Basic Jazz Conception for Saxophone by Lennie Niehaus (Vol. 1) - Introduction

This book, written in 1966 (!) is the first ever written book about jazz phrasing and articulation for saxophonists, as much as I know. Nowadays it comes with a CD, but after 20 years of teaching experience I have to say that the music on that is recorded too fast. Most students who are interested in the techniques provided by this book need it to be slower.

This is why I have created this playlist for you. I played those exercises in 100 bpm instead of 120, with different drum grooves, that underline the different parts of the measure that the exercises focus on. I hope you have fun playing along with me!

In this introduction you can learn more about me and why and how I did this.
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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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[permute]

Thank you, listening and playing along with your songs!

[robbiegallagher]

Hi Lorenz,
thank you very much for your time and efforts.
This will surely benefit many of us saxophone students.
Gratitude

[bispro]

Hope my voice is being heard. Thank you for your decent work. Now I listen this every time i goto sleep and whenever i sing-along with my sax. Your work is enormous help for my practice.

[antoniocarlosdiascamargo]

Great Lorenz. Vielen Dank für die Erklärung. Viele Grüsse aus Brasilien.

[Edu_ribeiro]

Hey Lorenz! Thank you so much for sharing this content. It has been so helpfull to me and I am sure it is going to help lots of sax students around the globe. Warm regards from Brazil.

[jesaxmorales]

Lorenz, busco HAVING A BALL despues de la leccion número 12 de el volumen 1 de Niehaus con tu interpretacion, y no la encuentro? No la grabo? Gracias de todas formas, le deceo lo mejor y saludos desde México. 5:32

[andrianarisonnjato]

I just bought this book today. But I do play tenor though. Will I be able to find backing tracks? I might have apps that can change the pitch though.

[franciscamejo]

very thx, i'm gonna start with these :D

[bispro]

Heyy I finished all twelve exercises following your vids. Great thanks! Do you have plan to cover 'tunes' section? "Stan's idea" is headache!

[giovannifioccola]

Excellent !!! And vol. 2 will be considered? Thank you for your incredible work !

[jonaslenz]

Oh ich hätte so gerne mal wieder richtig Zeit fürs Saxophon. Hocke leider noch bis Ende Mai um Unikeller 12h täglich :(

[HiepSax]

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