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Sax: long notes (Dean Hilson)

Saturday, May 29, 2010

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

Sax: chromatic warmup (Anton Delecca)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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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 [...]

Digital Pill feature article in the Age

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Garry Barker has written a feature article in the Age GREEN GUIDE about Digital Pill and the Louie Prez CD launch. Below is some info about the new Louie Prez album with Leo Dale, Ray Pereira and Doug DeVries. Sample the first track – The Phantom – in this youtube clip Visit Louie Prez online [...]

Saltwater Sax at the Paris Cat

Monday, June 22, 2009

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Saltwater Sax at the Paris Cat playing a tune – Walking in the Moonlight – by Martha Baartz (on alto). In the group she plays with Tony Hicks on tenor, Leo Dale on alto and Paul Williamson on baritone. On this occasion they also appeared with Sonja Horbelt on drums. Tony Hicks (on tenor, far [...]

Sax: bebop scales (Paul Williamson)

Saturday, January 3, 2009

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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 [...]

Sax: stratospheric sax gliss (Dean Hilson)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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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

Sax: buzzing on the mouthpiece (Leo Dale)

Thursday, September 11, 2008

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Sax: buzzing on the mouthpiece (Leo Dale)

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 on myspace

Sax: tuning the registers (Leo Dale)

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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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 on [...]