20 Saxophone Tricks of the Trade by Mario Cerra for iOS

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Take your saxophone playing to the next level.20 Saxophone Tricks Of The Trade will provide you with plenty of resources to land your next gig. Use...

Take your saxophone playing to the next level.20 Saxophone Tricks Of The Trade will provide you with plenty of resources to land your next gig. Use your new hot licks to impress fellow musicians, family and friends and promote your music career!Award winner saxophonist Mario Cerra (Boston, USA) will explain and demonstrate 20 musical elements that you can easily incorporate to your playing. The application contains video tutorials and demonstrations, PDF files with transcriptions and practice charts, audio tracks for practice and much more.From saxophone technique to improvisation, multiphonics, effects and articulation, this app will keep you busy for a long time. Options include all PDF files and audio tracks needed for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, as well as videos and demonstrations in English and Spanish.Learn how to growl, bend notes, rhythmic displacements, sophisticated ways to use pentatonic and blues scales and much, much more.Heres a complete list of topics in this app:1-Lester: Using overtones to create a variety of tonal colors2-Mix Them Up: Using overtones to create a variety of colors3-Side D: Three different fingerings for the middle D4-Dexter: Effect for Bb-G trill5-Johns way: Example of multiphonics6-The Wolf: How to make your horn growl7-Slide: Glissando, or bending notes8-Ghosts: Ghosting and accenting notes for great articulation9-The Cannon Effect: Great combination of trills10-S-S-P: Skip-Step concept on pentatonic scale11-S-S-B: Skip-Step concept on blues scale12-Jazz it up: How to produce an essential accent in jazz13-Tension: Using a pentatonic scale on altered dominant chords14-Release: Using a pentatonic scale on Maj 7th chords15-Blues and Motives: Creating strong motives within the blues scale16-Four and One: Playing four consecutive 8th notes and one 8th rest17-Three on Four: Rhythmic displacement: 3/4 over 4/4 18-Five on Four: Rhythmic displacement: 5/4 over 4/419-Flashy: Bend and trill20-Pure Expression: How to practice vibrato