Florian Peek

Florian Peek, Born April 23, 1983, in Capelle A/D IJssel, The Netherlands, also known by his pen name James Dóxx is a Dutch entrepreneur and author. He is the person behind the self teaching method for saxophone players named "Hello Saxophone". He's also the founder of "Dutch Improv" An organization that promotes Dutch Jazz and improvisation music across all instruments .
Background
Peek Lives in Amsterdam and runs a P.R. and communication company. While visiting his younger brother in Buenos Aires in Januari of 2009, Peek picked up his first (alto) saxophone at the famous San Telmo antiques market . An American friend that stayed with him and his brother at their house in Buenos Aires, first thought Peek the basics of the instrument . He blogged for about a month (from February the 13the till March the 6th) and then stopped. Perhaps because he started writing his book at this time (additional facts needed for this period). His Method was first released on the 27th of June 2009 on a Dutch saxophone website and later in August also on the international saxophone community
Hello Saxophone
Hello Saxophone is a [tutorial for saxophone players that is exclusively sold as an E-book via the internet.
The series that now comprises of two books: "Hello Saxophone" & "The complete scale book" quickly achieved notoriety on the online saxophone network "saxontheweb.net" because Peek released the book when he had only been playing the saxophone for 5 months
Ideas:
* Layered approach is essential

"....Everything the human brain picks up has to progress trough four stages. Now, we can do many things at the same time. But we can only THINK about one thing at a time. So if you have to think about where to put your fingers then you can’t think about varying the volume or speed at the same time. If you do you’re guaranteed to misplace your fingers as soon as you lose focus there. So we have to build it up in layers. For example: We get a good part of the notes (finger positions) into our head up to the point where we don’t have to think about them anymore and then we can focus on adding something else: volume changes, vibrato (a vibrating quality of sound), varying tempo’s, etc. Every time you get another piece of the puzzle into the unconscious competence zone of your brain you can start focusing on and adding the next layer...." , Tineke Postma , and Maria Domingus

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