LANDER'S SAXOPHONE LESSONS
Jan 12, 2025
Assignments for your next lesson
- in the TUNES section: Focus on the specific assignment for All of Me
- Keep working on your jazz/subtone embouchure - thinking of opening your jaw and letting your lips hold the air in.
Exercises-
Continue practicing these sheets - use them for correct articulation and a subtone embouchure:
TUNES-
Practice Wynton Marsalis's solo on All of Me, ultimately getting it up to tempo to play along with the recording (tempo is 160 bpm). Start with metronome at 100-120 bpm and also practice with the video slowed down:
Practice the 1st solo chorus and get comfortable playing through the whole 12 bars. Then get it with the metronome starting as slowly as you need to and gradually getting up to quarter = 80.
Take the 2 minor pentatonic/blues scale licks that have scale degrees in red on the pdf and own them in A, G, D, F, and C. You'll also take these 5 keys and practice both the minor pentatonic scale AND the blues scale FULL RANGE WITH THE METRONOME:
As we did during the lesson, use scale degrees to transpose Miles's 1st solo chorus into all keys:
-Ye Olde Stuffe-
LINK to the Great American Songbook page