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Music Instruments Saxophone

Learn to Play Saxophone: Beginner to Pro in Under Four Hours

Master the art of Saxophone! Cover a year's worth of private lessons in just a few hours, for a fraction of the cost.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (1,644 ratings)
7,124 students
Created by MusicProfessor Online Music Lessons
Last updated 3/2019
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Assemble and care for a saxophone
  • Form a correct, strong saxophone embouchure
  • Read and interpret music notation
  • Play dozens of popular melodies and songs
  • Perform multiple Major scales
  • Recognize and play nearly every note on the saxophone
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • Working Alto-Saxophone
  • Saxophone Reeds
  • Neck Strap

Description

|| COURSE DESCRIPTION ||

Learning to play the saxophone is incredibly rewarding, but getting started is a challenge. 

That's where MusicProfessor can help you make the most of your practice. Start from opening your case for the first time and progress all the way to playing your first melodies. Master all of the techniques necessary to become a great saxophonist. On the way, you'll also learn music theory and musicianship skills. 

And save money while you study with us! Private lessons are expensive. Each MusicProfessor Saxophone course provides an entire year’s worth of lessons, for a fraction of the cost, and at your own convenience.

Join over 18,000 MusicProfessor students and begin your studies today!


|| COURSE FEATURES ||

  • 75+ video lessons
  • Downloadable sheet music
  • Animated fingering charts
  • Saxophone equipment recommendations
  • Saxophone-specific troubleshooting tips and advice
  • Dozens of familiar melodies and songs
  • Technique-building exercises
  • Major scales and scale exercises
  • Music Theory basics

MusicProfessor's curriculum is used in nearly 100 schools and school districts throughout the United States and by more than 18,000 students and music teachers throughout the world. Nowhere else can you find the level of detail and professional instruction of MusicProfessor's curriculum.

Fulfill your musical destiny by enrolling today!


|| NOTABLE REVIEWS ||

“Good clear instruction. They way in which this course is presented is well thought out and wants to make you learn more and more. The pace is also good, gives you time to practice. Very clear instruction.”

    -Enrico Marongiu

“A good start, from the very beginning. Having attended other in-person courses, I'd say this is the right way to approach the discovery and practice of Saxophone playing.”

    -T. Lee


|| ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR ||

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Los Angeles-based saxophonist-composer Dave Wilson graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying under David Baker, Tom Walsh, and Pat Harbison. Following that, he lived in Macedonia for two years,working in the non-profit sector yet immersed in a world of Balkan music, performing with local folk, jazz, and rock musicians in the studio, in local clubs, and at festivals.

His collaborators have included Curt Smith (Tears for Fears), Dave Stewart (Eurhythmics), Engelbert Humperdinck, James Torm, composer Mateo Messina (Juno, Thank You for Smoking), producer Charlton Pettus, and French gypsy jazz artist Jessica Fichot.

His performance work has taken him to the stages of the Chicago World Music Festival, the Lotus Festival, the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the London Palladium, the Sydney Opera House, and the Araneta Coliseum, where Ali and Frazier met at the Thrilla in Manila. In 2010 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, he debuted Light Connected, a piece for clarinet, alto flute, cello, bass, cajon, dancer, and spoken word poet that he conceptualized and co-composed.

In addition to his work as a composer-musician, Dave just completed a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. His work there focused on the Macedonian folk tradition, and on how traditional and popular music reflect, articulate,and construct national identity, politics, class, and ethnic tensions in the context of a post-socialist capitalist society.

—

This course has been provided by MusicProfessor, an online music education company.

Who this course is for:

  • Students looking to catch up
  • Students looking to get ahead
  • Adult Learners
  • Absolute Beginners
  • Music students who can't access a private teacher

Featured review

Alfredo De Santiago Parra
Alfredo De Santiago Parra
9 courses
2 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 52 months ago
Amazing way to express the details, such as embouchure recommendations and specially for high notes. Thanks a lot! and see you on the next courses. would be great and really nice to have the saxophone finger chart on the scales explanation. I think is easier for us to follow, as beginners.

Course content

10 sections • 77 lectures • 3h 56m total length

  • Preview00:22
  • Putting it Together
    05:47
  • Breathing
    06:53
  • Preview07:33
  • Taking it Apart
    03:05

  • Intro
    00:26
  • Recap
    02:28
  • Embouchure
    04:47
  • Preview04:50
  • Tonguing
    04:18
  • Tonguing and Tuning
    06:11

  • Intro
    00:19
  • Recap
    02:44
  • Longtones
    02:52
  • Learning to Read Music
    05:17
  • Exercises 1
    01:51
  • Exercises 2
    01:45

  • Intro
    00:23
  • Recap
    04:17
  • Notes A+G
    04:28
  • Half Notes vs Whole Notes
    02:52
  • Slurring
    03:02
  • Slurring + Tonguing
    03:12
  • Articulations Combined
    01:56
  • Articulations Continued
    01:05
  • Half Rests
    01:23
  • Final Exercise
    01:49

  • Intro
    00:20
  • Recap
    03:33
  • Notes D, E, F, F#, and G
    08:06
  • Quarter Notes
    02:05
  • Counting
    03:14
  • Crossing the Break
    02:44
  • Combined Rhythms, Notes, and Articulations
    02:38
  • Mary Had a Little Lamb
    01:28
  • Lightly Row
    01:56
  • London Bridge
    01:37

  • Intro
    00:24
  • Recap
    05:01
  • Notes - Low C, D, E, F, and F#
    09:06
  • G Major Scale
    05:26
  • 3/4 Time + Dotted Half Notes
    04:05
  • Exercise 1
    01:04
  • Exercise 2
    01:13
  • Exercise 3
    01:33
  • Exercise 4
    01:15
  • Hat Dance
    02:38
  • Birthday
    01:28

  • Intro
    00:21
  • Recap
    07:25
  • Notes - High A, B, and C + C Major Scale
    07:05
  • Quarter Rests
    03:03
  • Exercise 1
    01:33
  • Exercise 2
    01:37
  • Exercise 3
    02:04
  • Exercise 4
    01:00
  • Theme from 'Symphony No. 1'
    03:54

  • Intro
    00:21
  • Recap
    02:01
  • Notes Bb+B
    09:18
  • F Major Scale
    01:53
  • Eighth Notes
    04:24
  • Eighth Notes Continued
    03:02
  • Yankee Doodle
    02:04
  • Polly Wolly Doodle
    02:53

  • Intro
    00:22
  • Recap
    03:01
  • Notes G#+C#
    10:32
  • A Major Scale
    02:14
  • Legato
    03:01
  • Staccato
    03:12
  • Articulations Combined
    01:21
  • Eighth Rests
    02:22
  • Syncopation
    03:14
  • This Old Man
    03:13
  • Lightly Row
    02:09

  • What You've Learned
    00:51

Instructor

MusicProfessor Online Music Lessons
Online Music Lessons
MusicProfessor Online Music Lessons
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 7,036 Reviews
  • 26,228 Students
  • 48 Courses

MusicProfessor provides pre-recorded, high-quality online music lessons for students who either can't study with a private teacher or would like to further supplement their education. We do so via a massive library of lessons taught by some of the finest faculty in the country.

WOODWINDS: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone

BRASS: Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba

EXTRACURRICULAR: Music Theory, Conducting, Percussion

MusicProfessor launched in 2012 with a single instrument series, 'Bassoon 101,' but has since expanded to over 12 instrument series with just over 5000 video lessons. Our curriculum is used in nearly 100 schools and school districts throughout the United States and by more than 14,000 students and music teachers throughout the world.

Nowhere else can you find the level of detail and professional instruction of MusicProfessor's curriculum. Fulfill your musical destiny by signing up today!

"The videos are great. Really get a lot out of them. We are excited about the opportunity to integrate these videos into our monthly/weekly/daily curriculum."

- R. Lira

"Y'all are amazing! My band teacher introduced me to MusicProfessor, and it has helped me out alot through good and bad times on my clarinet."

- H. Dearman

"Love it, the trumpet course is the best course ever!"

- Manual O.

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