The key of the week is C#...
I'm using Jim Grantham's "Jazzmaster Cookbook - Jazz Theory and Improvization" to design my saxophone practice routine. It's a great book, and it suggests that as you gradually increase the number of scale/arpeggio/pattern exercises you can play, you practice in a different key each week. I've decided to move chromatically each week (that is up a half step). This should help me with my goals to improve my ear, and get better at transposition.
I've already noticed a difference in my playing from only working with this book for one week. It's filling in some gaps in my knowledge of jazz theory. For some reason, I never really learned much about terms like diatonic and pentatonic. I learned my scales, as all music students must, but I never really understood what it was all about. This stuff is fun!
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