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Essential Quick Wins
The Philosophy of 60 Bpm
Using a metronome at 60 BPM doesn’t mean only practicing slowly, it’s all about your relationship to the pulse.
Stan Getz’s Palm Key Exercise
This palm key exercise was given to me by George Garzone, who in turn got it from Stan Getz as a young man. Use it to clean up technical glitches in the high register of your horn.
A One-Note Exercise to Significantly Improve Your Sound
Using middle D to address tone quality (and avoid “high school” tone).
Essential Technique
Step by Step Process to Play Scales with Speed and Perfect Execution
A rock-solid approach to getting things under your fingers—without your fingers flying—and leading you to more responsive and even execution.
An Athletic Approach to Converting the Major Scale Into 7 Important Chords
This diatonic 7th chord exercise is a must for developing better technique with the building blocks of improvisation: chords, scales, and modes.
Simple way to get started with overtones
Doing this exercise for 10 mins each time you practice will have a radically positive impact on your sound, intonation and overall facility on the horn.
Essential Courses
Blues Workout – Progressive Exercises to Hear and Feel the Blues Form
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Visual Technique for Improvisation
🪨 Build rock-solid technique while learning to think ahead on chord changes. This course has been a “light-bulb” moment for many studio members.
The 7-T Jazz Practice Framework™
⌛ Stuck in the same routine? Or not sure what to practice? Focus on what matters most as an improviser with this creative approach to structuring your practice time.
Essential Solo Studies
Using Dynamics To Accent Phrases: Dexter Gordon on “I Was Doing All Right” – Listening Lab, Chord & Guide Tone Exercises, Transcription Workout
This performance is PACKED with fun! Explore using dynamics to shape your lines and get a workout with these exercises.
Listening Lab: Hank Mobley’s melodic turnarounds (and more) from “Dig Dis”
From solo pacing to groove to rich harmonic activity to Hank’s melodic turnarounds there’s so much to explore in this killer performance.
Developing motifs over a funk groove (Michael Brecker’s solo over “Slang”)
This is a terrific example of a compositional funk solo. And these are some great techniques for practicing motivic development.