Amazing Phrasing: 50 Ways to Improve Your Improvisational Skills - Alto Saxophone (Book/Online Audio)

by Dennis Taylor

Book Overview

(Sax Instruction). Amazing Phrasing is for any sax player interested in learning how to improvise and how to improve their creative phrasing. The ideas are divided into three sections: Harmony (explores scales, arpeggios, chord substitutions, harmonic embellishments, and other harmonic phrasing ideas), Rhythm (covers legato tonguing, swing feel, rhythmic displacement, how to manipulate time, and other aspects of rhythmic phrasing), Melody (discusses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0634074369
• ISBN13: 9780634074363
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 12.0"