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Great place you have here !

I'm 38yrs old .... never played a note in my life nor read music until about 3 weeks ago.

I got that thought in me .... the one that stirs you to do something before you drop off this life sort of thing ..... and for me that was the Alto Sax 8)

I bought it off ebay and along with my amazon bought DVD ..... Jools Holland introduced me to Pete :w00t:

Without rabbling on too much I'm loving it !

I play scales and now up to grade 2 tunes (can't get my head round reading music yet but I letter over the top and play that way)

Pete your dvd really inspired me and I go back to it to check I'm doing what you taught and not making it up ..... lol

This has revolutionised my life and I can't wait to find a minute or two to have a good "blow" !!! :whistle:

I have a half hour lesson with a retired music teacher who learned to play the Sax in the war over in India. He plays like it's second nature and has really helped me find my fingers.

I'll check out the learner topics with interest and drop in regularly if thats ok ?


So hello all !

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Hio and welcome.

Can you do me a favour and tell me how you found the DVD. I sell it from my site as you may know by now and I'm trying to pinch customers from Amazon (although maybe it's cheaper there! The distributor don't give me a good price). What I'm after finding out are the sort of words people use in search engines. E.G learn saxophone, play saxophone, saxophone instruction or whatever. It would help me to know whatr are the most useful key words.
 
I use amazon for books mainly, but knowing they sold other stuff and dvd's I went there to look for beginner sax tutors and the like.

From there internal search I was offered 3 or 4 .... you being one of them.

I would have typed sax for beginners.

8)
 
Hello Elmer,

I've been learning a short time too and like you loving it.


Pete.

Amazon knock them out themselves at 16.99UK plus postage. They also rent them! for 5.99 a month. Their independent seller list them as low as 11.13:-

Your DVD on Amazon

I'm sure Elmer would had he seen it, but I found out from SOTW and came direct and was convinced with the charity aspect.

btw: I agree with Elmer... great dvd and I'm looking forward to the next.

Ken.
 
Welcome! Congratulations on your entry into the world of Sax! Reading music will come with time, I was horrid at it before I played an instrument, and in a month or so it was like a second language. What might help...go through your music and write letters above all of the notes you have. Use a pencil. The practice of going through all of that music and having to think of what note it is will help you memorize what is what. Then, after a while, start erasing notes. I used this method to get better at transposing.

I also recommend getting a copy of "The Art of Playing Saxophone" by Larry Teal. It is a great resource for beginner and pro alike.

An interesting book about the history of the sax is "The Devil's Horn" by Michael Segell, I highly recommend it to any sax player.

Pete, I'm not sure how much information your host gives you about who visits your site, but I use http://statcounter.com/ for many of mine. By adding an HTML code to your pages, you get the typical information about how long a person goes to an individual page, what page the person was at before, and system stats. However, you also get a search engine tool, which shows you what keywords are being used to find your site.

I often use the search "Sax Effects" to find your site on google. You're right up on top!
 
Pete, I'm not sure how much information your host gives you about who visits your site, but I use http://statcounter.com/ for many of mine. By adding an HTML code to your pages, you get the typical information about how long a person goes to an individual page, what page the person was at before, and system stats. However, you also get a search engine tool, which shows you what keywords are being used to find your site.

I often use the search "Sax Effects" to find your site on google. You're right up on top!
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Yes, I've optimised my site to come very high on Google for many search terms (saxophone lessons, saxophone tone, even saxophone reeds!

I'm going to try statcounter, looks good. problem is I also want to find the relevant words that people are using, but don't find my site. It hadn't occurred to optimise for the word "beginner" so this has been a very useful thread. Thanks to all.
 
At 7:19:06 PM 24/03/06, rs2sensen wrote:...... Reading music will come with time....
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Hi rs2sensen, and to all

I can pick out music notation very slowly, not good enough to play along with. I would dearly like to be able to play in time with a score, but I told my tutor to forget music reading (he disagrees).

In all honesty, I find it very hard, perhaps I'm an old dog looking at new tricks!.

Any more tips (from an one) greatly appreciated.

Ken.
 
At 4:40:37 PM 24/03/06, Pete wrote:
Hio and welcome.

Can you do me a favour and tell me how you found the DVD. I sell it from my site as you may know by now and I'm trying to pinch customers from Amazon (although maybe it's cheaper there! The distributor don't give me a good price). What I'm after finding out are the sort of words people use in search engines. E.G learn saxophone, play saxophone, saxophone instruction or whatever. It would help me to know whatr are the most useful key words.
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I found the DVD through your main web site. Looked for 'saxophone tuition', I think. Found Sax.co.uk from there as well, and am currently renting one from them, so its all your fault!
 
At 09:27:08 AM 25/03/06, lightbobarms wrote:
> At 4:40:37 PM 24/03/06, Pete wrote:
> Hio and welcome.
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> Can you do me a favour and tell me how you found the DVD. I sell it from my site as you may know by now and I'm trying to pinch customers from Amazon (although maybe it's cheaper there! The distributor don't give me a good price). What I'm after finding out are the sort of words people use in search engines. E.G learn saxophone, play saxophone, saxophone instruction or whatever. It would help me to know whatr are the most useful key words.


I found the DVD through your main web site. Looked for 'saxophone tuition', I think. Found Sax.co.uk from there as well, and am currently renting one from them, so its all your fault!
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Hint: you can get a discount from the breakfast room - only a small one I'm afraid as they charge me a lot for them unless I buy over a 100 at a time.
 
ken when i started the sax,i couldn't read music at all,it was all double dutch to me,but the first teacher i had said just persevere with it and you will understand it,i'm with another teacher now,who is very pleased with my music reading!!so keep trying!
 
At 1:11:26 PM 25/03/06, Pete wrote:
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Hint: you can get a discount from the breakfast room - only a small one I'm afraid as they charge me a lot for them unless I buy over a 100 at a time.
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Bought it (through your site)_ just before you started the forum - demonstrates my natural bad timing
 
At 9:04:17 PM 25/03/06, drew stewart wrote:
ken when i started the sax,i couldn't read music at all,it was all double dutch to me,but the first teacher i had said just persevere with it and you will understand it,i'm with another teacher now,who is very pleased with my music reading!!so keep trying!
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Thanks for the encouragement Drew. I'd like to master it, so I'll keep plugging away.

Ken.
 

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