Organix

I am going to give you a brief fingering overview of the saxophone. This is, again, kind of little posture lesson. Basically your hand needs to be positioned like mine is here (my left hand)....

Alright now we're moving on to just another key. This is the B flat blues scale. There's nothing different about it except that it's in B flat. Basically, I'm running...

Alright. We do want to concentrate on cleanly moving our fingers back and forth. There's a quote that I read recently, "By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique. But,...

Alright I'm going to go through some exercises now. This exercise is an interval exercise. I will be starting it in C, basically I'm going from, from the first interval to the third,...

Alright minor exercise 4, similar to major exercise 4 except we are in the minor keys in arpeggio connected to the second half of a minor scale coming back down so to start, start on C, E flat, G, C,...

Alright minor exercise 2 we are going to be doing the same thing we did in major exercise 2 except in the minor scale. Basically we are just going to go three notes in a row and then come back down,...

Alright I am basically going to mirror the major exercises here in the minor key just so you can hear what it sounds like and we are going to go through all the fingering so you can get the hang of...

Alright now I am going to talk about swinging a little bit. It is basically used in jazz music and you are swinging the beat so like using the metronome you have a straight click, click click, click....

Dynamics. Dynamics are changes in volume across a tune. You can also play them in an exercise. It's what's called a crescendo or a decrescendo. A crescendo starts out softer and...

O'kay the blues wrap up. I am just going to break it down for you again one more time. You can play blues anywhere. It is the most widely used forum to play through. You can always make up a...