Do you ever come across a phrase or horn part that you feel you’ll never be able to play because of it’s fingering and speed?
Listening Lab: Using Straight 8th Notes to Make Your Lines Swing Hard (Ryan Kisor’s solo on “I Think My Wife Is A Hat”)
You know those medium swing tempos where it’s somehow so difficult to get your 8th notes to swing? This solo offers an ideal example of one solution.
Use Simple Triads to Get Away from Root-Based Improvising
Guide tone lines and triads are a concrete way to sound good over any chord changes, especially difficult, non-functional harmony.
Review of the “He Had a Hat” transcription challenge submissions
These reviews get into what’s creating that cool sound over the dominant chord, using alternate (side) C, and what to do when the transcription challenge is too fast for your current ability.
Transcription Challenge: Bob’s solo on “He Had A Hat” by Jeff Lorber (from a rehearsal with Jeff and Jimmy Haslip)
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Transcription Challenge Review: David Sanborn – Hobbies
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Five-Note Drills Over the Break
The saxophone “break” is not as difficult as the clarinet’s, but if you want clean execution, you must give regular attention to these details.
Transcription Challenge Review – February 2018, “Binky” lick
My review of your submissions.
Listening Lab: David Sanborn “Hobbies” from Another Hand (a Down-Home Blues in A)
This is a great example of blues-infused bebop (or bebop-infused blues) playing in a “basic I, IV, V blues” setting.
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