Hello Saxophone for Alto & Tenor |
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The easy startersguide for beginning saxophone players.
Just got yourself a 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, within the hour if possible! I know how you feel because I felt the exact same way when I bought my first saxophone. Start getting excited! Becuase you can safely start playing. You have come to the right place! Hello Saxophone is a complete startersguide tailored to getting you from having never touched a saxophone right up to playing your first tunes, without any help from outside and without teaching yourself bad habits! Of course it's never bad to work through it with a teacher, many teachers use it, but if you're in the middle of Alaska and there isn't one around, or if you just don't have the time for formal lessons or if you just like to explore things on your own, than this guide is the way to learn to play all by yourself. The book contains many unique visuals and videos (featuring both a professional and a beginner so you have something very realistic to aim for), many of whom have been called :"brilliant, genius, very cool and very intuitive" by teachers and players in over 40 countries. In addition to "how to play" Hello Saxophone also gives you a lot of usefull background information on the saxophone that will help you make progress faster. |
I love being able to come home, pick up my sax and play a few tunes whenever I feel like it. The saxophone is a very fun instrument. It's cool, it's sexy, it rocks and it just feels great to play! Almost everybody loves the sound of the saxophone so it's no wonder that it's earned its place in almost every kind of music: Jazz, Pop, Rock even DJ's enlist saxophone players to funk up their gigs. I was always thinking about trying to play the sax myself but for some reason I never actually did it. At least I didn't until about 5 months ago. Sometimes things move very fast when you least expect them to happen and so it happened that completely by chance I ran into a saxophone in a small store in Buenos Aires last January. We walked by the store and there it was all shiny and cool in front of a window. I was on vacation and for some reason I decided then and there that I would just go for it. And so I did. I took the saxophone back to our hotel and immediately started trying to play it. Of course having never touched a saxophone before I didn't get very far but me and my friends did have some nice laughs trying to get some sound out of it. When I got home a few days later I started my learning journey for real. I love to explore things myself so I searched the net and several stores for the info that would help me get started on my own but surprisingly no matter where I looked, I couldn't find it. There were great (200 + page) books for experts (about playing Jazz or Blues, etc) and many more forum posts and stuff for intermediate players but just a simple instructrion manual that showed me all the basics on technique, attitude, practise regimes, important basic mindsets, etc was nowhere to be found. It took me a lot of time but bit by bit, in places scattered all over the net and from several teachers and store owners I found the answers to most of my newbie questions and I started playing. As I kept running into new challenges I started creating some visual tools to help me practise things. When I posted some of them online on saxophone forums I got a lot of enthusiastic reactions from people who were running into the same problems as I was:"...spending large amounts of my practise time on complex and difficult to use graphics, finger charts, etc and translating advanced musical lingo into English I could actually read and understand). When this happened I suddenly realized that my beginners perspective could actually help me in creating the manual that I had been wanting. I realized I was having the exact same challenges as you are probably having right now, so from that moment on I started to write down every question I came up with and once I found the answers I started to write those down too. After about a month I showed my stuff to some professional players and even though they were very skeptical (You want to write a book and you've only been playing for 3 months yourself…?) they were also curious. Lucky for me after reading my ideas they came back very enthusiastic and offering their help to make it even better. So for about a month I had the privilege to work with several professional players to make sure everything in the book was accurate and effective. We even had a bunch of people try the manual while we were watching them. Just to make sure everything in the book works and is as simple and intuitive as possible. We geared the book completely towards getting people started on their own, from having never played a saxophone (or any other instrument), all the way up to playing your first tunes. It's chuck full of grade A info and a ton of fun exercises that you can do all by yourself. |
All the basics you need in one handy book.
Here are some video testimonials from people who tried the book allready:
And here's a small demo of the instruction video's that come with the book:
A few days after I first started on the sax I read this quote in a book: .......Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano, and vainly trying to bring harmony out of the keys; and I saw that he was grieved and provoked by his inability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and he answered, “I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right." (Wallace D. Wattles) Reading this I realized that I was feeling the exact same way. I had all these nice tunes in my head and all I wanted to do was to be able to play them. You can probabaly already here the music too right?, You know you have it in you, all you need is to learn how to express it via the saxophone. I made you a very sweet deal. Great value for money! - How to assemble a saxophone As a Free bonus, Hello Saxophone comes complete with a complete set of unique, Intuitive finger charts and other helpful diagrams that are not present in any other method and will help you understand the saxophone quickly and thoroughly: The IIS basic notes chart: The exact finger positions for every note on the saxophone in our unique visual format. Ligature overview: Showing you every important detail about how to configure your mouthpiece optimally. Counting diagrams: These special cards will help you get familiar with tempo and counting in music, helping you develop the ability to play with others in a band quickly. 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. IIS 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 this complete set right from where you are in a matter of minutes. For just € 15,95 you get the complete set, and to show our care and dedication to you we also include free email support. So if you have any questions you always have us to help you out! Click the download button underneath and you will arrive on my secure page where you can download the book fast and easy. Because I believe in the quality and effectiveness of Hello Saxophone I 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 you just didn't find any useful information in it for your situation than you can simply send me an email at: cancel@hellosaxophone.com. Just write "cancel" and I will refund you the full sum, no questions asked! So you can really take all the time you need to convince yourself. Completely risk free. Click this button to start downloading your copy of the complete Hello Saxophone set: |
Here is what other players and teachers say 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. so 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 :D. I can't believe I'm actually playing allready :D! Thank you! Greats Z.B, New York. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi James, I'm actually not a beginner. 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. For example: I'm amazed why nobody ever thought to do the fingering charts the way you do. When I first looked at them I got really confused for a second but then I looked again and everything fell into place. It seems perfectly abvious to me now but I never thought about it like this before. Simple yet brilliant. Marc D, Antwerpen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (From a 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 a 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. Your book made it real easy to get started. I've allready decided to save up some money and buy my own sax soon. 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 that it's written in such an open and personal style en I love the videos with the moving fingering positions inside the screen. It makes everything real easy. I like that your book makes me feel like I'm having private lessons. I think it's very interesting that you also give some 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 this way and set up a long term strategy 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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