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Learn to Play Sax
Clear & complete explanation of the technique, play and improvise over great tracks, develop your musicality!
Created byFloor Wittink
Last updated 1/2024
English
What you'll learn
- How to assemble the sax and clean it
- How to develop a beautiful sound
- A lot of notes and 4 scales
- How to have a good posture, embouchure and breathing technique
- Learn to study
- Play nice songs in different styles
- Understand basic musical structure
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Course content
11 sections • 61 lectures • 2h 47m total length
Requirements
- You don't need any musical experience, just a saxophone! And don't forget a neck strap or harnass (sax holder), reeds strength no 1,5 or 2 and cleaning stuff
Description
This complete beginners course is developed by Floor Wittink: a professional saxophonist with over 20 years of experience both in performance and teaching. Floor has developed a clear vision about teaching. She has written a book and founded a Saxophone school based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Floor made a course where her vision and experience with teaching hundreds of adults and children are brought together.
A Complete Musician
Floor states that everyone should experience the joy of music making. Develop musical skills, confidence, knowing how to study, through playful exercise and the development of good technique and sound are all part of what makes you a complete musician.
This course emphasizes on learning how to play the sax and developing your musicality, including playing by heart and improvising, and less on reading notes. There are many programs that can help you with this skill. It simply takes time and practice. But in this course sheet music of every song is provided and you’ll learn all the note names together with the saxophone fingerings, the use of sharps and flats, time signatures and counting along. You’ll improve your rhythm skills and learn to memorize a melody. In addition, you’ll be able to play several scales and play famous songs in different keys, all of which is a great foundation, furthering the development of your reading skills.
Knowing how to study and become your own teacher is often underestimated, but the increased confidence will help you to keep developing your skills. Most importantly, you’ll be inspired to continue playing and enjoying this wonderful instrument!"
Who this course is for:
- This course is for absolute beginners but may in come handy too when you are in your first year. Don’t worry about being musical: you ARE musical. And it is not a problem if you don’t read notes: I explain the basics about music structure and train you to play by heart. And: you are never too old to learn to play the saxophone! This course is most suitable for the altosax or baritone player because I play the alto in the video’s. But you’ll find the tracks also played in B flat played by me on soprano saxophone. So every song can be played on soprano or tenor with demo and backing track, but you can’t play along with me in the video.