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.
B Flat Overtone Series – Play Along with Bob
How to play/practice the Bb overtone series.
Killer Saxophone Warm Up
Warmup your embouchure, forearms, and fingers while increasing your air capacity and focusing your mind.
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.
Transcribing Not Optional: Recording with Snarky Puppy
Years of transcribing solos helped me memorize and record 12 tunes in 3 days—by ear.
How to handle adjacent chromatic 7th chords
5 ways to improve your playing over tricky chromatic changes
Blue 7
Melodic motifs, rhythmic displacement, and the Lydian dominant scale are covered in this series on the classic blues tune by Sonny Rollins.
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.
What to Do About Wimpy High Notes
How to make those palm keys speak as naturally as the middle range of your horn
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