Learn To Play Saxophone with the help of computers

Hi I just noticed on the web
Jazzwise are selling Band-in-a-box-2012-pro-windows
FOR A SPECIAL PRICE: ?85.00
http://jazzwise.com/jazz/music-software/band-in-a-box-2012-pro-windows.html?gclid=CNrf697og7ICFVMbtAodzkwAsg

I bought my Band in a Box by (PG) ver 2012 pro  from a firm in Nottingham
with a full genuine licence.
For 1 penny less than ?100 checkout http://www.musiconmypc.co.uk/software.
The American prices are half this.
June

Find songs in Band in a Box

Over a period of 10 years I have collected almost 56,000 songs in Band in a Box
The song picker cannot cope with so many styles and songs.

I needed an easy way of creating a complete listing in excel
once the data is loaded into a spreadsheet it becomes easy to find the various versions of the songs.

My solution was to make a batch file in Windows XP

the following text can be pasted into notepad and the file saved as makelist.bat and saved to c:\bb
or where your music is stored.
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Rem copy the makelist.bat into your bandbox folder usually c:\bb 
Rem cd c:\bb     run the batch file makelist.bat
echo Make a list of music files in Band in a Box and open excel
dir *.m* /b /s /n > listing.txt
echo open listing.txt with excel
echo use just one wide column to import data with no filters
echo Use excel to find *.mxx music files
echo off
start excel.exe "listing.txt"
echo complete
rem once excel has loaded the new text file skip the deleminiating option
rem change A column width to about 160
rem to find all your songs enter the most relevant part of the file name, find all
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I play soprano, and alto saxophone I never have to buy music or search for hours in the Library for music.
I like to scribble my own notes on my music score.
Modify the music a little to my own taste.
The database of songs and music to download is quite incredible nearly all are free
Including Jazz Fake Books name any song and you can find the music in BB format.
BB music files are tiny and are usually in a zipped format.
This one program "Band in a Box by PG". Is valuable just for the database of songs.
I use Sibelius for editing notation.
From BB. You can save the music to a midi file and edit the score with your favourite music program.

Many people ask me how I get start with Band in a Box
Tom Willett has put together a very good tutorial on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XZAdEV54w&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL2AA6881238DF822F

The Big Book of Jazz
75 of the worlds greatest jazz classics.
312 page pdf free download from:-

http://www.mediafire.com/?6p6i0tmd5zx9iii
The big book of jazz.pdf
(67.55 MB)

Hi

I love playing misty
This is a copy of Tony's score
http://learnsax.co.uk/media/misty.PDF

Hi every one
These are the lyrics you might like to sing Close Every Door

Joseph

Close every door to me,
Hide all the world from me
Bar all the windows
And shut out the light
Do what you want with me,
Hate me and laugh at me
Darken my daytime
And toture my night
If my life were important I
Would ask will I live or die
But I know the answers lie
Far from this world
Close every door to me,
Keep those I love from me
Children of Israel
Are never alone
For I know I shall find
My own peace of mind
For I have been promised
A land of my own

Children

Close every door to me,
Hide all the world from me
Bar all the windows
And shut out the light
Joseph

Just give me a number
Instead of my name
Forget all about me
And let me decay
I do not matter,
I'm only one person
Destroy me completely
Then throw me away
If my life were important I
Would ask will I live or die
But I know the answers lie
Far from this world

Joseph, Ensemble & Children

Close every door to me,
Keep those I love from me
Children of Israel
Are never alone
For we know we shall find
Our own peace of mind
For we have been promised
A land of our own

Question
Add trill to music.


I too am Learning to play Moonglow.
I love that version posted Chiswick2 on Youtube.  'RMS Queen Mary set to the Benny Goodman classic Moonglow'.

My question is the CCCCCC in bar 7 and 8
how did Benny Goodman get that nice trill  (That led me Straight to you) to you.
Also in bars 13 to 14 ACA EE trill then CCCCC ( And I keep on prayin)  prayin.
Many thanks
June

Good luck Tony with learning the saxophone
I too am hooked on learning to play the Saxophone.
You either hate the sound or love the tones.

There is Just something very special about the instrument it has a soul once you start playing you cannot put it down it?s a friend. The sax is forgiving it looks so good. 
Word soon gets around once you start playing you find neighbors and local people wanting to encourage and help you play.  Age is no barrier I know a little girl of 5 playing the Tenor Sax she can?t even lift and stands on a box to play. A man in his 70s started playing at the music centre.

The world changes you start hearing as if for the first time background music in supermarkets. Television programs.  You stop and listen to buskers in the street.
Your life becomes enriched a new joy.

Enjoy
June