When practising the melodic minor it’s more useful for jazz to use the ascending version for both up and down. Try it with harmonic and melodic minor too. Practice this in all keys, you will need to adapt slightly to fit, but try to cover the entire range of the instrument not just from tonic to tonic. This exercise is good once you know all your scales, it’s a useful way of playing the scales but with short 4 note groups that are less boring to practice and often more useful for improvising. More Warmup Exercises From Taming The Saxophone Vol 3 Ex 1.02 Practise any difficult bits on their own until you can play them as fast as the easy bits. Don’t slow down for tricky passages then speed up, you should start at a slower tempo. Any speed but you must keep a steady tempo throughout. You can use straight quavers (8th notes) or varying amounts of triplet feel. In the book, this is written out in all keys Play Audio This means that one arpeggio flows melodically to the next via a logical step rather than an interval leap As you play the exercise, think of the root note names for the arpeggios as well as the numeral, so in C major:Īdditionally this is helpful with voice leading or guide tones. You should practice this in every key, I have written roman numerals rather than the chord name to help you get used to thinking about the function and structure of chords built on each tone of the scale. So you start with an arpeggio up from the first note of the scale then down the scale into the arpeggio built on the next scale tone, the sending. The exercise consists of a series of ascending four-note (7th chord) arpeggios and descending scale fragments. Get your Fingers, Mouth and Brain in Gear Having said that you don’t even need to do an awful lot of thinking, the structure of the exercise will gradually and almost subconsciously embed the sound and idea of chord structure into your brain even if you don’t want to think about improvising yet. However, this is not just a physical (fingering) exercise but is also great at focussing your mind so that you are practising thoughtfully, not just fingering “muscle memory.”It will also help you think about some of the basic chords that we use for improvising, and how they fit in with the scales and arpeggio practice. Just like an athlete, it is best to stretch your muscles before sprinting. This warmup exercise will not only get your fingers loosened up but also functions on various important levels. Our fundraising See here for more info….Ī great book, I use it every day to keep the chops in order - Bobby Wellins Taming The Saxophone vol 3 Patterns, scales & licks for intermediate to advanced players.Discounts and Free Find all the best deals.Collectables Rare and unusual music stuff.CD | Playalongs Including downloads & sheet music.Beginners Downloads Free when you buy a book.CaféSaxophone Our friendly & informative saxophone forum.Beginners Improvising In the impro section>.Understanding Transposition for Saxophones.D’Addario Reserve alto mouthpiece (review).Saxophone Info Info | History | Reviews.
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