Pocket Practice Ideas | Jazz Technique with Saxophonist Dave O’Higgins – The Serpent’s Tooth

This video is the first in a series of ’Pocket Practice Ideas’, created in collaboration with @daveohig and Vandoren UK. These are ideas you can dip into wherever you are, when you have a few minutes to practice. In this video Dave takes us through the first two bars of the Miles Davis 1956 composition, ’Serpent’s Tooth’, to see what can be done with it. This series aims to develop your technique and make the most of the time you have to work on your playing. @daveohig likes to change up the routine he uses to practice, and often finds it highly productive and engaging to take a simple idea and then run with it. Happy Practicing! Learning Materials - The Serpent’s Tooth 🎶 Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:55 The Serpent’s Tooth 01:01 5-3-2-1 Major Scale 01:13 Ascending Chromatically 01:32 Descending Chromatically 01:49 A7 - 3-5-1-7 02:11 A7 - Cycl