A detailed philosophical approach for guidance, clarity, and encouragement.
Numerous and varied long tone exercises, tone etudes covering all registers, articulation, and more.
Hundreds of studies of altissimo, large intervals, palm keys, trills, extended techniques, and more.
WHAT'S INSIDE?
Dann Zinn's proven method for teaching saxophone technique.
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Chromatics
Chromatic exercises will focus on the chromatic scale, and a number of variations throughout the horn. This section also breaks the chromatic scale into chromatic intervals: seconds and flat thirds.
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Intervals
This section refers to diatonic intervals based on major, harmonic and melodic minor scales. Speed, accuracy, and control are developed most thoroughly playing intervals.
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Miscellaneous Exercises
This section features many key and interesting exercises that might not be found in traditional technique books. You will find numerous jazz patterns that are critical for developing evenness.
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Tone
Tone exercises will address basic tone color, breath building, embouchure stability, intonation, and articulation.
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Scales
Featuring diatonic scales and related studies, students will be ‘cross-trained’ in a variety of methods while still attacking the problem of scales. Scales include major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, and the whole tone scale.
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Arpeggios
Arpeggios features triads in all inversions. This section covers major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads.
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Meet Dann.
“Dann Zinn is a game changer, who is taking jazz in new directions.” As a world-class saxophonist/flutist, Zinn is renowned for being a passionate soloist and composer/arranger.
Zinn’s resume includes working with Peter Erskine, Taylor Eigsti, Allison Miller, Derrick Hodge, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joe Henderson, Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas, and Barry Finnerty, among many others. Zinn has been featured on numerous CDs, and has produced five of his own. DownBeat Magazine gave Shangri La a Four Star review, and listed it as one of the best albums of 2015.
As an educator, Zinn’s resume includes Director of Jazz Studies at the California State University East Bay, former Director of Jazz Studies at Chabot College, Director of the award winning San Francisco Jazz Festival High School All Star Combo, faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, The California Jazz Conservatory, and The Brubeck Institute. Zinn’s private studio is home to multiple winners of full scholarships to the nation’s top Jazz College Programs, All Star Bands, and DownBeat Winners.
Dann Zinn is a D’Addario Artist.
ZINN AND THE ART OF SAXOPHONE INCLUDES:
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A detailed philosophical approach for guidance, clarity, and encouragement.
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Numerous and varied long tone exercises, tone etudes covering all registers, articulation, overtones, extended tonal techniques such as subtone, scooping and bending, singing while playing, playing with the different vowel sounds, and vibrato.
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Countless ways to play scales and related exercises.
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Exotic and unusual scales and arpeggios.
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Hundreds of studies of altissimo, large intervals, palm keys, finger twisters, alternative fingerings, trills, extended techniques.
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Flexible spiral book binding
California, United States
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