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Amazing Phrasing is for any sax player interested in learning how to improvise and how to improve their creative phrasing. The ideas are divided into three sections: Harmony (explores scales, arpeggios, chord substitutions, harmonic embellishments, and other harmonic phrasing ideas), Rhythm (covers legato tonguing, swing feel, rhythmic displacement, how to manipulate time, and other aspects of rhythmic phrasing), Melody (discusses contour lines, making patterns musical, developing a motif, building a solo, and many other melodic phrasing ideas). The accompanying audio tracks include demos for listening, as well as many play-along examples so you can practice improvising over various musical styles and progressions.

Table of Contents:

• Modes
• Major Scale Patterns
• Major Chord Patterns
• Minor Chord Patterns
• Diatonic Seventh Chords
• Arpeggios
• Dorian Mode
• Mixolydian Mode
• The II-V-I Progression
• The Minor II-V-I
• IIm7-V7 Etude
• One Measure IIm7 - V7 Patterns
• Descending Ninth Chords
• Fourths
• Bebop Mixolydian
• The Dimishing Scale
• The Altered Scale
• The Whole Tone Scale
• Polychords
• Tritone Substitutions
• The Passing Diminished
• Pentatonics
• Jazz Legato Tonguing
• Developing a Swing Feel
• Energizing Your Lines
• Manipulating Time
• Three Against Four
• Rhythmic Displacement
• Chromatic Scales in Cycle
• Challenge Tempo
• Creating Melodies
• Melodic Embellishment
• Contour Lines
• The Blues Scale
• Blues Guide Tone Line
• Melodies from the Blue Scale
• Building a Solo
• Arpeggiating Chords in a Progression
• Chord Scales
• Horizonal and Vertical Approaches
• Making Patterns Musical
• Soloing in a Limited Range
• Rhythm Changes
• Playing in a Key Center
• One Chord Vamps
• Neighboring Tones
• Approach Notes
• Developing a Motif
• Finding Your Voice

Catalog:	HL00311108
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Dennis Taylor
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Voicing:	Alto Sax
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Pages:	104