Basic Jazz Conception for Saxophone by Lennie Niehaus (Vol. 1) - Exercise #6

One of the most important exercises in this book. Also practice it with a metronome on beats "two" and "four"! Make sure you hit beat "four" in phrases as in bar 3 (especially from bar 33 to the end). Be patient and wait for the second half of the measure to pass when there is a pause.

Lorenz Hargassner - alto saxophone

The tempo is 100 beats per minute. Practice in 50 bpm, putting the metronome-clicks on beats 2 and 4 of every measure. Then you can get faster and play with the CD that comes with the book.

My Setup:

Vandoren V16 A5M Mouthpiece
Vandoren ZZ # 3.5 Reeds
Vandoren Optimum Ligature

Selmer Super Balanced Action Alto Saxophone (1948)

Microphone: Sennheiser MD 421 N (1974)
Audio-Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Workstation: Cubase Elements

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[Артём-ъг]

Thank you for this brilliant example of studies, it really helps me in mine 😊

[ParkourAxolotl]

thank you! I was always messing up the rhythm