Instructor Profile

 

Skills Taught: Woodwind
Instruction Specialty:
Instructs Levels: All Levels of Student Skill
Instruction Location: Travel to Student only
Student Age Range: 9 through 99

$45.00 / full hour

M-F 10am to 7pm

Saturday 10am to 6pm

Sunday 10am to 4pm

I TEACH:

Comprehensive Musicianship

Jazz & Classical Saxophone Instruction:

Technique/ Interpretation
Expression
Music Theory
Jazz Theory
Improvisation
Developing your own style
and much more!

Lessons custom designed to suit your own needs, abilities, & desires!



Learn how to:
- Learn how the saxophone works
~ use a correct embouchure
~ play in tune
~ use a tuner
~ use a metronome
~ warm up
~ learn a tune
~ play the mouthpiece
~ improve your “time”

Learn:

Chords & scales
Linear improvisation
Improvisation without chords or scales
Important jazz chord progressions
Jazz repertoire
Classical repertoire
Jazz or classical tone, concept, phrasing
Authentic jazz or classical vibrato --
when & how to use It
Develop fast & smooth technique
Contemporary saxophone techniques

Multiphonics (2 or more notes at a time)
Altissimo register (extra-high notes)
Quarter-tones (notes between half-steps)
Timbrel techniques (modifying the sound)
Alternate fingerings for jazz & classical
The “Texas Wobble” thru the sax’s range

Learn how to:
~ Play 2 melodies simultaneously
~ Trill from Low Bb to low B
~ Play an amazing sforzando
~ Play great subtones
~ Growl on the saxophone
~ Levitate paper with the sax (really!)

Learn to play Latin -- salsa, mambo, etc.


There’s still more!


Lessons are in your own home! Saves gas and time! Lessons are $40 per one hour lesson
Monday-Friday

If you would like more information or would like to enroll in lessons before the convenient slots are taken, call me at 206.545-1625 or email me at bphelps@maxxconnect.net