Amazing Phrasing - Alto Saxophone

Amazing Phrasing is for any alto sax player interested in learning how to improvise and how to improve their creative phrasing. The ideas are divided into three sections:

• Harmony (explores scales, arpeggios, chord substitutions, harmonic embellishments, and other harmonic phrasing ideas)
• Rhythm (covers legato tonguing, swing feel, rhythmic displacement, how to manipulate time, and other aspects of rhythmic phrasing)
• Melody (discusses contour lines, making patterns musical, developing a motif, building a solo, and many other melodic phrasing ideas)

The accompanying audio tracks include demos for listening, as well as many play-along examples so you can practice improvising over various musical styles and progressions.

The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.