Exclusive NEW Training for Experienced Adult Saxophone Players

How to Stop Guessing and Know What to Play When the Written Notes Disappear

Even if you’ve spent years depending on the written page, without memorizing endless licks, writing out every solo, drowning in jazz theory, or trying to calculate every chord while the band keeps playing.

YES! Help Me Stop Guessing When I Solo

Here's What You Will Discover:

🎷 The 3 chord types you need to understand so you can stop looking at a page full of chord symbols and stop wondering where to even begin

🎷 The overlooked part of improvisation that helps you stop playing solos that sound rambling, stiff, or like a string of disconnected notes

🎷 What to practice and what to stop wasting time on, so you’re not spending another year playing random scales, exercises, and backing tracks without knowing whether they’re actually helping you improvise

🎷 How to stop falling back on the same blues scale, pentatonic scale, or familiar licks simply because you don’t know what else will work over the chords

🎷 Why trying to “be more confident” doesn’t solve the problem, and what needs to become stronger so you stop second-guessing yourself every time it’s your turn to solo

🎷 How the CMS Framework helps you stop trying to figure everything out at once and gives you a clear process for making sense of the chords and turning them into your own melodic ideas


**This masterclass is not beginning saxophone instruction or a refresher for players who have only recently returned after a long break. You should already have your basic tone, fingerings, technique, and music reading under control.

How to Stop Guessing and Know What to Play When the Written Notes Disappear

(Even if you’ve spent years depending on the written page, without memorizing endless licks, writing out every solo, drowning in jazz theory, or trying to calculate every chord while the band keeps playing.)


Are You A Good Reader But Still Freeze When It’s Time to Solo?


Here's What You Will Discover:

🎷 The three chord types you need to recognize so chord symbols stop leaving you unsure what to play.

🎷 How rhythm helps turn the notes you already know into musical, memorable solos.

🎷 What to practice so you understand the chords and know which notes belong when it is time to solo.

🎷 How to stop using blues and pentatonic scales over every chord and start creating melodic solos of your own.

🎷 How to turn the music theory you already know into musical solos.

🎷 What actually creates improvisation confidence, and why it has much less to do with talent than you think.

**This masterclass is not beginning saxophone instruction nor a refresher for players who have only recently returned after a long break.

You should already have your basic tone, fingerings, technique, and music reading

under control.


About Donna

Musician, Educator and Everything Saxophone Podcast Host, Donna Schwartz has helped thousands of people of all ages all over the world bring their performance and improvisation skills to the next level for over 36 years.

She has performed with members from Billy Joel's Band, Black Sabbeth, Finalists from NBC's The Voice, and has performed in many of the major venues in the NYC and Los Angeles metro areas.


Donna has helped 100's of saxophonists from all over the world achieve their dreams of improvising with freedom over their favorite music.

Do Any Of These Sound Like You?

  • You practice consistently yet solos still feel unpredictable
  • You want to contribute to the band, but are too afraid to raise your hand to take a solo because you feel like the 'weak link'
  • You can read well, can play the full range of the saxophone, but have no clue where to start when it comes to improvisation
  • Your confidence disappears under real performance pressure
  • You rely on writing out solos or memorizing worked out lines because you can't come up with anything creative on the spot


Start Improvising With Freedom!

This training can totally change the way you approach improvisation and help you to become the improviser you've always wanted to be

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