This is a fun and organized way to take your playing to the next level!
11 Jam Session Essential Standards Etudes
Includes:
✔️ 120+ Pages!
✔️ 11 Complete etudes with parts for all Saxophones (Bb and Eb)
✔️ Chord progressions from Stella by Starlight, All the Things You Are, Cherokee, Doxy, Blue Bossa, Satin Doll, and more!
✔️ Video demonstrations with Jeff Pifher
✔️ Vocabulary builder exercises
✔️ Dig Deeper: Series of essays and analysis of vocabulary, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic concepts
✔️ Backing Tracks
✔️ Practice tracker
The Etudes
The Etudes...
These songs are almost always called at jam sessions, gigs, and educational institutions!
Want a fun and challenging way to learn how to better play this essential repertoire? Use these etudes to jump start learning these standards or learn new approaches and vocabulary for your favorite songs!
Actually begin integrating new vocabulary into your playing with a well organized and unique approach using the Melodic Phrases Worksheets that accompany each etude! Play along with a video of each etude to capture the nuances of this music. Keep track of your practice sessions with the Practice Makes Progress Worksheets. Dive further into the music with the Dig Deeper Series of essays and analysis that accompanies each etude breaking down several different melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic concepts and ideas. There really is not anything like this out there! Also great for working on your sight reading.
Composed specifically for the saxophone with the intent to improve your technique, articulation concept, and approach to the nuances of this music!
Become a more complete musician with this unique and robust approach to expanding your repertoire, vocabulary, and understanding of these essential songs!
Let's get better together!
Follow Along and Play with Every Recording
Music is an aural art form! We learn the most from listening - especially when it comes to jazz. This music is so complex in many ways but also speaks to listeners in more innate and simple ways. Our approach to time feel and groove, forms of expression, and nuances of the music are best learned from listening and imitating. Each etude in this book is accompanied by a recording that will help you better learn these intricacies and take your playing to the next level! Practice with the recordings and loop sections that need extra attention. Imitate articulation, feel, and stylistic nuances like scoops, bends, and falls. Listening to good examples of this music is invaluable!
Dig Deeper
Vocabulary Exercises
MELODIC PHRASES AND VOCABULARY WORKSHEETS
Use the melodic phrases vocabulary worksheets to get the most out of each etude. We all want to expand our vocabulary but usually we just play through an etude or solo and don't really fully assimilate the vocabulary and concepts into our own playing. With the well organized melodic vocabulary worksheets, you can begin picking apart why certain phrases sound good, and apply them to other appropriate contexts through integration and transposition. Take each melodic phrase through all keys in a clear and organized way! Use this method together with the Practice Makes Progress Worksheets to keep track of your progress!
Analysis
DIG DEEPER WITH ANALYSIS AND ESSAYS
Each etude includes an analysis and deeper look!
So many different harmonic and melodic concepts are explored in these etudes. More importantly, you can see and hear examples of how to apply these concepts and constructs:
✔️ Triad Pairs
✔️ Tritone Substitutions
✔️ Altered Dominant Notes Choices (b9, #9, #11, ect)
✔️ Modes of Melodic Minor
✔️ Modal Mixture
✔️ Pentatonics
✔️ Voice Leading Techniques
and more!
The Practice Tracker
Track Your Progress
GET MORE EFFICIENT WITH YOUR PRACTICE!
Keep track of your progress with the Practice Makes Progress Worksheets!
It's not always about how much time you spend practicing, but how you spend your time practicing. Use the Practice Tracker worksheets to make sure you are on track, organize your practice sessions, and help meet your goals. Each worksheet contains a well organized breakdown of the melodic phrases and vocabulary specific to each etude so you know what you have practiced, how many times, and when you practiced. Keeping organized and efficient is so important to getting the most from your practice sessions and achieving results!
Get the Etude Book Package!
Everything you need to take your jam sessions standards to the next level
✔️ 120+ Pages!
✔️ 11 Complete etudes with parts for all Saxophones (Bb and Eb)
✔️ Chord progressions from Stella by Starlight, All the Things You Are, Cherokee, Doxy, Blue Bossa, Satin Doll, and more!
✔️ Video demonstrations with Jeff Pifher
✔️ Vocabulary builder exercises
✔️ Dig Deeper: Series of essays and analysis of vocabulary, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic concepts
✔️ Backing Tracks
✔️ Practice tracker