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Sax: chromatic warmup (Anton Delecca)

March 18, 2011

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Anton Delecca explains the uses of chromatic scales in jazz improvisation and as a warm up excercise for sax. In this video, Anton describes three excersices for warm up that improve tone and dexterity and are very useful to enliven passages of improvisation. This video works together with a pdf of the lesson available here [...]

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Sax: stratospheric sax gliss (Dean Hilson)

March 17, 2011

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Dean explains how to slide effortlessly into the altissimo register of the sax in one long continuously ascending note. Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson Listen to Dean’s music here The Pearly Shells Zydeco Jump The Vanguards

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Sax: bebop scales (Paul Williamson)

March 16, 2011

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Paul Williamson explains the uses of bebop scales in jazz improvisation. In this video, Paul’s first post for Digital Pill, he describes the construction of bebop scales, jazz articulation, the use of a metronome and how bebop scales place the chord tones firmly ON the beat to create an “inside” sound in improvisation. The video [...]

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Sax: tuning the registers (Leo Dale)

March 14, 2011

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Leo gives a sax lesson on how to keep the various registers of the sax in tune. Using the interval of the 6th and some handy tips he picked up from studying J. S. Bach’s cello suites. Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson Listen to Leo’s music here Leo’s website [...]

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Sax: long notes (Dean Hilson)

October 19, 2010

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Dean looks at long notes from several different angles – the growl, vibrato, dynamics and ear training. Listen to Dean’s music here The Pearly Shells Zydeco Jump The Vanguards

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Sax: microtones (Tony Hicks)

November 22, 2009

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Tony Hicks demonstrates the 24 note scale within one octave and plays a free improvisation demonstrating the use of this extended tonality. Visit Tony on these links His bio on the Australian Art Orchestra website Tony’s albums on iTunes Tony also appears on tenor sax in this Digital Pill post

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Sax: buzzing on the mouthpiece (Leo Dale)

September 11, 2008

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Leo gives a sax lesson on how to warm up your tone by buzzing on the mouthpiece Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson Listen to Leo’s music here Leo’s website

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