Carl Fischer The Complete Scale Compendium - Clark - Saxophone - Book

Author: Larry Clark
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Solo Saxophone

The mastery of scales and scale patterns has long been established as the best way to improve technical abilities on all instruments. The Complete Scale Compendium focuses on what is most common in the study of classical music: core major and minor scales, as well as chromatic, pentatonic, whole-tone, and blues scales. Students will learn the construction of these scales while practising unique patterns, enriching their technique. Specific slurs and articulations have been left off of the exercises so that a multitude of different articulation and slur patterns can be used. The exercises are presented in two ways: by scale pattern and by key.

Contents:

• Preface
• Scale Theory
• Each Scale Exercise in All Keys
• Major Scales Exercise No. 1: Long Tone Scale
• Minor Scales Exercise No. 1: Long Tone Scale (Melodic Minor)
• Major Scales Exercise No. 2: Scale and Arpeggio
• Minor Scales Exercise No. 2: Scale and Arpeggio (Melodic Minor)
• Major Scales Exercise No 3: Tetrachords Ascending
• Minor Scales Exercise No 3: Tetrachords Ascending
• Major Scales Exercise No 4: Tetrachords Descending
• Minor Scales Exercise No 4: Tetrachords Descending
• Major Scales Exercise No 5: Modes
• Minor Scales Exercise No 5: Modes
• Major Scales Exercise No 6: Thirds
• Minor Scales Exercise No 6: Thirds
• Major Scales Exercise No 7: Arpeggiated Diatonic Chords
• Minor Scales Exercise No 7: Arpeggiated Diatonic Chords
• Chromatics No 1
• Chromatics No 2
• Major Blues Scale Exercise No 1
• Major Blues Scale Exercise No 2
• Minor Blues Scale Exercise No 1
• Minor Blues Scale Exercise No 2
• Major Pentatonic Scale Exercise No 1
• Major Pentatonic Scale Exercise No 2
• Minor Pentatonic Scale Exercise No 1
• Minor Pentatonic Scale Exercise No 2
• Whole Tone Scale Exercise No 1
• Whole Tone Scale Exercise No 2
• All Scale Exercises by Key
• C Major
• A minor
• F Major
• D minor
• Bb Major
• G minor
• Eb Major
• C minor
• Ab Major
• F minor
• Db Major
• Bb minor
• Gb Major
• Eb minor
• B Major
• G# minor
• E Major
• C# minor
• A Major
• F# minor
• D Major
• B minor
• G Major
• E minor
• Circle of Fourths Chart
• Articulation Patterns