Daily Warm-Up Exercises for Saxophone (Instructional) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you've been frustrated by practice books that show you a pattern in one key and then say "Transpose and memorize this in all 12 keys," then this book should make life a lot easier for you.

Jackie spells out all his exercises in all 12 keys.He even notates all the accidentals for you.So with a minimum of mental gymnastics you can get down to the physical gymnastics of drilling his favorite practice patterns into your fingers until your muscle memory takes over.

By placing equal emphasis on all 12 keys from the very beginning, this book will get you all around your horn with maximum efficiency.Many of the exercises change key twice per measure, so you have no opportunity to get stuck in a "easy key" rut.Instead you'll find yourself adopting a "wholistic" mindset as Maclean runs you through the major, minor, dominant, diminished and augmented scales.

My only nitpick is that a CD would have been nice.But the patterns aren't rhythmically complicated or hard to read so I guess a CD isn't really necessary.Also you should know that this is a fairly short book.The idea is that once you've got them thoroughly memorized you'll be able to run through the whole set of patterns in 45 minutes and they'll become your regular warm-up routine.

Two of Mclean's most popular original compositions are included at the end of the book as a bonus.

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Living sax legend Jackie McLean is one of the greatest alto players of the post-Parker era. For this book, he has assembled essential warm-up exercises to help students become familiar with playing through different keys ascending and descending chromatically. Includes a biography, an interview, many exercises, and transcriptions of his solos in "Bluesnik" and "Dig."

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