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      Missett, Christopher: Band

      • About My Classroom
      • Greenacres 3rd Grade Instrumental Music Program
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      • Web Resources for Alto Saxophone

        Online Metronome


         

        This website contains a metronome that is extremely useful for all instrumental students as an aid to practicing and developing consistent tempo.

         

        http://webmetronome.com


        Alto Saxophone Student Web Resources - Education



        Here are two websites that give short histories and descriptions of the alto saxophone:

         
        http://library.thinkquest.org/5116/saxophone.htm


        http://www.ehow.com/about_5052639_history-alto-saxophone.html


        Here is a good series of videos demonstrating the basics of getting, holding and playing an alto saxophone:

         
        http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_2387080_choosing-alto-saxophone.html



        Alto Saxophone Student Web Resources - Performances



        Make sure you have your parents' permission to look at these YouTube links!


        The only surviving footage of Charlie Parker - the greatest alto sax player in history - performing:

         
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPKvGFGl-o
         
        Cannonball Adderley -  the second greatest:
         
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFn0vHF6-c&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXcGEQzDhRtYXTppM-7tNmDD

         
        The great French alto saxophonist Marcel Mule playing the first movement of Jaque Ibert's Concertino da Camera: 
         
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYFfVf2gtqY&feature=related
         
        Thanks to Joseph Lee, SHS 2010, for helping find these web resources.

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