Amazing Phrasing (Alto sax)

Description

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.