CHAM'S SAXOPHONE LESSONS
June 3, 2025
Hi Cham,
**Our recital is this Sunday, June 8 at 3:30pm in the lower level recital hall**
Your piece for the recital-
What Is This Thing Called Love? solo transcription is below in the TUNES section. I'll accompany you.
We'll get back on board with these other assignment eventually.
Be sure to use your jazz/subtone embouchure - thinking of opening your jaw and letting your lips hold the air in.
Assignments for your next lesson
- Listen a lot to Kenny Garrett's tune, Happy People and figure out as much of that as you can
- We'll get started with Take the "A" Train at the next lesson: learn the head - MEMORIZE IT - and play it like the performer on one of the recordings (i.e. don't just play it like it's written on the page; play it like one of the masters does)
Listen to these a lot!
Exercises-
Continue practicing these sheets - use them for correct articulation and a subtone embouchure:
Check out this link to Basic Jazz Harmony at the piano - we've already done all of this together. With your knowledge of the keyboard, these sheets are really just in case you find yourself confused about something.
TUNES-
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Autumn Leaves -
I'm thinking that you should learn to play the head just like Miles Davis and then learn Miles' solo. We can still work on Cannonball's solo, it's just that Miles' solo is more approachable:
Take the "A" Train-
-Ye Olde Stuffe-
LINK to the Great American Songbook page