Audio & Video Lessons on Saxophone & Jazz Performance
Archive for October, 2009
Lesson for October 2009
Oct 17th
The Pentatonic Scale and its uses
Pentatonic Scale BasicsThe Pentatonic Scale may be one of the oldest scales ever used by mankind on the creation of melodies. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world, including Celtic folk music, Hungarian folk music, West African music, African-American spirituals, Jazz, American blues music and rock music, Sami joik singing, children’s songs, the Greek traditional music and songs from Epirus, Northwest Greece and the music of Southern Albania, the tuning of the Ethiopian krar and the Indonesian gamelan, Philippine Kulintang, melodies of Korea, Japan, China, India and Vietnam (including the folk music of these countries), the Afro-Caribbean tradition, Polish highlanders from the Tatra Mountains, and Western Classical composers such as French composer Claude Debussy. So, it seems quite natural to use them in improvisation.
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Tritone Substitutions
Oct 12th
Explanation and demonstration of the seventh chapter of the book “250 Jazz Patterns”.
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Oct 5th
Explanation and demonstration of the sixth chapter of the book “250 Jazz Patterns”.



