The Complete Beginner Saxophone Course
What you'll learn
- Saxophone assembly, care and maintenance
- How to produce a strong and rounded saxophone sound
- How to read music notation
- Recognize and play all the notes on the saxophone
- Deliver a flawless and fabulous performance
- Play tons of famous melodies - from classical to pop!
Requirements
- Alto saxophone
- Saxophone neck strap/sling
- Alto saxophone reeds (strength no. 1 or 1.5)
Description
If you are looking for a comprehensive saxophone learning experience, this course is for you!
"This is the gold standard of courses here on Udemy. The production values are top-notch, the planning, hints and side notes are brilliant, the musicality is deep, and it is always entertaining!" - Richard
With more than 5 hours of lectures from an instructor with more than 10 years of teaching experience and a professional playing and recording career spanning over 20 years, this course includes 34 learning resources and more than 20 backing tracks guiding you through all the steps to becoming a competent and confident saxophone player.
You will be equipped with practical and theoretical knowledge and able to play more than 16 saxophone works with backtracks, and many more examples and exercises along the way. By the end of this course you will have a solid foundation of skills, and able to commence to an intermediate level of playing. You will be able to read music notation which means you can purchase or download any sheetmusic around the world and bring it to life with your saxophone!
This course provides an entire year’s worth of lessons for a fraction of the cost, and you can study at your own pace wherever you want to. Playing the saxophone is a highly rewarding experience, so jump on it and play your first notes today!
Notable reviews
"The best course I have taken on Udemy. As a total beginner, this course is perfect. Very clearly explained and progresses at a good pace." - Andrew
"Highly, highly recommended. Great teacher, easy to understand. I'm a complete beginner and I find Karin's teaching great!" - Edsel
"This course is so good! Good, clean explanations. Nice practice exercises and a pleasant positive teacher. Highly recommended!" - Spyros
Who this course is for:
- Aspiring saxophone players with no prior music knowledge or experience
- Musicians who have some previous music knowledge (not a requirement, but a bonus)
- Piano students wanting to learn an orchestral instrument
Instructor
![Karin Kroch](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 1,058 Reviews
- 3,759 Students
- 2 Courses
Karin Kroch is a professional Saxophonist, teacher, arranger and composer who lives and works in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia, Canada. She graduated from the University of Cape Town and studied under musicians and conductors such as Arisa Voges, Douglas Masek, Gerben Grooten and Daniel Boico. She has been a sought-after woodwind teacher since 2009, inspiring students from beginner to advanced levels to become confident, creative, and well-rounded performing artists. She is a composer and arranger of solo, ensemble and orchestral works and boasts an international performing career of note.
Since the age of 6 when she started her music career with piano, she has received multiple awards and prizes at eisteddfods and music competitions. She has performed with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra at the annual Artscape Youth Music Festival, where she premiered Allan Stephenson’s Youth Concertino on Tenor Saxophone. In 2017 she premiered the winning composition of the Stefans Grove Composition Competition, The Blue Lady Sonata, at the opening of the Atterbury National Piano Competition on clarinet.
She holds a Performance Diploma (DipABRSM) and Licentiate (LRSM) from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, both passed with distinction. She has played in many orchestras and ensembles - including being principal clarinettist of the 2011 South African Sasol National Symphony Orchestra, principal tenor saxophonist of the UCT Wind Band, and baritone saxophonist for the South African National Youth Wind Ensemble. She has played in jazz and folk bands and has been a member of groups such as Georgetown, The Stolen Horses and The Red Rhapsody Jazz Band, also featuring on all their respective record albums. She has staged many solo shows featuring works for the saxophone and it is her passion to showcase the saxophone as one of the most emotional, dynamic and powerful woodwind instruments.