Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Beginning Saxophone Sheet Music Companion Book
  2. 2

    • Lesson 1: Intro

    • Lesson 2: Putting it Together

    • Lesson 3: Breathing

    • Lesson 4: Playing Position

    • Lesson 5: Taking it Apart
  3. 3

    • Lesson 6: Intro

    • Lesson 7: Recap

    • Lesson 8: Embouchure

    • Lesson 9: Notes B+C

    • Lesson 10: Tonguing

    • Lesson 11: Tonguing and Tuning
  4. 4

    • Lesson 12: Intro

    • Lesson 13: Recap

    • Lesson 14: Long tones

    • Lesson 15: Learning to Read Music

    • Lesson 16: Exercises 1

    • Lesson 17: Exercises 2
  5. 5

    • Lesson 18: Intro

    • Lesson 19: Recap

    • Lesson 20: Notes A + G

    • Lesson 21: Half Notes vs. Whole Notes

    • Lesson 22: Slurring

    • Lesson 23: Slurring + Tonguing

    • Lesson 24: Articulations Combined

    • Lesson 25: Articulations Combined, part II

    • Lesson 26: Half Rests

    • Lesson 27: Final Exercise
  6. 6

    • Lesson 28: Intro

    • Lesson 29: Recap

    • Lesson 30: Notes D, E, F, F#, and G

    • Lesson 31: Quarter Notes

    • Lesson 32: Counting

    • Lesson 33: Crossing the Break

    • Lesson 34: Combined Rhythms, Notes, and Articulations

    • Lesson 35: Mary Had a Little Lamb

    • Lesson 36: Lightly Row

    • Lesson 37: London Bridge
  7. 7

    • Lesson 38: Intro

    • Lesson 39: Recap

    • Lesson 40: Notes - Low C, D, E, F, and F#

    • Lesson 41: G Major Scale

    • Lesson 42: 3-4 Time + Dotted Half Notes

    • Lesson 43: Exercise 1

    • Lesson 44: Exercise 2

    • Lesson 45: Exercise 3

    • Lesson 46: Exercise 4

    • Lesson 47: Hat Dance

    • Lesson 48: Birthday
  8. 8

    • Lesson 49: Intro

    • Lesson 50: Recap

    • Lesson 51: Notes - High A, B, and C + C Major Scale

    • Lesson 52: Quarter Rests

    • Lesson 53: Exercise 1

    • Lesson 54: Exercise 2

    • Lesson 55: Exercise 3

    • Lesson 56: Exercise 4

    • Lesson 57: Theme from 'Symphony No. 1'
  9. 9

    • Lesson 58: Intro

    • Lesson 59: Recap

    • Lesson 60: Notes Bb + B

    • Lesson 61: F Major Scale

    • Lesson 62: Eighth Notes

    • Lesson 63: Eighth Notes Continued

    • Lesson 64: Yankee Doodle

    • Lesson 65: Polly Wolly Doodle
  10. 10

    • Lesson 66: Intro

    • Lesson 67: Recap

    • Lesson 68: Notes G# + C#

    • Lesson 69: A Major Scale

    • Lesson 70: Legato

    • Lesson 71: Staccato

    • Lesson 72: Articulations Combined

    • Lesson 73: Eighth Rests

    • Lesson 74: Syncopation

    • Lesson 75: This Old Man

    • Lesson 76: Lightly Row

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Instructor

NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Dave Wilson

Dr. Dave Wilson is Lecturer in the Music Studies programme at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music, where his teaching primarily focuses on histories, cultures, and practices related to jazz. His research interests include how music and sound relate to nationalism, belonging, power, intangible cultural heritage, transnational networks of taste, the construction of social space, and the nature of scenes.