Well when I was a young lad in the sixties and still learning to play this infernal tube with knobs on.
Me and my mate would meet up on Wednesday
Well when I was a young lad in the sixties and still learning to play this infernal tube with knobs on.
Me and my mate would meet up on Wednesday afternoons in his basement and the only book we had to practice from was a Victorian or very old practice book for piano. It contained melodic and harmonic scale excersises. That was all we had so we'd start the exercises at the lowest note on the saxophone and play up to the highest note that we could.
There wasn't a lot've altissimo knockin' about in those days. Charlie didn't do it, and Ornette squeaked a bit evry now and we didn't need it in the R&B and R&R bands that we played with then so we didn't bovver wiv it.
The exercises were quite pyramidic in shape but we cut 'em off top and bottom to fit.
We'd do that once a week for a couple of hours and after we'd nip off darn the pub and talk about be-bop and stuff.
I was going to suggest Nicolas Slominsky but I just noticed that although he doesn't specifically do 4 octaves in his book he does do five octaves in 6 parts and 3 octaves in 4 parts.
It is however often pyramidical and he does infra-ultrapolation, and septitone progressions over seven octaves as well as palindromic canons.
I was a rock'n'roll nutcase in the late 90's and went through a phase of doin' this stuff for hours on end on a daily basis.
On the back cover of the Slominsky - "Thesarus of scales and melodic patterns" - if I may quote -
" . . . The Thesarus is a monumental compilation of unfamiliar melodic patterns; it is a precious reference book for advanced pianists in developing a superior technique . . . "
These days I still suffer from insomnia but I don't shake as much as I used to to.
Cses at the lowest note on the saxophone and play up to the highest note that we could.
There wasn't a lot've altissimo knockin' about in those days. Charlie didn't do it, and Ornette squeaked a bit evry now and we didn't need it in the R&B and R&R bands that we played with then so we didn't bovver wiv it.
The exercises were quite pyramidic in shape but we cut 'em off top and bottom to fit.
We'd do that once a week for a couple of hours and after we'd nip off darn the pub and talk about be-bop and stuff.
I was going to suggest Nicolas Slominsky but I just noticed that although he doesn't specifically do 4 octaves in his book he does do five octaves in 6 parts and 3 octaves in 4 parts.
It is however often pyramidical and he does infra-ultrapolation, and septitone progressions over seven octaves as well as palindromic canons.
I was a rock'n'roll nutcase in the late 90's and went through a phase of doin' this stuff for hours on end on a daily basis.
On the back cover of the Slominsky - "Thesarus of scales and melodic patterns" - if I may quote -
" . . . The Thesarus is a monumental compilation of unfamiliar melodic patterns; it is a precious reference book for advanced pianists in developing a superior technique . . . "
These days I still suffer from insomnia but I don't shake as much as I used to to.