Learn To Play Saxophone with the help of computers

Hey Music Teachers and students,

I'd like to invite you to see new website/apps I launched.https://bandpad.co/en. It is good for wind instruments, recorders and band teachers. free of charge. I designed it to suit class projectors as well as student's home tablets. You will have 100 tunes with top-level play along and interactive music score that kids can use at home or in school. No books or papers are needed anymore.
If you use it And have new ideas or comments - Drop me a message. I'm in an intensive development of this app and need your feedback...
https://bandpad.co/en
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24/3/2015
BandPad CEO
Amit Gur Talks about the latest version of  BandPad

We're soon going to launch BandPad release version and here are some of the new features and tunes created in the last months. LiveScore technology was upgraded to use the computer microphone. This new features will be available:

The "Trophy Contest" will use the microphone for real time feedback of student playing proficiency by colouring the played notes red and green.  Students will collect trophies to the trophy case as part of their learning progress. You can watch it HERE and test it HERE
 
The New Tuner will feature real time tuner through the microphone. Transposed instruments will see the transposed note (Trumpet playing C will see C and not Bb).  HERE is a test version. Click the tuner icon in the upper bar.
The Tuner and the Trophy contest don?t work on Internet Explorer.
 
We're working on new beginner?s repertoire that will enrich the experience of instrumental education and create a fun and encouraging learning process. Here are some examples you can print and use.

Chicken Jump is a 4 notes tune using the blues style to create a happy and simple rhythms for beginners.

Eights And Quarters is an etude aimed to teach eights notes with a reggae play-along.

Village Dance is 3 notes; quarters only, simple music for the first steps in instrumental music, adding a banjo style play-along made it popular with students. We're making a lot of this kind these days.

Bye Bye Blues was made for more experience students. Here were using the major blues scale to create a one octave range tune with bluesy feeling.

These are only examples of the new BandPad repertoire coming soon. We're also including:
- Teacher account with assignment list for students and personal signature on scores.
- Improved support for mobile and tablets with our App "BandPad".
- Help pages with videos and much more.

See You Soon
Amit Gur
BandPad CEO

Hey Music Teachers and students,

I'd like to invite you to see new website/apps I launched.https://bandpad.co/en. It is good for wind instruments, recorders and band teachers. free of charge. I designed it to suit class projectors as well as student's home tablets. You will have 100 tunes with top-level play along and interactive music score that kids can use at home or in school. No books or papers are needed anymore.
If you use it And have new ideas or comments - Drop me a message. I'm in an intensive development of this app and need your feedback...
https://bandpad.co/en

Many thanks to my good friend William Johnson Music Composer to set up my keyboard ready for a try at improvisation.
https://www.youtube.com/v/t39KiRJlBp4&list=UUazDaDehxiDfWGY2zAtskVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t39KiRJlBp4&list=UUazDaDehxiDfWGY2zAtskVg

https://www.youtube.com/v/YDrSPOHTd_c&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA
link for youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDrSPOHTd_c&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA

Why a midi keyboard on a saxophone web site you may ask.

I started playing saxophone at over the age of over 60 without any music training and unable to read music.
Both friends and musicians have commented on my progress. You sound really good.
I put this down to arranging the midi file in Sibelius 6 to for Saxophone and playing along with a Yamaha Psr keyboard.

Composing and playing along with Sibelius 6 Software is great fun.

Adding note heads helps with reading. My faithful Yamaha PSR 520 only has one problem visiting friends, pianist, keyboard players have difficulty with styles and saving to computer. The Yamaha Psr740 solves this problem and in my budget of less than ?160 second hand.

I have removed the floppy disk drive and installed a ?15 Gotek usb device, it works well.
998 diskettes that can be stored on a standard 2gb memory stick using 998 virtual partitions.
Partition 0 can be read on any computer without additional software The Gotek software is in Chinese works with XP
But is quite a struggle to work with windows 7. My solution was to buy another Gotek floppy on Ebay cheapest ?10 and
install the extra floppy emulator in my Windows 7 Desktop.  Backing up the usb memory stick with 998 partitions was easy
with a program called Image USB By Passmark Software.

Please visit learnsax youtube channel again and of course William Johnson music composer on YouTube.
1 hour later after filming in the Goyt Valley William composes a new melody
https://www.youtube.com/v/OMfvmff86Js&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA
Follow the link for YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMfvmff86Js&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA

Thanks for watching
Tony

http://www.youtube.com/v/YDrSPOHTd_c
to play the video on Youtube click on the link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDrSPOHTd_c&list=UUxodx7Q4qagjalnFtlAeoFA





Great afternoon with William JOHNSON a Music Composer Music Video No.275 uploaded  Friday 1st August 2014 .
Thank you for demonstrating my new Yamaha PSR740
Bought on eBay for ?155. I play saxophone the keyboard is all new to me and am most grateful for your time. Well done love the music.
Nice to be able to save the complete score and pull in the music to Sibelius 6 and arrange parts to my own musical ablity on tenor sax.

The video.
The recording was made with a Toshiba Camileo Z100. Never used this camera before perhaps we should have connected the audio interface direct into the headphone socket on the Yamaha. The audio from the camera internal mike does not capture the music well. Just a small matter wonder if I could have slowed the zooming down also adjusted depth of field to reduce background.
Thanks again learnt a lot.
I have to admire people like William JOHNSON a Music Composer that can just sit down at a keyboard and compose a new melody.
Tony

Hi

Sorry can't help. Someone on the forum asked a question. Is there a trial version>

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=258415&site_id=1

eBay seem to be good on prices
PG Music Band in a Box Pro 2014 PC Composition & Accompaniment Software
item number:331091246388 US $96.99
Approximately ?57.00 buy it now.
Older versions can be found at an even lower price.

Is it possible to download Band in a Box for free anywhere on the web and if so, where might one find this. I tried and my Norton continues to disallow the downloads. Any help is appreciated. Many thanks.''

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Congratulations on taking up the tenor saxophone after 40 years.
I only played saxophone for the first time after I retired from work.
In my younger days life was to busy with no spare time.
Now I have the time it?s a wonderful hobby and love to play for a couple of hours a day.  The only problem is the sax is quite loud and do have to consider neighbours and my long suffering wife.

The Muriati saxophones have a very good reputation some have rolled tone holes.
I?m sure will have a very fine tone and instrument.

Sorry I am not qualified to advise on the best mouthpiece.
I bought a Yamaha 6C mouthpiece and very pleased with the quality and ease of playing (The cost on EBay less than ?40). I like Vandoren reeds V16 2.5. V Cut. With 6C mouthpiece.

My saxophone teacher told me not to buy a metal mouthpiece but buy a hard rubber one.  But her music is classical.   A lot depends on the sounds you want to achieve.
YouTube have lots of demos.

Good luck let us know how you go on.   Love to hear how you progress and if you don?t mind put an mp3 online.
Thanks again for your post.
Tony.

Hello
My first post. I used to play a little sax but that was 40 years ago and even then I was limited. Now that  I am retiring i am buying a used P Mauriat but I have no idea what mouthpiece to choose. I fancy melody and good tone with a sound that's not too bright. I know that everyone advises trying out a few in the music store but there is no where in N Ireland stocking a good range so I shall shop on line. Budget up to ?150. Any suggestions please?

Many thanks for signing in to learnsax.co.uk
Great to hear you have started learning the saxophone
It does not matter what age you start.
It can be a bit hard to get a good sound at first.

But like any hobby it takes time to become an expert.
I am no expert but love playing the tenor sax.

If you need any help just post a message.

Good luck
Keep in touch

Tony

I just wanted to say hi to everyone, I'm from Manchester and like Siena1 I've just started to learn myself later on at 43 y.o. I stumbled across this site, it looks great.