Resources for Learning Tenor Sax

Resources for Learning Tenor Sax Instrument Care and Setup for Saxophone How to Put a Reed on a Saxophone Mouthpiece (The Right Way!) by Better Sax (YouTube) Embouchure Saxophone Embouchure by Better Sax (YouTube) Sheet Music Scales – Tenor Sax – With Fingering Diagrams – I love that this resources lists the concert pitch as…

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Musical Instruments for Toddlers Christmas 2022

Musical Instruments for Babies and Toddlers Gift Ideas for Christmas 2022 There’s a plethora of all-in-1 style battery noise maker toys kids love.  But I like to look for instruments that are more geared towards supervised early learning activities.  Here are some of the items we love to use for our early learning homeschool activities.…

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Peanuts Music by Vince Guaraldi

Vince Guaraldi Songbooks Music from Peanuts and More A Charlie Brown Christmas: Artist Transcriptions for Piano Great music from Vince Guaraldi that is a close keyboard transcription of what we love and hear from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’. It served me well this past season and also in the future for merry music making!!! ~customer…

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John Schaum Piano Course: Leading to the Mastery of the Instrument

Piano Books for Kids John W. Schaum Piano Course: Leading to the Mastery of the Instrument John Schaum’s Piano Course is a nine book series designed to be used for traditional, classical style piano instruction. Schaum created the series in the 50’s and 60’s, and his son Wesley revised the series in the 90’s to…

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Metacognition Books for Musicians

Metacognition Books for Musicians To Help Yourself Learn How to Learn If you look for advice from good ‘ol Google on things how to practice guitar, how to practice piano, how to become better at singing…(etc. etc. etc.) you’ll be sure to land on a plethora of articles telling you things like “use a metronome,…

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Clash of the Titans: David Epstein vs. Malcom Gladwell

Clash of the Titans: David Epstein vs. Malcom Gladwell Balance or Expertise? Meet authors Malcom Gladwell and David Epstein. Each have authored a best selling book about sports psychology and peak performance. Gladwell’s book is called Outliers and Epstein’s book is called Range.  Gladwell’s book Outliers is famous for popularizing the 10,000 hour rule. In…

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