Jazz Rock Etudes, Book 1 (Beginning) - Saxophone

Jazz/Rock Etudes

Book 1

Beginning

by Don Sterling

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Here are fifteen compositions to help prepare you for contemporary saxophone playing. These compositions contain challenging and interesting lyrical lines, change running, cliches, double time, and melodic development over given chord progressions.

The eighth notes are usually played evenly, although very often when double time figures and syncopations occur over rock rhythms, a jazz feeling is used.

I suggest you spend much time listening to recordings and live performances of current saxophone players, in order to hear and feel how this music is being performed today.