100 Solos: Saxophone

from R&B Pop and Smooth Jazz-Perform some of the best-known sax solos of all time! Playing these clearly rendered and meticulously detailed transcriptions will give you insight into the styles of sax greats such as Michael Brecker Kenny G David Sanborn Jay Beckenstein and many others. Berklee professor Jeff Harrington's introduction offers tips on how to practice and perform. Features solos from 17 songs: Against All Odds ? Baby I Love Your Way ? I Heard It Throughthe Grapevine ? Love Is a Wonderful Thing ? Morning Dance ? Still Crazy After All These Years ? Time Passages ? Walk on the Wild Side ? and more.?I love the clarity with which all the different solos aretranscribed and it's great to have the opportunity to see all this incredible work from such a wide variety of soloists.? Kenny G

This final volume of advanced alto sax solos is a master class from virtuoso Vincent Abato of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Mr. Abato gives you direction and demonstrates each piece then you step in and take your place at the head of the class! Includes a high-quality printed music score containing the solo part annotated with performance suggestions and a compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) followed by piano accompaniments to each piece minus the soloist. Performed by Vincent Abato alto saxophone Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen piano

Par BAY WILLIAM. Cette brochure handy, format de poche contient un diagramme des parties du saxophone, une tablature, comment assembler et de soins pour et de contenir le saxophone et les principes fondamentaux de la lecture de la musique. Les études fournissent pratique à ton, insultes, embouchure, doigté, tonguing, arpèges et de rythmes en pointillé. Des études et des chansons supplémentaires introduisent et la pratique des concepts plus. Les écailles chromatiques, mineurs et majeurs sont également inclus. / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Solos / Méthode / Saxophone

A selection of Christmas Carols and Traditional Classics with Backing CD. This instrumental series is arranged for Flute Trumpet Clarinet Alto Saxophone Tenor Saxophone Horn in F and Trombone. The separate instrumental parts can be used alone with the CD or in any combination.

From Chuck Rio and King Curtis to David Sanborn and Kenny G take an inside look at the genesis of pop Saxophone. This book/audio pack provides solo transcriptions in standard notation lessons on how to play them bios equipment photos history and much more. The online audio tracks include full-band demos of every sax solo in the book and are enhanced so PC

This series of superb books offers an incredible wealth of great tunes in a wide range of styles all arranged for both E-Flat and B-Flat saxophones with a set of chord symbols for each instrument. Songs Include: Baker Street Starsky & Hutch Lily Was Here and Careless Whisper.

Ten classic jazz tunes including transcribed solos and chord symbols in melody line arrangements. This pack includes demonstration performances and specially recorded backing tracks featuring a live jazz trio. Ideal forlearning and practising jazz improvisation. Includes transcriptions of famous recorded solos and chord symbols for your own improvised solos.The CD:Hear full performance versions of each tune including demonstrationsolos on Tracks 2-11. The alto saxophone part is then omitted from Tracks 12-21 so you can play along with the recorded accompaniments.

Twenty great saxophone solos from the musicals with two accompanying CDs featuring demos and full 'soundalike' backing tracks. A classic selection of showtunes ranging from West End hits by Jorome Kern and Lionel Bart to thegolden years of stage musicals by Lloyd Webber & Rice and Ulvaeus & Anderson. Here's your chance to stand in the spotlight and play some of the all-time greatest numbers from the musicals! Learn to play these solosspecially arranged for alto saxophone. Hear how they should sound on the demo CD then play along with the full backing tracks to show off your new skills! Be the star - learn the solos - then take your place centrestage!

A highly effective and comprehensive work-shop for developing complete technical and musical skills on the saxophone . Volume Two: Chord studiesThis Berklee Workshop features innovative exercises andsolos that will help you learn melody harmony rhythm and improvisation techniques for the saxophone. Once you've completed the studies and exercises in Volume One this volume offers a more in-depth study of saxophonetechnique. Features include: a special emphasis on chordal concepts challenging and innovative studies based on basic and extended chords an excellent application of chord theroy Specific performance tools honeyour technique providing a solid foundation for learning to improvise and helping you to express your musical ideas with confidence.

The Scale/Mode Approach-Expand the creative breadth of your soloing! Since its original publication in 1974 Improvisation For Saxophone - The Scale/Mode Approach has been a treasured improvisation resource for players worldwide. Thesestep-by-step exercises and explanations will help you develop your ear and improve your soloing technique. You will learn the intimate relationships between modes and chords practising licks and solos that grow out of theirunderlying harmonies and sound natural for the tune.You will learn:How to use the distinctive qualities associated with modes and scales for more expressive soloing Relationships between scales and chordsLickstypical of each mode and scaleSolos built on the different modes and scalesHow to improvise over common Jazz progressionsAndy McGhee has taught at Berklee since 1966 before which he toured with Lionel Hampton andWood Herman. He has taught thousands how to improvise including luminaries such as Bill Pierce Javon Jackson Donald Harrison Antonio Hart Richie Cole Greg Osby Jaleel Shaw and Ralph Moore.

Saxophone Alto Et Piano-My First Eight Solos by Armando Ghidoni is a set of eight Alto Saxophone solos for beginners with Piano accompaniment. These pieces all quite melodic and entertaining enable young players to work on solo pieces aside from the regular studies and exercises. The solos also appear in order of increasing difficulty:  1. Très simple (Very easy) 2. Noir et blanc (Black and White) 3. En Harmonie (In harmony) 4. Promenade en roller (On rollers) 5. Broadway et moi (Broadway and me) 6. En bateau le Mississipi (The Mississipi on a boat) 7. Sous les étoiles deSanta Fé (Under the stars in Santa Fé) 8. Grand Canyon Express (Grand Canyon Express)  This set of solos can also be played by a Tenor or a Soprano Saxophone. Armando Ghidoni is a French composer with Italian origins who plays Saxophone and Flute. He is edited since 1989 by Alphonse Leduc.

Solos caractéristiques pour saxophone sélectionnés par Nicolas Prost-After publishing the Adolphe Sax Album devoted to early solos from the time of Adolphe Sax this second volume proposes a similar approach and traces the path of the Saxophone from its origin in the 1840s to the beginning of the20th century.In addition to being able to read the scores this work provides an indispensable pedagogical tool for expanding knowledge about Sax?s instrument well before it gained popularity through jazz pop etc.Saxophonists professors students musicologists and Saxophone lovers in general will be interested in the various solos rare or even unknown melodies characteristic of typical writing for the instrument and how composers usedit in relation to the musicological historical and esthetic context of the period.

Contest And Festival Performance Solos for Alto Saxophone contains 12 beloved solos that appear on numerous state contest and performance lists. This collection features solos by noted saxophonists and arrangers Sigurd M. Rascher Larry Teal and Daniel Dorff. It contains such solos as Gavotte by Johann Sebastian Bach Eccles' Sonata and Pachelbel's CanonComplete with Piano accompaniments - both printed music within the book and as accompaniment audio tracks on the included CD - allowing soloists and students to practise effectively with a professional pianist.