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What is SaxTutor all about?
A lot of people ask me why I coded SaxTutor and it's a difficult question to
answer. SaxTutor was
born back in 1995 when I sat down and decided to draw
myself a saxophone fingering wall-chart. It
still amazes me when I think
about where that simple decision took me.
The first step was easy, I drew
a template, and then started to fill it in based upon all the
fingerings I
knew at the time. I decided also to produce a few graphics so that I could refer
to
both the sounded note and it's transpositional equivalent. One thing led
to another and I decided
that I could build a simple database to keep all the
special fingerings I learned in one simple
place. Like all programmers that
didn't really satisfy me. I started to write little bits of code
to
manipulate the Saxtutor/Images so I could make various wall charts for some of the
more exotic scales I was
learning at the time.
That was when the
obvious struck me. I just needed to code a program which would bring up the
Saxtutor/Images
one at a time relative to the scale I wanted to learn. If I could
throw up an image of the same
note played on a keyboard, and also display the
note on a stave in both it's transposed and sounded
form, then I would be
able to crack learning the scales in half the time they were currently
taking.
In 1996, after using it myself for a while, I released the first
'complete' version on Compuserve
I got plenty of feedback on the program,
(some good, some bad and all of it useful) and I promised
myself that I would
develop the code outwards to form a more complete 'Saxophone Tutorial
Program'
Life, as usual, got in the way and SaxTutor became a pile of
papers gathering dust in various places
until 2002 when, due to the vagaries
of life, I found msyelf with a little more time on my hands.
The 2002
release is just the start of a whole new phase for SaxTutor. There are so many
things I
would like to include in the program. Items relating to embouchure,
mouthpiece control, arpeggios,
musical theory, tuning, posture, there are so
many possibilities.
If you would like to see something included in a
future release please let me know. You can click
on the top link to email me,
or simply address your message to Martin_Carter@compuserve.com
either way I
would love to hear from you.
Thanks for taking the time to visit the
SaxTutor web page and I hope you found something useful
during your
visit.
Cheers!
Martin Carter
July 2002