{"id":101654,"date":"2020-11-23T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=101654"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:59:27","slug":"insane-sam-dillon-monster-lick-of-the-day-tenor-sax-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/insane-sam-dillon-monster-lick-of-the-day-tenor-sax-transcription\/","title":{"rendered":"Insane Sam Dillon Monster Lick of the Day #6 Tenor Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another short transcription of an incredibly fast jazz line by Sam Dillon that I saw on Instagram the other day.\u00a0 I hate to think that this is how Sam warms up for a recording session.\u00a0 Haha!\u00a0 I transcribed this just for my own enjoyment.\u00a0 The line itself, is not technically hard and it is full to the brim with classic bebop vocabulary.\u00a0 The challenging part of this line is the speed at which Sam Dillon plays it.\u00a0 Check it out below and see if you can get close to Sam&#8217;s speed.\u00a0 Now, during this pandemic, while we are all quarantined at home, is the perfect time to work on it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SamDillon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sam Dillon-Tenor Saxophone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to check out more from Sam Dillon you can read Sam&#8217;s bio here on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samdillonmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.\u00a0 He also has a great CD recently released called &#8220;Force Field&#8221; and an older CD of standards called &#8220;Out in the Open&#8221; that you can check out!\u00a0 Also, do yourself a favor and go to this page from his website with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samdillonmusic.com\/listen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slow Blues<\/a> on it!\u00a0 You can definitely tell Sam has studied the lines of John Coltrane right?\u00a0 I also have a few other transcriptions of Sam Dillon&#8217;s solo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?s=sam+dillon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My wife always asks me why I have to practice so much?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s because of young guys like Sam who remind us all that we need to practice!\u00a0 Thanks for the great lines and inspiration!\u00a0 \u00a0Feel free to leave any thoughts or comments you might have in the comments section below this post after you pick yourself up off the floor!\u00a0 \u00a0Steve<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-101654-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/SamDillonLick.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/SamDillonLick.mp4\">https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/SamDillonLick.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Insane Sam Dillon Monster Lick of the Day #6 Tenor Sax<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px; background-color: #f0b646; line-height: 1.4;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Monster Lick 6-Sam Dillon-Bb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insane Sam Dillon Monster Lick of the Day #6 Tenor Sax Bb PDF<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Monster Lick 6-Sam Dillon-Concert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insane Sam Dillon Monster Lick of the Day #6 Tenor Sax Concert Key PDF<\/a><br \/>\n*If you would like to support me here at neffmusic.com, you can do so\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product-category\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support page of my store<\/a> by debit or credit card. \u00a0 Any support is appreciated and will go towards keeping this site running, saxophone reeds, mouthpiece patches, coffee, and towards justifying the many hours I spend on providing free transcriptions to the saxophone community!\u00a0 Thanks,\u00a0 \u00a0Steve<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">If you love these type of solo lines, be sure to check out my PDF book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/the-best-major-ii-v-i-patterns-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Best II-V-I Patterns<\/a>&#8220;, which includes 100 classic II-V-I jazz lines that I have written out in all 12 keys. These lines are the foundation to building a great jazz vocabulary!! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/the-best-major-ii-v-i-patterns-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2021\/II-V-ICoverAd.jpg\" alt=\"II-V-ICoverAd\" width=\"258\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/the-best-major-ii-v-i-patterns-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Best Major II-V-I Patterns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another short transcription of an incredibly fast jazz line by Sam Dillon that I saw on Instagram the other day.\u00a0 I hate to think that this is how Sam warms up for a recording session.\u00a0 Haha!\u00a0 I transcribed this just for my own enjoyment.\u00a0 The line itself, is not technically hard and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":87699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10,2003,1936,1204,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-101654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-jazz-saxophone","9":"tag-monster-lick","10":"tag-sam-dillon","11":"tag-solo-transcription","12":"tag-tenor-sax","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}