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2014-05-03 By Bob 9 Comments

An Alternative to Practicing Blues in All Keys

Is it necessary to practice blues in all keys? Here’s an alternative technique you might not have thought about.

2014-02-02 By Bob

Anthropology

This course has lots of different avenues for productive practice. In it you’ll learn how to practice with the metronome on different beats to improve your time feel, use a bebop melody to make improvisational material, and superimpose different chord qualities over dominant chords.

2014-01-04 By Bob 30 Comments

B Flat Overtone Series – Play Along with Bob

How to play/practice the Bb overtone series.

2013-11-25 By Bob 4 Comments

Killer Saxophone Warm Up

Warmup your embouchure, forearms, and fingers while increasing your air capacity and focusing your mind.

2013-11-16 By Bob 21 Comments

Improve Your Tone While Learning a New Melody

Another “kill two birds with one stone” practice strategy. Great way to work on tone while also memorizing a new melody.

2013-10-10 By Bob 2 Comments

Transcribing Not Optional: Recording with Snarky Puppy

Years of transcribing solos helped me memorize and record 12 tunes in 3 days—by ear.

2013-07-21 By Bob

How to handle adjacent chromatic 7th chords

5 ways to improve your playing over tricky chromatic changes

2013-06-01 By Bob

Blue 7

Melodic motifs, rhythmic displacement, and the Lydian dominant scale are covered in this series on the classic blues tune by Sonny Rollins.

2013-06-01 By Bob

Exercise 17 (7ths On 7) – Visual Technique for Improvisation

This exercise will get you familiar with the concept of “7th’s on 7,” or flipping a chord on its head.
This is a great technique for not only getting away from “root-based” improvising, but also
getting the important, color notes of a chord on downbeats.