Learning to play saxophone is now easier than ever before! The Absolute Beginners course has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your sax. With this superb book you get a comprehensive alto saxophone course featuring step-by-step pictures which take you from first day exercises to playing along with backing tracks. The book contains practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance, and the CD contains audio versions of the exercises in addition to full-length accompaniment tracks for you to play along with. / Saxophone Alto

Avec cet admirable livre et ce CD, décelez les secrets de l'improvisation du style jazz de la manière la plus simple. Que vous lisiez la musique ou que vous la jouiez simplement à l'oreille, cette méthode unique vous montre étape après étape comment composer pendant que vous jouez. Tous ce dont vous avez besoin vous est expliqué de manière claire et simple. Dix motifs d'exemples sont inclus pour chaque chanson, avec des astuces et des conseils pour vous aider a développer vos propre idées et vos formules mélodiques. écoutez tous les exemples de musique sur le CD annexe et jouez vos solos comme un pro sur les pistes d'accompagnements spécialement enregistré pour ces grands titres du jazz. / Saxophone

With Online Audio-First Lessons Alto Saxophone is designed for beginners with no experience of reading music or playing the Alto Saxophone. This book complete with online audio tracks covers the basics of Saxophonetechnique and provides an introduction to the most fundamental elements of music. Skills are presented reinforced through exercises and implemented via real repertoire.

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.

For Alto Saxophone-With its extensive and diverse repertoire this tutorial allows you as a saxophonist to access the best of what classical music has to offer. If you choose to work with this tutorial you will not only broaden your musical horizon and improve your playing technique but indeed enjoy performing all kinds of masterpieces on your own Saxophone. All the great composers are featured ? with one or even several of their works with concerts symphonies and sonatas with lieder arias and overtures with Renaissance dances orchestral pieces waltzes and ballets but also with instrumentals such as preludes nocturnes etudes marches gymnopedies and much more. And in order not tolose your enthusiasm while practicing each score is accompanied by 2 audio-recordings which you will find on the mp3 CD attached to the tutorial. In the first recording the Saxophone-part is played along to the corres-ponding accompaniment. In the second only the backing track (the accompaniment) can be heard which gives you the possibility of taking up the score yourself. In total you are invited to enjoy 174 recordings which add up to more than 6 hours of musical practice(!) With its extensive and diverse repertoire this tutorial allows you as a saxophonist to access the best of what classical music has to offer. If you choose to work with this tutorial you will not only broaden your musical horizon and improve your playing technique but indeed enjoy performing all kinds of masterpieces on your own Saxophone. All the great composers are featured ? with one or even several of their works with concerts symphonies and sonatas with lieder arias and overtures with Renaissance dances orchestral pieces waltzes and ballets but also with instrumentals such as preludes nocturnes etudes marches gymnopedies and much more. And inorder not to lose your enthusiasm while practicing each score is accompanied by 2 audio-recordings which you will find on the mp3 CD attached to the tutorial. In the first recording the Saxophone-part is played along to the corres-ponding accompaniment. In the second only the backing track (the accompaniment) can be heard which gives you the possibility of taking up the score yourself. In total you are invited to enjoy 174 recordings which add up to more than 6 hours of musical practice(!)

The Blues Scale for Alto Saxophone and Eb instruments by Andrew D. Gordon is he feels one of his most important books because of the nature of the blues scale and how it is used to improvise in many styles of contemporary music. This book contains 20 grooves in 13 styles: Pop: 2 Grooves Rock: 3 Grooves Blues: 2 Grooves Jazz-Swing: 1 Groove Funk: 3 Grooves R

Apprendre à jouer du saxophone alto pas à pas-Easy Steps est une méthode en deux volumes qui contient tous les éléments nécessaires à l?initiation au saxophone. Richement illustrée elle offre des exercices pour stimuler la formation auditive et le jeu d?ensemble de nombreux morceaux des jeux musicaux et bien plus encore. Les CD fournis comportent des accompagnements pour toutes les pièces dont certaines sont également enregistrées en version complète permettant d?entendre le résultat voulu. L?abondance des ressources proposéesici garantit le succès des cours du professeur. L?accès en ligne à ce matériel est inclus dans le prix du présent ouvrage.

Description This book is designed for the person who may know nothing about music and have had no previous saxophone training. The book, complete with audio, covers the basics of technique on the alto saxophone, as well as provides an introduction to the most fundamental elements of music. Skills are presented, reinforced through exercises, and implemented via real repertoire.

100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Saxophone, the Beginner Series by musician, educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or ?riffs? that make up Blues sax playing, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool for sight reading exercises with many different rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale, in Andrew?s opinion, the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as ?straight? and ?swing? rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book, section 1 contains basic Blues riffs, section 2 contains Rhythm

Saxophone Method. A comprehensive workbook of scales and chords necessary to the development of playing technique... together with selected alto sax solos emphasizing the technical principles presented.