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So you’ve just got back from the sax shop and you’re sitting there holding a big tube of metal with lots of buttons on it and it all looks a bit confusing! Or maybe you played years ago and you want to get started again in the right way and build good habits from the start. If that’s the case, then this is the course for you!

Lesson 1: Mouthpiece, Ligature and Reed.
Lesson 2: Forming Your Embouchure and First Sound.
Lesson 3: Finger Placement and First Notes.
Lesson 4: Articulation and 4 more notes.
Lesson 5:  2nd Octave Notes, Low C, Reading Music Intro + When The Saints.
Lesson 6: F# and C#, D major Scale+ more!
Lesson 7: Bb  and Eb, The Minor Pentatonic + The Blues!
Lesson 8: Ab and High D, The Chormatic Scale + Blue Skies
Lesson 9: High D# and E, Low C#, 16th note rhythms + a funk sax workout!
Lesson 10: All the notes, building your routine, 7 steps to learn any tune!

Have you always wanted solo over your favourite songs, play the blues or jam with friends? Nothing beats the freedom and creative expression of improvising! Not only is it incredibly rewarding and fun, you'll become a much better musician too. This course will guide from the very beginning, in a clear step-by-step way with practical and fun lessons that get you playing from the start!

Module 1: Getting Started
Lesson 1: Keeping the groove 
Lesson 2: Your first phrases
Lesson 3: Expanding your range
Lesson 4: Building solos with phrases
Lesson 5: The Blues Scale

Module 2: The Blues
Lesson 6: The Simple Blues
Lesson 7: The Major Blues Scale
Lesson 8: 2 New Keys 
Lesson 9: The Minor Blues (Part 1)
Lesson 10: The Minor Blues (Part 2)

Module 3: Common Progressions
Lesson 11: The 50's Progression
Lesson 12: The Major II V I
Lesson 13: The Minor II V I
Lesson 14: Adding Passing Notes
Lesson 15: Enclosures
Lesson 16: Short II V and Learning Language
Lesson 17: The Secondary Dominant 
Lesson 18: The Back Door Progression
Lesson 19: Turnarounds 
Lesson 20: Turnarounds (Part 2)

Module 4: Famous Jazz Tunes
Lesson 21: How to solo on the Jazz Blues (Full Version)
Lesson 22: How to solo on Summertime
Lesson 23: How to solo on  Rhythm Changes
Lesson 24: How to solo on Autumn Leaves
Lesson 25: How to solo on There Will Never Be Another You

Module 5: Learning From The Greats
Lesson 26: Cannonball's Solo on Barefoot Sunday Blues
Lesson 27: Branford Marsalis on Englishman In New York
Lesson 28: Stan Getz on The Girl From Ipanema
Lesson 29: Lester Young on Lester Leaps In
Lesson 30: Charlie Parker on Cherokee

Learn what really makes the saxophone one of the most expressive instruments in the world. In this course you'll learn how to use articulate and phrase notes so that they sound like they do on your favourite records!

Module 1: Shaping Your Sound

Lesson 1: The Breath - increase your control and power.

Lesson 2: Shape your notes and phrases with dynamics.

Lesson 3: Vibrato

Lesson 4: Bend it don't scoop it!

Lesson 5: The Growl!

Lesson 5b: Subtone

Module 2: Tonguing and Articulation

Lesson 6: Legato Tonguing

Lesson 7: How and when to use staccato

Lesson 8: Flutter tonguing

Lesson 9: Muted Tonguing (Part 1)

Lesson 10: Muted Tonguing and Jazz Articulation (Part 2)

Module 3: Phrasing with the fingers!

Lesson 11: Grace Notes 

Lesson 12: Blues Trills

Lesson 13: Falls

Lesson 14: False Fingering

Lesson 15: Jazz Turns

Module 4: Learning from the Masters

Lesson 16: Coleman Hawkins' Ballad Playing

Lesson 17: Paul Desmond on Take Five

Lesson 18: Dexter Gordon plays the blues!

Lesson 19: Phil Woods plays Alone Together

Lesson 20: Stan Getz on Desafinado

Do any of these effect you?

• Have you ever struggled to keep time when playing with backing tracks?
• Do you struggle to sight read rhythms?
• Do you ever get lost in you sax solos when improvising?
• Do you want to sound engaging when you play?
• Do you lack confidence when you perform?

The reason is the way you feel and understand music rhythmically. It is underneath everything we do on the sax. If you improve your rhythm you will notice that everything gets better!

Module 1: Rhythmic Foundations

Lesson 1: Layering rhythms, vocalising note values + 'rhythmic' scales

Lesson 2: 8th Note Combinations

Lesson 3: Time to Swing!

Lesson 4: Off-Beat Workout!

Lesson 5: Introducing Triplets + 16th Notes

Module 2: Cross Rhythms

Lesson 6: Triplets in 2's

Lesson 7: Triplets in 4's

Lesson 8: It Don't Mean A Thing!

Lesson 9: 3 3 2 Blues

Lesson 10: Rhythmic Displacement + The Girl From Ipanema

Lesson 11: Let's Take Fives

Module 3: Time Feels

Lesson 12: Double Time (Part 1)

Lesson 13: Double Time Part 2)

Lesson 14: 3/4 Time (Part 1)

Lesson 15: 3/4 Time (Part 2)

Lesson 16: Compound Time

Module 4: Odd Time Signatures

Lesson 17: Let's 'Take 5'!

Lesson 18: 7/4 Time 

Lesson 19: Fun with 5/8

Lesson 20: Finishing with 7/8!

Duets are some of the best and most fun ways to improve your reading, ensemble playing and rhythm.

In this course you will have 10 duets written by Paul Riley. Each one comes with:

• PDFs with and without note names
• Animated Scores to follow
• Backing tracks and Performance tracks to download
• 3 Versions for 2 altos, 2 tenors and mixed 1 alto and 1 tenor.

Lesson 1: Blues You Can't Refuse

Lesson 2: Midnight Bossa

Lesson 3: West Coast Stroll

Lesson 4: Sitting In The Pocket!

Lesson 5: Allegra's Lullaby

Lesson 6: Between The Lines

Lesson 7: Morning Mist

Lesson 8: Coming Soon

These are short lessons (less than 1 minute!). Designed to inspire you with something to practice when you're short on time but still want to learn something new. 

• PDF downloads of all the material played.
• Ability to slow the videos to 3/4 and 1/2 speed for practice.
• Subtitles in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish

What's Inside So Far?

• Great Mordern 5 Note Pattern
• Mordern Jazz Patern on a Blues
•  ii V I Pentatonic Trick
• Cool A7 Pattern
• 3 ii V I Licks with the Diminished Scale!
• Create Off-Beat Triplets!
• Minor ii V Trick!
• Major Jazz Pattern
• Open Up Your Arpeggios!
• Jazz 6ths Pattern
• Blues Lick in 3 Steps!
• 3 Charlie Parker Blues Licks
• 6 Levels of ii V I
• Decorate A Melody With This!
• A (Very!) Fast Blues Lick!
• Great Way To Learn ALL Your Arpeggios
• A Great Pentatonic Pattern
• 3 Rhythm Ideas On Autumn Leaves (or Any Tune!)
• John Coltrane Infinite Lick Challenge
• 3 Phrasing Ideas for Melodic Solos
• Jingle Steps!
• Great Sound On Major Chords
• 3 John Coltrane Licks
• Finger Speed Exercise
• Turn any fragment into music
• Killer Pentatonic Rhythm Exercise
• Minor ii V I Trick
• Charlie Parker Lick Challenge
• Jazz Lick In 4 Steps!
• Pentatonic Pattern in 5 Steps
• Jazz Scale Pattern For Any Scale
• Jazz Up Your Arpeggios
• Add Fire To Your Pentatonics!
• John Coltrane Dimished Pattern
• Play The OSA Lick!
• Try The Modal Challenge!
• Jazz Up Your Scales
• Try This ii - V - I Pathway
• Faster Fingers On Sax!
• Hidden Blues Scale Shape!
• Great Sound on a D7 Chord
• Great Blues Scale Trick!
• Try This On A Major ii - V I
• Try This On A Dominant 7th Chord
• Try This Rhythm Idea
• Try This on a Major Chord
• ii - V - I Trick!
• The Self-Cycling Lick