Amazing Phrasing (Alto sax)
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Amazing Phrasing (Alto sax)

Instrument
Altsaxofoon
Author/Composer
Dennis Taylor
Publisher name
HAL LEONARD
Item type
Sheet music + audio online

50 Ways to Improve Your Improvisational Skills

Amazing Phrasing is a practical and pleasing manual for any Alto saxophone player interested in learning how to improvise and improve their creative phrasing. The ideas are divided into three intuitive sections:

  • Harmony which explores
    • scales and barpeggios
    • chord substitutions
    • harmonic embellishments and other phrasing ideas
  • Rhythm covers
    • legato tonguing
    • swing feel
    • rhythmic displacement
    • how to manipulate and mix-up time and syncopation
  • Melody
    • using contour lines
    • making musical patterns
    • developing motifs and building a solo

The companion CD contains demos for listening as well as many play-along examples so you can practice improvising over various musical styles and progressions.

€26.95
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