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The Style of Michael Brecker 1 (Video) (Formerly Breckerisms 1)

The Style of Michael Brecker 1 (Video) (Formerly Breckerisms 1)

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In this lesson I talk about 6 Michael Brecker type lines that he would use on a minor chord. I have taken the lines from different solos of his and transposed them to the keys of D minor and E minor. Brecker had a playing style that was so hip. He  would play these intense lines that would weave in and out of the tonality and really catch your attention. As I play through these lines with a backing track I talk about how I think about the lines and the thought process I go through to try to learn from Brecker's recording. I show you what kind of things I do to figure out the thinking behind the lines and how I try to take that and then create my own lines. I play the examples from the D minor PDF  on tenor sax. I hope this lesson will help you get a little bit closer to playing those Brecker type lines that were and are so hip.

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Thanks for your invaluable work!!

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anonymous Reviewed by anonymous
March 13, 2010
 

I'm a reasonably advanced tenor player and, like many others, a long-standing admirer of Michael Brecker's work.

I'd just like to say that your conceptual approach to analysing Brecker's improvising style has opened a whole new window of understanding for me.

I have pretty much all of the available transcriptions of Brecker's solos and have spent many hours attempting to analyse his methods. I'm not interested in learning his solos note for note because (apart from the fact that I couldn't technically play much of what he does) I want to sound like me and not like him.

However, I would like to play in the style of the great man and I can see that your ideas will help me in that.

Many thanks for your invaluable work, and I look forward to downloading more of your online lessons in the future. But first, I intend to absorb the Brecker material.

Best wishes,
Jeff Howlett

 

Outstanding lesson extremely helpful and useful

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jazzyardbird Reviewed by jazzyardbird
September 01, 2009
 

Hey Steve,
Just stumbled upon your site and bought your Brecker immediately. I am a pro alto and guitarist in Philly, and I feel like I have a lot under my fingers, but always wanted to get that chromatic Breckerish/later Coltranish thing down. I was always more of a Bird/older bebop style player, but now I feel like I have a much deeper understanding of the more modern thang, which I know I will be able to get into my playing almost immediately. Thanks so much, you are a Beast!!!!

 
 


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