The Ultimate Beginner Series has helped many aspiring musicians take their first step toward experiencing the fun of playing music. Now you can experience both volume 1 and 2 together for the first time on DVD! This disc is perfect for beginning students for students who are changing to another instrument or as a refresher for player returning to the instrument after many years. You will learn about Assembly and Maintenance Posture and Hand Positions Breathing Embouchure and producing a sound Tone quality and Technique Tuning Methods Breath Support and Tonguing Techniques. Special features include: Getting To Know The Instrument Feature; Beginning Music TheoryInteractive; Printable Reference Materials.

Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up yoursaxophone. In one great book you get a look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations  Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up playing technique and maintenance audio tracks to show you how things should sound plus full-length accompaniment tracks to play along with! It?s simply everything you need! As well as the printed score this book issupported by SoundWise: SoundCheck powered by Match My Sound: this innovative technology listens to you play and gives you instant feedback on your performance and advice on how toimprove. eBook: a digital edition of your music to read on any device. Audio: full demonstration recordings of each piece plus accompaniment-only solo-only and rehearsal backingtracks.  

A course for young beginners-A course for alto saxophone to guide the young beginner from the very first lesson to around Grade 1 standard.The step-by-step musical and technical information is clearly presented and shows the pupil everything theyneed to know including how to hold the saxophone getting a good sound and how to read music.There are listening games puzzles and quizzes which along with the accompanying teacher book and great backing track CD create a recipe for fun but effective practice.

For Eb (Alto) Sax - Beginner Series-Andrew D. Gordon has created 30; 12bar blues play-a-long backing tracks in various Blues styles keys and tempos such as: Funky Blues Boogie Blues Jazz Blues Minor Blues Country Blues Latin Blues Old Time Jazz Blues Jazz Swing Blues Classic Blues Rock Soulful Blues Slow Blues and many more. Each of the 30 play-a-long tracks has been recorded with 12 choruses of the 12 bar blues progression giving you the opportunity practice soloing techniques totaling over 3 hours of music. Each of the 30 Blues styles contains a solo improvisational melody line 12 measures in length designed for the beginner student in mind as a starting point to createyour own improvisational solos. Each of the 30 Blues tracks have been recorded first with the solo playing along with the rhythm backing tracks of Keyboards Guitar Bass and Drums and immediately following is the play-a-long backing track that cycles through the 12 bar blues progression 12 times generally between 5-8 minutes in length giving you plenty of time to practice. Blues is the basis of many forms of music and these tracks have been specifically created to include styles such as: Jazz Funk Folk Country Latin Rock Gospel Pop Boogie giving you a well-rounded selection of musical styles based on the Blues.

A New Tune A Day: Pop Performance Pieces For Alto Saxophone provides an inspiring collection of pop songs clearly presented with playalong CD for the advanced beginner. These pieces have been chosen and arrangedto build a repertoire of pop songs for performance and for fun and include classic hits from The Beatles and Michael Jackson through to contemporary songs by Coldplay Rihanna and Taylor Swift.Complete with chord symbols foraccompaniment on Piano Keyboard or Guitar this volume is the perfect companion to A New Tune A Day For Alto Saxophone.

10 Jazz Standards - Authentic Jazz Playalong-Part of the Authentic Jazz Playalong series This volume brings together Gershwin Porter Ellington and other legends of 20th Century Jazz. It Don't Mean a Thing features ten absolute classics of jazz repertoire idiomatically arranged for the intermediate (grades 4-6) Alto Saxophone player. Melody lyrics and chord symbols are provided offering opportunity for improvisation with suggested solo phrases notated to aid the beginner. There is also a brief guide and biographical note to each song in the collection. In addition the playalong CD comprises a live trio of piano bass and drums for truly authentic performance.

A comprehensive guide to some of the best Blues Riffs for Alto Saxophone and E Flat instruments. This book is ideal for most levels of musicianship from the beginner/intermediate student who is interested in understanding and playing the blues to the more advanced players that need new ideas to help stimulate their creativity. An accompanying CD is included with every example.

Vol. 2-From best-selling author John O'Neill The Saxophone Method is a complete course for the beginner to intermediate saxophonist. Start by mastering the essential foundation skills required to be a great player in any style. With a wide range of tunes from all over the world you will be exposed to a great variety of musical styles to motivate and inspire.The mp3 backing tracks available as free downloads feature top professional musicians and will give you the feeling of playing in a great band from the very beginning.The Saxophone Method is supplemented by two Repertoire Books to give you even more music to practice and enjoy.By the end of the method you willbe able to:understand the fundamentals of good playing techniquehave explored the full range of the instrumentbe familiar with the most common rhythmshave a solid grounding in music theoryhave the confidence to play with a real band in many different styles

Beginner\'s Pack: Method Books 1 and 2 Plus Online Audio and Video. A complete guide to the basics! This self-teaching method offers quality instruction, terrific songs, professional-quality full-demo audio tracks and video lessons online. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher or watch the videos. Topics covered include: how to assemble and care for your instrument, producing a sound, reading music notation and rhythms, fingering chart, glossary of musical terms, and more! / Méthode / Méthode / Saxophone Alto

10 Jazz Standards - Authentic Jazz Playalong-Part of the new 'Authentic Jazz Playalong' series this volume brings together Gershwin Porter Ellington and other legends of 20th Century Jazz. 'I Got Rhythm' features ten absolute classics of jazz repertoire idiomatically arranged for the intermediate (grades 4-6) player. Melody lyrics and chord symbols are provided offering opportunity for improvisation with suggested solo phrases notated to aid the beginner. There is also a brief guide and biographical note for each song in the collection. In addition the playalong CD comprises a live trio of piano bass and drums for truly authentic performance.

Internationally renowned authors musicians and recording artists Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians.The smooth jazz grooves in this 46 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including R

12 Challenging Pieces for the Beginner Musician-JumpStart a été conçu pour permettre d?aborder le jeu avec accompagnement très tôt dans l?apprentissage. Ce recueil contient 12 pièces avec accompagnement et plusieurs jam sessions.

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.