Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29973 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Great stuff for the beginner who's into Jazz / R&B
This book and CD kept me sane and motivated when attempting to learn. I had despaired of 'Tune a Day' and am not interested in classical - but I love Jazz and Blues - and this book made the difference for me. Ravenscroft's 'Complete Sax Player' is good, but this is better. The CD means that you can hear how the dots are supposed to sound and also play along. The book covers all the basic stuff but does so in the context of playing interesting Jazz-based music (69 tracks of it, from simple introductory stuff to really quite involved pieces). My only problem is that there's no follow on book.

Excellent book but...
I think this book is a must buy for all beginners. The opening parts about assembling the sax, embouchere, breathing and all that other stuff really are the best I've seen and I would recommend it to all newbies to the sax. My teacher raved about it.

Now for the but: if (like me) you don't know how to read music and have no experience whatsoever with any instrument, I would recommend you also buy another book for this (ie 10 Easy Lessons is good). While it does dedicate a couple of pages to music reading, I found it really didn't go into enough detail for me and it made playing the tunes that follow a bit difficult (although it is starting to make sense now that I've had a few real lessons).

So, buy this book - it really is very good - but get another one to go with it if you're a total beginner.

Beyond words
I loved this book and CD so much that I sought out the author and spent a few years having lessons. This is a brilliant approach and the pieces are inspired - even lesson 2 sounds like real jazz! Have no hesitation - buy it!