Ben Vereecken: Foundation To Saxophone Playing

Contents

• Introduction
• The Saxophone
• Position
• Manner of Holding the Saxophone
• Adjusting of Holding
• Position of the Mouthpiece
• Production of the Tone
• Tuning
• Care of the Saxophone
• Before Playing
• After Playing
• How to Practice
• What to Practice
• What to practice
• Transposition
• Signs most frenquently used
• Rudiments of Music
• Names of Notes
• Names of Notes
• Different kinds of notes and rests
• Sharps flats naturals
• Measures and Bars
• Time Marks
• Preparation of the first lesson
• On Striking the tone and counting the time
• For Left and Right Hands
• First octave KEY
• Second Octave Key
• Two Octave
• Whole Half and Quarter Notes
• Chromatic Scale
• Three Quarter time
• Progressive Exercises on the Intervals
• Progressive Exercises on Articulation
• Major Scales and their relative minors
• Twenty easy recreations
• The Grupetto
• The trill
• Exercises on Scales in Thirds
• Scales on chromatic Scales
• Difficult Passages
• Exercises on Perfect Chords
• Exercises pm Dominat Sevenths
• Fourteen Solos by Celebrated Composers
• Fifty progressive Exercises in Prelude Form
• Four Solos