Saxguy says "The best book out there for teaching students jazz feel" about Randy Hunter jazz Books Complete Jazz Etudes, Book I

Saxguy — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:34:48 GMT

I've been teaching for several years now. This book, in both the Eb (alto and bari sax) and Bb (tenor and soprano sax; clarinet) does an outstanding job of teaching jazz feel to developing students who have not encountered it before.

The etudes in Book I are very accessible to students who have been playing for 3 years and up. Typically, I will start interested 7th and 8th grade students in this book, although I have also started with high school students and adults.

The toughest part of getting students started playing jazz is to get them comfortable with the different rhythmic feels involved: swing, modal, rock, latin and more. Both of Randy's etude books (there is an advanced book II) do an outstanding job of this. Randy performs each etude with a swinging rhythm section and then there is a second version of each tune without the melody.

This accomplishes several things: First, the students can watch the music and listen to Randy perform it, not unlike the listening and transcribing done......

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Saxguy says "The best book out there for teaching students jazz feel" about Randy Hunter jazz Books Complete Jazz Etudes, Book I