristically light-hearted with unusual harmonic and melodic textures. The second movement of Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite for Alto Saxophone and Piano To the French Woman reflects Dubois' compositional characteristics as well as elements of Frenchcharacteristics with a typical performance lasting about four minutes and 45 seconds. Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite is essential to the advanced saxophonist's repertoire. Dubois' most famous work makes for an exciting and enjoyable performance for players and audiences alike.