- Rough Guide to Saxophone
Everything you need to know about the saxophone. From buying your first instrument, to finding your way around it, first steps in reading, finding a teacher, understanding the jargon and more!
- What to look for when buying a saxophone- and how to avoid making expensive mistakes
- Learning to play: how hard is it? Do you need to read music?
- Tips on reeds, mouthpieces, necks, and on tuning and maintaining your sax
- Clear diagrams to take you through all the learning processes
- Glossary of technical terms
Rough Guide Tipbooks are distributed by Boosey & Hawkes worldwide, excluding North America
Press Reviews
"There is a remarkable niche for this sort of material. For the hundreds of youngsters who have a desire to become rock stars, but have not yet mastered the guitar, much is of use in these volumes. Introducing aspects that more experienced players take for granted, we are provided with information such as how to choose the right instrument, what its constituent parts are and how to maintain it. On top of this are useful glossaries that provide the correct terminology (how many times have we heard our pupils refer to a sax ligature as a thingy?) and good information about choosing a music teacher, what sort of problems pupils might encounter and hints on practice. I would not hesitate to buy these for any school library - they are easy to read, well illustrated and provide just the right information for prospective students and parents, those already learning and, of equal importance, could also be valuable reference material for a wider variety of activities, such as the keep you kids quiet end of term project"
"excellent for either quick reference, trouble-shooting or top up information for the most hardened saxophone devotee"
(Winds Magazine, Winter 2001)
"Very comprehensive tutor books; I still thoroughly recommend it for its very good points which in my experience you are unlikely to find in any other tutor"
(Jazz Journal International)