The video is quite cool and the transcription certainly makes up for a great learning vehicle, but the music is exactly one of the reasons why I hated studying that stuff. No melodic lines, just senseless 8th note blurb with almost no exceptions (and so that nobody gets me wrong: I like Coltrane for what he's achieved and sometimes for his playing, too). And that's exactly what and how most jazz students (especially sax players) practise. Endless excersizes of continuos 8th notes (usually scales or arpeggios) over whatever changes. As said, a great thing for practising, but very often you can just hear those very excersizes in their actual soloing, which is always driving me completely mad. And yes, there's countless examples of how one could do better, especially coming from piano players.xtp wrote: youve probably seen this but its kinda cool
Well, maybe it's just that I usually hate saxophone soloing, having been helplessly exposed to them for the larger part of my musician's life, due to the fact that almost every commercial production I worked in seemed to need a sax player - and as there's usually no horn section which they would actually make sense in, all that's left is like offering them each and every solo over an entire evening. Bleh!
