The complete starters guide to the Saxophone |
You can start playing right now, without having to worry about teaching yourself bad habits. Just bought yourself a beautiful saxophone? I bet you can't wait to get started. Now you should of course immediately schedule lessons... Yeah right, as if you're going to sit there, looking at your shiny baby, while you wait six weeks for your first saxophone lesson. No! You want to get started right away. I know how you feel, because I felt the exact same way when I got my first saxophone. You can stop waiting, and start playing right now. You have come to the right place! Hello Saxophone is a complete starters guide for the beginner saxophone player. A tailor made course to get any beginner from having never ever touched a saxophone, right up to playing your first tunes, without teaching yourself bad habits! And you don't have to be able to read music to use it. It will teach you how to do that as well. People all over the world, from Frankfurt to Fiji, and Belgium to Brazil have discovered the joy of playing the saxophone using this easy, step by step course. It's a whole new approach, written especially for the adult beginner, and for those who have no, or limited acces to a teacher, or who just want to explore the instrument by themselves. The course contains many unique visuals, easy to use charts and special instruction videos, featuring both a professional and a beginner, making the saxophone easy and fun to explore. In addition to "how to play" it also provides ton's of aditional information on saxophone playing that will help you make progress much faster throughout the rest of your playing career (essential stuff to buy, how to practise effectively, etc). |
".....The design is beatiful! Clear and easy to read. Very useful for the beginners...." (Saxontheweb) "...Can I say what a fabulous course!. I have bought many things to help me learn the sax (I have no teacher where I live in North Wales in the UK) This has been the most helpful...." (Sally R, Wales U.K.) "....Everything I wanted to know and much much more...a great course..." (D.Baradj, Varanasi India) "...Great idea....It's a whole new approach..." (JazzWise) |
Having recieved many emails from happy readers, we dear say that... |
Hello Saxophone provides everything a beginner needs to get started on the saxophone.
Here are some small demo's of the instruction videos that come with the book:
Watch a fellow beginner show you the basics, so you have a realistic sense
of what it might sound like when you do it yourself. Of course, balanced with a pro (in other video's)
,so you also get a good sense of what you can aim for over the long term.
Great value for money! It's all in there: - The essential items you need, to set yourself up for success on the saxophone. As a free bonus, Hello Saxophone comes complete with a huge set of unique finger charts and other helpful diagrams that are not present in any other method and that will help you understand the saxophone faster and much more thoroughly: The basic notes chart: The exact finger positions for every note on the saxophone in a unique, easy to use format. Ligature overview: Showing you every important detail about configuring your mouthpiece optimally. Counting diagrams: These special cards will help you get familiar with tempo's in music, helping you develop the ability to play with others in a band. The saxophone piano: All the notes on the saxophone laid out side by side like on a piano. It's the ultimate chart for those who want to understand the saxophone deeply in order to start improvising. Alto to Tenor transposing chart: Translate any piece of music from alto to tenor or vice versa. Altissimo chart: These notes are the holy grail of the saxophone. A special finger chart in our IIS format displaying the most difficult notes on the instrument. Start playing right now! It takes only five minutes to get started. You don't have to go to a store and you don't have to wait for the mail for several days. You can simply download the Hello Saxophone course from where you are in a matter of minutes. For just € 15,95 you get the complete set. Click the download button underneath to go to our secure page where you can download the book quickly and easily. Because we believe in the quality and effectiveness of Hello Saxophone, we will give you two full weeks to check it out and experience it for yourself. If at any point, you decide that the book isn't for you, or the information in it wasn't helpfull to you, than you can simply send us an email at: cancel@hellosaxophone.com. Just write your name, and "cancel", and we will refund the full sum immediately. No questions asked. So you can really take all the time you need to test it out, completely risk free! In addition to that, we also include free email support for a full year! So if you have any questions about playing the sax, you always have us to help you out! Click this button to start downloading your copy |
Here is what other players and teachers have said about Hello Saxophone:
Can I say what a fabulous course!. I have bought many things to help me learn the sax (I have no teacher where I live in North Wales in the UK) yours has been the most helpful. I am lucky in that I am already a musician and a teacher, so I kind of had natural talent for the sax but I needed some extra help and your books were exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! :) Sally R, Wales U.K. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi James, I started reading your book yesterday (saxophone in hand) I've only read, and practised for about 2 hours now, but I just wanted to let you know I love your writing style. Very open and personal, like your sitting right here in the room with me. Altijd is kortjakje ziek (whatever that title means) is comming along nicely! I can't believe I'm actually playing allready :D! Thank you! Greats Z.B, New York. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi James, I'm actually a teacher. I bought you're book because I read something on a forum about your illustrations. I have to say I didn't expect this. I've been teaching saxhophone for more than five years now and I agree your ullistrations really are unique. I'm amazed why nobody ever thought to do the fingering charts the way you did. When I first looked at them I got really confused for a second, but then I looked again and everything fell into place. Simple yet brilliant! Marc D, Antwerpen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (From saxontheweb.net) Incredibly intelligent bit of graphic design. we often think design's role is to please and entertain; we forget that its best purpose (at least in terms of 2d print) is to give meaning and to inform. this is very nicely done! S.B, Oakland U.S.A. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (From saxontheweb.net) Good work and very impressive graphics and layout Jbtsax, Utah (Music teacher, Saxophonist) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (about our charts) At first I looked at it and I couldn't wrap my head around it. I didn't even realize I was flipping anything around in my head before, years of explaining fingering charts to students I guess. Yours seemed very counter-intuitive to me. But after looking for a just a few seconds everything switched and I started to find it very natural. Good work! Ben Bogart, Beaverton U.S.A. (Music teacher, Saxophonist) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (about our charts) My initial reaction was "this seems backwards to me..." But then I re-read Ben's comment and took another look at the chart. That second look made all the difference. It's not backwards at all...it's exactly right! We're used to seein a "mirror image," whereas your version is made as if the sax is right in front of us, facing the right direction. Very cool! St. Louis, Missouri --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .....Thank you so much for this book! I justed wanted to try the saxophone for fun so I rented a sax and bought your book and as soon as I got started, I was hooked. This makes it so easy to get started. Thnx for helping me out with this! L.V, Siena Italy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (From saxontheweb.net) I wonder why no one came up with this before. Simple yet brilliant. I love ideas that are elegant in thier simplicity. Addicted.To.Sax. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm about halfway through the book now. Great book James! I like how it's written in an open and personal style en I love the videos with the moving fingering positions inside the image. It makes everything real easy. I also like that your book makes me feel like I'm having private lessons. I think it's very interesting that you give real attention to mentality and practicing strategy's. I only have about half an hour every day to practice, but it's still very important to think about and realize that playing the saxophone needs to become part of my daily life and that it's going to take some effort to do so. I don't think I ever would have thought about it with that perspective if it wasn't for you book. So thanks! Now I'm going to continue practicing ;) Kind regards, M,V,L The Netherlands ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the tutorial, it is really didactic and practical, I am just starting but I find it very useful! congratulations for the work! and thanks for the excelent support Big Hug, Juani B, Argentina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks! The design is beatiful! Clear and easy to read. Saxofan (from saxontheweb.net) |
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