Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2008/11

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Saxophone Methods?
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:58:29 -0500

Gary,

There is no single method of any quality to do what you request.

There are however, dozens of good books out there to teach your students from. There are also dozens of bad, to really bad ones too.

For your beginning kids the best book is the First Book of Practical Studies for sax (or oboe---or flute---works equally well on all of them---the SAX book).

It develops a student logically and trains their tongue level progressively from one etude to the next. The most painless way of learning sax there is. Nilo Hovey was a genius.

Make sure the kids use longer faced reeds. Vandoren regular are close. The aged Buffet reeds we have in the shop are even better. The short faced popular reeds impede development of the tongue level and you lose the advantage of this remarkable book.

The Selner Oboe books are very good too. There are useful exercises in some of the old war horse methods like the Ben Vereecken book, but these tend to produce fingers not musicians.

The L Bassi 27 Virtuoso Studies is an absolute must have book.

Contact me for lots more information on sax teaching--glad to share.

Kurt

(831) 425-5658---It is a business number so call 24/7.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
>Sent: Nov 4, 2008 12:13 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] Saxophone Methods?
>
>Since I know that some of you teach saxophone, and there isn't a decent
>saxophone list, I thought I would post this questions here.
>
>I had a band director ask for suggestions for a single, economical
>saxophone method for middle school and high school students. I presume
>he was looking for something like the Klose Complete Method which isn't
>that cheap but is much less than the imported methods. The only thing
>we have that comes close is the Universal Method, but it seems somewhat
>dated to me (although it is only about 100 years old).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
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