Twenty great saxophone solos from the musicals with two accompanying CDs featuring demos and full 'soundalike' backing tracks. A classic selection of showtunes ranging from West End hits by Jorome Kern and Lionel Bart to thegolden years of stage musicals by Lloyd Webber & Rice and Ulvaeus & Anderson. Here's your chance to stand in the spotlight and play some of the all-time greatest numbers from the musicals! Learn to play these solosspecially arranged for alto saxophone. Hear how they should sound on the demo CD then play along with the full backing tracks to show off your new skills! Be the star - learn the solos - then take your place centrestage!

From Hal Leonard's acclaimed Essential Elements series for Jazz Ensemble here is an economical collection of 15 complete arrangements in a variety of styles. As a bonus feature each arrangement includes exercises for melody rhythm and improvisation. A valuable teaching tool in addition to filling your programming needs!Includes: All of Me Ballad for a Blue Horn Basin Street Blues Blues for a New Day Bubbert Goes Retro Bubbert'sGroove Ja-Da Mister Cool On Broadway Perfidia Satin Doll So What Song for San Miguel Sunday Afternoon and Take the “A” Train.

This book is designed to help saxophonists develop fluency in the jazz language by providing mainstream jazz vocabulary (swing/bop/post-bop) that nails the changes and lays great on the horn. Think of Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 as a musical reference book, like a dictionary of great licks in all twelve keys, available when you need it. You can open the book to any page and just start playing. Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 is an indispensable resource that shows you how a professional player would deal with many of the complex chord progressions found in popular standards and jazz compositions. Special Features of Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 by Greg Fishman: • 120 Hip Licks – Each lick is unique and customized for each key, based on the best timbre, register and playability on the horn. • Idiomatic Construction – Alto and Tenor read the same written part, while the rhythm section is recorded in two different keys, ensuring that each lick lays perfectly on all saxophones. • Slow Tempo and Fast Tempo Play-Along CDs are included for both Alto and Tenor – 4 CDs included: 2 Alto CDs and 2 Tenor CDs, providing over four hours of play-along tracks. All licks at 208 BPM (and above) are recorded at both slow and fast tempos. • Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 features great licks over the following chord progressions: • V7#11 chords [C7#11] x 12 keys • ii mi7 / V7 [C mi7 / F7 ] x 12 keys • ii mi7b5 / V7b9 [C mi7b5 / F7b9] x 12 keys • iv mi7 / bVII7 / I Maj7 ( 2 bar and 4 bar phrases) [F mi7 / Bb7 / C Maj7] x 12 keys • b vi mi7 / bII7 / I Maj7 [Ab mi7 / Db7 / C Maj7] x 12 keys • #iv mi7 / VII7 / I Maj7 [F#mi7 / B7 / CMaj7 x 12 keys • Turnaround Licks (4 beats per chord – 4 bar phrases [C Maj7 / A7b9 / Dmi7 / G7] x 12 keys • V7#9#5 / i mi [C7#9#5 / F mi ] x 12 keys • Turnaround Licks (2 beats per chord – 8 bar phrases] [C Maj7 Ami7 / Dmi7 G7 ] x 12 keys • Modular Design – The licks are self-contained, easily taken out of the book to be used in a wide variety of songs. • Interactive Call and Response Format, perfect for ear training and developing your musical memory. Each lick is played twice in a row on the Play-Along CDs, so you can hear the lick and then immediately play along. • Twelve Key Approach – Each CD track takes you through all twelve keys. • Rhythm-Section-Only Tracks let you experiment with your own variations on the licks and improvise over a wide variety of harmonic settings. These tracks are also excellent backgrounds for practicing all of your chords and scales. • Technique Builder – Use Hip Licks for Saxophone as part of your daily practice routine to dramatically increase your technical command of the saxophone. Hip Licks for Saxophone Volumes 1 & 2 were designed to work well together. The lick numbers in volume two start where volume one left off, beginning with lick number 169. This will help you easily keep track of your favorite licks, with no confusion from duplicate lick numbers. Using Volume 1 and 2 together will you have 288 hip licks, many of which can be mixed and matched, creating even more licks. 36 pages, 4 Play-Along CDs included

Improvisation - Stilistik - Spezialeffekte-Following on from the best-selling Jazz Method for Saxophone Developing Jazz Technique for Saxophone will help intermediate players take their jazz skills to a new level. This method bridges the gap between beginning tenor sax students and Jamey’s Play-A-Longs with basic but hip solos and a swingin’ rhythm section. The 22 pieces are written in a variety of jazz styles including reggae jazz waltz bossa nova calypso New Orleans South African salsa samba blues and swing. Special emphasis is given to helping students improvise over chord sequences such as the II-V-I progression. Idiomatic effects such as vibrato subtone glissandi and ‘bending’notes are dealt with and there is a special chapter on overtones. Several new scales are introduced including the whole tone and diminished scales and a special section on patterns contains many ideas for practising in all 12 keys. A superb rhythm section provides backing for all the pieces and exercises on the accompanying CD.

Learn As You Play is an award-winning series of tutor books for woodwind and brass instruments from Boosey and Hawkes. Written by Peter Westall a widely respected and experienced teacher each book takes the student from the very beginning right through to the standard required for Grade 3 examinations. The Learn As You Play method is simple to understand and easy to use. Each book is divided into units that provide clear explanations of each new stage of learning. Plenty of exercises are included along with concert pieces many of which have been set for examinations. This up-to-date edition has been revised to take account of the latestdevelopments in instrumental teaching and examination courses. An ideal introduction to the joys of playing an instrument. Includes a diagram of the saxophone showing fingerings an explanation of musical notation and time signatures a fingering chart and a dictionary of Italian musical terms to go along with the many pieces and exercises.

8 swinging play-along pieces with live band!. Par VELDKAMP ERIK. Take a nostalgic trip back to the era of Count Basie, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington. In this book you will find eight wonderful new pieces written in the big band tradition. The play-along tracks available online in mp3 format contain a live jazz band together with a complete version of each piece to show you exactly how it should be done. / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Recueil / Saxophone Alto ou Ténor

Paul Harris' More Graded Studies For Saxophone - Book 2 brings together Saxophone study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique and providing a firm foundation for progress. The books in this series feature core studies alongside specially composed pieces by Paul Harris. These comprehensive collections apply the Simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Book 2 takes the student from intermediate to advanced level (approx. grades 6–8). The studies are arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to a carefully planned technical progression and each study comes with a list ofSimultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preparation for the music.

Saxophone Play-Along Volume 11-The Saxophone Play-Along® Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the notation listen to the included audio to hear how the saxophone should sound and then play-along using the separate backing tracks. The online audio is available for streaming or download using the unique code printed inside the book. Volume 11 includes 8 jazz classics including: Body and Soul • Con Alma • Oleo • Speak No Evil • Take Five • There Will Never Be Another You • Tune Up • Work Song.

20 Sensational Saxophone Studies for Saxophone contains a combination of musical styles including jazz and modern classical. The book takes the player from grade 1 to 8. Each study is written with a particular focus in mind; be it a rhythmic technical or genre specific focus each one is written with a clear purpose and with the intention of helping the player progress to the next level.

Hip Licks for Saxophone is designed to help saxophonists develop fluency in the jazz language by providing mainstream jazz vocabulary (swing/bop/post-bop) that nails the changes and lays great on the horn. Think of Hip Licks for Saxophone as a musical reference book, like a dictionary of great licks in all twelve keys, available when you need it. You can open the book to any page and just start playing. Need something that will help you sound like a total pro while playing over the most challenging keys, like: C#, F# or B? Hip Licks for Saxophone is an indispensable resource that can immediately show you how a professional player would approach those tough keys and chord progressions. Special Features of Hip Licks for Saxophone by Greg Fishman: ? 168 Hip Licks ? Each lick is unique and customized for each key, based on the best timbre, register and playability on the horn. The C7 lick is different than the B7 lick, which is different than the Bb7 lick, etc. ? Idiomatic Construction ? Alto and Tenor read the same written part, while the rhythm section is recorded in two different keys, ensuring that each lick lays perfectly on all saxophones. ? Slow Tempo and Fast Tempo Play-Along CDs are included for both Alto and Tenor ? 4 CDs included: 2 Alto CDs and 2 Tenor CDs, providing over four hours of play-along tracks. ? Hip Licks Nail the Most Popular Chord Progressions: - Major 7th, Dominant 7th, Dominant 7b9, Minor 7th, Minor 7b5, and Diminished 7th and Augmented 7th Chords - ii-7 / V7 / I Major (two and four-measure phrases) - ii-7b5 / V7b9 / i Minor (two and four-measure phrases) - Parallel Major to Minor Progressions - ii- ii-Maj7 / ii-7 V7 / I Maj7 (ii-7 / V7 / I Maj7 with moving 7ths) ? Modular Design ? The licks are self-contained, easily taken out of the book to be used in a wide variety of songs. ? Interactive Call and Response Format, perfect for ear-training and developing your musical memory. Each lick is played twice in a row on the Play-Along CDs, so you can hear the lick and then immediately play along. ? Twelve Key Approach ? Every CD track takes you through all twelve keys. ? Rhythm-Section-Only Tracks let you experiment with your own variations on the licks and improvise over a wide variety of harmonic settings. These tracks are also excellent backgrounds for practicing all of your chords and scales. ? Technique Builder ? Use Hip Licks for Saxophone as part of your daily practice routine to dramatically increase your technical command of the saxophone.

This is the second book of Progressive Jazz Studies and it includes over 40 original studies for the developing jazz saxophonist. In the first section the book shows players how to take a tune and jazz it up they learn to craft a simple rhythmic jazz solo from any well-known tune. Section two teaches about various jazz tonalities helping to develop confidence with whole-tune diminished and blues scales modes and the II-V-I chord sequence. James Rae's brilliant method gives you the confidence to play jazz with real style!This book can be used for either B flat or E flat saxophones.

Volume 4 contains a fresh set of Intermediate-Advanced jazz etudes. This book and play-a-long CD set will take you through a variety of tempos that are designed to correspond to the flow of a live performance set. The Chord changes are based upon popular standards that will be easily recognizable. This set will further soldify your grasp of modern jazz vocabulary and help prepare you for real world situations.