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
The opening bar of this lick really is a rather overused a cliche on the saxophone. (Is there an underused cliche?). However by transposing it down a semitone over the next chord you get some very nice chromatic notes giving you the b9, b13 and b5. To avoid double flats in places I have changed the enharmonic spelling in where it is ambiguous, e.g. on the Eb7 the B and A give you a #5th instead of b13th and #11th instead of b5th. I was taught this pattern by Bill Charlson, one of the truly great saxaphone teachers.
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).
