CHAM'S SAXOPHONE LESSONS
Jan 12, 2025
Assignment for your next lesson:
Keep working on your jazz/subtone embouchure - thinking of opening your jaw and letting your lips hold the air in.
Practice the Pentatonic sheets below in the EXERCISES section.
In the TUNES section below: focus on All of Me.
Practice the 1st solo chorus of A Prescription for the Blues and really grab onto those A minor pentatonic/blues licks.
Exercises-
Continue practicing these sheets - use them for correct articulation and a subtone embouchure:
Check out this link to Basic Jazz Harmony at the piano - we've already done all of this together. With your knowledge of the keyboard, these sheets are really just in case you find yourself confused about something.
TUNES-
Remember that LISTENING to the recordings a lot really is the glue that makes style stick.
Continue practicing the head to All of Me and making it sound like YOU would sing the lyrics. Dig in to Mr. Marsalis's solo below - practice with the recording and/or with a metronome (the tempo is about 160bpm). Also practice playing the arpeggios and trying to grab the guide tones.
Here are recordings 3 of the most legendary singers performing All of Me - none are in your key but listen a lot to how each one sings the melody - once you get it in your ears you'll be able to play it just like they do (but in your key):
-Ye Olde Stuffe-
LINK to the Great American Songbook page