The Style of Michael Brecker-Lesson 2 (Video, Audio & PDF)

In this lesson I talk about 7 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  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. These 7 lines are based off of he Dorian mode  but sound much hipper than typical dorian mode patterns.  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 E 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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