Learn to play the saxophone and master your first saxy songs!
Clear and complete explanation of the technique of saxophone performance. Play and improvise with over great tracks in the videos. Develop your musicality, gain confidence and enjoy making music!
For you?
Learn to Play Sax offers a clear and complete explanation of the technique of saxophone playing together with learning to play songs in different musical styles.
It's possible to look up the sheet music over every song but also to learn them by heart with help of the videos. With the demo- and backingtracks you can repeat it easily for yourself (for both Eb as Bb saxophones).
Learn to Play Sax is a beginners course, but also can be useful to more experienced players because of a thorough explanation of the technique of playing and the focus on playing by heart and repeating by ear. Learn to Play Sax is about music making where good sax playing is a means to accomplish that!
The course provides backing- and demotracks, sheet music, additional PDF's and several other resources.
Note: This course is most suitable for the altosax or baritone player because Floor plays the alto in the video’s. But you’ll find the tracks also played in B flat played by on soprano saxophone. So every song can be played on soprano or tenor with demo and backing track, but you can’t play along in the video
This course is developed and presented by Floor Wittink and Put Into Sound (both video and audio)
What you will learn (check below for full content)
This course emphasizes on learning how to play the sax and developing your musicality, including playing by heart and improvising, and less on reading notes. There are many programs that can help you with this skill. It simply takes time and practice. But in this course sheet music of every song is provided and you’ll learn all the note names together with the saxophone fingerings, the use of sharps and flats, time signatures and counting along. You’ll improve your rhythm skills and learn to memorize a melody. In addition, you’ll be able to play several scales and play famous songs in different keys, all of which is a great foundation, furthering the development of your reading skills.
Knowing how to study and become your own teacher is often underestimated, but the increased confidence will help you to keep developing your skills. Most importantly, you’ll be inspired to continue playing and enjoying this wonderful instrument!
Floor Wittink
This complete beginners course is developed by Floor Wittink: a professional saxophonist with over 20 years of experience both in performance and teaching. Floor has developed a clear vision about teaching. She has written a book and founded a Saxophone school based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Floor made a course where her vision and experience with teaching hundreds of adults and children are brought together.
Floor states that everyone should experience the joy of music making. Develop musical skills, confidence, knowing how to study, through playful exercise and the development of good technique and sound are all part of what makes you a complete musician.
Check out the minicourses (and buy a part of the course Learn to play Sax)
How to Assemble your Saxophone, €9
In this minicourse you'll recieve four videolessons:
- What you need when you start to play the saxophone and how to assemble the reed to the mouthpiece
- Assembling the rest of your saxophone
- How to clean your saxophone
- Pack & pack away in three minutes
Order here (price €9)
About Sound & Rhythm, €27
In this minicourse I selected the following videolessons (resources included) for you:
- Tongue technique
- Tonguing Exercises
- The Ssaxy Blues
- Breathing Exercises
- About Time Signatures
- About Reading Rhythm
- Exercises for a Beautiful Sound
- Play Rhythmic Variations on the Ssaxy Blues
- Introducing the Metronome
- Metronome Exercises
- Rhythm Exerciese with Backing Track
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Full content of the course
