I teach high school kids. With my younger ones (Y7-9), I usually start them off on the 'Learn as You Play Series' if they're absolute or recent beginners. This book progresses quite gradually, but isn't babyish in any way, so I find it's a good starting point for high school kids. I also really like how they don't tell me how to teach stuff. I find it irritating when books do that.
https://www.boosey.com/teaching/sheet-music/Peter-Wastall-Learn-As-You-Play-Sax/2500
Other options I use as kids become advanced enough:
-Klose Daily
-Klose Mechanisme Etudes
-Top Tones (great for warming up and making long notes interesting.)
-AMEB or similar exam books. Often these pieces are really boring, but there are some good ones out there.
-Jazz Conception. These are great books. They come in different levels and have chord symbols, so you can transpose and accompany the student yourself at a slow tempo if your piano skills are up to it!
-66 Great Tunes - Mark Walton
-Jazz Incorporated by Kerrin Bailey. These are kind of a staple of Australian music education. I don't love all the pieces, but some kids enjoy them.
Keith - I'd recommend Jazz Conception. These are great for reading skills and getting an intro to jazz articulation and phrasing.
https://www.boosey.com/teaching/sheet-music/Peter-Wastall-Learn-As-You-Play-Sax/2500
Other options I use as kids become advanced enough:
-Klose Daily
-Klose Mechanisme Etudes
-Top Tones (great for warming up and making long notes interesting.)
-AMEB or similar exam books. Often these pieces are really boring, but there are some good ones out there.
-Jazz Conception. These are great books. They come in different levels and have chord symbols, so you can transpose and accompany the student yourself at a slow tempo if your piano skills are up to it!
-66 Great Tunes - Mark Walton
-Jazz Incorporated by Kerrin Bailey. These are kind of a staple of Australian music education. I don't love all the pieces, but some kids enjoy them.
Keith - I'd recommend Jazz Conception. These are great for reading skills and getting an intro to jazz articulation and phrasing.
