For information about private lessons or consultations In the Boston area or for online lessons for all levels and all styles of saxophone and improvisation for all instruments email me at lessons@jeffharrington.com or call 617-332-0176.
ABOUT THE LESSONS
I teach all styles (including bop, modal, funk, blues, fusion, smooth jazz, Latin, and classical) and all aspects of woodwind technique – from beginner to professional.
For improvisation, I feel it’s important to get a solid foundation of chords and scales and then to build from there. While this information is being absorbed, I teach you how to improvise using a unique system of written lines and customized play-along CD’s.
For intermediate to advanced students, I stress various exercises which enable you to play improvisational techniques (chord tone soloing, bop scales, approaches notes, 3217/3517 lines and pentatonics, for example) over chord changes, with rhythmic accuracy and without getting lost. These exercises take the mystery out of improvisation by giving you concrete, logical and systematic approaches to improvising.
Learning tunes, transcribed solos, ear training, vocabulary, instrumental technique and theory are also emphasized. I have carefully developed these proven methods over many years of teaching, performing, research and study.
For further info contact me at 617-332-0176 or lessons@jeffharrington.com.
TOPICS OF STUDY
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- Tonic Systems
- 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th Chords Approach Notes
- Cycling
- Chord Tone
- Soloing How To Work On Blues
- Symmetrical Diminished Scales
- Symmetrical Diminished -7 & -7(5) Patterns
- Whole Tone Scales
- Intervalic Improvisation
- Harmonic Analysis
- Theory
- Ear Training
- Articulation
- Time Feels
- Tone Studies
- Compositional Techniques
- Bebop Cliches
- Vocabulary and Language
- How To Practice and Apply Scales
- Diatonic Patterns
- bIII-7 bVI7 Substitutions Over II-7 V7
- Intervallic Cycling
- Multiphonics
- Quoting
- Practice Routines
- Mouthpieces
- Building Technical Facility
- Performance Techniques
- Keyboard Skills
- Voicings
- Subtone
- Ghosting
- Upper and Lower Structure Triads
- Overtones
- Number Permutation Systems
- Repertoire and Learning Tunes
- How To Work On Tunes
- 23rd Chords
- Bop Scales
- Bop Scale Substitutions
- 7, -6, -6#5 and -7b5 Pentatonic Scales
- Voice Leading
- Inversions
- Transcribing
- Rhythmic Displacement
- Melodic Embellishment
- All Styles
- Reharminization
- Transposing
- Symmetrical Augmented Scale
- Modes
- How To Work On Transcriptions
- Growling
- How To Practice Altissimo
- Repeating & Matching Patterns
- Scale Tone Soloing
- Reeds
- False Fingerings
- Reading
- 3217 & 3517 Lines
- 5432 & 5732 Lines
- Embouchure
- Vibrato
- Bending
- Glissandos
- Upper and Lower Structure 7th Chords
- Breathing
- Tetrachords
- Blues Licks
- Thematic Improvisation
- II-V-I Line Compendiums
- Triadic Pairs
- Various Approaches to Playing "Outside"
- Harmonic Anticipation and Delay
- Synthetic Scales
- Polyrhythms
