I thought that ticking any of the categories shown would be misleading about what I do.
Having returned to the Sax after decades away I'm rebuilding embouchure and repertoire and trying to remember what I had in my head way back... (apart from women, wine, whacky baccy and sailing...)
I still have a few back-of-fag-packet tunes - one of which ('Manumission') I haven't heard anyone else play...- scribbled out using alphabetical notation (impressive sounding expression just coined meaning 'letters not dots').
I have been looking at stuff from beginners level to intermediate (a) as revision after a long absence, and (b) I'm hoping my 8 year old son might be ready before long to have a go at alto sax (fingers too skinny to cover the holes on my clarinet!) and teaching is the best way to learn where you have skated over things...(!)
I have a stack of Wikifonia stuff. My reading was always pretty poor (working on that now!) so I use this both as reading practice, aide memoir to stuff I used to play, source of new tunes and info on harmonies (this last treated with caution - it can be a moveable feast...).
Pete's Taming The Saxophone stuff is extremely accessible, not intimidating and very sound educationally - it encourages you to improve. It will be the core of my son's material as soon as he is past the simple melody and 'learning where all the notes are' stage... plenty of stuff there for years...
Jamie Aebersold's stuff (the free online book) seems to assume a quite a bit of understanding of musical 'theory' (a word of questionable application) but it does give new insight into improvisation (I think that everyone's thoughts on impro are worth hearing, even if you might reject them as not immediately helpful) and his stuff on scales and chords are a valuable resource provided you don't get put off by the sheer depth and volume of information - suggest use it on a 'need to know' or when you fancy doing your head in basis...
Forest and Eric (
http://jazzadvice.com/ ) have some really 'do your head in' stuff, if you fancy a challenge (PhD in music advisable before you try). Seriously, best used as a 'need to know' basis resource. Dip in here and there until you find something which helps you grasp a point you've been working on, ignore anything which makes your eyes revolve in your head - it might be useful later...
I run through the cycle of fourths pretty well every time I practice, occasionally going around in the other direction (fifths) and am working on top and bottom notes and gradually getting my tone back (amazing how long some stuff takes to recover after an absence...) Arpeggios, licks, whatever.. everything and anything from time to time.
I have always thought that the 'free jazz' concept was a useful way to practice scales, chords and modes you needed to brush up on while practising impro - beat the hell out of the chord or whatever, then modulate on to another one. You can go from one you are familiar with (reminding yourself that you are not entirely crap) to one you are not, go atonal, whatever, and aiming to make it all sound musical and swing like mad or haunting with long notes and concentrating on your tone...
I find switching between the 'free jazz' concept and doing impro over chord sequences gives a useful and illuminating aspect to practice. Ideas, phrases, licks, sequences can suddenly pop out of apparently nowhere because your mind has accessed stuff in your memory and used analogical extension to create new stuff you never knew you had in you... which is very encouraging!
I'd say that I used to be a crap intermediate player, a moderate improviser and weak on reading who did a few gigs from time to time. I ought to be back at that level soon and aim to improve on that position. Web resources are amazing - wish I had them when I was a kid!
Never used a metronome - my old sax and clarinet teacher once mildly observed that I was playing from a score written in one time signature - and my playng was sticking to that - while tapping my foot in something quite different... I always have imagined different rhythmic things going on while playing... I like Indian music, Celtic music, African music, Chinese music, polyrythyms.... and, oddly, I think that it helps me to keep the beat (!?!).
Hope these maunderings help!