August 2021: Live Masterclass
Bringing the skills you've learnt together to transcribe a well known melody and start to improvise over it.
When you sign up to the Annual Membership at SAXOPHONE Studies, you then have access to the monthly Live Masterclasses from Matthew.
As well as a new class each month, you can also access the back catalogue of previous classes which have all been recorded and edited.
"This is a really effective learning module. Really satisfying progress in a short time. Highly recommended!"
- Clive Heaton
Contents
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Start1 - Introduction (1:01)
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Start2 - The Melody (1:37)
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Start3 - A Question About The Tune (1:03)
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Start4 - Another Question About The Tune (0:38)
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Start5 - Work Out The Key (0:48)
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Start6 - Did You Get This? (0:37)
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Start7 - The Key Scale (0:53)
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Start8 - The Scale Numbers (0:31)
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Start9 - A Good Technique To Spot (1:38)
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Start10 - The Starting Point (0:38)
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Start11 - Up Or Down?! (0:46)
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Start12 - The Whole 1st Phrase (0:46)
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Start13 - An Important Pattern To Notice (0:43)
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Start14 - Where Does The Next Phrase Start? (0:36)
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Start15 - The Next Phrase (0:34)
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Start16 - Check You Got It Right (0:31)
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Start17 - A Good Technique For Learning A Melody (0:33)
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Start18 - The Melody So Far (0:28)
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Start19 - A Further Challenge (0:28)
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Start20 - The 3rd Phrase (0:52)
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Start21 - Check You Got It Right (0:16)
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Start22 - Good News & A Recap (0:55)
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Start23 - About The Melody & Introduction To The Middle 8 (0:59)
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Start24 - The Start Of The Middle 8 (1:06)
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Start25 - Interval Test To Finish The Phrase (0:52)
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Start26 - The 2nd Phrase In The Middle 8 (0:41)
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Start27 - The 3rd Phrase In The Middle 8 (0:36)
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Start28 - How Do You Count All Of Those Notes?! (0:17)
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Start29 - Starting The Last Phrase (0:53)
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Start30 - The 2nd Half Of The Phrase (0:36)
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Start31 - It's A Perfect Cadence! (0:55)
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Start32 - A Brief Explanation (1:33)
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Start33 - And Now... (0:23)
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Start34 - Introduction To The Improvising (1:00)
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Start35 - Does This Work? (1:09)
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Start36 - Let Me Feed You Some Ideas (1:49)
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Start37 - More Ideas For Your Improvising (0:55)
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Start38 - A Summary Of The Session (0:49)
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Start39 - A Question About Memorising Tunes (1:03)
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Start40 - More On Memorising (1:22)
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Start41 - Final Thought On Memorising (1:10)
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Start42 - Goodbye! (0:09)
Meet Your Tutor
Hi! I’m Matthew Smith, the owner of SAXOPHONE Studies, where sax players come to learn how to create incredible sounds.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with the sound the saxophone makes. From the first time I heard Coleman Hawkins 'growl', I just knew I had to enter this amazing world of sound.
I picked up a saxophone for the first time in 1992, started performing professionally in 1994, and have been teaching since 2000.
Since opening the doors to my online classroom, I’ve had the great pleasure of connecting with adults at all stages of their saxophone playing journey. Some already play, others are returning to their practise after a 20, 30, or 40+ year hiatus, while others are following an unexplainable desire to pick up the instrument for the very first time.
My goal is to break learning to play the saxophone down into simple, step-by-step lessons that develop your technique at the same time as building your confidence.