Saxophone
Every note, every fingering, in tune.
Choose your horn and read music the way saxophonists do, in written pitch, with the fingering of every note beside the staff. Melody+ listens to your saxophone through the microphone and waits for the right note.
iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Android 9 or later
Made for the saxophone
Alto, tenor, soprano or baritone
Pick your saxophone once. Music is written for your horn, so the fingerings are the same on every saxophone, and Listen plays the real sound in a warm reed voice.
Fingerings beside the staff
A fingering diagram for the note you're playing, with the next one dimmed, so you never have to stop and look it up.
Concert-pitch staff
Playing with a piano? Switch the staff to concert pitch and the notes and key signature move to what the pianist reads.
It hears your horn
The microphone follows one note at a time, ignores breath noise and avoids octave slips. Wait for me holds on until you play the right note.
Sax tuner
Written notes for your horn, a calmer needle for a wind instrument, and a hint to pull the mouthpiece out or push it in.
Long tones and fingering chart
Hold a steady note and see your pitch, drift and breath with a score and your best hold. Look up every written note from low B♭ to high F and hear it.
From your first note to a tune
Choose your horn
Alto, tenor, soprano or baritone: the notes, the tuner and the fingering chart follow it.
Warm up
Tune, then hold long tones to steady your breath and your pitch.
Play the tune
Read the staff with the fingering beside it, listen first, then play with Wait for me.
2 saxophone courses
- Saxophone: First Notes
- Saxophone Songbook
Tunes to play
- Ode to Joy
- Amazing Grace
- Greensleeves
- When the Saints
- Largo (New World Symphony)
- Brahms' Lullaby
- Au clair de la lune
- Frère Jacques
- Good King Wenceslas
- Oh! Susanna
- Lightly Row
- Jingle Bells
Free and Pro
Free
Saxophone: First Notes (12 lessons, written D4 to E5), every beginner tune, all practice modes, the sax tuner, the fingering chart and Long tones.
Pro
The Saxophone Songbook course (10 lessons) and every tune at every level.
Questions
Why are the notes different from the piano's?
Saxophones are transposing instruments: an alto sounds a major sixth lower than written and a tenor a major ninth lower. Melody+ writes the music for your horn so the fingerings match, and can switch the staff to concert pitch when you play with a piano.
Which saxophones are supported?
Alto (E♭), tenor (B♭), soprano (B♭) and baritone (E♭). Choose yours in the player or in the tuner; the written fingerings are the same on all of them.
What are long tones?
A classic daily warm-up: hold one note as steadily as you can. Melody+ draws your pitch live within ±50 cents, then scores the hold, spread, drift and steadiness of your breath, and keeps your best hold.
Can I play without the microphone?
Yes. Tap to play the notes on screen and hear them in the reed voice. With the microphone on, Melody+ checks every note you play on your own saxophone.
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Your first song is a few minutes away.
Pick up your piano, guitar, ukulele or saxophone, open Melody+ and play a note. It will light up.
iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Android 9 or later