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11 Ways You Can Use A Melodic Cell: Articulation-Focused Tonal Patterns In All 12 Keys

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This 57-page eBook is centered around a common melodic shape and tonguing pattern often used in Bebop and Jazz playing.


The exercises contained within outline a process for taking a cell (a brief melodic idea or motif) and finding ways that it can be used to build lines for study and improvisation.


11 Ways You Can Use A Melodic Cell is a thorough resource for:

• building diatonic technique

• playing through the secondary dominant-tonic (V-I) resolutions of each Major key

• using jazz vocabulary over tunes


Includes 9 patterns transposed to all 12 keys and 2 etudes over the form of "All Things You Are" transposed for E-flat, B-flat, and Concert instruments.

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It's a big part of my mission to offer students and teachers simple and easy ways to master jazz style, especially when it comes to articulation. My concept involves basic saxophone phonetics, "Saxophonetics", that have greatly helped me and my students to improve technique.
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Ghosting Rips, 2 New YouTube Lessons

6/12/2023

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These lessons cover a topic I often call "Ghosting Up A Rip". This is when the tongue stays on the reed while you ascend rapidly to a high note.

There are 2 main ways players do this:
​#1: ghost every note up to the high note and then accent the high note
#2: ghost every note but the next-to-highest note, take your tongue off the reed for that note, and then accent the top note
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    Jake Dester is a Brooklyn-based musician with over 20 years' experience.

    He works throughout NYC and remotely as a Performer, Composer, Producer, and Instructor.

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