Transform Your Saxophone Playing Today
Stop guessing your way through practice. Follow a proven method to build a great sound, improve your timing, and play solos that feel amazing.
Feel free to play through this video over and over again to improve your ability to play back what you just heard.
When improvising, we are doing exactly that, except the phrase you hear is coming out of your head.
Our goal as improvisors is to be able to make what we hear in our head come out of our instrument.
This AET exercise is the best way to improve this essential skill. In the full Pentatonic Foundation Course, there are 3 other AET lessons like this one that get progressively more advanced.
Understanding Song Form is essential. This is the first thing you must know about a song when learning it.
The diagram above explains in detail the song form of Oh Susanna.
Other songs will have different forms, but the concepts remain constant.
PSBE Lesson 5 Assignment
- Play through the Lesson 5 video as many times as you like
- When repeating back the phrases, make sure the rhythm is identical to what you heard
- All the notes used in the video come from the major pentatonic scale
- Have fun playing this lesson!