Grade 1 Alto Saxophone Pieces: Alto Saxophone: Mixed Songbook

Grade 2 Alto Saxophone Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particular book is perfectfor Grade 2 saxophonists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for every song. Thisfantastic songbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for Grade 2 saxophonists of any age. These particular Alto Saxophone Pieces will aid with your technique and theoretical skills while also allowing you to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball One Direction's What Makes You Beautifuland some fantastic film songs like Atlas from 'The Hunger Games' and 'Frozen's Let It Go  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any saxophonist. Not only this but a bigcollection of timeless pop tunes are included such as The Beatles' Yellow Submarine Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water such familiar favourites allowingeveryone to enjoy Grade 2 Alto Saxophone! Each of the tunes features song background notes and brief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluablefingering chart. With a fantastically diverse collection of old and new pop songs some beautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook forGrade 2 saxophonists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major exam boards while enabling you to develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar songs.

Grade 3-Janet Way's Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical contemporary and educational repertoire highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff Dmitri Shostakovich Karl Jenkins Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall Vera Gray and others.This practical anthology of carefully selected pieces provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 3 saxophonist and creates the perfect package for teaching exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:19 pieces & shortstudies each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip.Grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises.Brand new sight-reading activitiesNewly-commissioned aural awareness tasks.A Piano accompaniment booklet. This book for Grade 3 Alto Saxophone players includes the pieces Gavotte by Couperin Fascinating Rhythm by Gershwin Bouree by Bach and more.Janet Way: Grade By Grade - Alto Saxophone (Grade 3) comes complete with a CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.

Grade 4-Janet Way's Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical contemporary and educational repertoire highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff Dmitri Shostakovich Karl Jenkins Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall Vera Gray and others.This practical anthology of carefully selected pieces provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 4 saxophonist and creates the perfect package for teaching exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:19 pieces & shortstudies each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip.Grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises.Brand new sight-reading activitiesNewly-commissioned aural awareness tasks.A Piano accompaniment booklet. This book for Grade 4 Alto Saxophone players includes the pieces In A Sentimental Mood by Duke Ellington Fantasia In F# Minor by Georg Philipp Telemann Romance by Sergei Rachmaninoff and more.Janet Way: Grade By Grade - Alto Saxophone (Grade 4) comes complete with a CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.

Pop Performance Pieces includes 10 carefully selected contemporary and classic pop songs in special arrangements for Alto Saxophone with aPiano accompaniment suitable for Grade 2-5 students as well as teachers. With a Piano score separate Alto Saxophone part and performance hints and tips these fun pieces will honeyour skills and develop ensemble playing.These pieces present a fun alternative to graded exam material and many are suitable for GCSE performance exams. The tunes will be familiar to most players withclassics like Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and Elton John's Your Song as well as contemporary pop songs like Adele's When We Were Young and KatyPerry's Firework. These 10 songs can be played in instrumental lessons in the classroom and of course on stage. The separate booklet with the Alto Saxophonepart features tips by professional musicians with some fingering guidance while the Piano score also includes the tips along with chord symbols and helpful fingering suggestions. 

First Repertoire For Alto Saxophone is a collection of twenty imaginative and sax-friendly arrangements and original pieces with Piano accompaniments all carefully selected and written for the Grade 1-3 player by talented duo Paul Harris and Beverley Calland. From Latin classic Desafinado to Handel's Water Music Massenet to Mussorgsky and including classic themes from the shows and television there is something here for every occasion!The solo Alto Saxophone part is also included on a separate insert. Pieces from this edition have been selected for the ABRSM Alto and Baritone Saxophone Examinations Grades 1 2 and3.

Book 2-The Light Touch is a fabulous collection of graded pieces for Alto Saxophone and Piano. The two volumes have been edited by Gordon Lewin. This is the second book for intermediate to advanced players from grade 4 all the way to grade 8. There are five glorious examples of Light saxophone music in various styles all of which are characterised by the light touch!

Alto saxophone and piano. Fresh and energetic pieces. The piano part has been kept fairly simple while allowing gifted pianists potential for improvisation.Grade: 2 - 5

A collection of short pieces in a jazz style for Alto Saxophone and Piano. The music cleverly conceals the use of the AB scales and arpeggios within the music.Grade: 3 - 5