2SAXY Workshop Day: Career Tips, Articulation, Bebop Vocab - Aug 14
2SAXY Workshop Day (August 14, 2020 | 1pm - 6pm ET)
1 pm-2:30 pm ET - Starting Your Career Through Performing (All Levels)
We’re kicking the day off with a 2SAXY “Starting Your Career Through Performing” workshop. This is for all levels.
Busking (20 min)
Leo P will take you through the story of his early days of hitting the streets and building his career through busking. He’ll discuss busking benefits, and where to start, best practices for building your setlist, and how to promote yourself.
Social Media (30 min)
We’ll be teaching you how to work towards finding a unique voice on social media and how to build your audience through the power of collaboration. We’ll be discussing ways you can use social media as a vehicle for creating your next project/web series, and strategies for posting to multiple platforms. We’ll be showing you video clips of past content we’ve created and walking you through our process of creating it and releasing the content.
Networking (15 min)
We’ll be discussing how to get leads for gigs using networking and best practices for reaching out to other creatives and creating new opportunities.
Q&A (10 min) Ask us Anything
We’ll use this time to go over any questions you may have!
2:45 pm-3:45 pm ET -Articulation & Speed with Leo P (ALL LEVELS)
Leo will guide you through how to get your tongue and fingers to be in true synchronicity as you learn to build speed while articulating. He’ll be teaching you how to create more interesting rhythmic lines using articulation. Get ready for Leo to unleash some brand new articulation exercises and techniques that you have never seen before!
4:00 pm-5:00 pm ET - Bebop Vocabulary and Transposition (Intermediate/Advanced)
In this session, Grace will lead you through exercises to expand your bebop vocabulary and take you through her process of integrating bebop melody lines into your own improvisation by way of specific transposition techniques.
Bebop Repertoire (15 min)
This segment will be a mix of listening and play-along - we’ll be diving into a couple of great bebop melodies that we’ll use as our main muse throughout the workshop.
Analyzing Lines (15 min)
In this segment, we’ll handpick certain lines from the above bebop melodies and analyze them together, learning how the notes and chords work together and what makes them cohesive bebop lines.
Transposition Techniques & Q&A (30 min)
Grace will take you through her process for integrating short bebop riffs into your own improv using transposition techniques in this last segment. Get ready to do a bunch of playing during this segment as she leads you through real-time exercises.
5 pm-6 pm ET - Q&A & Virtual Jam Session
To end workshop day we are inviting all attendees to join for a Q&A and virtual jam session! We will use this time to answer any remaining questions and hold a guided jam session where we will lead you through some tracks and grooves.
Don't take our word for how awesome this will be, here is what past students are saying:
“The biggest take-away from your workshop is this - access to your enthusiasm and encouragement. It has provided me with extra air under my wings in approaching my practice at the craft of playing the saxophone. You guys are the new generation, the mantle has been passed on and it couldn't be in better hands. God Bless you both!” - Jay 🎷
"You guys! I am so proud of my kid, thank you so much for encouraging her! She felt like the online workshops weren't for her because she is a student, but went for it and really gained a lot from them... both skills and confidence! Thank you for including all skill levels!" - Stacey ❤️
"Thanks again for the awesome workshop last weekend. My son thinks the world of you both. And I know Leo has been so instrumental in shaping his confidence - not just in music but in life. Just thank you. So much. These workshops are fantastic." - Jessica 🎉
The workshop sessions are scheduled to take place between 1 pm -6 pm EST. See the table below for your time-zone.
Hawaii Standard Time (HST) | 7am |
Pacific Time (PST) | 10am |
Central Time (CT) | 12pm |
Eastern Time (EST)
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1pm |
British Summer Time (BST) | 6pm |
Central European Summer Time (CEST) | 7pm |
Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) | 8pm |