Best woodwinds songbooks according to redditors
We found 9 Reddit comments discussing the best woodwinds songbooks. We ranked the 8 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 9 Reddit comments discussing the best woodwinds songbooks. We ranked the 8 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Check out the Trevor Wye Practice Book for Piccolo. I'm not sure of your level but you might start wanting to look at the Vivaldi Piccolo (Flautino) concertos as well.
I'm coming back having taken a few years off. This is a book I picked up that has links to MP3's and PDF's of the sheet music if you get the right version: https://www.amazon.com/WF139-Used-Play-Tenor-Saxophone/dp/0825889987.
Honestly I'm getting most of my practice by playing in a concert band on a weekly basis. That gets you back in the groove really quickly.
This by far was the best starter book for songs that I found -
https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Pop-Melodies-Alto-Sax/dp/1480384305
Incredibly well done AND easy to play.
This books works well for learning -
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Elements-2000-Alto-Saxophone/dp/0634003178/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=alto+essentials&qid=1562175637&s=books&sr=1-1
Gives you the next "challenge" to work on great from a complete beginner's perspective. If you do every exercise in that correctly until at least half way through you'll be playing the previous book easily and the music is written so well for it you could play it on the street if you wanted to. Also lets you log in to hear how it's played and so you can play along.
I would recommend using this random sheet music generator to practice playing playing notes faster the first time you read them -
http://www.randomsheetmusic.com/
An instructor will be needed to make sure you are doing things correctly like getting notes out etc. I would recommend getting also 1.5 reeds because it's almost impossible to not get the note out with them.
I highly reccomend this book!
All of the 130+ volumes of the Aebersold play-along series have lead sheets in C, Bb, Eb, and bass clef transpositions, and include one or more CDs of recorded rhythm sections to play along with. If you know of a few of her favorite artists or jazz tunes, you can find books which include them in the Play-along index. All the songs include multiple choruses with the rhythm section, so she'll have the opportunity to play the melody and a few solo choruses for improvising.
If you're looking for something more instructional, I'm a huge fan of Jim Snidero's Jazz Conception series. In those books, a number of popular jazz standards are given with pre-written solos that emphasize learning jazz articulation and scale/chord choices. They also include playalong tracks, both with the specific instrument performing the written solo and a rhythm-only track so that she can play along on her own, either with the written solo or her own improvisation.
If you're just looking to play the clarinet part unaccompanied, just read the A clarinet part. If you need a transposed piano part, you can find that here, among other places.
If you have the Universal Method for Saxophone, by Paul Deville, that is the Bible. Here are some more suggestions. The Ferling is tough.
The Ten Best Saxophone Books Ever
48 Famous Studies op 31 by Ferling
Technique of the Saxophone: Scale Studies by Joe Viola
The art of Saxophone Playing by Larry Teal