{"id":101724,"date":"2020-11-26T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T03:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=101724"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:46:23","slug":"phil-dwyer-gentle-rain-tenor-saxophone-solo-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/phil-dwyer-gentle-rain-tenor-saxophone-solo-transcription\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Dwyer Gentle Rain Tenor Saxophone Solo Transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer,\u00a0 I discovered a new sax player on Facebook who was posting killer transcriptions on Youtube. His name is Dimitrii Sergheev from Moldova.\u00a0 Dimitrii caught my attention because we seem to have the exact same tastes in great tenor sax solos that need to be transcribed.<\/p>\n<p>I reached out to Dimitrii on Facebook and he happily sent me a bunch of his solo transcriptions and gave me permission to post them here on my site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/phil-dwyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Phil Dwyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is Dimitrii Sergheev transcription of Phil Dwyer&#8217;s harmonically rich tenor saxophone solo on &#8220;Gentle Rain&#8221; by Louis Bonfa.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t heard of Phil Dwyer, he is a burning saxophone player from Canada who is also a lawyer!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 You can find out more about Phil Dwyer on his website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phildwyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">phildwyer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I swear that Dimitrii and I must be twin brothers separated at birth because every solo he transcribes is a solo that I absolutely love.\u00a0 This Phil Dwyer tenor saxophone solo on Gentle Rain is amazing and filled with so many great lines and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dimitrii Sergheev for transcribing this incredibly hard tenor sax solo!\u00a0 \u00a0It couldn&#8217;t have been easy and must have taken so much time and effort.\u00a0 \u00a0Special thanks to Phil Dwyer for his great playing on this solo!\u00a0 If you like it, make sure to check out more by Phil Dwyer.<\/p>\n<p>Please support Dimitrii on Youtube so that he is encouraged to keep transcribing these great sax solos!!!\u00a0 You can find him at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dmitriisergheev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dimtrii Sergheev&#8217;s Youtube<\/a> where you can &#8220;like&#8221; and &#8220;follow&#8221; his page to keep up to date with his latest transcriptions.\u00a0 You can also find him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sergheevdmitrii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his facebook page<\/a> as well as hear samples of his sax playing on his <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dmitrii-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">soundcloud page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eKu65zqd-H4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px; background-color: #f0b646; line-height: 1.4;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Gentle-RainSolo-by-Phil-Dwyer-Tenor-Saxophone.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Dwyer-Gentle Rain Tenor Sax Solo-Bb PDF<\/a><\/strong><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 jazz lines in this transcription, be sure to check out my PDF book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/approach-note-velocity-minor-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Approach Note Velocity Volume 2-Minor<\/a>&#8220;, which includes hundreds of approach note lines over minor chords 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\/approach-note-velocity-minor-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2021\/ApproachAd.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\/approach-note-velocity-minor-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Approach Note Velocity Volume 2-Minor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer,\u00a0 I discovered a new sax player on Facebook who was posting killer transcriptions on Youtube. His name is Dimitrii Sergheev from Moldova.\u00a0 Dimitrii caught my attention because we seem to have the exact same tastes in great tenor sax solos that need to be transcribed. 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