Series: Essential Elements
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard (May 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0634003186
ISBN-13: 978-0634003189
Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.1 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
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The "Essential Elements 2000: A Comprehensive Band Method" is a great book for a young person who is learning an instrument for the first time. There is a fingering chart in the back of the book to make looking up fingerings quick and easy. The book starts off very basic with the parts of the instrument. The easiest notes to play and finger are presented first with exercises to practice them. This book comes with a play-along CD. This CD includes all solo exercises.Hal Leonard also offers (though not through ) band sets for band directors. They are simple arrangements of music that correlate with the book. They are great for the first concert.There is an older version of this book called "Essential Elements: A Comprehensive Band Method". The book is purple and has many of the same features as this one, but the CDs have to purchased separately.
I decided to try playing the tenor saxophone recently. When my daughter began playing the French horn a few years ago, this is the book her teacher started all of the students out on so I figured it would work for what I needed. I was right. It has fingerings and little songs to play to learn on. It was exactly what I was looking for.
Very slow introduction to playing the tenor. The book goes with a class I am taking. The class goes the speed of the book, so the slowness of the book is OK. Pretty basic, but gets the new player started.
I use this for myself and our school district does as well. These are well laid out great books for the beginning student. It along with a good teacher will get the beginning player off to a great start. The play along CD is excellent. If your teacher has a code you can also use the sign-in and get more on-line materials.
I've not played a sax for decades and even forgot how to read music, but this book was terrific in getting me going again. I have book 2 also. I'm actually using it for a soprano sax, as they are the same key.
This is a very good book for a beginning sax player who has some knowledge of music. I play clarinet and wanted to learn the tenor sax. I am not only pleased but very surprised that it is so much better then the Rubank elementary sax book.
I didn't buy this book from but this is the book I learned to play the tenor saxophone from when I was in Middle School, it is very helpful, it shows you where to put your fingers and but keys are down for which notes. The CD is helpful too because it lets he hear how it is actually supposed to sound. I only gave it 4 stars because it doesn't teach you how to hold your mouth on the mouth piece, your embouchure, but I don't hold that against the book because the embouchure is hard to get and I had to have my band director teach it to me over and over again. But this book is great for a beginner and they also have a book two after you get through this one so check it out!
This CD-SET picks of where CD 1 (that comes with "Essential Elements 2000: Book 1" left off. When practicing, the play-along CDs make playing with a group much easier.***About the Book***The "Essential Elements 2000: A Comprehensive Band Method" is a great book for a young person who is learning an instrument for the first time. There is a fingering chart in the back of the book to make looking up fingerings quick and easy. The book starts off very basic with the parts of the instrument. The easiest notes to play and finger are presented first with exercises to practice them. This book comes with a play-along CD. This CD includes all solo exercises.There is an older version of this book called "Essential Elements: A Comprehensive Band Method". The book is purple and has many of the same features as this one, but the CDs have to purchased separately.
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