SAXOPHONE LESSONS IN PERSON AND ONLINE
People often asked me: why start studying music? Especially an instrument
Embarking on a musical journey doesn’t necessarily meanbecoming a professional musician.
The study of music itself is something deeper and is primarilylinked to the cognitive, emotional, psychological, and social benefits it can generate for those who approach this discipline.
Cognitive Benefits
Improves Memory and Concentration: Studying music and developing musical skills improves memory and concentration.
Develops Mathematical Skills: Understanding rhythms, scales, and musical structure improves mathematical skills.
Enhances Creativity and Problem-Solving: Learning to play requires finding creative solutions to problems, such as masteringa difficult passage or creating a melody.
Improves Coordination: Playing an instrument sharpens motorcoordination and hand-eye coordination.
Emotional and Psychological Benefits
Increases Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence: Every milestoneachieved, such as mastering a new piece, strengthens self-confidence.
Reduces Stress and Anxiety: Music can have a calming effect, helping reduce stress and anxiety levels and promoting relaxation.
It provides a means of expression: music allows children to express and process difficult emotions, offering a creative outlet.
Social Benefits
It teaches teamwork: playing in an ensemble or orchestra teachescollaboration with others, listening, and recognizing one’s rolewithin a group.
It develops empathy and communication: music helps developempathy, listening skills, and communicate emotions more effectively.
It promotes perseverance: the musical learning process requiresdiscipline, perseverance, and patience.
Why study a wind instrument like the saxophone?
Playing a wind instrument offers numerous physical healthbenefits.
Increased lung capacity: Consistent practice requires precise control of airflow, which trains the respiratory muscles. This leadsto improved lung function and respiratory endurance.
Muscle strengthening: The diaphragm, abdominal muscles, and other core muscles are challenged and strengthened by deep, consistent breath control.
Improved posture: Correctly playing a wind instrument requiresan aligned posture, which encourages better postural habits in everyday life.
Hand-eye coordination: Synchronizing music reading, finger movements, and breath control improves overall coordination.
Study Program
Topics Covered:
- Breathing
- Posture
- Embouchure (classical and modern)
- Intonation
- Mastery of the instrument through technique (scales, arpeggios, mechanism studies, rhythmic-melodic studies)
- Vibrato
- Principal articulation techniques
- Basic improvisation techniques
- Construction of a classical and/or modern repertoire of appropriate difficulty for the student’s curriculum.
- Advanced techniques (high notes, growls, multiphonics, glissando, circular breathing, etc.)
- Music Theory