Amazing Phrasing – Tenor Saxophone 50 Ways to Improve Your Improvisational Skills by Dennis Taylor Tenor Saxophone - Sheet Music
By Dennis TaylorAmazing Phrasing is for any tenor saxophone player interested in learning how to improvise and improve their creative phrasing. The 50 ideas are divided into three main sections: Harmony - explores scales, arpeggios, chord substitutions, harmonic embellishments, and other harmonic phrasing ideas; Rhythm - covers legato tonguing, swing feel, rhythmic displacement, how to manipulate time, and other aspects of rhythmic phrasing; Melody - discusses contour lines, making patterns musical, developing a motif, building a solo, and many other melodic phrasing ideas. The companion audio comprises 26 demo tracks for listening, as well as many play-along examples so you can practice improvising over various musical styles and progressions. Also available for guitar, keyboard, and trumpet.
Details
Summary
- Item types:
- Physical
- Instructionals:
- Improvisation
- Artist:
- Dennis Taylor
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Size:
- 9x12 inches
- Number of Pages:
- 103
- Shipping Weight:
- 0.98 pounds
Detailed Description
SKU: HL.310787
50 Ways to Improve Your Improvisational Skills. Sax Instruction. Improvisation and Play Along. Softcover online audio. With introductory text, instructional text, musical examples, standard notation and chord names. 103 pages. Hal Leonard #310787. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.310787).ISBN 9780634035401. UPC: 073999107876. 9x12 inches.
Amazing Phrasing is for any tenor saxophone player interested in learning how to improvise and improve their creative phrasing. The 50 ideas are divided into three main sections: Harmony - explores scales, arpeggios, chord substitutions, harmonic embellishments, and other harmonic phrasing ideas; Rhythm - covers legato tonguing, swing feel, rhythmic displacement, how to manipulate time, and other aspects of rhythmic phrasing; Melody - discusses contour lines, making patterns musical, developing a motif, building a solo, and many other melodic phrasing ideas. The companion audio comprises 26 demo tracks for listening, as well as many play-along examples so you can practice improvising over various musical styles and progressions. Also available for guitar, keyboard, and trumpet.
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Ratings + Reviews
5 Rating
4 reviews
Rick
Apr 8, 2015
Speaking as a teacher for 30 years, this book is exactly the way I teach! In fact, I think Dennis Taylor must have been listening to some of the pearls I impart to my students (or maybe I overheard him), because we say exactly the same thing. There is no question that your soloing will improve with the application of the concepts in this book! Good for intermediate and advanced players, and worth far more than the price of the book.
Andrei
Jun 6, 2014
I'm a vibes player and I find this book so useful ! I'm very selective about all this teaching stuff, but this book really helps !
Wan
Apr 29, 2011
The given ideas of practicing scales and arppegios Major 7,Dominant 7,Minor 7,Minor 7b5 and Diminished are All In One package for jazz improvisers. There are tons of important stuff to develop your skills in this book.
Ian
Jul 8, 2010
You can keep this book on the shelf and take it down every week or two and get another gem. I've pretty much adapted the warmup exercises I daily from the first 7 ways - the emphasis on ear training and commiting basics to memory, as well as 12-key transposition, are really priceless - I have other jazz etude and practice books, but the simplicity and concise to the point explanations are better than most books, Also, more advanced jazz concepts (tritone subs, altered scales, sideslipping etc.) are there when you get to the point where they make sense. Besides the play-a-long is decent - really an unbelivable value for the price.