Dang Bob, I never noticed how good you tone is on tenor before! You sounds so good!

Great approach. So many teachers and schools these days get students bogged down in modes and scales. Know the melody, feel the rhythm and learn the basic chord progression!

This is a great, practical guide with excellent tips and structure

Miles Black in Vancouver taught me a similar approach and added a step (after the triad/7th chord improv) of soloing with only chord tones on the down beats and passing tones etc on the off beats. The other thing that works well for my brain is if I learn it from roman numerals and do it in a few keys. Those are the ones that really stick for me. Hope that's useful to somebody!

bob youe are one of my favorite saxaphone players

Bob, thanks for this offering, picked up a number of great practice ideas

@liteworker1 absolutely! this is not instrument specific.

Wonderful insights. Thanks for this!

@liteworker1 Yes, of course, it's a method that can be applied to any instrument.

very instructive - thanx Bob

singing the song with piano/guitar helps me.

"and then the next step is just adding the notes.." k thanks bye LOL but will definitely try that, seems a good way to do it

Belle leçon ..

I wish Royale reeds were same as Rico Reeds were before d'addario

'Out of Nowhere' - Charlie Parker

Wish I could understand. I understand playing the melody. Then you play the root notes of the chords correct? You lost me when you mentioned the chords? Are you only playing the notes of the triad chord and not the melody? Then not following what you did after that? Were you playing notes from the melody and triads in a random order?

Très intéressant ...

@12345678910aaronable That's very kind. Thank you.

Kool

what's the name of the standar?