Jennifer Palfreyman. teaches Tony how to play Hey Jude on the Alto Saxophone

[Tony Edge]

After ten weeks learning to play the Alto Saxophone.  A friend recommended joining the MMC Macclesfield Music Centre.

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I class myself as a beginner to the Saxophone.  The good advice from a friend Carol Jurriaans on joining MMC. Carol made amazing progress with MMC reading music and playing beautifully within 6 months of Joining.
I joined Macclesfield Music Centre.   My teacher Jennifer Palfreyman a Graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music
I felt quite humble as a beginner playing the sax.  But Jennifer soon put me at ease last week was my second lesson.
I now realize how important good coaching with a professional teacher can correct mistakes and improve the enjoyment of playing the Saxophone.

Most of my first attempts were helped with the invaluable lessons on Youtube and searches in Google and many books from the Library.
My first practice over Christmas
(a) Silent Night. Followed by:-
(b) Summertime from Porgy and Bess.
(c)  Survive the blues up to lesson 5 on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/v/W-3Wm_SdJXI

http://www.adamconnellymusic.com/

(d) Moonglow the music from 1934
(e) Hey Jude

I had quite a few problems with playing Hey Jude
I could not keep proper time I am very slow reading music, to help I write the note letters above the score
the disadvantage I am not looking at the dots.

I took along a very tiny cheap $12 mp3 player to my last lesson
It?s a logic 1gb player
I set the device to voice record.
The files are saved as .wav and quite small an hours recording is no problem
Jennifer played Hey Jude to help me play.


http://www.learnsax.co.uk/media/hey-jude.mp3

.wav download

http://www.learnsax.co.uk/media/hey-jude.wav



The Saxophone recording on the player proved to be very good. The player does not have Automatic gain control so the voice recordings more than 1m are quite low.
The wav file needed editing to capture just the music.
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Tony