Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help.
Sorry if this is somewhere else in this forum.
I have a pupil who can read well (at Grade 6 standard)but has slow moving fingers.
I'm looking for a book of exercises/studies for him to help get the fingers moving.
I have hundreds of Clarinet ones in all keys but no Sax ones at all.
Any recommendations?
Thanks K

If the pupil can cope with something very boring you could try the second volume of Joseph Sellner.

I think the Ferling 48 etudes for saxophone or oboe is a good volume to have

Except that they are pieces in their own right and so you have to think of other things than just moving your fingers fast

They are, and you do, but they can be used in so many different ways, and the fact it covers all key signatures is a big plus.

Do you know the Sellner?
They go up to four sharps and flats. The first two pages of each key has two (or four) bar exercices in semiquavers (or quavers I can't remember I'd have to go and check but no rhythm to think about), which "just" involve moving a couple of (awkward) fingers. The next couple of pages are short studies (three or four lines) with a bit of rhythmical variation (but nothing complicated) and some articulation marked. They are for oboe or saxophone.

My teacher had me play the exercices all slurred with a metronome and gradually increasing the speed. Then I had to play each study three times, once all slurred, once all detached and once with the articulation which was written.

They are, as I said, boring and not particularly musical (the exercices are devoid of any musicality whatsoever) but I did find them effective (although I gave up out of boredom probably before I should have done).

I do. They're not very exciting, I agree, and you need a lot of staying power to persevere with all of them. I have a suspicion they're more effective on the oboe than on the saxophone.

This may be below the level you want for your student, but personally I have been using to fairly good effect H Klose's "25 Daily Exercises for Saxophone". They're mostly written with what appears to be a C maj key signature, but with plenty of accidentals which effectively cycle you through various other keys at different points in each exercise, if that makes sense.