Testimonials for 'Approach Note Velocity Books'
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A eureka moment for me!
Steve's lessons have helped me return to my sax after a period of frustration and despondency about my ability to make music. In particular, the lessons on chromatic approach tones and the accompanying pdfs are fantastic. They have been a eureka moment for me and helped me start on the next part of my journey with a smile on my face again. Greg
Greg Cassidy
These lessons have really "tweaked" my playing of lines over changes.
Last week I downloaded Approach Note Freedom ii-V-I lesson 8 and this week lesson 9 and just want to say that these lessons have really "tweaked" my playing of lines over changes. I now have a much better understanding and thus vocabulary to use in this truly important area of one's musicianship. Thanks Steve Ron
Ronald K Bull
I will be recommending your books to my students.
These apply to all instruments. I am a guitar player and they are especially useful for this instrument in getting you out of those patterns that fall all too easily under the fingers. I will be recommending your books to my students; in some cases, insisting they get them. Wayne Parker-Ballarat, Australia
Wayne Parker
These books go beyond........
These books go beyond simple scale knowledge and practice to creating interesting, dynamic and inspiring lines for the improviser. A lot of us know that having all of the scales and even the theory of their application to underlying harmonic settings is often not necessarily translated directly to flowing interesting melodic lines. These books actually contain compelling ways and mechanisms for the improviser to connect scale and chord tones with grace and varying degrees of colour and tension as applied to both static harmony and II-V-I progressions in both minor and major keys.
I wish I had access to something like this about 35 years ago.
I have been working regularly with both Steve's II-V-I patterns (major and minor) and his Approach Note Velocity books. After over 40 years of playing, I have never worked through anything that has opened me up to new ideas and gotten me out of a playing "rut" faster than these books. I am hearing new things in my playing and so are others and I am constantly getting more comfortable playing in any key. Who says you can't teach an "old dog" new tricks? I just wish I had access to something like this about 35 years ago. Steve can expect that I will be adding his Mastering the Dominant Bebop Scale book to my arsenal very soon.-Randall S. Closson