Saxophone Exercises & Patterns
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Taming the Saxophone
Exercises & Patterns:
- Fingering Exercises (1)
- 1|1-1|1-2|1-3|1-4
- Fingering Exercises (2)
- 2-1|2-2|2-3|2-4
- Cycle of 5ths
- 3-1|3-2|3-3|3-4
- IIm7-V7-Is
- 4 |4-1|4-2|4-3|4-4|4-6
- Chromatic
- 5-1|5-2|5-3
- Studies in 4ths
- 6-1|6-2|6-3
- Diminished Patterns
- 7|7-1|7-2|7-3|7-4
- Whole Tone Patterns
- 8-1|8-2|8-3|8-4
All of these in full (and many more) in the book:
CYCLE OF 5ths
Before practising these, make sure you are familiar with the Cycle of 5ths. The cycle is an immensely important concept in chord progression based jazz improvisation and crops up in many tunes, whether its a simple turnaround or extended bridge pattern
This exercise is very basic, it takes you through the cycle of fifths using triad arpeggios. As it is based on pairs of triads (up a fourth, down a tone, up a fourth, down a tone etc.), the exercise repeats with the second of each pair starting the pattern. One thing you will notice about the cycle of 5ths is that pairs move downwards in whole tone steps. As you know, up a fourth goes to the same chord as down a fifth.
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