SKU: HL.48182724

UPC: 888680865078. 9.0x12.0x0.11 inches.

“French saxophonist, Jean-Marie Londeix (b. 1932) graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with a First Prize and a Prize of Honour. As a fantastic all-around musician, he has a vast experience which makes his study books, including Scales and Modes, very well-informed. His career has taken him all over the world and many composers have written works specially for him. As an accomplished teacher of other famous saxophonists, he has deduced where the gaps in studies for the instrument are, composing six significant books of the kind. The second volume of Scales and Modes addresses scales and modes over three octaves and broken chords over three and a half octaves. Moreover, fingerings are helpfully included. For all aspiring saxophonists, Scales and Modes, compiled by renowned, contemporary saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix, is an essential guide and aid to progression of technique on the instrument.”.

SKU: HL.48186276

UPC: 888680838898. 9x12 inches.

“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 supplies accompaniments. With a significant amount of written instruction in French, English, German and Spanish, Sourisse's Improvisation for beginners and advanced players is highly accessible to a range of Alto Saxophone players, making for an essential and helpful guide.&rdquo.

SKU: HL.48184874

UPC: 888680796938. 9x12.25 inches.

“Initially composed by Paul Taffanel and Philippe Gaubert, this edition of Big Daily Finger Exercises was adapted for the Saxophone and transcribed by Frederic Juranville. It includes fourteen different exercises: 1. Scales 2. Scales by the chromatic order and according to the cycle of fifths 3. Intervals 4. Chromatic scales 5. Whole 'tones scales 6. Arpeggios 7. Broken arpeggios 8. Arpeggios 9. Broken arpeggios 10. Diminished fifth chords ' Arpeggios and broken arpeggios 11. Diminished seventh chords ' Arpeggios and broken arpeggios 12. IV-V-I progressions 13. IV-V-I progressions with different rhythmic combinations 14. II-V-I progressions Frédéric Juranville is a French musician born in 1957 who won the First Prize of the Paris Conservatoire for Chamber music and Saxophone. He is now a Saxophone professor in France and works on the composition of new pedagogic methods.&rdquo.