Backing Tracks Aebersold playalongs

[Jay]

@Jay Try HERE Yes it's our very own @Pete Thomas Lots of information about jazz improvisation. Btw the most important 3 chords in Jazz are the ii V I Every jazz tune you can find will have a combinations of these chords in different keys.

Chris...

Thanks Chris. Wow! there's a lot there. I'll start slowly.......

That's a good bit of info re the three chords - thank you.

 

[kevgermany]

Thanks Chris. Wow! there's a lot there. I'll start slowly.......

That's a good bit of info re the three chords - thank you.

And if it's folk music it's C,F,G... (mostly)

 

[Jay]

And if it's folk music it's C,F,G... (mostly)

Yes, that looks familiar.

That was my little 'breakthrough' the other day, that all those folk songs I have written out with guitar chords, I now can improvise over (now I know what a dominant 7th is 😉). Clearly my brain is slow to make these connections!

In other news, I have a new mouthpiece 😀 I know, I know, what am I doing messing about with new mouthpieces when I don't know my scales.

Well my teacher started saying 'we should start looking at alternative mouthpieces for you soon' and showing me his massive collection of mouthpieces, Links, a Guardala ( I note he didn't offer that I could borrow that one to try 😉) . Well I jumped the gun rather and bought a Lawton 'plain' 7 on eBay, on the grounds that it can go back there if necessary. I hope he's not cross.

Have just been playing it 😀
1. my chops ache a lot - but it sounded better with the 2H reed than the 2M, perhaps try some different softer reeds?
2. it's a much more interesting sound, and I can vary it more - I like it
3. I can hear 'air' when I play quietly - not sure what that's about.

I am intending finding a new mouthpiece I like and then sticking with it - I don't want to keep changing.

OK, that's enough rest, off to play again.

 

[jbtsax]

And if it's folk music it's C,F,G... (mostly)

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

 

[Targa]

Is there something you haven't told us 😱

Jx

Kev likes doing housework.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ

 

[Targa]

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck43JCFAUR8

 

[jbtsax]

 

[spike]

Hay man hay - boots and saddles - herd 'em up, move 'em out . . .
When cowboys get the bit between their teeth they just done gone horse around with their fillies all night long.

 

[Tenor Viol]

Jay those with capitals are major and those with smaller are minor

What she said

 

[DavidG]

Hi All - This has been a fascinating read with excellent information from all concerned. I am always in awe of the level of knowledge on this site.

However, I have question. Is there a "Creative Saxophone Improvising" book pitched at the beginner level? A search on Aussie ebay only revealed the one for intermediate players.

Would the intermediate level book be suitable for a 'relative' beginner?

Cheers,
David

 

[Nick Wyver]

Creative Saxophone is a beginners tutor book that gets you started on improvising as well.

 

[Jay]

@DavidG, I've just bought the Creative Saxophone Improvising book, from @Nick Wyver recommending the series. Here is a photograph of the first tune, to give you an idea (there are a couple of pages before this on chord progressions):
So the left hand page has warm-ups in the right chords, the scales involved, and some ideas for solos. Then the right hand page has the tune, and then below, the chords (first two written out as scales) for the solo.

(PS I think it's ok to do this as you get a 'preview' on Amazon and the like, plus we are advertising the book!).

As Nick says, there is a book before this one in the series - I don't have that one.

From my brief look at the one above yesterday, I can tell I'm going to like it, and that it's going to keep me busy for quite some time 🙂 Reviews I read suggested they packed a lot into one book - looks like it - so presumably they do in the first book too.

 

[Nick Wyver]

The first book assumes you are a complete beginner (at saxophone, not just improvising), so it rather depends how far down the line you are whether or not you'll find it useful.

 

[DavidG]

Thanks Jay and Nick. I think I'll go for the Creative Saxophone Improvising and if it's too advanced I can always get the beginner level one. 🙂

 

[Jeanette]

Thanks Jay and Nick. I think I'll go for the Creative Saxophone Improvising and if it's too advanced I can always get the beginner level one. 🙂

Let us know how you get on with it

Jx

 

[nickh]

@Kev - that's what I meant - it gives every appearance of originally having been prepared as notes for a class or similar 30+years ago and just hasn't moved on.

So true! I bought a couple of the Abersold books including maiden voyage. The lack of a melody line makes it pretty unattractive too a beginner like me. Although I'll persevere as I want too learn summertime and I'm guessing it helps too develop and ear for hearing chord changes.

I have a Hal Leonard standards book too which I love... Just plug in and play 🙂

 

[Nick Wyver]

They just assume you can read music. If you can't then they're not for you.

 

[zonedout]

Hi .Havent been here in awhile and trying so hard to understand some of the changes in the Maiden Voyage. On the tune... Summertime ..Alto version. Help ...please spell out the notes im to play in a B7+9 and the F#7+ 9. I am so confused as of to why they show all the notes they do Thankyou !!!!

 

[zonedout]

So true! I bought a couple of the Abersold books including maiden voyage. The lack of a melody line makes it pretty unattractive too a beginner like me. Although I'll persevere as I want too learn summertime and I'm guessing it helps too develop and ear for hearing chord changes.

I have a Hal Leonard standards book too which I love... Just plug in and play 🙂

Hi Nickh.
Im wondering if you can help me.Why do the shouw all the notes they do on the F#7+9 & the B7+9?
thankyou

 

[BigMartin]

Hi .Havent been here in awhile and trying so hard to understand some of the changes in the Maiden Voyage. On the tune... Summertime ..Alto version. Help ...please spell out the notes im to play in a B7+9 and the F#7+ 9. I am so confused as of to why they show all the notes they do Thankyou !!!!

F#7+9 is an F#7 with some fancy extra notes thrown in. Until you learn to hear those fancy notes, just treat it as an F#7. So F#, A#, C#, E. Just play those notes for the time being. But in Summertme, the F#7s are functioning as dominants anyway so you can play pretty much anything you like as long as you resolve it nicely onto the following B minor. The resolutions will be easier to hear if you just play the chord tones. As for the B7, it's only for two beats anyway. Either treat it the same way as above or just pretend it isn't there.