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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.

2013-05-25 By Bob 13 Comments