Hal Leonard Publications
50 Ways to Improve Your Improvisational Skills

Amazing Phrasing is for any alto saxophone player interested in learning how to improvise and how to improve their creative phrasing. The ideas are divided into three main sections:
Harmony – explores scales, arpeggios, chord substitutions, harmonic embellishments, and other harmonic phrasing ideas;
Rhythm – covers legato tonguing, swing feel, rhythmic displacement, how to manipulate time and other aspects of rhythmic phrasing;
Melody – discusses contour lines, making patterns musical, developing a motif, building a solo, and many other melodic phrasing ideas.
The companion CD includes 26 full-band tracks in various musical styles for listening and play along. Also available for tenor saxophone, guitar, keyboard and trumpet.