Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of 15 Dixieland tunes are featured in this collection for beginning instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and so you can sound great while playing along with the backing tracks! The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right. This volume contains the following songs in arrangements for Alto Saxophone:?Basin Street Blues? ?Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home? ?Black Bottom Stomp? ?Bugle Call Rag? ?Copenhagen? ?High Society? ?Maple Leaf Rag? ?Muskrat Ramble? ?Royal Garden Blues? ?South Rampart Street Parade? ?Sweet Georgia Brown? ?Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger)? ?Tin Roof Blues? ?Way down Yonder in New Orleans? ?When the Saints Go Marching In?.

15 tunes that reflect the breadth and diversity of jazz from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant and multicultural sounds of jazz today. Arrangements by jazz arrangers are carefully researched and designed to accommodate teacher and pupil alike. An approach that encourages playing by ear. Includes â??Minus-oneâ?? rhythm-section tracks and full performances recorded by top jazz musicians. Written-out piano score and sections for improvised solos with notated guideline pitches to get you started. Background information including suggestions for further listening.

Instrumental Play-Along-A dozen hot contemporary hits are included in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists. Instrumental Play-Along Chart Hits comes complete with online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming helping you to hear how the songs should sound and allowing you to play along. Songs include: All About That Bass All of Me Happy Radioactive Roar Say Something Shake It Off A Sky Full of Stars Someone like You Stay with Me Thinking Out Loud and Uptown Funk.

Guest Spot-This book of ten Christmas Hits For Alto Saxophone hits all the right Noel notes with some of your favourite seasonal pop songs presented in melody line arrangements by Paul Honey with specially recorded backingtracks to play along with. For a Christmas Saxophone sheet music book the Guest Spot series can't easily be beat. It's got ten of the best Christmas pop tunes of all time the ones thatimmediately make you excited for Christmas. Absolute classics like Slade's Merry Xmas Everyone Wizzard's genius I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and the wonderful Fairytale Of New York by ThePogues are included but this is by no means all. There's also tunes by Paul McCartney John Lennon and Cliff Richard.  These songs are fun to play and you're guaranteed to impress anyone with thesemerry melodies. All the songs sound great on Alto Saxophone the tone lending itself especially well to the jaunty rhythms and happy sound of these Christmas classics. Once you've learned the melody line from the sheet music songbook you can pop in the CD and hear full performance versions of each song specially recorded for this series. After that the next series of tracks on the CD feature the same songs but with the Saxophone part removed so youcan fill in and perform as if you had a backing band. So not only do you get to add these essential festive tunes to your repertoire you can also practise playing along with a real band. This collectionof Alto Saxophone Christmas sheet music will bring ten of the greatest popular Christmas tunes ever right to your home. Whether you are preparing for a performance or practising privately there is no better song book for thisseason than the Guest Spot: Christmas Hits Playalong For Alto Saxophone.

With the Guest Spot: Big Film Hits song book you can step into the spotlight and play along with top-line arrangements for ten of the best contemporary film hits. A download card is also included so that you canhear specially recorded versions of the tunes before playing along to them yourself. Some of the best and most popular film theme tunes are included here as sheet music such as Do You Want To Build ASnowman? from 'Frozen ' Happy from 'Despicable Me 2' and Everything Is AWESOME!!! from 'The Lego Movie.' With this film theme sheet music you can recreate the cinematic atmosphere of these songs in yourown home while reliving those edge-of-your-seat moments as well as those laugh out loud moments.  With the innovative Download Card you can hear the tracks exactly as they're meantto be played with the specially-recorded demonstration audio. Then the same song is played with the Saxophone part removed so that you can slot right in and play as if you were leading a full band. This great feature willensure that you can play the songs precisely as they're played in the films giving you an unprecedented level of accuracy when performing or practising.  Songs like All Of The Stars I See Fireand Atlas will bring a touch of Hollywood to your Saxophone playing with all of the recognisable melody lines sounding just stellar on an Alto. Also included is a Saxophone fingering guide enabling you to get thesefilm themes off the page and through your fingers. The Guest Spot: Big Film Hits is the ultimate in up-to-date film theme sheet music for Alto Saxophone. Featuring the best songs from the biggest films you're guaranteed to love taking the guest spot on these tunes.

Grade 3 Alto Saxophone Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particular book is perfectfor Grade 3 saxophonists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for every song. Thisfantastic songbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for Grade 3 saxophonists of any age. These particular Alto Saxophone Pieces will aid with your technique and theoretical skills while also allowing you to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as John Legend's All Of Me Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud and KatyPerry's Roar  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any saxophonist. Not only this but a big collection of timeless pop tunes are included such as The Beatles' Hey Jude CatStevens's The First Cut Is The Deepest and ABBA's Dancing Queen such familiar favourites allowing everyone to enjoy Grade 3 Alto Saxophone! Each of the tunes features song background notesand brief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluable fingering chart. With a fantastically diverse collection of old and new pop songs some beautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook for Grade 3 alto saxophonists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major exam boards whileenabling you to develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar songs.

Grade 1 Alto Saxophone Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particularbook is perfect for Grade 1 saxophonists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for everysong. This fantastic songbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for beginning Grade 1 saxophonists of any age. These particular Alto Saxophone Pieces will aidwith your technique and theoretical skills while also allowing you to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as Taylor Swift's 22 One Direction'sBest Song Ever Adele's Make You Feel My Love and Coldplay's Sky Full Of Stars  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any clarinettist. Not only this but a bigcollection of timeless pop tunes are included such as The Beatles' Yesterday Frank Sinatra's My Way and Elvis Presley's All Shook Up such familiar favourites allowing everyone to enjoyGrade 1 Alto Saxophone! Each of the tunes features song background notes and brief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluable fingeringchart. With a fantastically diverse collection of old and new pop songs some beautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook for Grade 1saxophonists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major exam boards while enabling you to develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar

OpenSax – the title of this collection should appeal to all saxophonists who seek to explore new directions while keeping an eye on the current musical scene. Claude Georgel director of the Vent de Sax collection took advantage of a festive occasion – the 17th World Saxophone Congress and Festival in July 2015 – to ask nine composers from very different backgrounds to write pieces either joyful or poetic. The idea was to allow instrumentalists (starting year two of Alto Saxophone study) to explore a variety of artistic and technical worlds guided by the pure joy of playing. It’s a thrilling adventure: British composer JohnHarle draws on the Sanskrit symbol Yantra to weave magical connections between soloist and electroacoustics. Sophie Lacaze turns young saxophonists into Oriental storytellers as they celebrate through deft plays on keys the thousand shards of La Lune dans l’Eau. Vincent-Raphaël Carinola takes musicians into the dreamlike mechanism of the Montre molle so dear to Dali. In Sunny groove Claude Barthélémy offers those who thrill to jazz the pleasure of slipping into the skin of the legendary Sonny Rollins. Annette Mengel gives her Vol au Vent the appearance of a fragile haiku while Clara Olivares the composer of L’Envol transforms what could have been a banal study of the various types of vibrato into a hymn for freedom – that of the performer for example to whom she gives great importance. Claude Georgel’s Du Tac au Tac! conjures an amusing world to which a “very free questioning” rubato brings a simply irresistible sway. In Gamaphone for Saxophone and electroacoustics Philippe Gleiss throws a bridge between jazz and funk by plunging the musician into the sensual delights of rhythm. Xavier Rosselle brings the electroacoustic accompaniment of Main gauche Main droite et Clac a granular quality that emphasizes the music’s sobriety. From the nine stops that compose this journey springs an intoxicating taste of freedom. - Claude BarthélemySonny’s groove

This award winning tutorial series is an essential stepping-stone for every young alto saxophone player and a vital tool for teachers and students alike. A New Tune A Day: Book 2 features the same logical gentle pace andkeen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Filled with easy-to-follow lessons and clear photographs and diagrams this will help you to achieve the very best in tone techniqueand posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting including duets and rounds to inspire you and ensure that those crucial practice hours are never boring! Book 2 builds on the lessons and techniques learned inBook 1 and delivers more advanced technique repertoire and theory all with the great variety of pieces and exercises that are the hallmark of the series.The accompanying audio CD features a virtuoso performance andbacking track for each piece as well as recorded examples to support the lessons.

The Bluesier Side of Jazz for Alto Saxophone and Eb instruments by Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca was inspired by the piano students Andrew teaches at Shepherd University School of Music in Los Angeles and is dedicated to those students: Jungwon Yumiko Yoko Eunice Sooji Hae Ji and Ok Kyu. As with many students that come from a classical background it is a difficult transition to learn to play Blues

Original Repertoire for Alto Saxophone-A recital album of nine original pieces with piano accompaniment that are perfectly suited for saxophonists with three to four years experience. This repertoire for Alto Saxophone has compiled and edited by Nobuya Sugawa and features a recording of Sugawa himself playing the pieces on the included CD. Following the demonstrations there are piano backing tracks so you can play along. Selected for the ABRSM Alto and Baritone Saxophone examinations grades 3 and 5.

Maï by Ryo Noda a Japanese composer is a unique piece of work for solo Saxophone that is strongly influenced by Japanese music. With some sonority supposed to be quite close to those of a koto and of a shakuhachi this piece is very technical and complex to play. The story behind this work is about the ghost of a Japanese Samurai. While his wife asks why he let her behind and left to fight in the war he tries to justify his choices. Most of the work depicts the struggle within the mind of the Samurai between ending his life and living in the end of his enemies. The screaming altissimo at the end is the climax of his strugglewhich then followed by a 10 second silence that represents his death. The technical abilities required are: large interval leaps rapid trills alternate fingerings to achieve pitch bending multiphonics altissimo portamento and cutting tone.

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