MUSINGS IN Cb: A “Jazzy” Message to My Students

• Master a fluid technique using the most efficient fingerings to play all of your scales on the saxophone; and then, improvise using that formidable skill set, (along with your acquired theoretical knowledge of actually reading the chord symbols and progression,) as the primary basis …
• Remember – in order to truly improvise, you have to actually practice improvising, not memorizing licks and patterns …
• Practice memorizing actual melodies to compositions, rather than simply memorizing licks and patterns …
• Seek to find your own thing and tell your own life’s story just like the masters did before us.

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”~Shunryu Suzuki

“You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.”~Miles Davis

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