Grade by Grade - Alto Saxophone (Grade 4)

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.

This book is perfect for those looking for something to bridge the gap between grades. Pam Wedgwood's inimitable style is guaranteed to breathe new life into your saxophone playing - the varied pieces in this bright collection range from toe-tapping jazzy numbers to more classical styles all designed to ease you gently on towards the next grade. This book is especially useful to students who have passed Grade 2 and would like a break before plunging into the syllabus for Grade 3. So lighten up and move on with Up-Grade!. ABRSM Alto and Baritone Saxophone examination grade 3.

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. 

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 .

Score and Parts-The Canonic Suite for quartet of alto saxophones is a revision made in 1981 of the Suite For Quartet Of Alto Saxophones. It was awarded a prize in 1945 by Broadcast Music Inc. and was first published that year. The Fanfare is a canon in four parts at the unison; the Nocturne a four-part canon in inversion (Sax 2) retrograde (Sax 3) and retrograde - inversion (Sax 4); the Tarantella a four-part canon at the second above.

Grades -4- Teacher's Notes: These carefully graded pieces have been designed to help your pupils with their reading skills from elementatry to grade 3 - 4. The scale melodies will help to develop a feeling for keys and tonality. The pieces have no performance markings and you and your pupils are encouraged to add these as part of the learning experience. The chord symbols throughout are in concert pitch and offer the opportunity to add a live Keyboard or Guitar accompaniment. These pieces are designed to be both enjoyable performance material and a helpful teaching resource and the scale melodies will make preparation for examinations a more rewarding and musical experience. Student's Notes: Every piece has a full performance track and an accompaniment track on the companion CD. Listen to the performance tracks and try to copy what you hear - for example what do you notice about the quavers (eighth notes) in Pogo Stick and Swingin' - are they the same? Use your ears. Play along with the accompaniment tracks with as much style as you can and most importantly Have Fun! This book was originally published by Harlequin Music Cambridge in 2000.

What Else Can I Play? Alto Saxophone Grade 3 makes learning more fun with carefully selected and arranged supplementary repertoire for today's young player. Each piece offers suggestions and guidelines to breathing, dynamics and tempo together with technical tips, performance notes and a simple piano accompaniment.  Each book in the What Else Can I Play? series presents carefully graded pieces with a variety of musical styles ranging from classical and jazz through to showtunes and popular songs. This series will bring enthusiasm to learning your instrument and provide an entertaining alternative for those pupils who are working towards, or have recently completed exams. / Instrumental Music, Methods & Tutors / Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano

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.

Par . Play along with the pros in this exciting collection of 10 hit tunes for alto saxophone, meticulously arranged by Ned Bennett for Grade 3 (Late Elementary) players. Take centre stage as you play with live backings recorded by professional musicians plus live demo tracks to check your progress, all available to download. A piano accompaniment for each piece is also included for practice. With this fresh selection of tunes from pop to musicals, jazz and film, bring your playing to life as you perform with the band! / Date parution : 2022-11-08/ Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano

Music through the Ages in 2 Volumes-The first of a two-volume anthology providing a graded selection of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements for Saxophone and Piano. All the works ranging from the Renaissance to the present day have been selected and arranged by Ian Denley. Pieces from this edition have been selected for the ABRSM Alto and Baritone Saxophone Examinations Grades 2 & 3.