Saxophone Exercises & Patterns 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:
IIm7-V7-Is
This is a useful lick used by John Coltrane. It starts with the basic ascending IIm7 arpeggio, thenjumps from the 3rd to the 13th of the V7, which resolves nicely to the 9th of the I major 7 and a descending arpeggio.
The image here shows the first page, Taming the Saxophone Vol 3 has the exercise written out in all keys (as well as all the other exercises and more)
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All the fingering exercises are available in book format. These contain expanded versions of the online exercises (many of them in all keys) and also a section on tone exercise. 144 pages of fun!
