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- Page 2 The songs with available tracks will be marked with a green dot: Connect your TravelSax with the app from Odisei Music available on the App Store or Google Play. Note: When using the TravelSax 2, please use the app "TravelSax 2".
- Page 3 Reading sheet music, how does that work? When you want to play music, it can be very helpful to be able to read sheet music. It's a universal language! Musical notes A musical note indicates how long you should blow (note duration), but also which fingers to use (pitch).
- Page 4 What else is there on the staff? Every song in this book begins with the symbol of the G clef. The staff is divided into sections called bars (or measures). Each bar contains an equal number of beats. A song ends when you encounter the double line, the end bar. G-clef Barline End bar...
- Page 5 "First exercises" When you play the note B and also add your middle finger, you get a note that sounds a little lower than before. Therefore, this note also lies lower on the staff. This note is the note A. Try playing this now: B-A-B-A-B-A-B-A B-A-A-B-B-A-A-B...
- Page 6 When you add another finger, you'll get a note that sounds even lower. This note is placed on the second line of the staff and is called the note G. Practice: G-A-G-A-G-A-G-A G-A-B-A-G-A-B-A-G G-B-G-B-G-B-G-B G-B-A-B-G-B-A-B-G G-G-B-B-A-A-G-G G-G-B-B-A-B-G You can now play a step up/step down: G-A-B-B-A-B...
- Page 7 Play each note calmly. Are you able to play the following passages by taking another breath at the comma? Au clair de la lune Mary had a little lamb...
- Page 8 You can also play notes with your tongue by briefly touching your teeth when you blow the note. Track 4 Play this piece forwards and backwards! DUET This song is a duet. In duet songs, you can play the notes written on the upper line, while your teacher can play the bottom line at the same time.
- Page 9 This song hasn't been finished yet. Do you know where to put the bar lines? Finish each bar so that there are four beats in every measure. Create a nice ending for this song.einde. ü Play every note loudly ü Play every note softly ü...
- Page 10 Red Robin Song*...
- Page 11 Ap-ple pear ap-ple pear ap-ple pear fruit Ap-ple pear ap-ple pear ap-ple pear fruit Mary, hold on tight...
- Page 12 Track 8 Old Jan and young Jan Put the bar lines at the right places Practice: C-B-C-B-C-B-C-B C-A-C-A-C-A-C-A C-G-C-G-C-G-C-G C-B-A-B-C-B-A-B-C...
- Page 13 Promenade The snail and the hare (play this song faster and faster as you go)
- Page 14 First Walz * LEGATO when there's a little curve (slur) above the notes, you start the first note with your tongue. You blow through the other notes without stopping while changing your finger to the correct position. This is called 'tying the notes' or 'playing legato'.
- Page 15 The yellow dot indicates that you should also press the button for the D. So, you play the D with your fingers like a G, but also with the button! Practice: G-A-B-C-D D-C-B-A-G You go up and down the stairs again...
- Page 17 The variations in note volume during a song are known as dynamics (for example: soft and loud notes/passages). In music, we use a few abbreviations to indicate this. Very quiet Quiet Moderately quiet Moderately loud Loud Very loud The term "D.C. al Fine" means that you must start playing again from the beginning of the piece until you reach the point marked "Fine."...
- Page 18 Can you blow and hold onto a note for more than 10 seconds? Practice playing this a few times: E – F – E – F – E -F Practice playing this a few times: D – E – F – E – D...
- Page 19 Pippi Longstocking Swedish folk song Practice playing this a few times. G’- G”- G’- G”- G’- G”- G’- G” You'll play in a low-high-low-high pattern. For this, you need to alternate with the button. Practice playing these notes a few times: F – G – F – G – F – G Practice playing the following notes a few times: E- F –...
- Page 20 Test Flight* FINE D.C. al fine...
- Page 21 Four sixteenth notes together have the note duration of one beat. This means that two sixteenth notes will have the same duration as half a beat. Sixteenth notes Notes: Whole Half Quarter Eighth Sixteenth...
- Page 22 Do you remember that you can also practice rhythms with words? Wat-ter-me-lon peach wa-ter-me-lon peach Wat-ter-me-lon peach wa-ter-me-lon peach Wat-ter-me-lon peach wa-ter-me-lon peach Another new rhythm, but also a new time signature. In 6/8 time, one measure consists of 6 beats, where one eighth note accounts for one beat.
- Page 23 Sometimes the pitch of a note will change when it has a symbol beside it. If it has the sharp symbol beside it, then the pitch of the note will be one semitone higher. When the sharp symbol is located at the beginning of the song at the clef, the note it is located on will be sharp throughout the whole song.
- Page 24 Can Can Did you know that… # Any note can be made a sharp note? # The name of the note changes when it becomes sharp? In music, we add the word “sharp” after the name of the original note. # F becomes F# (F sharp), C becomes C# (C sharp), G becomes G# (G sharp), etc.
- Page 25 # Play C-Cis- C-Cis- C-Cis- C-Cis # Play B-Cis- B-Cis- B-Cis- B-Cis # Play A-B-Cis-B-A-B-Cis-B-A # Play Cis-D- Cis-D- Cis-D- Cis-D A text is written by using letters from the alphabet. In the same way, music is written from notes that belong to a chosen key. Sometimes that key has one or more sharps in it.
- Page 26 Let op: Notice that there are two sharps written at the clef. That means that these notes will be sharps during the entire song! # = F becomes F# #= C becomes C# but… when you look carefully you may see that there actually are no F sharps in this song.
- Page 27 In the same way, a makes a note a semitone higher, there is also a symbol that makes a note a FLAT semitone lower: the symbol. Flats can be put beside a note, like sharps. 1= B turns into Bb Flat 2= E turns into Eb 3 = A turns into Ab...
- Page 28 PAY CLOSE ATTENTION! There are two flat symbols notated at the clef in the next piece; this means that these notes should be played as flat notes throughout the whole piece. Every B becomes a Bb, and every E becomes an Eb.
- Page 29 HIGH NOTES with an extra button and extra lines on the staff! When the notes don’t fit onto the staff anymore, the staff is extended with extra lines. You can play these extra high notes by also pressing the button on the back of the TravelSax.
- Page 30 v Play exercises 16, 17, and 18 first low and then high using the octave key. v Can you also play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" with the extra high notes? Start by playing B-A-G-A-B-B-B v Practice playing the key of C major Exercises to play with song 61.
- Page 31 FINE D.C. al fine FINE...
- Page 32 The key of Bb major pay extra attention: it has two flats! Octaves The difference between a low A and a high A is called an octave. That means that the eighth note from the lower octave will be the same note again. For the next key, it is important that you can jump between octaves (from a low note to the same note but higher) Practice playing:...
- Page 34 When a dot is placed right after the eighth note, it means that the note’s duration is increased by half of it. Its rhythm can sound a bit like you’re skipping around. Lang zal ze leven A dot placed right after a note always means that that note's duration has to be increased by half of what it originally is when playing it!
- Page 35 In een groen knollenland By now you've already learned that a slur above a few notes indicates that you should play the notes together (legato). When a dot is placed above a note, it indicates that you should play that note very shortly. This is called staccato.
- Page 36 My bonnie is over the ocean...
- Page 38 Tambourin – M. Corrette...
- Page 39 Fingering chart and theory Here you will find a summary of everything you have learned in this book so far.
- Page 43 SUMMARY of MUSIC THEORY Very quiet Whole Quiet Half Moderately quiet Quarter Moderately loud Eighth Loud Sixteenth Very loud A sharp raises a note by a half tone. FLATS lower notes by a half tone. # = F becomes F# 1 = B becomes Bb # = C becomes C# 2 = E becomes Eb...
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