Saxophone Basics Pupil's book (with audio) E-Book

Andy Hampton

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Andy Hampton's Saxophone Basics series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner saxophonists and their teachers. This is the full eBook edition of Saxophone Basics Pupil's book (with audio) in fixed-layout format and offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, fun illustrations, new activities, pull-out fingering chart and of course all of the great tunes featured in the original Saxophone Basics. Starting at absolute beginner level and progressing to about Grade 2, it contains: - a wide range of repertoire, including original pieces and well-loved favourites from every genre - warm ups and fun original exercises - invaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering notation, general musicianship and care of the instrument - helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes - duets throughout ideal for group teaching - pull-out fingering chart to pin on your wall - access to online audio containing piano and saxophone accompaniments to play along with. Contents: - Down To Earth - Up And Away - Life s Little Ups And Downs - Bitter Sweet - At The End Of The Night - Feel The Heat. - Come Join The Band - And So It Goes - Cor Blimey. - Merrily We Blow Along - Caribbean Calypso - Stop FEEF! - Brazilian Girl. - Sorted! The F# Files - Set Em Up - This Land Is My Land - Cool Ghoul. - As I Walked Out - Sad Jazz Waltz - When The Saints - Rock That Sax! - About Face - Song Of The Volga Boatman. - Razor Sharp - That Sinking Feeling - Deep D Duet - Call Of The Wild - Carnival Of Venice - Swanee River. - Woogie Boogie - A Whole Lot Of Soul - Dotty Mazurka - Nobody Knows The Trouble I ve Seen. - Lazy Days - Knock, Knock - It s A Cinch - Prokofieff: Lieutenant Kije - No Better Blues - Hatikvah - Sweet Betsy From Pike. - Be Happy, Be Natural, Be Flat - Cool 4 Cats - Cat s Tail Swing. - Two Down, One On The Side - The Ashgrove - Frankie And Johnny. - Dee For Two - La Follia - Green Onions - Just Left Of Right. - Concert Pieces - Vivace - Walk The Cat - Lay Me Down - Blue Call. - Warm-Up Bossa - Greensleeves - One Mint Julep. - Wave Them Goodbye - Duetteud - Creepin Around. - C U Down There - Go With The Flow - You And Me. - Which Way Now? - That Swing Things. - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Tell Me About It - Here Comes The Blues. - I m Late For School! - Wintertime Blues. - Take Your Partners Please - Scarborough Fair. - Goodall: Theme From Red Dwarf - Harris: Miami Beach - Franck: Allegretto - Another Wet Wednesday. - Lisk: Theme From Men Behaving Badly - Beethoven: 7th Symphony 2nd Movt - Alone Again

Leseprobe

Andy Hampton’s

Saxophone

Basics

A method for individual and group learning

With illustrations by Drew Hillier

For Naomi, Sam and Holly

New edition © 2013 by Faber Music LtdFirst published in 2000 by Faber Music LtdFirst amended impression 2001Bloomsbury House74–77 Great Russell StreetLondon WC1B 3DAMusic processed by MusicSet 2000Cover design by Chloë AlexanderDesign by Susan ClarkePrinted in England by Caligraving LtdAll rights reserved

ISBN10: 0-571-52283-1 / 0-571-51972-5EAN13: 978-0-571-52283-5 / 978-0-571-51972-9

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Contents

3 A message to you

3 Acknowledgements

4 Stage 1

6 Stage 2

8 Stage 3

10 Stage 4

12 Stage 5

14 Stage 6

17 Stage 7

19 Stage 8

22 Stage 9

24 Stage 10

26 Stage 11

28 Concert pieces

30 Stage 12

32 Stage 13

35 Stage 14

37 Stage 15

40 Stage 16

42 Stage 17

44 Stage 18

47 Stage 19

49 Stage 20

52 Grand quiz

53 Diagram of the saxophone

54 Fingering chart

56 Musical games

Unless otherwise stated all musical content is by Andy Hampton.

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A message to you

Welcome to Saxophone Basics! And welcometo that most sophisticated of instruments, thesaxophone. In less than no time you’ll be well onthe way to mastering the instrument and able toimpress your friends and family with a range oftunes at your finger tips.

To help you on your way, here are a few words ofadvice:

• There are lots of duets and group pieces inSaxophone Basics; as well as practising andperforming by yourself, ask other saxophoniststo join you, and have fun playing together.

• From day one ask your teacher or somebodyelse to play the piano and saxophoneaccompaniments that are included in theteacher’s book; these are indicated by thefollowing icons:

for saxophone accompaniments

for piano accompaniments.

Alternatively, you can play along on altosaxophone to the accompaniment tracks (),which can be accessed at fabermusic.com/audioor in the CD edition.Two accompanimentoptions are available where two tracks areindicated.

• Look after your instrument. Clean it after useand store it away safely.

• Grab every opportunity to perform in publiceither as a soloist or in a jazz band or orchestra;this is the best way to gain confidence and,after all, one of the main reasons for learning aninstrument!

• If you are unsure of anything, always ask yourteacher to explain it or, where necessary, re-explain it.

• Practise regularly – it’s the only way to improve.A little a day should be the rule.

• Go out of your way to listen to and beinspired by experienced sax players. Find outabout concerts, broadcasts on the radio andrecordings, both on CD and online.

• Have a go at improvising and composing onyour saxophone. You will find helpful activitysheets to download from fabermusicstore.com/basics.

And finally … there are lots of helpful suggestionsin the course of Saxophone Basics, but if youwant a tip from me now, don’t forget that you arelearning to play music first and the saxophonesecond: make sure everything you do on your saxis musical.

I hope you enjoy learning from this book as muchas I did writing it.

Andy Hampton

Acknowledgements

There are many people who helped me in writingthis book. I’d like to thank my young students whoacted as guinea pigs for the early drafts. Thankyou to my wife, Jenny, and family for putting upwith me being in my studio for months and walkingaround the house humming little tunes all day. I’dalso like to thank Catherine Larkin and Anna Rufey

for long play-through sessions to help me geta feel of the book as a whole. Most of all I mustthank and acknowledge the huge contribution ofmy editor at Faber Music, Ben Warren. Ben hasalways been encouraging and accepting of myideas and I know that the book is all the better forhis particular input.

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