Welcome to the Saxtalk.com 500 Daily Saxophone Etudes (Eb Edition) repository!
This repository contains a collection of 500 saxophone etudes designed to help you to improve your saxophone playing. These etudes cover all 12 keys, and a variety of tempos.
You can listen to the etudes here: https://musescore.com/user/18100066/sets/6460858
This book is available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Feel free to explore the repository, and to use these etudes to enhance your saxophone playing. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Happy playing!
- The MuseScore scores are in the 01_etudes folder.
- I built all .odt text files for the book using LibreOffice Writer. You can find the files in the 02_odt_files folder.
- The GIMP files that I used in building the book are in the 03_gimp_xcf_files folder.
- 3a. I exported each MuseScore score to .pdf at 450 dpi using MuseScore.
- 3b. Then I imported each .pdf into add_page_number.xcf at 600 dpi resolution to add the page numbers.
- 3c. I used PDF Arranger to add each page to the pdf manuscript, and to order the pages in the pdf manuscript.
- 3d. The book's cover is in cover.xcf.
- 3e. Notes: to get Kindle Direct Publishing to accept the manuscript, I had to scale the entire manuscript down to 85% (using "Print to pdf" "scale" settings), so that all pages fit within the allowed 8.5x11 inch margins. I also converted all images in the manuscript to CMYK. I did these two steps using Adobe Acrobat DC since I couldn't figure out how to do them using Free Software.
- The 04_txt_files folder contains musescore_amazon.txt, which contains the MuseScore.com scores description field.