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.

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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.

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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.

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(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.

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(From a saxontheweb.net) Good work and very impressive graphics and layout

Jbtsax, Utah (Music teacher, Saxophonist)

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(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)

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(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

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.....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

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(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.

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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

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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

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Thanks! The design is beatiful! Clear and easy to read.
Very useful for the beginners.

Saxofan (from saxontheweb.net)