Exploring Jazz Saxophone: Part 1 - Getting Started

Name: Exploring Jazz Saxophone: Part 1 - Getting Started
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Duration2h 9m

Modules51

LevelBeginner

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (2h 9m)

About this course

Ollie Weston is a saxophonist and music educator who has performed in live and studio settings with artists as diverse as Amy Winehouse, Tim Minchin, Bonobo, Frank Turner, The London Jazz Orchestra and many more.

In this first course based on the best-selling book Exploring Jazz Saxophone, published by Schott Music, Ollie opens the door for alto saxophone players on how to get started improvising in a jazz style.

Recorded at the legendary 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea, London, the course starts with how to improvise over a blues progression with a great swing feel, and goes on to cover how to form jazz chord types like major 7, minor 7 and dominant 7 and how to improvise over them using arpeggios and modes. Ollie also covers upper extensions and provides an easy to understand approach for getting started playing modes including Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian and Mixolydian.

The course includes:

PDF of the Schott Music published book
6 practice songs
Interactive sheet music that can be slowed down and looped
"Play along" backing tracks recorded with a live band
Figures

This course has everything you need to start playing great sounding jazz with clarity, control and precision. Let's get started!

Who it's for

Alto sax players new to jazz improvisation
Returning players curious about swing and the blues
Self-taught saxophonists wanting a clear jazz starting point

What you'll learn

Improvise over a 12-bar blues with swing feel
Build major 7, minor 7 and dominant 7 chords
Solo over Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian and Mixolydian modes

What you'll need

An alto saxophone in working order
The course PDF and a music stand
A few minutes most days, regularity over length

Meet the Guru

Ollie Weston

Since graduating from the Leeds College of Music (BA Hons) and the Guildhall School of Music (Post Graduate Diploma in Performance), Ollie has built a busy and varied career in music. As a saxophonist he has performed in live and studio settings with artists as diverse as Amy Winehouse, Tim Minchin, Bonobo, Frank Turner, the London Jazz Orchestra, the Hackney Colliery Band, the Ambient Jazz Ensemble and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. He is also the co-leader of the jazz quartet 'Time Is Of The Essence', and composes and arranges material for this and other ensembles.

Ollie is active in music education, currently as course leader for the jazz department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (junior school), where he runs jazz ensembles, big band and theory classes. He has written a series of 'Exploring Jazz' books for Schott Music that are published worldwide and feature on exam syllabuses in the UK. Ollie has also run workshops for Oxford University, Pro Corda Strings and BABSWE, as well as the Guildhall School of Music summer schools.

In his Exploring Jazz Saxophone courses, Ollie takes you from getting started right through to soloing confidently over songs and chord sequences, building the improvising skills that put a real jazz player's vocabulary at your fingertips.

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Published with

Schott Music

Founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770, Schott Music is one of Europe's oldest and largest music publishers, with a catalogue of more than 30,000 titles. Over its 250-year history Schott has issued first editions of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, championed 20th-century voices from Hindemith and Schoenberg to Ligeti and Henze, and today publishes sheet music, books and educational materials from offices in Mainz, London, New York, Tokyo and beyond.

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