Coltrane Sax Coach

Offline tenor trainer. You think in concert pitch; written tenor notes stay secondary.

Mic off

Install Sax Coach Save it to your home screen and use it offline like a local app.

Tune

These are ear/fingering/form exercises built around each tune, not a substitute for the recording or a full copyrighted melody transcription. Load your own recording below and learn the head by ear against this vocabulary.

Target · concert pitch

tenor fingering: written D

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Play a note

−50¢ flatcenter+50¢ sharp

Start the microphone, then play the target note.

Hold / stability

Current exercise

1 · Five-note lock

—exercise score

—avg pitch error

—best score

Fingering · comfortable lower register

Written D

Filled circles = keys held down. L1/L2/L3 are left index/middle/ring; R1/R2/R3 are right index/middle/ring.

Progression

Build tune vocabulary

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Practice with your recording

Optional: load an audio file from this device. It never uploads. Use headphones so the microphone hears your sax, not the recording.

Speed0.80×

Mic behavior

Pitch detection is optimized for one saxophone at a time. Disable speaker playback or use headphones while grading.

Settings & offline setup

Allowed tuning error ±35¢ Mic sensitivity normalTimed-form tempo 75%Metronome click

Offline practice: open this page while online once so the trainer can be saved for offline use. Allow microphone access when you start practicing.

Phone: use your browser’s Install app command, or Safari’s Share → Add to Home Screen. Your progress stays in this browser on this device.

Privacy: microphone samples are processed only in JavaScript on this device. Nothing is recorded, stored, or transmitted.