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Sax: long notes (Dean Hilson)

Leo — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:04:28 +0000

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: chromatic warmup (Anton Delecca)

Leo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:59:07 +0000

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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Anton’s album is available on iTunes

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Trumpet: extended techniques (Peter Knight)

Leo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:07:35 +0000

Peter Knight demonstrates improvised laptop processing of trumpet. Peter is currently researching this area of improvisation as part of a DMA at Queensland Conservatorium. Features live sampling and processing of micro sound worlds created using the trumpet – stretched and squashed with Ableton Live.

Listen to Peter’s music here

Peter’s solo trumpet project on myspace
Peter’s jazz quartet
Way out West

All the Gravitation of Silence – available on iTunes

And CDbaby

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Sax: bebop scales (Paul Williamson)

Leo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:09:49 +0000

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 together with the pdf download explain the uses of bebop scales over major, dominant and minor scales.

Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson

Listen to Paul’s music here

Paul playing with Way out West on myspace

Way Out West – Old Grooves for New Streets available from iTunes

and from CDbaby

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Sax: stratospheric sax gliss (Dean Hilson)

Leo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:47:07 +0000

Dean explains how to slide effortlessly into the altissimo register of the sax in one long continuously ascending note.
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Listen to Dean’s music here

The Pearly Shells

Zydeco Jump

The Vanguards

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Sax: buzzing on the mouthpiece (Leo Dale)

Leo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:09:34 +0000

Leo gives a sax lesson on how to warm up your tone by buzzing on the mouthpiece

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Listen to Leo’s music here

Leo on myspace

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Sax: tuning the registers (Leo Dale)

Leo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:50:48 +0000

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.

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Listen to Leo’s music here

Leo on myspace

And then there’s all the Oxo Cubans albums on iTunes

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