A Proven Method to Increase Technique and Become a Complete Saxophonist-Your warm-up time is a precious thing. It can get you off to a great day of practicing or it can set you back every time you pick up your instrument. Learning the correct way to warm up will benefit every part of your playingand send you on your way to mastering the saxophone! This book is the product of the last 10 years of building my warm-up routine and will teach you my proven method guaranteed to improve your playing by leaps and bounds.The exercises in this book are designed specifically for the range of the saxophone and address some of the most common problems that people who play this instrument run into. The main areas of study in this method are:1. Sound Concepts 2. Scales & Arpeggios 3. Working with a Metronome 4. How to Structure Your Time A good day starts off on the right foot and a good practice session starts off with a quality warm-up. Treat your warm-up timewith the care and precision that a brass player or drummer does and turn a repetitive routine into a new one which challenges you every day. Contained Inside: Sound Concepts • Articulation Patterns • Full RangeMajor and Harmonic Minor Scales • Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Thirds • Full Range Major and Minor Arpeggios • Staggered Major and Minor Arpeggios • Major and Minor Seconds • Full Range ChromaticScale Exercises • Combining Keys with Both Scales and Arpeggios • Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Fourths and Wider Intervals

Easy collection of 85 patriotic songs spirituals hymns and carols appropriate for most any setting. Individual part books are marching band size.Song List: * Abide With Me * All Through The Night * Alma Mater * Aloha Oe * America The Beautiful * Auld Lang Syne * The Band Played On * Battle Hymn Of The Republic * Beautiful Dreamer * A Bicycle Built For Two (Daisy Bell) * Blow The Man Down * Camptown Races * Carry Me Back To Old Virginny * Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean (The Red White And Blue) * Come Ye Thankful People Come * Cradle Song * Crusaders Hymn * Deck The Hall * (I Wish I Was In) Dixie * Fairest Lord Jesus * Farewell To Thee * Finlandia * The First Noel * For Hes A Jolly Good Fellow * Forgotten Yesterdays * God Of Our Fathers * Good Night Ladies * Hail Columbia * Hail To The Chief * Hail Hail The Gangs All Here * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * Home On The Range *Home Sweet Home * In The Gloaming * It Came Upon The Midnight Clear * Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair * Jingle Bells * Jolly Old St. Nicholas * Joy To The World * Lead Kindly Light * Little Brown Jug * Loch Lomond *Loves Old Sweet Song * The Man On The Flying Trapeze * Marines Hymn * Maryland My Maryland * A Mighty Fortress Is Our God * My Country Tis Of Thee (America) * My Faith Looks Up To Thee * My Old Kentucky Home * Nearer MyGod To Thee * Nobody Knows The Trouble Ive Seen * Now The Day Is Over * O Christmas Tree * O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) * O Little Town Of Bethlehem * Oh! Susanna * Old Black Joe * Old Folks At Home (SwaneeRiver) * Old Hundred * Onward Christian Soldiers * Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow * Rock Of Ages * Sailing * Shortnin Bread * Silent Night * Silver Threads Among The Gold * The Star Spangled Banner * SweetAnd Low * Swing Low Sweet Chariot * Taps * Tis The Last Rose Of Summer * Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! * Viennese Refrain * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks * Yankee Doodle

For Alto Sax And Piano-The celebrated theme from the Stanley Kubrick / Kirk Douglas epic Spartacus which also featured as the theme to the BBC television series The Onedin Line. Arranged for Alto Saxophone and Piano.

For Tenor Sax And Piano-A fifty bar tear-jerker for tenor saxophone and piano.Grade: 2

Patrick Hawes' Quanta Qualia for SSAATTBarB Chorus and Alto Saxophone. Part for Saxophone.This setting of a highly devotional text written by Rev. Andrew Hawes of the diocese of Lincoln is full of quiet beauty and longing. Patrick Hawes' piece has become popular through its inclusion on his Blue In Blue recording.

For Alto Sax with CD intermediate to advanced standard.Fun and catchy pieces in jazz latin funk blues ragtime and rock styles written to support technical development and learning.

Selected Themes From 'Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone' arranged for solo Tenor Saxophone duet or trio by Victor Lopez. Music by John Williams. Suitable for players grades 1-3. Also includes fingering chart.

15 großartige Titel aus den Bereichen Pop Jazz und Musical in leicht zu spielenden Arrangements mit professioneller Playback-CD.

50 Etudes Faciles Et Progressives (50 Easy And Progressive Studies) for Saxophone (or Oboe) is an excellent collection of studies composed by Guy Lacour. These studies are designed to improve your technical control and stylistic awareness and are designed so that they progressively become more difficult introducing you to further and more advanced concepts.Volume 2 contains studies 26-50 in the collection.

Dylan joins the band at school to play saxophone. But all Dylan wants to do is play jazz. His teachers demand he play the easy songs first. Dylan listens to a virtuoso saxophone player performing on the street and wishes to play like him. The man warns Dylan that if he doesn't cooperate with his teachers and play the songs they ask him to play his saxophone will shrink until it vanishes. One day his saxophone shrinks to such a tiny size that Dylan can't play. Dylan discovers the secret to making his saxophone grow back to its full size and is rewarded by being able to play his favorite music – jazz! (Recommended for ages 4-8).

E flat major-The Concerto For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra is Alexander Glazunov’s last work; since its first performance in 1934 it has become part of the standard Saxophone repertoire. The sole surviving autograph manuscript is the hand-written dedication score given by Glazunov to Sigurd Raschèr (Raschèr was the founder and leader of the well-known and innovative Raschèr Saxophone Quartet).This score contains the original version of the work without the alterations which were made in the proofs to the orchestral score as well as the full version of the composer’s cadenza which was later shortened. The autograph manuscript also containssome performance markings by Raschèr.The correspondence between Raschèr and Glazunov documents the composer’s thoughts on the work and his recommendations about the size of the accompanying String Orchestra. Evidence from this correspondence has been integrated into this edition.This first scholarly-critical edition of a work by Glazunov contains an informative introduction with commentaries about the history of its composition facsimiles and a critical commentary.The solo part includes both the complete and the shortened version of the cadenza as well as a cadenza by Raschèr which the composer authorised.- Includes the original and new solo cadenzas.- With helpful performance tips by Carina Raschèr the daughter of Sigurd Raschèr.- With an Urtext solo Saxophone part and a second part prepared by Carina Raschèr.- Informative foreword (Ger/Eng).- Full score & performance material (BA8732) and Saxophone & Piano reduction (BA8732-90) available for sale.

Carl Fischer Progressive Duets Volume 2 - Alto Saxophone is part of a comprehensive publication comprising two volumes of graded duets for Alto Saxophone. Playing duets is an excellent way for the student to build ensemble skills with a colleague or teacher.