ISBN 9781619118294.

Your warm-up time is a precious thing. It can get you off to a great day of practicing or it can set you back every time you pick up your instrument. Learning the correct way to warm up will benefit every part of your playing and send you on your way to mastering the saxophone! This book is the product of the last 10 years of building my warm-up routine and will teach you my proven method guaranteed to improve your playing by leaps and bounds. The exercises in this book are designed specifically for the range of the saxophone and address some of the most common problems that people who play this instrument run into.The main areas of study in this method are:1. Sound Concepts2. Scales & Arpeggios3. Working with a Metronome4. How to Structure Your TimeA good day starts off on the right foot and a good practice session starts off with a quality warm-up. Treat your warm-up time with the care and precision that a brass player or drummer does, and turn a repetitive routine into a new one which challenges you every day.Contained Inside: Sound Concepts aC/ Articulation Patterns aC/ Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Scales aC/ Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Thirds aC/ Full Range Major and Minor Arpeggios aC/ Staggered Major and Minor Arpeggios aC/ Major and Minor Seconds aC/ Full Range Chromatic Scale Exercises aC/ Combining Keys with Both Scales and Arpeggios aC/ Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Fourths and Wider Intervals.

ISBN 9781609749286.

The purpose of this book is to help the student answer the question, 'What do I play?' It discusses elements of jazz, seventh chords, blues, riffs, vertical and horizontal improvisation, playing through the changes, rhythm patterns, the scalar approach, substitution and much more!