LESSON FOCUS
- KLOSE – 25 Daily Practical Studies
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- 8/12/2025 – Klose #9, Page 11 — Practice ALL of this every time. Watch out for accidentals.
- 8/5/2025 – Klose # 13, Page 15 — beginning to measure #46
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- NEW: “All The Things You Are” Phil Woods transcription.
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- 8/5/2025 – measures 1 to 17
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- Arpeggios – Pares Scales book – Page 41 (paper clip)
NPHS AUDITION – 2026
1. Full range chromatic scale (as much as you can play). CHROMATIC SCALE > PDF
2. Concert F, Bb, Eb, Major Scales (2 octaves if you can, otherwise 1 octave is fine)
3. Play any piece of music that you can read and play well. Please bring a copy of the piece with you.
4. Sight-reading (music provided at the audition)
WARMUP – LONG TONES
- 3/26 —- 2 octave scales > use “SAXOPHONE – ALL 12 MAJOR”
- Soft as possible
- With a tuner.
- Set your metronome to 60 and write down your number on your scorecard.
- PRACTICE should be 1 hour a day.
- Klose #11, 16, 14.
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- On March 14th, Heidi got to line “I”
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LESSON FOCUS
- 5/28/25 – Recitative & Allegro
- 10/9 & 10/16 – Practical Studies > Exercises #9 & 10
MAJOR SCALES USING THE 1-2-1 PATTERN
- (5/29) – Concert Bb, Eb, Ab, F,
PRACTICAL STUDIES
REVIEW & REPEAT EACH ONE 2-3 times in a row.
- 10/9/24: Page 6, #9
- 10/3/24: Page 4, #3 & Page 5, #7
LONG TONES
- Soft as possible
- With a tuner.
- Set your metronome to 60 and write down your number on your scorecard.
PARES SCALES
- APRIL 10 – Page 2, Exercise #3
- JANUARY 24 – Page 2, Exercise #2
SAXOPHONE RESOURCES
CONEJO SUMMER BAND CAMP
- IGUANA RETURNS
- JUST IN TIME > WEBPAGE
- FESTIVE SCENARIO
- EL GATO GORDO > YouTube
BAND MUSIC / PAST YEARS
- BAND-O-RAMA
- DISNEY’S MAGIC KINGDOM
- 1/22/25 – Mozart Mix > mp3
- Sweet Caroline > YouTube
- X-Factor > YouTube
- The Incredibles > YouTube
- Pictures at an Exhibition > YouTube
- Everybody Wants You > YouTube
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town > YouTube
- Sheherazade > YouTube > YouTube
- Two Holiday Classics > YouTube