Saxophone Improvisation Lessons on CD

Each lesson on this series of CD's encourages you to learn "by ear" important concepts or exercises that every person aspiring to play jazz should know about.

Recorded lessons are the next best thing to having a lesson with a teacher. The lessons are designed for the you to play along with. Ideas are first transmitted aurally, that is to say, the concept or exercise is first played for you to "learn by ear" and then afterwards explained verbally.

Volume 1

First Blues

What makes you special as a player? • Sound: vibrato, timbre & pitch bending

Diatonic Chord & Scale Exercise

Improvisation example to "Diatonic Chord & Scale Exercise"

Bebop Scales for Minor7, Dominant7 and Major7

Play-Along tracks to Bebop Scales:

F Dorian

Bb Mixolydian

Eb Ionian

Volume 2

Anticipating The Changes -Scale Exercises

Technique exercise: Chromatic Seconds in the upper register

Practicing "Changes"

Play-Along: Just Friends - changes

V7 Altered Chord

B7 alt play along for V7 Altered Chord

Gm7 C7 Altered Chord Sequence

Dm7 G7 Altered Chord Sequence