{"id":23907,"date":"2015-01-30T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=23907"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:06:12","slug":"donny-mccaslin-blues-solo-in-6ths-tenor-sax-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/donny-mccaslin-blues-solo-in-6ths-tenor-sax-transcription\/","title":{"rendered":"Donny McCaslin Blues Solo in 6ths Tenor Sax Transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another solo transcriptions I started working on yesterday. This is from\u00a0a clinic recording of Donny McCaslin demonstrating using sixth\u00a0intervals while improvising over a standard blues on the tenor saxophone. \u00a0I have no idea what this is from or even where I got it but it must have been on the internet somewhere. \u00a0I tried doing a search for the rest of the clinic but couldn’t find it anywhere online. \u00a0 Donny has graciously said he was ok with me posting the recordings and transcriptions for all to check out.<\/p>\n

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Donny McCaslin is a great tenor player who was just leaving Berklee as I was arriving there in the 80’s. \u00a0He doesn’t know it, but he had a large part in inspiring me to move to Boston. \u00a0 I went to Boston during the summer of 1986 to visit my girlfriend who was going to Berklee at the time. \u00a0I remember going to a concert at the Berklee performance Center. \u00a0Donny McCaslin was playing alongside\u00a0Warren Hill. \u00a0They were both students at the time and a little bit older than me. \u00a0I remember being amazed at that concert. \u00a0I don’t remember exactly what they played but I think I remember a Steps Ahead tune like “Trains” \u00a0and maybe also a Sanborn tune. \u00a0 I remember deciding right there at the concert that I had to leave Ithaca College and transfer to Berklee immediately. \u00a0If these were the kind of players Berklee was turning out then I wanted to be there. \u00a0I transferred to Berklee that fall and am very glad\u00a0that I did.<\/p>\n

I remember even at that time that Donny seemed to have his own sound and concept going on. \u00a0 He had long flowing original lines that weaved in, out and around the harmony. \u00a0His technique was amazing. \u00a0He would play complicated patterns and intervals throughout the range of the horn with ease. Even at that time, \u00a0I remember getting to Berklee and finding a recording of Donny playing on “There will Never Be Another You” from some performance. \u00a0I transcribed that solo and interestingly enough, even though it was 28 years ago, I remember there were also lines with fourths and sixths throughout that solo………<\/p>\n

I decided to transcribe this solo\u00a0because it is\u00a0unique in it’s\u00a0use of sixth\u00a0intervals\u00a0as well as some of the rhythmic ideas used. \u00a0 \u00a0Make sure to also check out the transcriptions of Donny demonstrating a blues using\u00a0fourths<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

Please be sure to check out Donny McCaslin’s recordings and website<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Thanks again to Donny for giving me permission to post these recordings as well as being such an inspiration in today’s jazz scene. \u00a0 \u00a0 Thanks, Steve<\/p>\n

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McCaslin Blues in 6ths Bb PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

McCaslin Blues in 6ths C PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

*If you would like to support me here at neffmusic.com, you can do so\u00a0on the 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

If you love these type of outside \u00a0type lines, be sure to check out my PDF book “Devastating Minor Lines for Jazz and Funk\u00a0Soloing” in which I take 100 classic minor “outside” lines in 16th notes and write them out in all 12 keys. \u00a0These lines are devastatingly awesome!! (that’s my opinion anyways……)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here’s another solo transcriptions I started working on yesterday. This is from\u00a0a clinic recording of Donny McCaslin demonstrating using sixth\u00a0intervals while improvising over a standard blues on the tenor saxophone. \u00a0I have no idea what this is from or even where I got it but it must have been on the internet somewhere. \u00a0I tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":23908,"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":[753,1213,1322,10,1246,72,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-23907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-blues-solo","9":"tag-donny-mccaslin","10":"tag-jazz-improvisation","11":"tag-jazz-saxophone","12":"tag-sixths","13":"tag-tenor-sax","14":"tag-transcription","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907","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=23907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}