TIPS-LEARN TO PLAY THE saxophone

There are several requirements in playing Saxophone al:
Breathing techniques, Tone (Ambusheer) & fingering
BREATH: using abdominal and chest breathing, abdominal breathing means there is a way to take the breath right because the stomach can hold 12 liters of air, while the chest only holds 5 liters of air.

How to practice abdominal breathing al follows. :
Inhale by mouth and then stored in the stomach, the stomach tends to swell up so that the air is felt in the abdomen to the waist, then gently remove the hiss (efficient) and do it again (if the chest is expanded, it is called chest breathing, but when the chest is not moving and abdominal bloating means abdominal breathing has been done correctly).
Inhale by mouth and then stored in the stomach, so the stomach and then enlarged issued sedikit2 the hiss (like stomach pumping the air out sebagian2).
The recommended use abdominal breathing so that we can blow the saxophone is stronger and longer, while the breath of the chest may be used for emergencies (when we have to get a quick breath)

TONE: the most important thing in playing the saxophone, because the tone / sound is round / thick / bright to be tunable at the hearing and in harmony with other instruments.
How to practice:
Practice long tones at the beginning stacato way to tone the whole tone chromatic or all of the basic tone.
Practice long tones softly (piano) and loud tone (forte) or cressendo and decressendo.
Practice the lower and upper tone
Stacato practice and legato
Minimal practice long tones every day at least 15 minutes

Fingering: must be disciplined to use techniques that speed, accuracy and smooth each valve is pressed does not ring.

How to practice to become good fingering al:
Finger spacing of the keys / valves should remain close to the keys, so there is no distance when the finger does not press the keys.
Train a particular tone repeatedly that its position is difficult as C to D, C # to D, D # to E, F to F #, F to G #, F # to G #, G # to A, G kw A #, G # to A #, A # to B , A # to C, B to C etc.
Nada2 train chord like C - E - G - C, C - F, A, C, D, G, B, D and patern / etude / blues scale al (CD #-FF #-GA #), pentatonic (CDEGAC)
Sigh Reading and Primavista
Read music is one of the requirements in playing music, because to read music is a medium to play saxophone in a group with other musical instruments (band, ensemble, orchestra) to match, accurate and appropriate arrangements are expected by the arranger, composer and conductor.

In addition to read music helpful to know and learn lagu2 standards, pop and jazz music from anywhere and learn buku2 scale2, patern and improvisation of buku2 contoh2.

Primavista the accuracy of reading musical notes directly and quickly, so to be able to master primavista read music practice every day (at least 30 minutes).

Improvisation

Improvisation can be learned by meeting several requirements as follows. :
Mastered an understanding of chord contents and functions, so it's best to learn the saxophone to learn piano / guitar.
Practice patern / major etude, major6, dominan7, major7, major9, major11, major13, minor, minor6, minor7, minor9, diminished, augtemented, whole tone, etc.
Practicing the blues scale as CD #, F, F #, A #, C, pentatonic scale as CDEGAC etc..
Solvegio means capable of mastering the tone in the note numbers.
Many of the world as a reference CD saxophonist David Sanborn, Ernie Watts, Charlie Parker, Dave Koz, Stan Getz, pacuito de riviera, dave vallentine, Winton marsallis etc.
For those who just want to learn to play the song with a saxophone would have to master the order of the song (bait1, bait2, reff, bait3 or chorus) and not knowing the song, at least be able to feel nada2 of the song.