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Video 1: In part one (1 of 2) of this "harmonic improvisation" saxophone lesson, acclaimed saxophonist Doug Webb shows you how to improvise musically through changes without patterns and licks. Doug discusses and demonstrates how to embellish jazz harmony using scale choices, superimposed chords, shifting tonalities and more. If you want to break free of your patterns and truly create some fresh harmonic ideas on your instrument, this saxophone masterclass series is for you.
Topics Covered: Saxophone, Jazz Harmony, Improvisation, Resolving Dominant Chords, Altered Scale, Diminished Scale, Whole Tone Scale, Line Cliches, Harmonic Minor, Jazz Melodic Minor, Blues Scale, Time, Feel, Momentum, Transcription, Practicing, Reharmonization, Superimposing Chords, Playing with Conviction, Playing “Outside”, Giant Steps Changes, Alternate Changes, Etc.
Video 2: In part two (2 of 2) of this "harmonic improvisation" saxophone lesson, acclaimed saxophonist Doug Webb shows you how to musically improvise through changes without patterns and licks. Doug shows you how to embellish jazz harmony with superimposed chords, shifting tonalities and more. If you want to break free of your patterns and truly create some fresh harmonic ideas on your instrument, this saxophone masterclass series is for you.
Topics Covered: Saxophone, Jazz Harmony, Improvisation, Minor ii V I, Countdown Changes, Shifting Tonalities, Modal Playing, Long Tones, Reharmonization, Superimposing Chords, Playing with Conviction, Playing “Outside”, Giant Steps Changes, Alternate Changes, Etc.
PDF Info: This 19 page PDF includes the embedded notation from Doug’s video series, “Harmonic Improvisation”. NOTE: Like all of our PDFs, this is not meant to be used without the video, since it doesn’t contain improvised examples, phrasing, advice, etc. This is just an add-on PDF for people who would like a PDF version of the notated sections (in the videos).