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Learn to Play Saxophone: Beginner to Pro in Under Four Hours (Udemy.com)

Master the art of Saxophone! Cover a year's worth of private lessons in just a few hours, for a fraction of the cost.

Created by: MusicProfessor Online Music Lessons

Last updated July 2022

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What you will learn

  • Assemble and care for a saxophone
  • Form a correct, strong saxophone embouchure
  • Read and interpret music notation
  • Play dozens of popular melodies and songs
  • Perform multiple Major scales
  • Recognize and play nearly every note on the saxophone

How it compares

Against the other 270 rated Udemy courses in Music on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 40% of them
  • Reviews2,124#20 of 271 by number of reviews
  • Length3.9 hourslonger than 55% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2022earlier than 61% of them

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Course Description

|| COURSE DESCRIPTION ||

Learning to play the saxophone is incredibly rewarding, but getting started is a challenge. 

That's where MusicProfessor can help you make the most of your practice. Start from opening your case for the first time and progress all the way to playing your first melodies. Master all of the techniques necessary to become a great saxophonist. On the way, you'll also learn music theory and musicianship skills. 

And save money while you study with us! Private lessons are expensive. Each MusicProfessor Saxophone course provides an entire year’s worth of lessons, for a fraction of the cost, and at your own convenience.

Join over 18,000 MusicProfessor students and begin your studies today!


|| COURSE FEATURES ||

  • 75+ video lessons
  • Downloadable sheet music
  • Animated fingering charts
  • Saxophone equipment recommendations
  • Saxophone-specific troubleshooting tips and advice
  • Dozens of familiar melodies and songs
  • Technique-building exercises
  • Major scales and scale exercises
  • Music Theory basics

MusicProfessor's curriculum is used in nearly 100 schools and school districts throughout the United States and by more than 18,000 students and music teachers throughout the world. Nowhere else can you find the level of detail and professional instruction of MusicProfessor's curriculum.

Fulfill your musical destiny by enrolling today!


|| NOTABLE REVIEWS ||

“Good clear instruction. They way in which this course is presented is well thought out and wants to make you learn more and more. The pace is also good, gives you time to practice. Very clear instruction.”

    -Enrico Marongiu

“A good start, from the very beginning. Having attended other in-person courses, I'd say this is the right way to approach the discovery and practice of Saxophone playing.”

    -T. Lee


|| ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR ||

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Los Angeles-based saxophonist-composer Dave Wilson graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying under David Baker, Tom Walsh, and Pat Harbison. Following that, he lived in Macedonia for two years,working in the non-profit sector yet immersed in a world of Balkan music, performing with local folk, jazz, and rock musicians in the studio, in local clubs, and at festivals.

His collaborators have included Curt Smith (Tears for Fears), Dave Stewart (Eurhythmics), Engelbert Humperdinck, James Torm, composer Mateo Messina (Juno, Thank You for Smoking), producer Charlton Pettus, and French gypsy jazz artist Jessica Fichot.

His performance work has taken him to the stages of the Chicago World Music Festival, the Lotus Festival, the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the London Palladium, the Sydney Opera House, and the Araneta Coliseum, where Ali and Frazier met at the Thrilla in Manila. In 2010 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, he debuted Light Connected, a piece for clarinet, alto flute, cello, bass, cajon, dancer, and spoken word poet that he conceptualized and co-composed.

In addition to his work as a composer-musician, Dave just completed a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. His work there focused on the Macedonian folk tradition, and on how traditional and popular music reflect, articulate,and construct national identity, politics, class, and ethnic tensions in the context of a post-socialist capitalist society.

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This course has been provided by MusicProfessor, an online music education company.

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Instructor Details

MusicProfessor Online Music Lessons

                        MusicProfessor provides pre-recorded, high-quality online music lessons for students who either can't study with a private teacher or would like to further supplement their education.  We do so via a massive library of lessons taught by some of the finest faculty in the country. 

WOODWINDS: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone

BRASS: Trumpet,  Trombone

EXTRACURRICULAR: Conducting, Percussion

MusicProfessor launched in 2012 with a single instrument series, 'Bassoon 101,' but has since expanded to over 12 instrument series with just over 5000 video lessons.  Our curriculum is used in nearly 100 schools and school districts throughout the United States and by more than 14,000 students and music teachers throughout the world. Find more instruments and levels at our website.

    Nowhere else can you find the level of detail and professional instruction of MusicProfessor's curriculum. Fulfill your musical destiny by signing up today.

  "The videos are great. Really get a lot out of them. We are excited about the opportunity to integrate these videos into our monthly/weekly/daily curriculum."  

    - R. Lira

  "Y'all are amazing! My band teacher introduced me to MusicProfessor, and it has helped me out alot through good and bad times on my clarinet."  

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Reviews

4.6

2,124 ratings on Udemy

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By SEBASTIEN THIBAUT on 7/13/2022

Wonderfull introduction to the saxophone, it helped me so much to tame this instrument, and also, gave me the opportunity to re-learn about music theory I didn't touch since middle school. I'd love to train myself on partition playing famous movies music

By Vivien Taylor on 4/20/2021

I have just picked up my son's old sax, 43 years after I gave up my oboe. The reading music was a great refresher, I've completed this course in two weeks and really enjoyed it. A bit more of a close up on some of the fingering would have been helpful for me - and a few more tunes so I could become familiar with playing the notes - remembering the fingerings and moving swiftly enough from note to note is my main difficulty but I think that's age related and younger people will have managed just fine. Excellent though, thank you.

By Alfredo De Santiago Parra on 1/14/2021

Amazing way to express the details, such as embouchure recommendations and specially for high notes. Thanks a lot! and see you on the next courses. would be great and really nice to have the saxophone finger chart on the scales explanation. I think is easier for us to follow, as beginners.

By Asger Lau Dideriksen on 11/15/2020

I wished that he would zoom in a bit more on the saxophone, to show us exactly what he is doing. I had some trouble knowing whether or not I put the reed on properly

By Bodhi Tennis on 10/20/2020

I love saxophone!!!

By Quinn D'Amico on 10/16/2020

pretty cool learned lot within this program would not be here now if it weren't for this.

By Anzeyo Shropshire on 10/14/2020

pretty simple no complaints

By Mike Oliveira on 10/3/2020

Just Great

By Jack Nethersole on 9/21/2020

Great for beginners and excellent value for money. Starts from scratch and builds up note by note. The songs can be a little boring but you have to start somewhere!

By Kelvin Higa on 9/18/2020

I like the pace being a brand new to this instrument. Good, clear instruction.

By Carlos Cerda on 9/10/2020

Good course

By Kevin Rommes on 9/8/2020

I can pretty much follow the teacher.

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