Play-along practice
Half speed.
Same key.
Take any song down to a crawl, mute the sax when you are ready, loop the bar you keep missing.
Four things your music player cannot do.
Each one exists because a student got stuck on it first.
Half speed, same key
Drop to 50% and the pitch does not move. No chipmunk, no seasick wobble. The same song, slow enough that your fingers can actually get there.
Mute the sax
Learn the line with the guide sax playing next to you, then switch it off and be the only horn in the room.
Loop one bar
Mark two points. It repeats until you have it.
Notes and fingerings
The letter name and the fingering for every note as it arrives, so you can start before you can read music.
Every guide take is played by hand.
Not a library loop and not a MIDI file. A working saxophone teacher records the sax on every song, which is why it phrases like a person.
Tap a tempo. This one actually runs.
Where it comes from
SaxShop Manila Horns, reeds, repairs and lessons.
Prepared in house Every backing track and guide take is made one song at a time.
Who plays it
A conservatory-trained alto player Teaching and performing in Manila for over a decade.
Still gigging The phrasing is from someone who plays for a living.
Getting started
Three steps, and one is saying hello.
Works with the internet off.
Rehearsal rooms have thick walls and no signal. Prepaid data runs out. Once a song is on your phone it stays there.
Bring the song. We handle the practice room.
Message the shopSaxophone by Sally V, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
