Product Number:
30687
Format:
Book
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation
Pages:
68
Binding:
Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
1-5134-6196-6
ISBN13:
978-15134-6196-0
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
8/10/2018
Your warm-up time is a precious thing. It can get you off to a great day of practicing or it can set you back every time you pick up your instrument. Learning the correct way to warm up will benefit every part of your playing and send you on your way to mastering the saxophone! This book is the product of the last 10 years of building my warm-up routine and will teach you my proven method guaranteed to improve your playing by leaps and bounds. The exercises in this book are designed specifically for the range of the saxophone and address some of the most common problems that people who play this instrument run into.
The main areas of study in this method are:
1. Sound Concepts
2. Scales & Arpeggios
3. Working with a Metronome
4. How to Structure Your Time
A good day starts off on the right foot and a good practice session starts off with a quality warm-up. Treat your warm-up time with the care and precision that a brass player or drummer does, and turn a repetitive routine into a new one which challenges you every day.
Contained Inside: Sound Concepts
• Articulation Patterns
• Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Scales
• Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Thirds
• Full Range Major and Minor Arpeggios
• Staggered Major and Minor Arpeggios
• Major and Minor Seconds
• Full Range Chromatic Scale Exercises
• Combining Keys with Both Scales and Arpeggios
• Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Fourths and Wider Intervals
A Note from the Author
Sound Concepts
Mouthpiece and Neck
Long Tones
Overtones/Harmonics
Scales and Arpeggios
Memorization
Tempo and Metronome
Finger Technique
Order of Key Signatures
Articulation
Articulation Patterns
Lesson 1: Major and Harmonic Minor Scales
Major Scales
Harmonic Minor Scales
Lesson 2: Major and Harmonic Minor Scales in Thirds
Major Thirds
Harmonic Minor Thirds
Lesson 3: Arpeggios
Major Arpeggios
Minor Arpeggios
Staggered Major Arpeggios
Staggered Minor Arpeggios
Lesson 4: Major and Minor Seconds
Major Seconds
Lesson 5: Chromatic Exercises
Chromatic Scale Exercises
Lesson 6: Combining Keys
Chromatic Major #1
Chromatic Major #2
Chromatic Arpeggios #1
Chromatic Arpeggios #2
Chromatic Arpeggios #3
Chromatic Arpeggios #4
Chromatic Arpeggios #5
Chromatic Arpeggios #6
Lesson : Wider Intervals
Major Fourths
Harmonic Minor Fourths
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