Par HARRIS PAUL. Christmas Saxophone Basics is a collection of fun and festive repertoire for alto saxophone. Leap through the twelve days of Christmas in twelve stages with Christmas-themed improvisations, warm-ups and studies, plus your favourite Christmas tunes. There’s a selection of repertoire with piano accompaniment as well as duets suitable for 2 saxophones and duets for saxophone and clarinet. Each stage wraps together musical and technical elements to help focus your festive playing. / Instrumental Music, Methods & Tutors / Recueil / Saxophone Alto

Instrumental Play-Along-10 songs from the latest live action hit movie adaptation of the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast arranged for instrumentalists. Each book features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound.Songs include Aria Be Our Guest Beauty and the Beast Belle Days in the Sun Evermore Gaston How Does a Moment Last Forever The Mob Song and Something There.

Les étudiants aiment jouer ces 16 chansons de l'Aladdin de Disney favoris, La Belle et la Bête et La Petite Sirène. Songs include: Beauty and the Beast - Friend like Me - Kiss the Girl - Something There - Under the Sea - A Whole New World - and more. / Saxophone

Mark Vega?s Jazz Solo Series for Eb instruments, including Alto Saxophone, is a great instructional tool for musicians and music students to learn or improve their improvisational abilities in the jazz-swing idiom. There are sixty-six examples in the book, starting at a somewhat easy level and gradually increasing in difficulty throughout the book. Sections include: Exercises in all twelve keys using II-V-I and II-V-III-VI-II-V-I chord progressions. Exercises in all twelve keys using I-VI-II-V-III-bIII-II-V-I chord progressions. Complete worked-out solos over chord changes to the popular Jazz standards Stella By Starlight, Take The A Train, and There Will Never Be Another You. Includes an easy version of the solo followed by a more difficult one. A selected discography of Mark?s favourite Jazz albums featuring great Jazz soloists.

Nouvelle Edition-For each song you will hear the full version featuring the instrument with an Orchestral accompaniment as well as a playback version for you to play along to. For each piece there are four versions:A simplified version for Alto Saxophone (for beginners)A simplified version for Tenor Saxophone (for beginners)A medium difficulty version for Alto SaxophoneA medium difficulty version for Tenor Saxophone The pieces in Tubes Du Jazz Saxophone are great for playing as part of a group. The included harmonic grids will help Bass and Keyboard players to get their bearings and all of the featured pieces can be sung. Lyrics areincluded at the back of this book.

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.

Composed by Claude Barthélémy Okawati's is the first piece from the series 'Irrawady' (also named 'Asia is running through my ears') for Alto or Soprano Saxophone and electro-acoustic system. Commissioned by a Cultural Centre this series is made of four parts and two interludes (without Saxophone) and was used as a piece of contest. This particular piece Okawati's is representing a hotel located in between rice fields in Bali. At night there is no silence but the noise of frogs and birds flying around. The player is supposed to impersonate one of the birds.Lasting 5'34 minutes the score ofthis piece is written in modern writing and requires some good knowledge of modern and contemporary pieces and some very good technical knowledge. Quite unusual and fun to play it also includes a CD which features the part of the electro-acoustic system. It is followed by: - Interlude I - Ubud - Le dos des caïmans - Interlude II - Gazebo

Eb Alto Saxophone 1-Twelve outstanding arrangements for the beginning jazz ensemble written by experienced educational arrangers and composers. A variety of styles and tempos are included: swing ballads rock pop holiday Latin and a great warm-up chart titled 'Loosen Up.' This collection of charts is written for full instrumentation of 5 saxophones 3 trumpets 3 trombones and 4 rhythm but designed to sound full and complete with reduced instrumentation of just nine players - 2 Alto Saxes Tenor Sax 2 Trumpets Trombone Piano Bass and Drums. Optional parts are available for C Flute Tuba (doubles Bass part) Horn in F (doubles 1st Trombone) and Baritone Horn T.C. (doubles 1st Trombone).Rhythm section parts offer suggestions for voicings and rhythms and guitar chord frames are included to assist young guitarists. Solos are written out for improvised sections and there is plenty of full sounding ensemble. Conductor's book includes a full length CD recording.

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.

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

These methods provide complete courses for players off all ages guiding students from their first note to 'classics' together with compositions by contemporary writers. Each book is accompanied by high quality rhythm section tracks recorded on compact disc. Right from the start students can enjoy authentic jazz sounds playing in the company of professionals. With step-by-step instruction and a progression of specially written pieces the fundamental elements of good technique are introduced alongside the rhythmic subtleties of jazz. Improvisation is encouraged from an early stage and is given direction through the systematic study of scales and arpeggios and advice onear-training and chord patterns. With supplementary suggestions for listening and reading and an Appendix containing all the chord progressions for 'live' accompaniment of the tunes The Jazz Methods are ideally suited to both students working alone and those learning with a teacher. John O'Neill has a solid understanding of jazz and how it can be taught. I highly recommend his educational jazz materials. (Jamey Aebersold) ...a rare opportunity for a new player (or a more experienced one) to develop a really musical facility. A rare addition to the jazz improvising library. (Lee Konitz international jazz saxophone soloist) 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. 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

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 companion repertoire book is packed with great pieces that consolidate and reinforce the skills andtechniques covered in the course book. The accompanying teacher repertoire means the teacher can play along with their pupil and make the lesson really fun. There is also a free CD with outstanding accompaniments for individualpractice.