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(it's part two to the video below) It's all based on using approach notes to lead you smoothly into the MAIN melody notes that define the melody. You could call them "bare bones" melodic target notes. Once you know where you're going you only need to practice the approach notes to get them in your ears and then start working your way backwards until you have explored all of the rhythmic possibilities and then you are ready to make music. The beauty of it is it's an easy thing to do and once you do the preparation, you are able to freely play around the melody and sound really melodic and like a professional player with minimal theory and years of technique exercises. It's all based on Rick's method which you can learn in just a couple of months. It's an easy method. So easy, that lots of people see my students and think that it's too good to be true! Actually, it's truly amazing and works for anyone who's willing to do the drills and the proof is in my students videos. 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Here you get a chance to see my sax students that have never played the instrument before and you can see how quickly they learn to improvise after 5 lessons, 7 lessons, 10 lessons, and 16 lessons. Call Rick if you're interested in learning this effective method or just want to ask me how it works. Rick 818-209-2620 Email me at rick@losangelesmusicteachers.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612305445498-7K52AK0OLIRAL6IH4AG3/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Truly Amazing - Complete Beginner Sax Student Learns to Improvise in 4 Months This sax student began online lessons on a rental saxophone 4 months ago and is now playing everything she learned in the key of G in this video in the key of D in only 3 more weeks, only better, with a better sound, better time, more expressive technique and overall confidence! Listen to the bending, how she's using dynamics and articulations and vibrato. If I had told you to guess how long you would guess she's been playing based on this one video I think most people would have to say about 3-4 years. This girl has done it in less than 4 months!! Absolutely amazing especially the sound and all the expressive nuances of the sound that she is able to do in such a short amount of time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612305549087-7DPK8D7IPLMAECC80TZ5/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Beginner Sax Student improvising on the blues after just 12 lessons. Here's another 11 year old complete beginner who is improvising at a high level after just 12 weeks of lessons with Rick's system. He is one of many who has learned this system of learning to improvise in under 4 months. If you have ever had a jazz improvisation lesson with an instructor who told you that you need to learn all your chords and scales in every key then this system is for you! It's so easy you won't believe it. It's not a short cut or a trick. It's exactly what pros are using to play great solos. You will learn ONE SCALE IN ONE KEY and you will learn how to play melodically using scale wise motion into target notes. It's a simple process that takes weeks rather than years!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612305877692-CY2XL3CBZSK5KON9SIJ9/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Jazz Sax Improvisation Student after 6 lessons DEMO - Los Angeles This beginning sax student of jazz improvisation (6 weeks) is showing his ability to mix up triplet and 16th notes in his jazz improvisation on a blues track, as part of my "How to Improvise starting with the Blues" book. He had never improvised on saxophone prior to taking lessons with me. He's already showing pretty good command of being able to play the changes and mixing various rhythms. He's not reading anything but the chords. Completely improvising with control. Call me if you want to learn this method which shaves many years of frustration off of your ability to improvise jazz. Rick Rossi 818-902-1233 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612305942731-C06U1KPHMF3BVJOOJG9C/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Another Jazz Saxophone Student Learning to Improvise in Under 2 Months. Student improvisation demo. This student never knew how to improvise and this is a video showing him progressing from after 5 weeks of study and how he learns the system in a new key in 20 minutes. You can see the progression from no ability to improvise to being able to improvise with control within 2 months. You will also see the progression from the 5th week to the 6th week and how he was able to transpose everything he learned in the Key of G to the key of D. Using the system it only took him 20 minutes. The last Segment shows how he sounds after practicing the new key for only 1 week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612306069358-Z32POE3MI96Z29Z81GB4/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Student After 5 months of Sax Improv lessons - Triplets and 16th Notes This is a follow up video after another month of sax improv lessons learning more complex rhythms concentrating on mixing up Triplet and 16th note rhythms. Also notice that he's added the "b5" to the pentatonic scale and is incorporating it pretty naturally into his lines. Here's his other (1st) video in less than 4 months from a TOTAL BEGINNER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jMu... If you're interested in learning more, give Rick a call at 818-902-1233. He also teaches about 10 other online students like Chris Dai if you want to study his method online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612306157458-TTW6NA2EGZM0DS7BP1IJ/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Jazz Improv Sax Lessons - Student Demo on Watermelon Man after 4 months In this video, this student has finished my system for improvising based on the blues and he's applying the system to "Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock. If you want a copy of this background track so you can try it, just email me at rick@losangelesmusicteachers.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612306420157-GX0BAT16AXMHC62MV7IN/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Jazz Sax Improvisation Student - 7th Lesson DEMO of PROGRESS In this video you're looking at the student is only on his 7th sax lesson. Never improvised in his life and you can see that he's sounding pretty solid on a 12 bar blues. Playing all the changes and mixing up 16th notes and triplets. Call me if you're interested in learning this method. I will add more videos from Gerald as he progresses so you can see how fast you can learn with this method. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1612306512798-FSK154AW1U85UO2BTGMA/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Summertime - Online Sax Student - Improvising around the Melody In this video, Dan is an online Skype student who is using my method of using approach notes to improvise around the melody of Summertime. We have been working hard on his ability to be expressive with the system, using dynamics, vibrato, bending and other color techniques all of which you can hear he's starting to use very freely. All the while, he's keeping the melody intact. Email me if you're interested in receiving 2 FREE videos on "Secrets of the Saxophone" at Rick@losangelesmusicteachers.com If you're interested in learning the technique call me for lessons in Burbank, Los Angeles or online lessons on Skype. (818)902-1233 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0a66446f89f4206406e26/1611619005369-ISP42SDT0FUCHN5CAW88/image-asset.jpeg Student Videos - Wow!!! Amazing 10 Year old Saxophone Student after only 7 months of Improv Lessons This kid is amazing at 10 years old! He started Saxophone lessons online during Covid only 7 months ago and already he's playing as good as some of my high school students. Check out how easily he improvises around the melody of Summertime. 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