THEO'S SAXOPHONE LESSONS
May 13, 2024
Hi Theo!
Great work on the new jazz articulation!!
Assignment for your next lesson:
For Sandu:
- GUIDE TONES (3rds and 7ths) and RHYTHM
- Listen for the blues licks in Clifford's solo and try to extract those
- Remember the last 4 bars of the piano solo that we transcribed? Use that! and remember what's cool about it: the repetition and blues flavor
- Whichever Greg Fishman jazz duet that you are working on: Harlem Avenue?
-get going on the new sheet in EXERCISES (Jazz Styles vol. 2)
- Yardbird Suite - LISTEN to the recording a lot for articulation and style; try to play along with HEADPHONES
Exercises-
Adam Street: slowed alto part only with rhythm section
Adams Street: slowed both parts with rhythm section
TUNES-
I'll Be Seeing You via this LINK to the
Great American Songbook page