NENE'S SAXOPHONE LESSONS
March 11, 2025
ASSIGNMENTS
- TUNES section: Take the "A" Train - memorize the head and practice weaving your way through the changes with arpeggios.
- EXERCISES section: Jazz Styles vol. 2 in 9 keys
Exercises-
Full-range major scales in eighths, triplets, and sixteenths @ quarter = 80 (or 60? or 50?): C, F, and G AND chromatic bit in the palm keys from D up to F# and back down to D.
Click this link to Jazz Styles and get to work on your subtone embouchure and jaz articulation. Listen to the recording of the exercises and also listen for this sound and articulation in the alto playlist above.
Check out these docs at this link: Basic Jazz Harmony at the Piano - We'll do these in class together.
Some other classical materials that we may use:
TUNES-
Take the "A" Train:
Below are several recordings of Embraceable You all in the same key that Charlie Parker plays it (F concert = D for alto). Learn the head, the lyrics, and also get to work on the Charlie Parker solos:
-Flute and Clarinet Materials-
Flute:
-small aperture hole = tiny "p" under pressure (blow with the inside, wet part of lips)
-must keep lips parallel with embouchure hole (mirror)
- points of contact: shelf = base of left pointer stabilizes flute against lip
-practice octaves