Forum of the Saxes

JPSaxMan · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:

Thanx for the clarification! Very Happy

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Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

Guest · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject:

The best way to learn to improvise is to "lift" your favourite solos. Learn to play your favourite solos so that when you play along with the recording, it sounds like one player. Learn all the inflections. Like was said before, don't just stick with sax players though. Every instrument can add something to your jazz vocabulary you might have otherwise ignored or missed.
Jazz is a language. As such, you need to constantly be improving your vocabulary. Books such as Jerry Coker's "Patterns for Jazz" and Jerry Bergonzi's "Pentatonics" will help with that. Always try to be creative and play melodically though. It's always good to have "your" licks as well. When you come up with a line you like...learn it in all keys and keep practicing it. Michael Brecker mentioned that it would take him 6 months before something he had been working on ever made it into his solos.

soprano-sax-girl · Guest

You can also study Oliver Nelson's improvasation book.
It really help your improvasation and your sax technique.
A challengin book but very helpfuuuul.

cannonball_phil · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

try learning the lydian and the lydian dominant scales it better than using the blues and pentatonic scales all the time(not saying you cant use blues or the pentatonic its just when you use the same scales alot your imrovised solos can get boring)but use those and the one I've suggested or try the mixolydian and the dorian scale and for your latin and bossanova songs try the harmonic minor it sounds cool
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