SKU: BT.MUSBM11517
ISBN 9781846091360. English.
The DVD edition of this hugely popular series of tutors gets you even closer to your instrument with a set of real music lessons right there on your screen! A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds to inspire the student and ensure that those vital practice hours are never boring! The book includes: Advice on your instrument and the equipment you will needInstructions for effective technique and comfortable playing Explanatory pages on reading and understanding music Tests to check your own progress and comprehension The accompanying audio CD features a virtuoso performance and backing track for each pieces, as well as recorded examples to support the lessons. The DVD features lessons on: Basic techniques Putting the instrument together Posture Looking after your instrument Basic music notation How to approach your first piece.
About A New Tune A Day
Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune A Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The A New Tune A Day books have the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD-with actual performances and backing tracks-will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. This book contains: easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages; tips for technique; improvising hints; audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks, and audio examples; great music, including duets and ensemble pieces; useful pull-out fingering chart
SKU: AP.1-ADV7129
ISBN 9783892213840. UPC: 805095071290. English.
Trent Kynaston's Saxophone Intonation Workbook is a thorough, organized approach to approaching saxophone intonation. Basic concepts of embouchure and breathing, understanding the role of your equipment, and developing voicing techniques are all explored. Included are downloadable tuning tracks, with numerous exercises along with additional scale and arpeggio studies. This is a must for all developing saxophonists.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14773
UPC: 805095147735. English.
A new and exciting way for baritone saxophone players to learn and practice basic jazz style. Easy Jazz Conception: Baritone Saxophone Book & CD features 15 solo etudes based on blues and standard chord progressions, demonstrated by Scott Robinson on baritone saxophone along with a world-class rhythm section: Mike LeDonne, piano; Peter Washington, bass; and Kenny Washington, drums. The recording features two separate versions of each etude: one with the soloist and rhythm section and one with the rhythm section only. See and hear how the soloist phrases, play with or without the soloist on the CD and learn basic jazz style first-hand. Titles include: Basie's Blues * Bird's Backyard * Bossa at Night * Caliente Blues * Duke's Convoy * Hot and Humid * Important Events * Love Is Easy * Mist and Grits * Morning Calm * Prince Charming * Rock On * Shufflin' in F * So Long Birdie * Us.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14760
UPC: 805095147605. English.
A new and exciting way for alto saxophone players to learn and practice basic jazz style. Easy Jazz Conception: Alto Saxophone book & downloadable audio features 15 solo etudes based on blues and standard chord progressions, demonstrated by Jim Snidero on alto saxophone along with a world-class rhythm section: Mike LeDonne, piano; Peter Washington, bass; and Kenny Washington, drums. The recording features two separate versions of each etude: one with the soloist and rhythm section, and one with the rhythm section only. See and hear how the soloist phrases, play with or without the soloist on the downloadable audio tracks and learn basic jazz style first-hand. Titles include: Basie's Blues * Bird's Backyard * Bossa at Night * Caliente Blues * Duke's Convoy * Hot and Humid * Important Events * Love Is Easy * Mist and Grits * Morning Calm * Prince Charming * Rock On * Shufflin' in F * So Long Birdie * Us.
SKU: AP.1-ADV7078
UPC: 805095070781. English.
These 20 pieces are not only written in modern styles---covering Latin, tango, Klezmer, reggae, blues, rock, bossa, swing and salsa---but also in traditional styles typical of certain countries such as Ireland, Hungary, Italy and the like. They almost call for the complete range of the instrument. A pronounced articulation emphasizes the most important elements and helps you to perform the pieces in a stylistically congruent feeling. Titles: Stormy Blues * Latin Moon * Klezmer's Tune * Reggae Afternoon * Hungarian Fire * Woddstock Beat * Salsa and Jam * One Man Big Band * My Little Chico * Sunset Bossa * Spanish Romantic * Italian Morning * In the Motion * Gluesy Jamble * French Silk * Swinggeridoo * Aquarelle * Quasi Modo Polka * Irish Flying Legs * Swing Joker.
SKU: M7.VOGG-639
ISBN 9783802406393. English.
Playing the saxophone will bring you a great deal of pleasure for many years to come, as you develop as a player and become better, you will surely become a part of various musical groups playing the very varied styles that the saxophone offers. This book concerns itself with the Alto saxophone only, but once you have mastered one of them you will be able to convert to all of the instruments in the saxophone family as they all use the fingerings and technique.
SKU: AP.1-ADV7162
ISBN 9783954810352. UPC: 805095071627. English.
Essential Play-Alongs for alto saxophone includes 12 easy to intermediate pieces in popular styles---from jazz and blues, to funk and Latin Music. The accompanying CD includes full versions as well as play-along tracks where you may take the lead. All tracks have been recorded by some of the world's best musicians: Jim Snidero and Fred Lipsius and their heavily swinging jazz bands from New York, Ed Harlow and The Boston Horns, or Fernando Brandão, accompanied by outstanding musicians from Cuba and Brazil. Listening to and playing the music becomes a delightful experience. This volume is suitable for beginners that have a basic knowledge of the saxophone.
