A terrific tutor for the beginning clarinetist, this book/CD pack teaches all the basics of playing, and 5 hit songs: Chariots of Fire * Forrest Gump - Main Title (Feather Theme) * The Man from ...

For any tenor saxophone player interested in learning how to improvise and how to improve their creative phrasing. The ideas are divided into 3 main 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. Includes CD.