12 Medium-Easy Jazz, Blues & Funk Etudes: B-Flat Tenor Saxophone: B-Flat Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone [With CD ]

Playing jazz on a high level is not an easy accomplishment. It involves thoroughly learning your instrument, playing in a variety of tempos, keys, knowledge of chords and chord progressions, knows the jazz vocabulary along with the sounds and shapes of the music. The main concept in this "Medium-Easy Etude" book is to learn the etudes by listening to the CD recording. It is not just the choice of notes, but how they are played that makes the music sound compelling. Listen to the attacks, sustain, decay articulation, vibrato, glissando, and dynamic shape of each note and phrase. These qualities give the music the feel and sound which make it jazz.