My absolute favorite piece from Julian. I am working on this song on both saxes, and it goes quiet good.

I am considering, that i should transcribe his fantastic solo. I never transcribed a good piece before, so that should be some good training.

In the play-a-long book, there is only the theme, and then a improvisation piece. I like improvising, and i do it quiet a lot, but it could be funny to transcribe a solo from Cannonball. Further on, i’ve just been playing a pentatonic scale or a blues scale and so on when i solo in bands.

Therefore I am trying to get started with a bit of piano to know the chords and stuff, and that goes fairly good so far.

Do you know any good chord-excersizes to start off with?
Thank you for another great video!
Best Regards
David

Hey David,
Glad to hear you’re learning work song.  I like playing it.  My sax teacher in santa clara taught me a background that you can play with another person and switch off improvising over.  I’ll show that to you if you would like, taught it to another sax player the other day.

Transcribing is definitely really good for you.  I’ve only done it a little bit myself, but am going to be doing more in the near future.  Not sure if Cannonball Adderley is the best person to start transcribing, he plays pretty fast sometimes…. if you slow it down with a computer program it might be a little easier.  The first song I used for transcription was a blues by Stanley Turrentine.  Since it’s the blues, it’s easier to know which notes will be played.

Playing some piano is great for knowing chords better since it’s all right in front of you and you can see the distances between notes in a chord, etc.
-Neal