Exercises for all instruments to improve your intervals, technique and ears. For those that own the book, if you haven't yet, please do write a review of the book on Amazon or on the saxophone forums. Here is some feedback I recently received from some great players and teachers:
“Jazz musicians have naturally gravitated towards the music of JS Bach for years, so a book like this one has been a long time coming. Jon has done a wonderful job capturing various snapshots of Bach’s seemingly infinite musical language, organizing these shapes in a setting that could be very useful to improvisers. A truly interesting and enjoyable book that will hopefully lead to more volumes in the future.”
–Miguel Zenon, International Touring Artist
“A valuable tool for students who would like a refreshing change from regular forms of scale exercises. The challenging intervals and ranges would give any serious player a good workout! Thank you for this wonderful addition to our study materials!”
– Kenneth Tse, Professor at University of Iowa, President of the Comite International de Saxophone
The book is now also available in store at Virtuosity in Boston, Eble Music (Groth Music) in Minnesota, Performers in Chicago along with Roberto's Woodwinds in Midtown Manhattan,the Buffet Showroom on 35th st. and Music Espresso, Jamey Aebersold's Jazzbooks.com, and Van Cott Music along with my site, where if you use the discount code 'NASA' you will received 15% off on your order. The book is on Amazon as well but I am pulling back from selling it there as the author barely receives anything after Amazon takes their cut, please do purchase directly!
The book is great for interval and ear training practice, and can also really contribute to your motivic improvising. 4 jazz etudes at the end point the way towards using the material improvisationally, but blog posts on the new Bach Shapes sub-blog will go even further.
Our first series has been on the great Paul Desmond, you can read all three entries at www.jondelucia.com/blog. Bachshapes.com will also be a future source of updates on the book.
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