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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
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This app has been designed to test and improve the ability to listen, retain and immediately reproduce a rhythmic motif. This a very important aspect for any musician and has to be developed whether you know how to read music or not.
It includes 100 rhythm tests. Each test is integrated by ten exercises. You will listen a rhythmic motif two times. The first time you have to pay attention to the point on which the keyboard plays. The second time you must click on a button at the same point on which the keyboard was played.
At the beginning we use very simple rhythmic motifs and gradually we increase the difficulty level. We use different types of time signatures and subdivisions. Again: it is not required to know how to read music to carry out the tests contained in this app.
From test 1 to test 70 you will see graphic animations in synchrony with the audio that make possible to see the number of beats of each time signature, its subdivisions and the points where each part of the rhythmic motif ocurres. From test 71 onwards the visual aid from graphic animations is reduced in order to work mainly on the auditive aspect.
The buttons in light blue correspond to a test that is the summary of the aspects worked on in the previous tests which correspond to the buttons in dark blue. The green buttons correspond to tests that contain a higher degree of difficulty in the sense that the help of animations and visual aspects is reduced.
These tests are a special type of ear training exercises аs they don’t include any written music. They have been specifically designed to practice the ability to reproduce a rhythmic motif just by listening to it.
In real practice there will be lots of situations on which you will need to play without a music sheet. You just listen the rhythm or the melody and you play it or you sing it. The emphasis in this app is to be able to repeat what you hear rhythmically.
If you are taking guitar lessons or piano lessons this app will be very useful for you. Playing guitar, piano, drums or any musical instrument is better done when you have a clear idea about the rhythm motifs. Perfect pitch is not a requirement to enter a music school because there will be ear training lessons. So this app is something you must have if you are on singing lessons, trying to learn how to read music, studying music scales, playing violin music or reading piano sheet music.
This app is useful for songwriters, arrangers, composers and people involved with any activity which requires being able to quickly retain and reproduce all types of rhythm motifs.
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Saxophone Tricks of the Trade VS.
Rhythm Test - Ear Training PRO
December 31, 2024