Customer Reviews

Ultimate Beginner Series, Alto Saxophone

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4 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

If you are looking for a beginners guide on the Saxophone, then this is the right book for you. It has very detailed information from assembling the instrument, cleaning, maintenance, and playing techniques. Excellent DVD! Highly recommended. The only problem is that it's only one hour long. :) If I find a second volume I'll buy it.

I was shocked to see so many positive reviews. This is a 40 min dvd that tells you how to take the instrument out of the case and play 8 notes. That's it! This same lesson could have been 10 min. Oh, I forgot, it also tells you how to put the instrument back into the case... what a waste of money.

I can only assume that the publisher or author faked the other reviews.

I would recommend the book "Absolute Beginners Alto Saxophone" which comes with a CD over this DVD any day.

This is incredible, I can't believe anyone would sell a garbage like that that shows how to take an instrument out of the box and put it back with some minimal (4 or so notes) instruction on actual playing the sax.

I'm returning it, thanks

I got a few of these beginners DVD's and this was by far the best.

There's another one called "Play Alto Sax" and that was decent too for the money... although it's only 25 mins long; it was presented more professionally than this Ultimate Beginner one which is 60 mins long.

I'd say definitely get both - they're both good. Make sure you don't waste your money on the one called Essential Elements 2000 (book + DVD) because it's really very bad.

This is a great video for beginners. It shows basics of how to assemble, disassemble, and maintain your saxaphone. Also, other very helpful tips, teaches about 4 notes, and additional information in speacial features section.

I bought this for my niece who has started sax lessons; but sadly, she has been at them for nearly a year so she is already well beyond the level of this DVD. It's a good resource for a true, true beginner, but not for someone with a basic mastery/understanding of the alto sax.

For a beginner this is a great DVD. It covers all aspects of saxophone playing for the beginning student. This includes the reference materials that a student can print out.

Ed Calle in vols 1 and 2 does a great job introducing the beginner to the sax.... wish there were more...

My son's school has a new music director and principle. To say the least we invested money in a sax and school lessons are lacking. My son has learned more from the first session in this video then in the first 5 weeks at school meeting twice a week. You need to understand his class has 25 students representing 6 instruments and is 40 minutes long. If you do the math, that is not a lot of learning time. Even I was able to play after watching the lesson (former Trumpet player). Keep in mind this is for someone not knowing anything about the sax but is an excellent starting place or as a supplement to school lessons.

This DVD is very good. It shows valuable basic information about Saxophones. It was very helpful!