An Easy Guide to Saxophone/Clarinet

Product Overview

A wealth of information for the beginning clarinet or sax player. Includes many single-page pieces for Bb instrument with piano accompaniment. Contents include:

Origin of the sax and clarinet;

Reading music;

Assembling & taking care of your instrument;

Posture, breathing, embouchure;

Fingering charts for sax & clarinet;

Technical Exercises;

History of music with composer bios; Mozart: Theme & Variations (Clarinet or any sax solo); Rameau: Menuet & Rondeau (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Handel: Sarabande (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Beethoven: Variations on a Swiss Song (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) von Weber: Trio theme (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Schumann: Choral Op. 68 #4 (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Brahms: Waltz Op. 39 #10 (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Khachaturian: Andantino (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) Gershwin: Summertime (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.) When the Saints Go Marching In (Clarinet or Tenor Sax with piano acc.)

Taking lessons, buying music, playing in a band or orchestra;