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Description

Description

Following on from the best-selling Jazz Method for Saxophone, Developing Jazz Technique for Saxophone will help intermediate players take their jazz skills to a new level. This method bridges the gap between beginning alto sax students and Jamey’s Play-A-Longs with basic, but hip, solos and a swingin’ rhythm section. The 22 pieces are written in a variety of jazz styles, including reggae, jazz waltz, bossa nova, calypso, New Orleans, South African, salsa, samba, blues and swing. Special emphasis is given to helping students improvise over chord sequences, such as the II-V-I progression. Idiomatic effects such as vibrato, subtone, glissandi and ‘bending’ notes are dealt with, and there is a special chapter on overtones. Several new scales are introduced, including the whole tone and diminished scales, and a special section on patterns contains many ideas for practising in all 12 keys. A superb rhythm section provides backing for all the pieces and exercises on the accompanying CD.

Content

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ear-training
The tunes
Improvising with modes and scales
Vibrato
Improvisation on simple harmonic forms
J.S. Bach as a model for development of the melodic line
Special Effects
More Special Effects
II-V-I in major and minor
Mor on the blues-Transposition and melodic displacement
Overtones and "False" fingerings
Diminished and whole tone scales
2/4 Time: Ragtime and Samba
The blues part III and Rhythm changes
Patterns
A basic repertoire of tunes
Bibliography
Discography
Table of chord symbols
Table of modes
Trill fingerings
Notes
CD track list
Chord progressions for tunes (insert)

Other editions

ED 12640 = Alt-Saxophon + CD