Saxophone Playing Tips and Lessons

submitted for publication on the SOTW

1. Key signatures and Scales
2. Posture and Horn Position
3. Embouchure and Mouthpiece
4. More Embouchure Questions
5. Introducing Children to Music
6. Starting Again
7. What Are Those Funny Letters, Numbers, and Stuff In My Music?
8. Improving Reading and Playing Skills
9. Fingering Speed
10. Tonguing
11. The Gift of Rhythm
12. Tone Quality

• Tone Production for Beginning Saxophonists and Clarinetists (7/2003)
• Vibrato (5/2000)
• Advanced Saxophone Tips: Using the High F^# Key (2001)
• The Saxophone Tone and "The Edge" (2000)
• Technique Development (2000)
• Playing With A Microphone (2/2000)

• Giving Lessons
• Psyching Out Improv Demons
• Dealing With Improv Demons
• Anxiety, Emotions and Performing Well

• Blues for Lester
  Sheet Music by Roger Aldridge
• Arcanum Saxophone Quartet Arrangement for Download
• Orchestration for Saxophones:
  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 (Sax Quartet)
• Common Transpositions

• Tom Alexander discusses Reeds
• Key Pad Replacement
• Neck Cork Replacement
• Sax vs Sax - Which is best? (2000)
• Soprano Saxophone (10/2003): Curved vs. Straight, Sopr. Intonation
• Saxophone Mouthpiece
• Saxophone Maintenance (10/1999)
• Saxophone Accessories (9/2004)
• Improving Your Saxophone (5/2000)

• An Interview with Dave Kessler
• An Interview with Charlie Andrews (d.2005)
• Santy Runyon (b.1907 - d.2003)
• Custom Mouthpiece Work
  An Interview with Jon Van Wie (b.1957 - d.2003)
• John Barrow: How NOT To Make It In The Pop World - An interview by Neil Sharpe
• Dr. Vito Pascucci of G. Leblanc Corp (12/1999)