Introducing our brand new online course on pop saxophone, designed to help you master the art of playing the saxophone in pop music. Whether you’re a beginner or an intermediate player, this course has been created to help you develop the skills and techniques needed to play your favorite pop songs on the saxophone. With …
One of the things that strikes me about the seemingly endless amount of ‘free’ lessons on the internet is the lack of people encouraging you to play some songs. As many of you know I owe a great debt to my mentor Branford Marsalis, ‘our concept is to play jazz, learn 100 years of it …
This course covers five of the best saxophone ‘breaks’ ever recorded. A break is your opportunity to shine or to fail. Get it right and you grab the listeners attention and set up a solo that will be forever remembered, get it wrong and well, you might just get a cymbal thrown at you. In …
These special Practise Along videos are designed along the lines of Apple’s amazing Fitness + videos that I regularly use to help me with my fitness workouts. The idea is that all you need is your saxophone and then follow along with me. For some of the videos, there are PDFs to practise with. Please …
In this course, we are going to learn 10 licks in 10 weeks. Each lick has been carefully chosen by me because of its sound, frequency of use, and harmonic application. You should learn each lick carefully in the following three ways…
Mo Better Blues is a Spike Lee film from 1990. Mo Better Blues follows the life and musical career of fictional musician, ‘Bleek Gillian’ played by Denzel Washington. The Theme from Mo Better Blues was written by Bill Lee, Spike Lee’s father and features on the ABRSM Grade 1 Jazz syllabus. We are going to …
One of the things that people tell me they want to get better at is improvisation – one of the best ways to learn is to transcribe the masters. Dexter Gordon is certainly one of those masters and here is playing Charlie Parker’s, (another incredible ‘master’, if not THE master) ‘Scrapple from the Apple’. This …
