100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Tenor Saxophone is written by internationally acclaimed author and instructor Andrew D. Gordon. This product is an exhaustive guide to the various phrases that make upBlues saxophone playing, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint.
This book is ideal for most levels of musicianship, from the beginner/intermediate student who is interested in understanding and playing the Blues tomore advanced players that need new ideas to help stimulate their creativity. It is also useful as a tool for improving one s sight reading abilities with the examples being in many different keys and rhythms. The 12 barBluesprogression and the Blues scale are also explained.
Included with this book are downloadable audio files with each example recorded twice. The first version of each example has the flute playing along with a rhythmsection and the second version just has the rhythm section playing so that the saxophonist can play along.
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Jazz Compositions In Various Styles For Tenor Saxophone. Par MATTHIAS PETZOLD. Des scènes d'un carnet de croquis est une collection de neuf morceaux de concert de jazz et de musiques pour saxophone ténor dans une variété de styles de ballades à chansons pop et de la bossa nova. Toute oeuvre dans l'ensemble est un portrait d'un style de jazz, un compositeur de jazz ou un musicien de jazz comme Charlie Parker ou Stan Getz. Les compositions variées sont tous ar un niveau intermédiaire et prêtent bien à la performance live. Notes de performance sont offerts pour chaque pièce. Le CD contient la démo (avec le soliste) et du play-long (sans le soliste) les versions de chaque pièce. Les versions le long de jouer de la musique sur le CD, dont certaines ont été enregistrés à deux tempos différents, vous permettent de créer vos propres improvisations sur le thème tandis qu'accompagnée d'un piano ou d'une section rythmique complète. Certaines des pièces conviennent aux improvisateurs inexpérimentés tandis que d'autres assument certaines connaissances pratiques. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Jazz - Transcribed Solos / Recueil / Saxophone Ténor

Dirko Juchem has made a name for himself as a saxophonist saxophone teacher and specialist author on both a national and international level for many years.His saxophone sound and wide range of styles are well in demand: He has played with well-known German and international artists such as Rolf Zuckowski Barbara Dennerlein Thomas Anders Anne Haigis Harald Juhnke Pe Werner Sara K. as well as with musicians of Jethro Tull Jazz-Kantine or the Mike Oldfield Band. Apart from numerous concerts and productions with other artists and bands he performs again and again with his own programmes solo as a duo or with an entire band. Up to now he has performed in more than 100 CDand LP productions and his tours have taken him as far as Los Angeles and Taiwan.Having taught at various music schools as a saxophone teacher and held lectures at the Bundesakademie Remscheid as a guest lecturer he knows the problems of saxophonists from first-hand experience.In addition Dirko Juchem is the author of numerous textbooks and tune books for the saxophone as well as a specialist author of articles for musicians' journals ('Sonic' 'Sound Check' 'Fachblatt Musikmagazin').

For Bb (Tenor) Sax - Beginner Series-Andrew D. Gordon has created 30; 12bar blues play-a-long backing tracks in various Blues styles keys and tempos such as: Funky Blues Boogie Blues Jazz Blues Minor Blues Country Blues Latin Blues Old Time Jazz Blues Jazz Swing Blues Classic Blues Rock Soulful Blues Slow Blues and many more. Each of the 30 play-a-long tracks has been recorded with 12 choruses of the 12 bar blues progression giving you the opportunity practice soloing techniques totaling over 3 hours of music. Each of the 30 Blues styles contains a solo improvisational melody line 12 measures in length designed for the beginner student in mind as a starting point to create your ownimprovisational solos. Each of the 30 Blues tracks have been recorded first with the solo playing along with the rhythm backing tracks of keyboards guitar bass and drums and immediately following is the play-a-long backing track that cycles through the 12 bar blues progression 12 times generally between 5-8 minutes in length giving you plenty of time to practice. Blues is the basis of many forms of music and these tracks have been specifically created to include styles such as: Jazz Funk Folk Country Latin Rock Gospel Pop Boogie giving you a well-rounded selection of musical styles based on the Blues.

The idea for this book series is to give instrumentalists the opportunity to practice solo improvisational techniques while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards guitar bass drums/percussion in various different Latin styles including Calypso Mambo Salsa Songo Bossa Guaracha Samba and Latin-Blues. The 24 grooves totalling over 200 riffs/phrases and play-a-long tracks consists of a variety of tempos and keys. Each groove has a variety of riffs to learn that are generally 4 or 8 measures in length. It would be beneficial if you could memorize these riffs so that you can experiment using different permutations of the riffs as well as being used as a starting offpoint for one's own improvisations. Each riff has been recorded with a rhythm track with each style having an extended play-a-long track around 3 minutes in length recorded without the solo part so you can practice the riffs that you have learned. Also these musical phrases or riffs may be interchanged from one groove to another and should be learned in as many keys as possible.

The Bluesier Side of Jazz for Tenor Saxophone and Bb instruments by Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca was inspired by the piano students he teaches at Shepherd University School of Music in Los Angeles and is dedicated to those students: Jungwon Yumiko Yoko Eunice Sooji Hae Ji and Ok Kyu. As with many students that come from a classical background it is a difficult transition to learn to play Blues

Carefully selected and edited easy violin arrangements for players around Grades 1-2 standard. Book includes chord symbols in concert pitch fingering charts and a guide to notation and instrument care as well as eight huge hits to play. CD includes full backing tracks - professionally arranged and recorded and full demonstration recordings to help you learn the songs.