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:
4ths EXERCISES
The interval of a 4th is very useful for contemporary styles of jazz improvisation
As an alternative, instead of stepping up a semitone between each 4th arpeggio as shown here, try using a whole tone.
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