Tweet Everybody likes free stuff, right? Just wanted to let you know that I’ve added a few free exercises to the Student Resources page. Just scroll down until you get to the section labeled Free Exercises. Click on the links to download any [...]
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TweetI love reading books about music! It’s so nice to have that access to someone else’s perspective and insights. Here are a couple that really influenced how I think about music and how I work at music. 1. The Talent Code – Author Daniel Coyle has spent most of his career writing about sports. There [...]
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Tweet The beginning of a new year is always a time of reflection and renewal. Many people are making resolutions and striving to create habits or break old ones. Just like everyone else, I’ve been thinking about what I want to accomplish this year and how to go about it. With that in [...]
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Tweet I’ve been listening to a lot of Cuban and Brazilian music lately and one of the artists that I’m really, really hooked on is Hermeto Pascoal. As I was driving home to Las Vegas on Monday from a gig in Long Beach, CA, I was listening to the Festa Dos Deuses album. On the [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Also posted in practicing, tools
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Tagged Brazil, Brazilian music, Chapeu de Baeta, Exercise, Festa Dos Deuses, Hermeto Pascoal, long tones, sax, Saxophone, Technique
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Tweet While having a conversation with a fellow musician the other day, the topic of practicing flute came up. I have recently increased the time I spend working on my flute playing and when I mentioned this, my colleague asked what I was [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Tagged Band, Improvement, Maintenance, music, Orchestra, Practice, Recreation, Saxophone, Talent Code, Uninformed Influence
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Tweet It’s been a lot of days since the last ii-V, but I came across a good one in an old transcription I did several years ago. This ii-V was played by Chris Potter on Easy to Love from his 1995 album, Pure. I like this one because it’s mostly diatonic except for that little [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Also posted in ii-Vs, practicing, tools, Transcriptions
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Tagged Chris Potter, Easy to Love, ii-V of the day, improvisation, jazz, Pure, sax, Saxophone, tenor saxophone, transcription, vocabulary
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Tweet This melody blew me away the first time I heard and every time after that. I finally decided to sit down and work it out. On the recording, the Tenor 1 part is played the first time through. This is followed by 4 measures and then the melody is stated a second time with [...]
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TweetHere’s a video of one of the great flute players/teachers, Robert Dick. Some of the information is flute specific, but the mechanics of breathing that Dick describes can apply to everyone. I found the part about opening the ribcage intriguing and I want to spend some time with that.
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Tweet I’ve taken all of the solos I transcribed on Relaxin’ At Camarillo and put them in a score. The take is listed at the beginning of each stave. It’s pretty cool to look at these solos stacked up like this. There are a few instances where Charlie Parker played exactly the same line in [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Tagged alto saxophone, Bebop, blues, Charlie Parker, jazz, pdf, Relaxin' At Camarillo, sax, The Complete Dial Sessions, transcription
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Tweet From the four takes that we have of Relaxin’ At Camarillo, Take C is the one that was chosen for release. This was actually the first of these solos I transcribed. The difference between this and the others was that I learned this one by ear and committed it to memory before writing it [...]
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By Eddie Rich
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Also posted in ii-Vs, practicing, Technology, tools, Transcriptions
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Tagged alto saxophone, Bebop, Charlie Parker, jazz, pdf, Relaxin' At Camarillo, sax, The Complete Dial Sessions, transcription
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