Hit Songs for Two Alto Saxophones: Alto Saxophone: Instrumental Work

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. Each book has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner and overseen by our Series Editor Andrew Coxon who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the best opportunity to show off their instrument and skills with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from. This book for AltoSaxophone: is suitable for all exam boards contains ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for GCSE level is accompanied by a CD of professionally recorded backing tracks It includes songs by: Take That Adele Bruno Mars Aretha Franklin Lady Gaga Abba Corinne Bailey Rae A YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other songs for cultural context allowing the student to explore ideas for their own interpretation.

plus CD: Full performances and Play-Along-Tracks - Piano part to print. This collection presents well-known folk songs - with a twist: the tunes, newly arranged for melodic instrument and piano, are slightly jazzy and mixed with pop music elements - making traditional songs sound fresh and interesting again! All pieces are very melodic in character and work well even without piano accompaniment, which makes them particularly suitable for use in the classroom. The piano accompaniment is available on CD as a PDF file and can be printed in professional quality. The CD also contains backing tracks for each piece - which lends a live feeling in performance! This collection is perfect for all lovers of the 'crossover' between folk, jazz and pop - by Schott's best-selling author Dirko Juchem who has been active as a saxophonist, Saxophone teacher and specialist author nationally and internationally for many years.

Instrumental Play-Along-A dozen hot contemporary hits are included in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists. This volume in the Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along series contains arrangements for the Alto Saxophone with online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound then play along and sound like a pro! Songs include: 'Believer' 'Can\'t Stop the Feeling' 'Despacito' 'It Ain\'t Me' 'Look What You Made Me Do' 'Million Reasons' 'Perfect' 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)' 'Shape ofYou' 'Slow Hands' 'Too Good at Goodbyes' 'What About Us'.

15 awesome solos from ABBA to Adele. This volume features 15 songs in a range of styles from pop and classical to film and musical theatre. The pieces have been carefully selected and arranged to provide the perfect light relief from exam practice. The songs in this collection appear in order of difficulty, for students at Grade 1 level. Each song is presented with teaching notes to help you improve your performance. The price includes fully orchestrated backing and demo tracks, available to download or stream online, and rich, playable piano accompaniments, which can be downloaded as A4-size PDFs. To help you practice, the audio tracks can be sped up, slowed down and looped using Playback .

Instrumental Play-Along-12 of the most enduring pop classic songs are included in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists.Classic Pop Songs features online access to audio demonstration and great-sounding backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound.Songs include Bridge over Troubled Water ' Candle in the Wind ' Dust in the Wind ' Every Breath You Take ' Fire and Rain ' Good Vibrations ' Have I Told You Lately ' Heaven ' Lean on Me ' She\'s Always a Woman ' Tears in Heaven and With a Little Help from My Friends.

I Used to Play Alto Saxophone is a new book for adults looking to get back into playing the Alto Saxophone and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its no. 1 goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument by providing them with types of music they want to play like pop jazz and classic tunes rather than etudes. The book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs plus accompaniment-only versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities. It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with the Alto Saxophone again!