Course details
Saxophone is an extremely fun instrument to play, and MusicProfessor's curriculum will help you get the most out of your learning. Master the range, tone, and technique necessary to become a great sax player.
Start from opening your case for the first time and progress all the way to playing your first melodies. On the way, you'll also learn basic music theory and musicianship skills. Plus, sheet music is available for each lesson.
- Lesson 1 - Intro to Saxophone
- Lesson 2 - Embouchure
- Lesson 3 - Reading Music
- Lesson 4 - Slurring and Tonguing
- Lesson 5 - Crossing the Break
- Lesson 6 - 3/4 Time
- Lesson 7 - The Octave Key
- Lesson 8 - Eighth Notes
- Lesson 9 - Articulation
Born and raised in the Chicago area, Los Angeles-based saxophonist-composer Dave Wilson graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying under David Baker, Tom Walsh,and PatHarbison. Following that, he lived in Macedonia for two years,working in the non-profit sector yet immersed in a world of Balkan music, performing with local folk, jazz, and rock musicians in the studio, in local clubs, and at festivals. His collaborators have included Curt Smith (Tears for Fears), Dave Stewart (Eurhythmics), Engelbert Humperdinck, James Torm, composer Mateo Messina (Juno, Thank You for Smoking), producer Charlton Pettus,and French gypsy jazz artist Jessica Fichot. His performance work has taken him to the stages of the Chicago World Music Festival, the Lotus Festival, the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the London Palladium, the Sydney Opera House, and the Araneta Colisseum, where Aliand Frazier met at the Thrilla in Manila. In 2010 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, he debuted Light Connected, a piece for clarinet, alto flute, cello, bass, cajon, dancer, and spoken word poet that he conceptualized and co-composed. In addition to his work as a composer-musician, Dave is working towards a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. His work there focuses on the Macedonian folk tradition, and on how traditional and popular music reflect, articulate,and construct national identity, politics, class, and ethnic tensions in the contextof a post-socialist capitalist society.
This course has been provided by MusicProfessor.com, an online music education company.
Updated on 08 November, 2015
