The problems of phrasing and accentuation are tackled in the same way as those of articulation and breathing. Refuting dryness and aridity, it consists of a series of brief texts, judiciously graded in their diversity, endowed with adequate annotations - some are borrowed wisely from folklore, others adapted with discernment from themes of Masters of the past. or designed specifically by contemporary composers called upon for this purpose.
The preoccupation with an essential technical base hardly excludes that of the musicality always on the alert, in this work elaborated under the double sign of scruple and clairvoyance...

Rene Bernier

In composing this work, the author sought above all to make the young student not only a saxophonist but also a musician. His second concern was to bring them as pleasantly as possible, and however young they may be, to "own" this instrument - for example, to be able to play a new text in first reading, if not in second. For this, the "formulas of mechanism" likely to help them to quickly overcome the first difficulties specific to the saxophone (without omitting the difficulties of reading) have not been spared.
As with the first notebook and always taking into account the current possibilities of young schoolchildren, each lesson corresponds, in principle, to a week of work and the notebook to the "Preparatory" degree.
For example, it is proposed for each music session: 5 to 10 minutes of Threaded Sounds and Straight Sounds, 10 to 15 minutes of Scales, 10 to 15 minutes of Mechanism Formulas and 5 to 10 minutes of piece.