Saxophone Lessons

Saxophone lessons in North Vancouver are available at Accent Music Studios with experience, qualified sax instructor, Julie Begg. Learn to play saxophone either in our studios or online. Saxophone lessons will ensure that you have the correct posture, hand positioning, finger technique and improve your tone production, reading and improvisation skills. Our saxophone teacher can also prepare you for RCM, ABRSM exams and auditions. Sax lessons are a fun way to advance your skills and learn how to play every style of music with the very best technique and tone.

Certainly, one of the most popular instruments to learn to play is the saxophone. Associated with all things cool, the sax is a prominent instrument in jazz, rock, pop and, to a lesser degree, classical music. The basic saxophone family is made up of four standard instruments – soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. Other saxes include the sopranino and bass saxophone. When learning to play, it is best to start with either the alto or tenor.

The instrument is made from brass and has a mouthpiece with a single reed, like the clarinet. The saxophone bridges both woodwind and brass families but it is classed as a woodwind instrument owing to the production of its sound by a reed. The saxophone’s dynamic range is the largest of all the woodwinds. It can be played softly with lyricism or loudly with a raw, edgy delivery.

Here are a couple of examples of saxophone playing.

Leo Pellegrino of Too Many Zooz

Leo P performs Moanin’ on baritone sax at the Royal Albert Hall in London

Yakety Sax

An old, fun favourite for tenor sax!

At Accent Music Studios, we offer saxophone lessons to students of all ages from around the lower mainland, including North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Vancouver and Richmond.