Saxophone Lessons
I offer saxophone lessons in-studio or via Skype. I use a wide variety of teaching techniques and teach a wide variety of styles from classical to jazz to rock and funk.
Lesson topics can include:
- basic articulation
- which books or methods should i use?
- reed manipulation
- blues scale
- pentatonic scales -scales to use for improvisation/reduced scales
- long tones
- types of chords/scales to memorize
- advanced articulation
- transcribing
- ways to practice scales and to arpeggiate chords
- swing feel vs straight vs rock/funk/latin
- connecting the sound
- how to work with a metronome
- reading rhythms
- blues song form
- standard song forms
- modal
- chromatic scale & super high and super low notes
- ii-V7-I
- playing with less physical strain, pressure and stress
- charlie parker omnibook
- swing feel
- tone exercises
- growling and tricks
- the scale syllabus
- exotic scales
- patterns, cycles, sequences
- practicing with play-alongs (Aebersold, Music Minus One etc…)
- Bach cello suites
- 3 and 4 tonic systems
- Triadic/Chromatic Concept © via George Garzone
- deconstruct transcriptions and many more
My experience includes over 25 years of teaching improvisation and
saxophone.
I received my B.M. from the New England Conservatory in 1988.
© 2013 Kenneth A. Brooks
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