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In Sax on the Web Jazz saxophone Series: Rootless Major Chord Shapes by Tim Price

This is a perfect way to open a chord and make the chord more modern. Listen... study and write some of your own based on mine. This works fine on other chords, too. Go back take some of my basic studies and try this root-less approach. Start simple. See "Bird-ology Study" below A printer friendly version of this chart available as an Adobe Acrobat .PDF document. Thank you, Tim Price Bird-ology Study On Bird's Famous "Now's The Time" Lick This is the Dominant 7th of the Blues and a great exercise through 12 keys Till next time- Tim Price A printer friendly version of this chart available as an Adobe Acrobat .PDF document. Tim Price is a Selmer Clinician, professional musician, jazz journalist and author. He teaches in New York City and Pennsylvania. He holds a degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston (1973 graduate). While at Berklee, he studied with Charlie Mariano, as well as with Andy McGhee, Joe Viola, and Nick Ciazza. After Berklee he studied saxophone and improvisation with Sal Nistico, Fred Lipsius, Jimmy Lyons, Ray Pizzi, Sonny Stitt, and Ronnie Cuber; flute with Harold Jones; clarinet with Kal Opperman and bassoon with Karen Borca. Tim resides in Reading, Pennsylvania with his wife, Marcia. He can be contacted for clinics, master classes, private teaching, gigs, and concerts by e-mail. Visit Tim's web site.[/QUOTE]