THE EASYWAY TO PLAY SAXOPHONE

By Joseph G Procopio

The very best and lowest priced music ebook for Saxophone available worldwide.
The only book designed to have you playing saxophone as quickly as possible from a saxophone virtuoso and master teacher with proven success.
Includes the EasyWay to learn all your chords in one beautiful easy exercise along with exclusive saxophone solos.


Part I takes

• Language: English
• Publisher: JoeCopio Music LLC
• Release date: Jan 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781624889813

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PART I

THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BEGIN

SOME SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

The name of the tone in the TREBLE CLEF shown here in the diagram below is C:

KINDS OF MUSICAL NOTES

SHARPS, FLATS and NATURALS

A Sharp # raises the sound of a tone. A Flat lowers the sound of a tone.

A Natural means the tone is neither sharp nor flat.

A Double Sharp ## ( also written as ) raises the sound of a tone twice.

A Double Flat lowers the sound of a tone twice

NAMING MUSICAL TONES

Musical tones have names that use only 7 letters of the alphabet often called the Musical Alphabet:

A   B   C   D   E   F   G

In the Treble Clef the names of the musical tones are:

The EasyWay to learn the names of all the notes is to memorize that in the Treble Clef the note A is on the 2nd space:

Since A is on the 2nd space in the Treble Clef, notes written above A are in aphabetical order:

Notes that are below the 2nd space are still aphabetical but in order to find them you have to think the alphabet in reverse or backwards:

Remember the Musical Alphabet has only 7 letters: A B C D E F G

In the Treble Clef, A is on the 2nd space.

To find and name notes, first find and name the note A, then:

The fastest and easiest way to learn the names of all the notes is to take a page of music from a lesson book or something similar - such as the music on this page - and with a pencil write down the name of each note. At first you will go slowly but soon, as you near the end of the page, you will recognize the names of all notes instantly. Do this once and you will never have trouble naming