A set of pentatonic scale exercises to supercharge your. Hey jude by the beatles warren hill version cantaloupe island alto sax eb. The notes in a pentatonic scale are i, ii, iii, v and vi from the major scale. One octave major and minor scales alto saxophone baritone saxophone boltz bands concert c major a major 7. Discover your favourite alto sax jazz scales sheet music book. Gordon is he feels, one of his most important books because of the nature of the blues scale and how it is used to improvise in many styles of contemporary music. Print and download in pdf or midi exotic scale practice for alto saxophone. Saxophone pentatonic scales major and minor saxstation. This means that it uses the same note as the major pentatonic scale, but the tonic note for the scale is different. As with major and minor scales, the minor pentatonic scale derives from the major pentatonic scale.
Major scales for alto saxophone free sheet music for. A minor pentatonic contains scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, and b7. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. Now if we take it through the 12 notes of the chromatic scale 12. Improv improvisation is the art of composing music on the spot. Does anyone have a pdf they can email me for a pentatonic scale for alto saxophone. For example, in relation to an abmin7 chor d, this useful pentatonic contains all of the notes that are outside of the chord and the scale that is usually associated with it, the ab dorian scale. Youve got your brand new saxophone assembled correctly, neck strap in place, reed on, and ready to go. Saxophoneimprovisation, pentatonic and blues scales.
It has the root, minor third, fourth, fifth, and lowered 7th relative to a major scale. Up until now i had been thinking of the minor pentatonic scale being effectively the same as its associated major, just starting on a different note. Students will strengthen and learn to do this in the various styles of jazz and contemporary music. So you take the notes from the major scale and play the root, 2nd, third, fifth, sixth. Xs, the new unfiled cut is intended for artists who love the typical jazz rk jain. The example below shows how to play pentatonic exercise 1 in the key of f. A minor pentatonic scale uses exactly the same notes, starting on a of the scale, creating a different intervallic scale structure. As with all other guides in these series, we will focus in playing the scales on saxophone, specifically, how to finger the major pentatonic scale on the saxophone. Pentatonic scales for sax pdf pentatonic scales for sax pdf pentatonic scales for sax pdf download.
This creates a distinctly different sound for the new scale. Welcome to lesson 3 of the pentatonic scale, pentatonic blues licks. Heres the link to get the downloads mentioned in the video. Viola sheet music free violin sheet music saxophone sheet music violin music cello music music music sheets teaching orchestra. I am offering a free pdf of all major and minor blues scales, written out in all keys. I have a major pentatonic scale sheet see attached just needing one for the minors now. You should hear them, feel them, know them, eat them and whatever comes next with them. Riffs, on the other hand, are usually licks or phrases that are repeated as part of a tune or improvised backings. In other words, a c scale would go up to high f and down to low b.
The minor pentatonic scale is simply the fifth mode of the major pentatonic scale. Starting the c major pentatonic scale on the 6th note of the scale produces the a minor pentatonic scale. Be sure to practice the other 10 keys in this manner as well. Print and download in pdf or midi saxophone blues scales. Watch the video for saxophone assemblydisassembly tips here. The scale can be us ed very effectively in other ways, too. Minors are written out in both major and minor keys. If you want to play pentatonic scales on tenor sax, to get from concert key piano, guitar, etc to bb the key that tenor and soprano sax are in you need to go up a whole step. I will eventually need all of them but i wanted to play along with some blues cds i have and needed to know the scales to solo on the 4th chord and. Free pdf of all major and minor blues scales sax on the. In this lesson you will be learning some ways to use the pentatonic scale in a solo. In this case, thats e, so weve got the g major pentatonic being g, a, b, d, and e. The c major pentatonic scale, for example, is obtained from playing specific notes from the c major diatonic scale. The minorness of this mode stems from the fact that now most of the notes lie counterclockwise from a, the new root, which makes them sound dark.
Includes studying games and tools such as flashcards. Major pentatonic alto saxpdf gammes musicales melodie. Eb saxophone blues scales sheet music for alto saxophone. One octave major and minor scales alto saxophone baritone. With a little creativity, you can even use this exercise as an aid in learning to hear and play chord changes.
Simply remove the 4th and 7th note of any major diatonic scale and then you have the major pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale compendia found in section one list all three hundre d thirty pentatonic scales 2 that contain the note c. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. So concert bb is c on tenor sax, concert f is g on tenor sax, etc. The pentatonic and blues scales are fun to play around with and give you a certain bluesy sound. I want to start with the cmaj, cmin, fmaj, fmin, gmaj, gmin, bb maj and bb min. Its its relative minor, so we can find this by starting on the 6th of the major scale degree or the last note of the major pentatonic scale. The best way to learn them is to choose one scale that appeals to you and spend a considerable amount of time an d energy practicing and thinking of ways. They are improv, technique, ear training and history. These may repeat exactly over and over if they fit any chord. So, if you are playing blues in c, this is the formula to find the correct scale.
The 2 lessons above and the book are a fantastic combination i started playing saxophone as a teenager in my grammar school band and quickly became addicted to the sax. Eb exotic pentatonic scale practice for alto sax sheet. For our purposes, all examples in template a use the minor pentatonic scale format. Here is a list of all minor pentatonic scales and their fingerings charts on saxophone. Jason davis music lesson overview a standard lesson will last 30 minutes and will consist of 4 basic areas. The root note of the relative major pentatonic scale is always the second note of the minor scale. A pentatonic scale has five notes in the key of c, c, d, e, g, a. Free pentatonic scale patterns downloads for saxophone easy pentatonic lick for saxophone the concept i focus on the most here at is how to use the pentatonic scale to learn melodies by ear and improvise effective solos. Several typical pentatonic blues licks will be used as a starting point to develop your knowledge of the pentatonic scale. That is to say, when you start a major pentatonic scale on its fifth note, the result is a minor pentatonic scale. If you want to find the c blues scale from a c major scale, the numbers would be. Licks are short musical phrases used in jazz, blues and rock improvising.
The blues scale and minor pentatonic scale are similar. Looking for a pentatonic minor scale for alto sax on the. Of course, ideally you dont need or want these written out do you. Forestone unfiled alto sax, xs, reed for alto saxophone, strength.
Some players have a memorised collection or repertoire of favourite licks that they will throw into a solo every now and then. If you want to derive the c minor pentatonic scale from a c major scale, the numbers would be. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Continue using this process as your musical vocabulary grows to include different kinds of scales i. Download alto sax blues scales pdf free mortgagetracker. Even if you already use the dorian mode in your playing, using pentatonic shapes to play dorian licks will give you a new approach to use in your solos. Minor 3rd, whole step, whole step, minor 3rd, whole step. The dorian modal scale has a distinctive sound that can add interest to a solo. Notice how we play down to the lowest note on our saxophone that is still in the scale, and then back up again to finish on f.
This fun exercise teaches piano students how to play c major scale progressively from hands separately to hands together in parallel motion. A minor pentatonic is the same as c major pentatonic, just starting on the a or the c respectively. The minor pentatonic scale is a mode of the major pentatonic scale. A minor pentatonic is somewhat similar, starting on c, it would be c, eflat, f, g, bflat. The blues scale for alto saxophone and eb instruments by andrew d. Also i wanted to know it you have lessons on the tenor sax pentatonic blues scales written in treble clef format. The first thing about doing scales that i would suggest is to do the scales up as high as you can go, only playing notes in that scale, and down as low as you can go, using only those notes in that scale. Dorian mode pentatonic licks a new approach to modal. Students often experience difficulty bridging musical the gap between the mind and instrument. Im looking for one that i can print out and set on my stand to practice, stating different scales for the different keys ill be playing in.
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