Saxophone Tricks of the Trade vs Music Theory Keys Usage & Stats

Essential Jazz & Blues Saxophone tricks of the trade. Play 4 against 5, Motivic Development, Pentatonics over Altered chords, and much more. Award winner saxophonist Mario Cerra (Boston, USA) will explain and demonstrate 20 musical elements that you can easily incorporate to your playing. The application contains video tutorials and demonstrations, PDF files with transcriptions and practice charts, audio tracks for practice and much more. From saxophone technique to improvisation, multiphonics, effects and articulation, this app will keep you busy for a long time. Options include all PDF files and audio tracks needed for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, as well as videos and demonstrations in English and Spanish. Learn how to growl, bend notes, rhythmic displacements, sophisticated ways to use pentatonic and blues scales and much, much more. Here’s a complete list of topics in this app: 1- Lester: Using overtones to create a variety of tonal colors 2- Mix Them Up: Using overtones to create a variety of colors 3- Side D: Three different fingerings for the middle D 4- Dexter: Effect for Bb-G trill 5- John’s way: Example of multiphonics 6- The Wolf: How to make your horn growl 7- Slide: Glissando, or bending notes 8- Ghosts: Ghosting and accenting notes for great articulation 9- The “Cannon” Effect: Great combination of trills 10- S-S-P: Skip-Step concept on pentatonic scale 11- S-S-B: Skip-Step concept on blues scale 12- Jazz it up: How to produce an essential accent in jazz 13- Tension: Using a pentatonic scale on altered dominant chords 14- Release: Using a pentatonic scale on Maj 7th chords 15- Blues and Motives: Creating strong motives within the blues scale 16- Four and One: Playing four consecutive 8th notes and one 8th rest 17- Three on Four: Rhythmic displacement: 3/4 over 4/4 18- Five on Four: Rhythmic displacement: 5/4 over 4/4 19- Flashy: Bend and trill 20- Pure Expression: How to practice vibrato