Music Lessons
Saxophone Lessons
Jazz Saxophone Lessons

Jazz Saxophone Lessons

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Beginner

Basics
- Proper horn assembly
- Embouchure technique
- Finger position
- Tone control
- Note reading
- Critical listening
Technique
- Major scales in basic keys
- Articulation excersises
Repetoire
- Simple melodies

Intermediate

Technique
- Overtones
- Major and minor scales in all 12 keys
- Chromatic scale
- Major and minor arpeggios
Repetoire/Improvisation
- 12 bar blues progression
- Jazz standards (American Songbook)
- Charlie Parker Omnibook solos
- transcribed solos
Theory/Ear Training
- Chord structure
- Chord-scale relationships
- 7th chords (major, minor, dominant, half diminished, fully diminished, augmented, etc.)
- ii V I progression
- Interval/single note recognition
- Chord recognition

Advanced

Technique
- Major and minor diatonic seventh chords
- Advanced scales/modes (diminished, whole tone, melodic minor, super locrian, etc.)
- Altissimo excersises
Repetoire/Improvisation
- Jazz standards (American Songbook, Coltrane, Shorter, Contemporary tunes)
- Transcribed solos
Theory/Ear Training
- 9, 11, 13 chords
- Chord substitutions
- Polychords
- Multiple note recognition

About the Saxophone

Saxophones are in fact most accurately categorized as aerophones. Brass is used to make the body of the instrument; the pad cups; the rods that connect the pads to the keys; the keys themselves and the posts that hold the rods and keys in place.