Posted on
May 31, 2020 by
Sweets
This is a nice Dexter Gordon tenor sax transcription over Blue Bossa by Kenny Dorham. Blue Bossa is a really fun jazz standard to improvise over. Minor changes going into a nice ii V7 I. There are a lot of ii V7 I licks to grab from this transcription that sound so natural. Dexter also […] Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: Blue Bossa, Dexter Gordon, Jazz Standard, Kenny Dorham, Pentatonic, Piano, Tenor Sax, Transcription
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Transcriptions
Posted on
April 23, 2009 by
Sweets
A tenor sax player friend of mine back in Japan showed me this bebop scale exercise. This is not a lick, it is simply an exercise or calisthenic that will help develop your overall bebop playing. It’s very important to learn this exercise in 12 keys to really develop your technique. Here is a sample […] Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: 12 Keys, Bebop, Bebop Exercises, Calisthenic, Exercise, Improv, Jazz Skills, Octave, Scale, Technique, Tenor Sax, Tonic, Trumpet
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Bebop