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Whether you're starting saxophone from square one or looking to improve your technique, you can enjoy these complimentary saxophone lesson resources including guided courses, play-along videos, and more. Let your saxophone adventure begin!

Guided Lesson Courses

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Beginner Video Lessons

Welcome to Beginning Videos

How to Put Together a Saxophone, Reed & Mouthpiece

How to Swab and Clean a Saxophone

Adjusting a Sax & Neck Strap for Comfort & Control

Suction Test of Sax Reed & Mouthpiece

How to Make Your First Saxophone Sounds

Saxophone Mouth Shape (Embouchure)

Basic Tongue & Articulation Technique

Power Breathing: Diaphragm Support

Learning Some Music: When the Saints Go Marching In

A Beginner's Guide to Saxophone Tone Production

Key Leaves Artist Alexia Perez helps beginners make a great tone. Free PDF download: Tone Production.

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Intermediate & Advanced Topics

Pitch bend and vibrato, altissimo, slap tonguing and more.

Pitch Bend & Vibrato: "Wah Wahs"

Rulon Brown shares his "Wah Wah" sax exercise to improve tone, flexibility, vibrato, scoops, bends, falls and more.

Bari Sax Lesson with Jason Marshall

Jazz Etude by Steve Kortyka

"Those Autumn Key Leaves®", a free jazz etude on Autumn Leaves.

Saxophone Embouchure: Classical vs. Jazz

Dr. Wally Wallace describes the three functions of the saxophone embouchure.

Overtones, Altissimo & Growling with Marc Russo

Marc Russo is awesome and definitely one of our favorite sax heroes.

How to Slap Tongue on Saxophone

Derek Brown is a world leader in the advanced technique of slap tonguing. His YouTube channel has this and other great tutorials.

Harvey Pittel on the Teachings of Joe Allard

Allard deeply inspired many sax players. Every serious student should at least be familiar with the Joe Allard approach to the saxophone.

Quick tips

From Key Leaves Artists

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Altissimo Lesson #1 with Emma McPhilemy

Quick tips on altissimo & double-tonguing.

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Altissimo Lesson #2 with Emma McPhilemy

What do I do if I can't whistle? Three tips for becoming fluent in the altissimo register.

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How to Slap Tongue with Emma McPhilemy

Three main ways to practice slap tonguing.

Saxophone High F Sharp Key

Altissimo Fingering Chart optimized for High F# Key

Dr. Robert Brooks shares his altissimo fingerings for use with his RULON High F# Key Riser.

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Mouthpiece Pitch Exercises with Jerome Laran

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Navigating Large Intervals with Jeffrey Leung

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