Melodic Minor Modes Infographic
What mode can I play on what chord? How do you spell each mode? Here is an infographic to help you remember your melodic minor modes. Each mode is written out w...
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5 Essential Sax Solos To Learn From Jazz’s Historical Lineage of Great Tenor Players
Chris Potter, Melissa Aldana, Kamasi Washington — These are some of jazz’s best contemporary tenor saxophonists. What is something that they all sha...
Major Scales for Saxophone
Here are all the major scales for saxophone. They are written out one octave ascending and descending. The whole range of the saxophone from ‘low-Bb’...
The Best Saxophone Warm-up in the world
Is this the best warm-up in the world? I don’t know.. but it is a darn good one. I really don’t even think about stepping on stage without a quick r...
Chris Potter- The Eternal Triangle
Here is the first Chorus of Chris Potter’s solo on The Eternal Triangle Chris Potter- The Eternal Triangle- Transcription
A chorus on "Four" by Miles Davis
Here is a written out solo exercise on the changes to “Four” by Miles Davis Download: Solo Exercise on “Four” Bb Instruments
Alone Together Chorus – 6-28-11
This one is more of a transcription of myself then a written out solo exercise. There are definitely some challenging parts of the solo. But it is a cool one t...
Arpeggiating basic Piano Voicings – ii-V-I
The concept here is a simple one. Instead of simply arpeggiating 1 -3 -5 -7 , we can getting into the upper structures of the chords. Utilizing 9ths, 11ths, 13t...
Blues Chorus (6-21-11)
One solo Chorus on a fast Bb blues. blues-chorus-6-21-11-Tenor-Saxophone1 Recording: Bb-blues
A Chorus on Stella By Starlight (6-20-11)
Here is a written out solo chorus on the changes to the tune Stella by Starlight. Stella-Chorus-6-20-11-Tenor-Saxophone1 Recording- Stella-chorus