Improve your sight-reading! Saxophone Grades 1-5 E-Book

Paul Harris

• Herausgeber: Faber Music Limited
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 24

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

The full eBook version of Improve your sight-reading! Saxophone Grades 1-5 in fixed-layout format. Paul Harris' brilliant series of workbooks contains not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM Initial and Grade 1 syllabuses but also uses finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Violin Initial and Grade 1 covers all the keys and ranges required for the ABRSM syllabuses, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams.

Leseprobe

Paul Harris

Grades 1–5

Saxophone

Introduction

2

Grade 1

Stage 1

q

•

Î

•

2

4

3

Stage 2

F major

•

Small leaps

•

4

4

•

h

6

Stage 3

G major

•

Slurs

•

3

4

•

h.

•

iq

9

Grade 2

Stage 1

C major

•

iiiq

•

Ties

12

Stage 2

D minor

•

q

.

e

•

<

15

Stage 3

Staccato

•

Revision

18

Grade 3

Stage 1

jjjq

•

ijq

•

4-note slurs

•

>

•

p

21

Stage 2

A minor

•

œ

™

œ

24

Stage 3

Rhythms in

3

8

•



•

Revision

27

Grade 4

Stage 1

D major

•

Up-beats

30

Stage 2

Rhythms in

8

6

•

q jq

•

33

Stage 3

B minor

•

jiq

•

q

.

jq

•

Revision

37

Grade 5

Stage 1

B

b

major

•

G minor

•

Syncopation

40

Stage 2

A major

•

E

b

major

•

pp

and

ff

43

Stage 3

E minor

•

Revision

46

Improve your

Improve your

sight-reading!

sight-reading!

2

Introduction

Being a good sight-reader is so important and it’s not difficult at

all! If you work through this book carefully – always making sure

that you really understand each exercise before you play it – you’ll

never have problems learning new pieces or doing well at sight-

reading in exams!

Using the workbook

1 Rhythmic exercises

Make sure you have grasped these fully before you go on to the

melodic exercises: it is vital that you really know how the rhythms

work. There are a number of ways to do the exercises, several of

which are outlined in Stage 1. Try them all out. Can you think of

more ways to do them?

2 Melodic exercises

These exercises use just the notes (and rhythms) for the Stage,

and progress gradually. If you want to sight-read fluently and

accurately, get into the simple habit of working through each

exercise in the following ways before you begin to play it:

• Make sure you understand the rhythm and counting. Clap the

exercise through.

• Know what notes you are going to play and the fingering you

are going to use.

• Try to hear the piece through in your head. Always play the

first note to help.

3 Prepared pieces

Work your way through the questions first, as these will help you

to think about, or ‘prepare’ the piece. Don’t begin playing until you

are pretty sure you know exactly how the piece goes.

4 Going solo!

It is now up to you to discover the clues in this series of practice

pieces. Give yourself about a minute and do your best to

understand the piece before you play. Check the rhythms and

fingering, and try to hear the piece in your head. Always remember