A trusted training method for aspiring and serious players, "The Saxophone Bible" covers tuning, tone production, fingering, breath control, playing low and high ranges, scales, intervals, and much more.

A comprehensive sax method by one of America's top jazz and studio saxophonists. Subjects covered include key studies, chord and scale etudes, solos, high-register studies, vibrato, fingering, and rhythm studies. In addition, an excellent solo and duet repertoire is presented. Applicable to any saxophone.

According to Larry Teal, the best method of learning to play the saxophone is to study with a competent teacher. Teal's studies were mostly of instruments other than the saxophone, but as a student at a Chautauqua summer session, he came under the influence of Georges Barrère, the eminent French flutist. He played bass clarinet with the Detroit Symphony, but he continued to be absorbed by the saxophone. As a result of his acquired expertise and growing reputation, he was appointed to a full-time faculty position as a saxophone teacher by the University of Michigan -- the first ever to receive such an appointment from a major university. During his 21-year tenure, he attracted students from all over, thus exerting an ever widening influence on saxophone teaching and performing.

In this method, standard technical exercises based on scales and arpeggios are complimented by sections on vibrato, double tonguing, improvising and styles of dance music. Includes six saxophone solos: Beebe * Hollywood Pastime * Dixieland Detour * Mood Hollywood * Dusk in Upper Sandusky * Waddlin' at the Waldorf.

This follow-up edition presents a continuation and expansion of the techniques presented in Scale Studies, with a special emphasis on chordal concepts. It includes innovative exercises and solos that will help sax players learn melody, harmony, rhythm and improvisation techniques.