{"id":55845,"date":"2019-01-23T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=55845"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:26:49","slug":"dexter-gordon-tenor-sax-solo-transcription-of-you-stepped-out-of-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/dexter-gordon-tenor-sax-solo-transcription-of-you-stepped-out-of-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexter Gordon Tenor Sax Solo Transcription of You Stepped Out of a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A couple of months ago I received an email asking me if I could transcribe Dexter Gordon&#8217;s solo on &#8220;You Stepped Out of a Dream&#8221; from the Youtube video below with Dexter Gordon and Oscar Peterson.\u00a0 I clicked on the video and agreed with the person that sent the email that this was an amazing solo that should be transcribed.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know who Dexter Gordon is, he was an iconic tenor saxophone player who was one of the first to play bebop on the tenor saxophone.\u00a0 He had a unique sound and tone that was all his own.\u00a0 Most tenor player&#8217;s can pick out Dexter Gordon&#8217;s playing with just a few measure of playing.\u00a0 He had a fat, full and robust tenor saxophone tone and had a way of laying back on the beat that was ridiculously cool!<\/p>\n<p>This is a great solo with some incredible lines and those iconic &#8220;Dexter&#8221;melodic cliches that are well worth learning.\u00a0 Trust me, if you want to improve your jazz feel, the best thing you can do is to listen to and play along with Dexter Gordon.\u00a0 He swings like no other!!!!\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EBQ3oehQJMM?start=1350\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nYou Stepped Out of a Dream-Dexter Gordon and Oscar Peterson (solo starts at 22:30 mark)<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-55845-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2019\/You_Stepped_Out_of_a_Dream_Solo-DexterGordon.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2019\/You_Stepped_Out_of_a_Dream_Solo-DexterGordon.mp3\">https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2019\/You_Stepped_Out_of_a_Dream_Solo-DexterGordon.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><strong>You&#8217;ve Stepped Out of a Dream-Dexter Gordon Solo Clip<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2019\/You Stepped Out of a Dream-Dexter Gordon-Bb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Stepped Out of a Dream-Dexter Gordon-Bb<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2019\/You Stepped Out of a Dream-Dexter Gordon-C.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Stepped Out of a Dream-Dexter Gordon-C<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px; background-color: #f0b646; line-height: 1.4;\"><em>*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>PS.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to hear what you think of this great Dexter solo in the comments below!<\/p>\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 books <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mastering the Dominant Bebop Scale<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-book-2-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mastering the Dominant Bebop Scale-Book 2<\/a>, which both include a ton of jazz vocabulary that I have written out in all 12 keys. These lines are the foundation to building a great jazz vocabulary!! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2021\/BebopCoverAd.jpg\" alt=\"BebopCoverAd\" width=\"258\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mastering the Dominant Bebop Scale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-book-2-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2021\/DominantBebop2CoverAd.jpg\" alt=\"DominantBebop2CoverAd\" width=\"258\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-book-2-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mastering the Dominant Bebop Scale-Book 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago I received an email asking me if I could transcribe Dexter Gordon&#8217;s solo on &#8220;You Stepped Out of a Dream&#8221; from the Youtube video below with Dexter Gordon and Oscar Peterson.\u00a0 I clicked on the video and agreed with the person that sent the email that this was an amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":55848,"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":[794,716,78,265,71,1804],"class_list":{"0":"post-55845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-dexter-gordon","9":"tag-jazz-sax","10":"tag-solo","11":"tag-tenor-saxophone","12":"tag-transcription","13":"tag-youve-stepped-out-of-a-dream","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845","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=55845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}