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Lessons/Consultancy
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All Products
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Beginners’ Impro TTS Vol 2
In this section of the site we ...
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Chords For Beginners
Here is a very simple lesson i ...
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Impro, Tunes & Songs for Beginners
Full sheet music (PDF), Audio ...
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Rock & Blues
Rock & Roll (& Blues) for Begi ...
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Chords and Numerals
Why assign numbers to chords? ...
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Special Chords
Beyond Triads We will call the ...
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Voicing & Inversions
A quick recap about chords We ...
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Who’s in charge, you or the saxophone?
Play the saxophone, don’t le ...
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SAXOPHONE
The Saxophone! In the miscella ...
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Saxophone Info
In the miscellaneous saxophone ...
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Saxophone Myths & Fake News
Saxophone Myths The internet i ...
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Saxophone Buying Advice
How to get the Best Buying Adv ...
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Saxophone Reviews
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Saxophone Recommendations
What’s a Good Saxophone? I a ...
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Saxophone Insurance
Insuring a valuable instrument ...
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Saxophone Maintenance
Cleaning Inside the Body of th ...
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Saxophone Repairs
Leaks A leak happens when some ...
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Leaking G#
How to easily fix a very commo ...
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Saxophone Comparisons
The Shootout I have chosen to ...
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Saxophone Players
In the players section The pos ...
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Jazz Tenor
Biographies of some of the bes ...
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R & B Saxophone Players
These biographies, photos and ...
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Lee Allen
by Nick Pentelow First publish ...
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King Curtis
This is a transcription of the ...
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Saxophone Blues Transcriptions
How do you learn to play a goo ...
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Mouthpieces
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How to Choose a Mouthpiece
Choosing your Mouthpiece It so ...
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Mouthpiece Charts
Saxophone Facing Comparisons T ...
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Alto Mouthpiece Comparisons
Scroll for more tracks Compari ...
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Mouthpiece Material
Mouthpiece Material: Does it m ...
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Mouthpiece for a big loud sound
Mouthpiece and reed for a big ...
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Saxophone Mouthpiece Cleaning
How to Look After Your Mouthpi ...
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PPT Mouthpieces
The Concept Behind PPT Mouthpi ...
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PPT Soprano
As with the tenor and baritone ...
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PPT Alto
Due to overwhelming demand we ...
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PPT Tenor
My concept behind the sound is ...
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PPT Baritone
As with the tenor mouthpiece, ...
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Reviews & Testimonials
Soprano Alto Tenor Baritone Te ...
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Accessories
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Cane Reeds for Saxophone
The 5 Best Cane Reed Tips: Don ...
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Synthetic Saxophone Reeds
Synthetic mouthpieces, so why ...
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When to Change a Reed
When should you change a reed? ...
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Reed maintenance & care
Care & Storage I find that ree ...
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Saxophone Ligatures
The Best Way to Hold a Reed On ...
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Review: Saxophone Straps
Keep Your Saxophone Round Your ...
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DIY Saxophone Clipon Microphone
Not just cheap, but a great so ...
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Saxophone Stands
Keep Your Horn in One Piece! S ...
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Deflector (Review)
The Deflector This is an amazi ...
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leFreque Sound Bridge
Make your saxophone sound bett ...
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The Sound Snake
Over the last few years we hav ...
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Saxophone History
The Early Years of Saxophone H ...
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Saxophone Material
Science vs Common Sense Saxoph ...
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Serial Numbers
What Can Serial Numbers Tell M ...
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Vintage Saxophones
Are vintage saxophones better ...
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Instrument Petting Zoo
Here are a few of the strange ...
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Recording a Saxophone
This article is based on my ex ...
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Mixing Saxophone
Who is this for and what do yo ...
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Saxophones For Sale
Saxes for Sale – 5 things ...
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LESSONS & TUTORIALS
Lessons 50% off any 1 year sub ...
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Beginners FAQs
The How, Why, What and Wheres ...
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Saxophone Studies
The Taming The Saxophone Serie ...
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Learn to Play Saxophone
This article tells you what yo ...
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First Steps on the Saxophone
For Absolute Beginners In this ...
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Saxophone Transposition
Why am I in a different key to ...
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Fingering Charts
Basic Fingering charts (no sha ...
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Beginners Instruction DVD
In this program, Pete introduc ...
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Find a Saxophone Teacher
The best one for you Is the te ...
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Rhythm & Blues Saxophone
What is R&B Saxophone? I reall ...
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Rock & Roll Saxophone
How to Play a Great Rockin’ ...
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How to Organise Your Practice Schedule
Best Practice! As a teacher I ...
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Stage Fright & Performance Nerves
Scared To Go On Stage? There ...
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Saxophone Video Lessons
Pete’s video lessons To leav ...
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Vol 1 Improve Your Tone
Tone Without Tears : improve y ...
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Saxophone Tone & Sound
Tone & Sound are not the same ...
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Intonation & Tuning
Which of these is more “in t ...
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Tone Control Exercises
How to get the best sound out ...
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NEW! Combining Tone & Fingering
Why combine tone & fingering e ...
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Articulation & Tonguing
How to tongue quickly or slowl ...
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Saxophone Vibrato
The aim of this exercise is fo ...
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Mouthpiece Exercises
Improve your saxophone tone an ...
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Harmonics (Overtones)
Why is practising overtones so ...
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Altissimo on saxophone
The altissimo range of the sax ...
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Subtone
We show you how to play subton ...
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Visualising the Sound
Bored practice is wasted pract ...
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Saxophone Embouchure
“Correct” Embouchure Embou ...
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Breathing Exercises & Breath Control
Breathing Exercises Diaphragm ...
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Diaphragm Breathing
Breathing Exercises Diaphragm ...
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Saxophone Circular Breathing
What is circular breathing? It ...
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Bright Sound or Dark Sound
Definition There seems to be a ...
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Fingering Exercises Vol 3
Warming up, playing faster and ...
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Saxophone Warmup
Why is it important to warm up ...
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Dexterity & Technique
Saxophone Fingering Exercises ...
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Cycle of Fifths
Before practising these, make ...
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2 5 1 Progressions
IIm7-V7-I progressions (“2 5 ...
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Chromatic Scale Exercises
Exercises involving the Chroma ...
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Studies in 4ths
Using the interval of a 4th Th ...
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Diminished Patterns and Licks
The diminished scale can be ve ...
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Whole Tone Scale Exercises
Like diminished scales, whole ...
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Alternate Saxophone Fingerings
Alternate or Alternative? The ...
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Tips 1 : Auxiliary F without the aux key
Auxiliary F key (aka aux F or ...
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Tips 2: F to G altissimo trill
Altissimo Trill – F to G Thi ...
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Tips 3: Low Bb to B Trill
Easy! Go ahead and finger bott ...
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Saxophone Effects
Special Effects on the Saxopho ...
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Saxophone Growl
How to Growl on the saxophone ...
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Bending notes
How do you bend a note on the ...
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Saxophone Wobble
AKA Bb Wobble or Texas Shake ...
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Slaptongue & Smacktongue
Smacktongue (non-pitched) Exam ...
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Saxophone Dooden Tonguing
AKA “Ghost Tonguing”, “L ...
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Saxophone Laugh
First try to laugh This mea ...
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Flutter Tongue
What is it Flutter Tongue? Flu ...
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The Adderley Trill
How to do it The Adderley Tril ...
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False Fingerings
AKA. Fake Fingerings or Double ...
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Multiphonics
Multiphonics (Playing more tha ...
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JAZZ, ROCK & BLUES
In the Improvising & Theory se ...
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Jazz Theory
The course is not a complete ...
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Jazz Chord Progressions
Basic Chords Before we look at ...
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Cycle of 5ths in Jazz
In the previous tutorial I men ...
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Jazz Chords – Upper Extensions
Chords with five or more notes ...
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Modes in Improvisation
The Use of Modes in jazz When ...
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Minor Harmony in Jazz Theory
Major vs Minor The defining di ...
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Altered Chords in Jazz
Using Modal Interchange to Alt ...
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Tritone (Flat 5) Substitute Chords
How Tritone Substitutes Work A ...
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Analysis with Roman Numerals
Analysis of Jazz Harmony Harmo ...
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Jazz Passing Chords
Passing Chords and Turnarounds ...
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12 Bar Blues Chords
Chords in the 12 bar blues seq ...
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I Got Rhythm Chord Changes
Standards that are used for ja ...
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Improvisation
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Intro to Improvising Jazz
There are many different schoo ...
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Jazz Chord Symbols
Chord Symbols Over the years t ...
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Jazz Scales for Improvising
About Scales & Chords When you ...
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Jazz Scalechart
I always hesitate before recom ...
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Dorian Mode in Jazz Improvisation
One Chord Jazz and Funk Groove ...
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Jazz Patterns & Licks
How many jazz improvisers cons ...
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Jazz Patterns for Tonic Chords
Tonic Patterns and Cadences Th ...
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Blues Riffs & Licks
Riffs or Licks – What’s th ...
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Why You Shouldn’t transcribe
OK, that sounds a bit radical. ...
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Let The Good Timing Roll
Timing in music means differen ...
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Memorising Music
Memorisation, whether it’s t ...
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Jazz Resources
Recommended Jazz Reading This ...
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Jazz Repertoire
Jazz Tunes & Standards Jazz an ...
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Free Tunes & Backing Tracks
Loads of free stuff on the sit ...
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Arranging & Composing
Jazz composition and arranging ...
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Ranges & Transposition
Jazz Arranging – Chart of In ...
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Jazz Reharmonising
Reharmonising – Changing the ...
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Block Voicing
What is Voicing? Voicing means ...
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Jazz Arranging: Backings
Chordal accompaniment (aka pad ...
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The Rhythm Section
Arranging for Rhythm Section P ...
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Become a TV/Film Composer
How do You Actually get Work a ...
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Orchestration: Score Layout
What’s The Score? First thin ...
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Writing for Strings
Ensemble Sizes The string sect ...
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Orchestrating for Woodwinds
What You Need to Know about Wo ...
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Orchestrating for Brass
The Wonderful World of Composi ...
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Recording
Most of our recording pages h ...
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Saxophone Humour
Caption Competitions The po ...
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Composition: Hints & Tips
Useful Composition Tips Know w ...
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Developing Melody with Motifs
Very often a large part of com ...
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Tension & Release in Composition
Unity and Variety, Tension & R ...
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Modes in Composition
Modes in Modern Pop & Commerci ...
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All About Copyright
Copyright in Music Composition ...
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Shop
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Terms and Conditions
Terms Enquiries Store Curren ...
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ABOUT PETE THOMAS
Biog, Credits, Recordings, Gal ...
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Biography, Press, Credits
Quite a remarkable statement o ...
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Production
Betty Page Private Girl Tracks ...
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Clients
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CDs & Audio
To date Pete has recorded four ...
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TV/Film Compositions
Composition/Production Video R ...
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Promo Videos
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Sound Files – Work in Progress
Get a sneak preview on current ...
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Pete’s Saxophones
A pictorial and video journey ...
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Equipment
Pete's saxophones & studio equ ...
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Hot Topics and News
Editors’ Pick Hot Topics The ...
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Discounts and Free
Discounts are applied automati ...
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Flick-tonguing
Flick tonguing involves flicki ...
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Thanks
A BIG Thank You for y ...
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Sax On The Web Blues
This was a project started a f ...
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CafeSaxophone Blues Instructions
IMPORTANT In order to sync the ...
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CDs & Playalongs
Buy more than one for huge dis ...
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Books & DVDs
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Mouthpieces
Try before you buy? We do not ...
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Saxophones
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