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The opening bar of this lick really is a rather overused a cliche on the saxaphone. (Is there an underused cliche?). However by transposing it down a semitone over the next chord you get some very nice chromatic notes giving you the b9, b13 and b5. To avoid double flats in places I have changed the enharmonic spelling in where it is ambiguous, e.g. on the Eb7 the B and A give you a #5th instead of b13th and #11th instead of b5th. I was taught this pattern by Bill Charlson, one of the truly great saxaphone teachers.
The image here shows the first page, the PDF file contains the whole exercise in all keys.
