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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
The saxophone was developed in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian-born instrument-maker, flautist, and clarinetist working in Paris.