For information about private lessons or consultations In the Boston area (or online) for all levels and all styles of saxophone and improvisation for all instruments email me at lessons@jeffharrington.com or call 781-643-0704.
ABOUT THE LESSONS
I teach all styles (including bop, modal, blues, fusion, smooth jazz, Latin, and classical) and aspects of woodwind technique – from beginner to advanced.
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 781-643-0704 or lessons@jeffharrington.com.
TOPICS OF STUDY include:
Tonic Systems
7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th Chords
Approach Notes
Chord Tone Soloing
How To Work On Blues
Symmetrical Diminished Scales
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
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
–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
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
Cycling and Polyrhythms