" During the short ternary intro, the two themes are depicted and then immediatly developped in binary with a mix of Jazz and Jazz Rock styles. The "Twinning" is exploited to make the most of it: in the title, the metric, the major tone and its relative minor, the themes, the chords, the characters attribute and the repeated notes in the melody. Listen to it !  " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing tenor saxophone for 4 years onwards

" During the short ternary intro, the two themes are depicted and then immediatly developped in binary with a mix of Jazz and Jazz Rock styles. The "Twinning" is exploited to make the most of it: in the title, the metric, the major tone and its relative minor, the themes, the chords, the characters attribute and the repeated notes in the melody. Listen to it !  " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing tenor saxophone for 4 years onwards

" Original composition using the famous habanera rhythmic cell (dotted quarter/dotted quarter/quarter), without which there would not be any tango... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone for 6 years onwards

" Original composition using the famous habanera rhythmic cell (dotted quarter/dotted quarter/quarter), without which there would not be any tango... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone for 6 years onwards

" I had fun to mix three musical styles remotely related. My idea was to take a classical musical phrase then to reharmonize it to give it jazz or pop colors. Here is for the 'short story'.  " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing Saxophone for 3 years onwards.

" I had fun to mix three musical styles remotely related. My idea was to take a classical musical phrase then to reharmonize it to give it jazz or pop colors. Here is for the 'short story'.  " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing Saxophone for 3 years onwards.

" Melodic composition targeted to "young" students where rhythms of half note, quarter note, eighth note, on beat, are exclusively used. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Alto Saxophone for 1 year onwards

" Melodic composition targeted to "young" students where rhythms of half note, quarter note, eighth note, on beat, are exclusively used. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Tenor Saxophone for 1 year onwards

" A rhythmically simple composition that I wanted to be very melodic to encourage students to become familiar with repeated notes. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Alto Saxophone for 2 years onwards

" A rhythmically simple composition that I wanted to be very melodic to encourage students to become familiar with repeated notes. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Tenor Saxophone for 2 years onwards

" This bluesy ballad proposes an easy approach of doted quaver followed by semiquaver and helps going one step further since this solemn rhythm is always followed by 2 quavers! " - Alain LOPEZ

" This bluesy ballad proposes an easy approach of doted quaver followed by semiquaver and helps going one step further since this solemn rhythm is always followed by 2 quavers! " - Alain LOPEZ

" Blues with simple rhythmic cells and small ascending and descending chromatic movements. This piece will allow you to familiarize yourself with 'swing', supported by the piano accompaniment, imitating the horse's trot. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone for 2 years onwards

" Blues with simple rhythmic cells and small ascending and descending chromatic movements. This piece will allow you to familiarize yourself with 'swing', supported by the piano accompaniment, imitating the horse's trot. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone for 2 years onwards

" Latin music divided into three parts of 32 mes. each: the first is for students with 1-2 years of experience (only long values and small chromatisms are used), the second is for those who have 2 or 3 (add dotted quarter / eighth notes and intervals of fourths), the third is for those at the end of the first cycle (flow from eighth in addition). This piece can "follow" the students for three years and / or allow 3 students with different levels to play together. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone from between 1 and 4 years

" Latin music divided into three parts of 32 mes. each: the first is for students with 1-2 years of experience (only long values and small chromatisms are used), the second is for those who have 2 or 3 (add dotted quarter / eighth notes and intervals of fourths), the third is for those at the end of the first cycle (flow from eighth in addition). This piece can "follow" the students for three years and / or allow 3 students with different levels to play together. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone from between 1 and 4 years

" How to make a good music recipe with few ingredients? Take some quavers, long values and swing the harmonies... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone from 3 years onwards

" How to make a good music recipe with few ingredients? Take some quavers, long values and swing the harmonies... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Saxophone from 3 years onwards

" a Jazz waltz (dedicated to my uncle who was so benevolent during my early stages!) that may remind Erik Satie's Gymnopédies or the famous "Bluesette" from Toots Thielemans " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing alto saxophone for 3 years onwards - Click on title for more details

" a Jazz waltz (dedicated to my uncle who was so benevolent during my early stages!) that may remind Erik Satie's Gymnopédies or the famous "Bluesette" from Toots Thielemans " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Tenor or Soprano saxophone for 3 years onwards

" The artistic skills and sensitivity of the musician are highlighted here, in order to recreate, thanks to varied metronomic movements, rhythms and nuances, ten atmospheres described throughout the Piece. " - Alain LOPEZ

An original Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Alto Saxophone for 6 years onwards

" The artistic skills and sensitivity of the musician are highlighted here, in order to recreate, thanks to varied metronomic movements, rhythms and nuances, ten atmospheres described throughout the Piece. " - Alain LOPEZ

An original Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Tenor Saxophone for 7 years onwards

" This composition was created for young musicians (mostly teenagers), and will be played as a pop song. Indeed, its texture (silky and polished) is related to the use of triplets and harmonic series built on the principle of 'verse / chorus'. Its tempo (close to the human body beat) and duration (3 minutes) will make it the hit of the summer! " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Alto Saxophone for 4 years onwards