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Is This the Only Chord Progression You Need to Know?
Improvising musicians need to be able to solo over chord progressions with ease. But with so many different combinations of chords, how can we learn to do this easily? Well, there's only actually one chord progression you need to know, and then you'll be able to improvise over almost any song. It doesn't matter if you play jazz, pop, funk, Ibiza club classics, this chord progression will help you solo in any genre!
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Master the ii V I in 5 Simple Steps
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The ii V I chord progression is one of the most common in jazz and pop. Every improvising musician needs to know how to play killer solos over it. In this video, we break the chord progression down and go over a really easy 5 step process to get you improvising incredible solos over it. Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshw...
Miles Davis' Trick for Engaging Solos
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Miles Davis was able to keep listeners engaged, without relying on anything complicated. He was an absolute master at using space to keep his solos interesting. Whatever the style of music you play - jazz, pop, rock, it doesn't matter - space is always an essential, and easy, way to elevate your solos, and no one has ever done it better than Miles Davis. Today I go over how he uses space, and a...
I Was Wrong About Stan Getz
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Stan Getz is one of the all-time great jazz musicians. An influential saxophonist that at one time was considered even greater than John Coltrane. For years though, I didn't give him the respect he deserves. Well that changes today as we explore his genius on his recording of 'I Want To Be Happy' with the Oscar Peterson trio. Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWa...
Is This the Only Skill Musicians Need?
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Audiation is a necessary part of any musician's skillset, but almost no one has heard of it! I sat down with author and saxophonist Jordan Ferrin to talk about what audiation is, why it's useful, and how we can start to develop the skill for ourselves. Whether you're an improvising musician or not, this skill will give your musicianship a huge boost, and transform the way you play. Jordan's art...
Jordan Ferrin Discusses this Unknown Musical Technique
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Audiation is an important skill that every musician needs to develop, but most of us haven't even heard of it! Jordan Ferrin is an expert on audiation, as well as a published music educator and Jazz saxophonist based in Long Beach, California. He joined me to chat everything audiation, and improvisation. Jordan's article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/874926/pdf Jordan Ferrin's Storyband: www.jord...
I Hate This Incredible Practice Technique
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Recording yourself playing your instrument is one of the best ways to make sure you are practising the right things, the right way, making sure you keep improving as a musician. Here's why it's such a great way to enhance your music practice, even if we may hate doing it! Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tik...
Straight, No Chaser w/ Josh Wakeham, Andrea Rinciari, Lorenzo Morabito
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Straight, No Chaser performed at our first ever Live From the Bop Cave concert. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar Lorenzo Morabito - Double bass Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
S'Wonderful w/ Josh Wakeham, Andrea Rinciari, Lorenzo Morabito
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S'Wonderful, performed at the very first edition of our Live From the Bop Cave livestream concert series. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar Lorenzo Morabito - Double bass Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
71% of Musicians Miss THIS Secret to Dexter’s Sound
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Dexter Gordon is one of the all-time great jazz musicians, but so many musicians don't realise what makes him so unique, and his style so identifiable. Let's break down how he uses his time feel, riffs, and phrasing to add some drama and spice to his solos Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wa...
Blue Bossa w/ Josh Wakeham, Andrea Rinciari, Conor Murray
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Blue Bossa performed on our Live From the Bop Cave livestream concert series. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar Conor Murray - Double Bass Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
Was Cole Porter America's GREATEST Composer?
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America has loads of amazing composers, Gershwin, Sondheim, Bernstein, Copeland, but it Cole Porter remains that absolute best. This is why! Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
Live From the Bop Cave Vol. 6 - Josh Wakeham & Andrea Rinciari
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We're scaling it back for this week's Live From the Bop Cave - an intimate duo performance from the founders - Josh Wakeham & Andrea Rinciari. Playing through some of their favourite standards including Out of Nowhere, Body and Soul, and S'Wonderful. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar 0:00 Spontaneous Combustion 6:58 S'Wonderful 14:40 Anthropology 21:31 Body & Soul 30:55 Out of N...
Never Play a Boring Solo Again Using This Sonny Rollins Trick
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Never Play a Boring Solo Again Using This Sonny Rollins Trick
The Struggle of a Modern Musician
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The Struggle of a Modern Musician
Jazz Greats Use THIS Instead of the Altered Scale
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Jazz Greats Use THIS Instead of the Altered Scale
Beginner Improvisers: PRACTISE THIS Instead of Songs
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Beginner Improvisers: PRACTISE THIS Instead of Songs
5 Habits of Successful Musicians
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5 Habits of Successful Musicians
I Exposed Dexter Gordon's Melodic Formula
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I Exposed Dexter Gordon's Melodic Formula
Why Jazz Bassists are Better than You
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Why Jazz Bassists are Better than You
Every Musician NEEDS to Know These Singers' Tricks
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Every Musician NEEDS to Know These Singers' Tricks
Dexter Gordon's 3 Favourite Harmonic Devices
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Dexter Gordon's 3 Favourite Harmonic Devices
3 Diminished Patterns the Jazz Greats Love
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3 Diminished Patterns the Jazz Greats Love
Don't Buy This Mouthpiece
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Don't Buy This Mouthpiece
The Notes Don't Matter
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The Notes Don't Matter
This is the MOST Important Thing in Jazz
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This is the MOST Important Thing in Jazz
Metronome Hacks You NEED to Know
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Metronome Hacks You NEED to Know
Jazz Transcription - Where to Start?
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Jazz Transcription - Where to Start?
The BEST Way to Practise Scales
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The BEST Way to Practise Scales

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  • @alexcoke
    @alexcoke วันที่ผ่านมา

    Theory explains practice. Music is SOUND. Thanks for a nice way of looking at this sound.

  • @AniketChaturvedi
    @AniketChaturvedi 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That's a cool looking sax bro, what is it? I am trying to buy a new sax, this looks dope!

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's a Joe Lovano Borgani. Best horn I've ever played!

    • @AniketChaturvedi
      @AniketChaturvedi 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@joshwakeham thanks! Love your videos by the way, learning a lot from them!

  • @ronrobbins2737
    @ronrobbins2737 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    thanks Josh? So what's the deal with the so called "double-diminished" scale others are talking about? seems to be nothing more than an ordinary half-step/whole-step run-of-the-mill diminished scale!

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My understanding is that the double-diminished is just the same notes as the half-step/whole-step diminished. Some people just refer to it as double-diminished because it contains two different diminished 7th arpeggios (e.g. C Eb Gb A, Db E, G Bb) and they prefer to think of it like that as it's a bit easier to think about chord tones/patterns/shapes than when thinking of a whole scale

    • @ronrobbins2737
      @ronrobbins2737 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ⁠ awesome Josh, thanks so much! I just got ripped off buying an online course raving about what I thought was some new altered scale The guy had come up with, and that’s all it was was the usual diminished scale! What a joke.

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh man, that's so frustrating! I'm sure the course will still have some useful stuff in it though, so hopefully it wasn't a complete waste of money!

    • @ronrobbins2737
      @ronrobbins2737 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@joshwakeham thanks! the introduction vid looked fine, but the course vids look just thrown together, rehashing the same stuff. Instead it should have been titled maybe "how to use diminished scales for 2-5-1s" and free. LOL

  • @georgehiggins1320
    @georgehiggins1320 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I feel like a lot of the best jazz musicians don't pick one way or the other to think about it, but have spent so much time understanding how it works that they have multiple ways to think about it and hence multiple perspectives to approach it from.

  • @Chilajuana
    @Chilajuana 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Does Transcribe actually write the notes down below the wave form like at 8:45 or is it a superimposition?

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No, that was me superimposing it

  • @williamsanborn9195
    @williamsanborn9195 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I feel like this advice holds true regardless of what (wind) instrument you play. I’m not a saxophonist, but I could tell that when I switched trumpet mouthpieces from the one I got with my trumpet to the one my late grandfather used, my tone drastically changed for the better, and I’d practiced the same amount of time across both. Now I play on Granddad’s. Mouthpiece and all. Gotta keep his spirit alive, even if he’s been gone for 20 years.

  • @pontiactransam75
    @pontiactransam75 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    hi, I fully agree with what you say that the mouthpiece is a personal choice and each of us has our own tone, but I must say that the set up is also important because it sometimes helps in a truly remarkable way, the emission of the sound, the dynamics etc.. but it is equally true that it has now unfortunately become a very expensive business

  • @wckoek
    @wckoek 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I am mostly a tenor player, and comfortable with an Otto Link with 6 opening. I am thinking of dabbling size 7* on alto which has the same opening at 0.09 inch as the tenor 6. Would you think for different tenor or alto instrument it is still a good idea to stick with the same opening you found a sound for?

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I usually don't recommend having the exact same tip opening (e.g. 0.09'') on alto and tenor. The different size of the instrument means that having the same tip opening can end up really skewing things - a 0.105 is relatively standard tenor tip opening, but a giant one on alto. Instead I tend to recommend going for the equivalent size, so if you're using an Otto Link 6 on tenor, an Otto Link 6 on alto (or a mouthpiece with the same tip opening as the alto Otto Link 6) would be a good pick. I hope that helps!

    • @wckoek
      @wckoek 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks. I'll try with a size 6 first.

  • @charleschidsey2831
    @charleschidsey2831 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just discovered your channel man. Love your tutorials. You earned my sub.

  • @blueginger8570
    @blueginger8570 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great stuff !!

  • @jamesharvey8835
    @jamesharvey8835 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think Dex already did that

  • @dominicellis1867
    @dominicellis1867 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You could also play Cdim7 over Cmin because A B C D Eb and F are common. The consonance of a line is directly proportional to the number of common tones with the chord it’s played over.

  • @johnklimeck
    @johnklimeck หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is Pat Martino exactly… over G7: Abm (b9), Bm (3rd), Fm (7th), Dm (5th)…. From most dissonant to consonant…Pats Linear Expressions, Dorian on all chords. Take some time and get under the fingers, it’s invaluable…

  • @gonzaloperezhornos8656
    @gonzaloperezhornos8656 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It seems like you are describing super locrian (seventh mode of the harmonic minor, not superlocrian b7 from melodic minor) thinking in terms of the minor chord one semitone up

  • @natesargent9996
    @natesargent9996 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was just working with the chord changes in this one and I can hear them all in your lines. Well done!

  • @johnnyloungejazz5477
    @johnnyloungejazz5477 หลายเดือนก่อน

    His Ballads are magnificent

  • @johnnyloungejazz5477
    @johnnyloungejazz5477 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Getz and Zoot Sims were as good as anyone that ever played. Scott Hamilton is my Man

  • @blindcanseemusic
    @blindcanseemusic หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your tone. Excellent advice

  • @bryandickerson5365
    @bryandickerson5365 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Of course Dexter’s thing was SO laid-back he was in another time zone! That “sense of swung quavers” later in the phrase was because of his “ghosting tonguing”. Even 1/8 + appropriate ghosting/accenting = swing like a mofo! Thanks for the excellent vid!

  • @brzezbrzez
    @brzezbrzez หลายเดือนก่อน

    use of space/timing/fewer notes but great, unexpected notes occasionally

  • @RobertYourell
    @RobertYourell หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think a crucial part is that he strategically catches up with the beat. His on-beat hits punctuate the rhythm, highlighting important moments.

  • @kellygrant4964
    @kellygrant4964 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As with audio equipment. I have spent a lot of time getting my equipment that works for me. In those times sitting and auditioning various things I came across alot of people being taken in by voodoo magic. Things like raise your speaker cable off the floor and it makes a "massive" difference. As well as this gizmo is 10 times as expensive and your old gizmo so it must be alot better. I call it the placebo effect. Chasing the next "best thing" never ends with you coming in first. Just as in saxophone there is the voodoo magic as well. Spend $500 on a ligature and your sound will be amazingly better. Must get that silver plating because that is going to make the difference. Where what you say is right on... the sound really comes from you.

  • @MichaelAndrews-uy1gl
    @MichaelAndrews-uy1gl หลายเดือนก่อน

    Listen to the tune "Shine" on his West Coast Sessions" album. (1955-1956). His technique is brilliant.

  • @jimthompson606
    @jimthompson606 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For a long time I never paid much attention to Stan, but then I came to love his interpretation of Brazilian music and Wow.

  • @composax1
    @composax1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spot on for me! My thoughts with Dave Speakman; th-cam.com/video/8iEyxa3XUoo/w-d-xo.html

  • @yonatanc25
    @yonatanc25 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you!!! The jazz greats worked out ways to not work hard . Now, their secrets are exposed. I wish i new this 20 years ago. Amazing

  • @pv1038
    @pv1038 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is the pdf of this video ?:)

  • @louisvillani4639
    @louisvillani4639 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi there,whats your sax set up,you sound so good thanks Lou

  • @Azman.
    @Azman. หลายเดือนก่อน

    Been listerning his muzik till now! Greetings from Jazzman Kuala Lumpur.

  • @alejnikov
    @alejnikov หลายเดือนก่อน

    Truly spoken1

  • @tectorgorch8698
    @tectorgorch8698 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am no. 666!

  • @victoza9232
    @victoza9232 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:05 stank face 2:08 the "major 7th enjoyment" face 2:50 the "quod erat demonstrandum" face

  • @sudhakartamang1792
    @sudhakartamang1792 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow ! Great Lesson …more videos on melodic cells please any artist from bebop to modern ..

  • @olafsrensen9578
    @olafsrensen9578 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love how you analyse your heroejazzsaxplayers .Really exeiting. WOW

  • @philippe2210
    @philippe2210 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, I thought the answer was just "side-slip" I'm glad I watched

  • @tonywolton
    @tonywolton 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have you listened to Getz with Cal Tjader? His up tempo solo in Ginza Samba is insane. The whole band is all star, with Billy Higgins on drums, Vince Guaraldi on piano and Scott La Faro on bass. On the waltz ballad ' Liz Anne', Getz plays a masterpiece solo that has constant achingly wide intervals and lyrical beyond belief. Knowing Getz, and those band members that day, they probably did it in one take.

  • @ChrisF_1982
    @ChrisF_1982 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You're definitely right about them not thinking about not thinking about the scale when thinking about the sound it produces. I used it inadvertently for quite a few years.

  • @Schmidt-Sax
    @Schmidt-Sax 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Du bist prima 👍🏻🏆💯

  • @pvillez
    @pvillez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im a guitarist and really enjoy your videos. I like the fact that you really expose the idiom, it's phrases. Thank you

  • @Hollowdogmusic
    @Hollowdogmusic 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Extremely good info. Reed match can make someone love or hate a mouthpiece at first glance. Thanks so much for this video.😀

  • @epo1980
    @epo1980 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always thought his music is beyond everything. My all-time-fav. Thank you for this video.

  • @berndkiltz
    @berndkiltz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent Video!

  • @saasaa7207
    @saasaa7207 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are a genius....making difficult things incredibly simple...Thank you...

  • @tromBoyer
    @tromBoyer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The REAL Dexter give away, sound wise, is the slight but short vibrato at the end of last note of a phrase. One or two small shakes are all you get - and no one else does this

  • @saasaa7207
    @saasaa7207 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you are great Josh...🙂

  • @luvmyrecords
    @luvmyrecords 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have you checked out the "Focus" album, and its opening track, "I'm Late," from 1961? It actually is great, up tempo playing from a later period, and is two complete takes spliced together. Neither Eddie Sauter, the arranger, nor the producer could decide on which was better.

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love his take of "I'm Late"! I hadn't ever realised it was two takes spliced together. That's a cool bit of trivia

  • @TaboraMusic
    @TaboraMusic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On point! I’ve noticed this with Chet Baker as well.

  • @MeehanSax
    @MeehanSax 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everyone knows you swing more when you swing less!

  • @yamtssfa1
    @yamtssfa1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What are some options for improvising over that progression?

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Check out my video on mastering the ii V I progression if you're not sure how to solo over it

  • @phpfunkdotcom
    @phpfunkdotcom 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where can one acquire such a drum loop as @3:48??? Thanks.

    • @joshwakeham
      @joshwakeham 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's one of the loops on the app Drum Genius