Top-Tones for the Saxophone

Students can develop their range with this insightful book with text both in English and German. The author focuses on technique and offers musical examples and exercises to help developing players achieve a four-octave range. An important book for all saxophone students.

Top-Tones For The Saxophone - Four-Octave Range (Third Edition) is a fantastic book which explores the high range of the saxophone, with exercises and techniques to achieve these tones, written by Sigurd M. Rascher. The topics covered in this book include: sustained tones; terrace dynamics; uniformity of tone character; tone imagination; octaves, fourths and fifths; natural overtones; overtone exercises; fingerings for tones above top F; special exercises; and scales in natural overtones.

This book is also written with German text.