Other TH-cam sax 'tutor' videos are about them, but you make your videos about us. It makes a big difference to how your videos are received and appreciated. Thank you.
Hi Scott. I love your articulation videos as this is something I have never seen anywhere else. I was only ever taught that the default jazz articulation is to accent offbeats, but your videos show that this is only a small part of it. In fact here you are mostly accenting on the beat.
Oh imma so learn how to play this one right after I bang out this other exercise you have me on...this line sounds dope...keep up the great work...send more vids...👍👍👍
Hi Scott. So ... the value I get from this tutorial is not so much about how "you do what you have chosen" but rather, understanding what you have chosen to do and why. Most of us, as we groom our saxophining technical abilities, will explore ways to express ourselves artitisically and individually ... an understandable migration from simply playing mechanically acturately. This, then demands that we develop our unique interpretation of the music we are playing and try to convey those expressions to the audience. You make mention of goal notes and identify them (as you see them - is that absolute or subjective?) and I apreciate that. I would find it very helpful if you explain how you choose to translate the written music into a your own sonic artistic presentation. Kindly explain, why it is that you see certain notes as more important than ohers, for example. Why do you choose to include a grace note somewhere, or "pull a note back" versus "playing a neighboring note" louder than others. Why would you choose to slur a bunch of notes rather than play them in legatto or stacatto? Why would you gradually increase or decrease the volume you pkay a note (or bunch of notes) versus apply a decresendo? Yes, everyone can develop their own interpretation of the same piece of music, so, the basis of my questions is not to simply mimic you but to understand the choices than can be exploited when simply looiking at or listening to the "fake sheet". Thanks for your tutorials, as usual, Scott. I always find them insightful and informative.
That's exactly my intent! For you to take the ideas you learn from this example and use it on other things that you play. As detailed as I get with these things I can only teach 4 or so measures at a time, but the idea is to get the idea of what I'm doing and apply it to other things you are playing. There are a few general rules, but for the most part finding the goal notes are very specific to each thing that you are playing, so when you play it, break it down into small sections and listen to which note seems like it is the most important. It's normally going to be a direction change note. A note you just to or from. A note that seems a little our of place. Or a longer note. Find that note, and figure out how to set it up so it is more important than the other notes around it.
Other TH-cam sax 'tutor' videos are about them, but you make your videos about us. It makes a big difference to how your videos are received and appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks!! Yeah, I try to get to the point and present it in a way that makes sense and is easy to follow along with :-)
Thank you Scott for your new video this year. You're an outstanding saxophonist
ThankS!
Hi Scott. I love your articulation videos as this is something I have never seen anywhere else. I was only ever taught that the default jazz articulation is to accent offbeats, but your videos show that this is only a small part of it. In fact here you are mostly accenting on the beat.
yeah, the articulations are where the style comes from. I'm going to be digging into this in future videos.
We need to take this line by line just like this!!! Perfect!
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Thank you for this lesson, I found it helpful.
Oh imma so learn how to play this one right after I bang out this other exercise you have me on...this line sounds dope...keep up the great work...send more vids...👍👍👍
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Thanks for this video, Scott!
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Bro, You’re the best. Thank you sooooo much
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Hi Scott. So ... the value I get from this tutorial is not so much about how "you do what you have chosen" but rather, understanding what you have chosen to do and why. Most of us, as we groom our saxophining technical abilities, will explore ways to express ourselves artitisically and individually ... an understandable migration from simply playing mechanically acturately. This, then demands that we develop our unique interpretation of the music we are playing and try to convey those expressions to the audience.
You make mention of goal notes and identify them (as you see them - is that absolute or subjective?) and I apreciate that. I would find it very helpful if you explain how you choose to translate the written music into a your own sonic artistic presentation. Kindly explain, why it is that you see certain notes as more important than ohers, for example. Why do you choose to include a grace note somewhere, or "pull a note back" versus "playing a neighboring note" louder than others. Why would you choose to slur a bunch of notes rather than play them in legatto or stacatto? Why would you gradually increase or decrease the volume you pkay a note (or bunch of notes) versus apply a decresendo?
Yes, everyone can develop their own interpretation of the same piece of music, so, the basis of my questions is not to simply mimic you but to understand the choices than can be exploited when simply looiking at or listening to the "fake sheet".
Thanks for your tutorials, as usual, Scott. I always find them insightful and informative.
That's exactly my intent! For you to take the ideas you learn from this example and use it on other things that you play. As detailed as I get with these things I can only teach 4 or so measures at a time, but the idea is to get the idea of what I'm doing and apply it to other things you are playing.
There are a few general rules, but for the most part finding the goal notes are very specific to each thing that you are playing, so when you play it, break it down into small sections and listen to which note seems like it is the most important. It's normally going to be a direction change note. A note you just to or from. A note that seems a little our of place. Or a longer note. Find that note, and figure out how to set it up so it is more important than the other notes around it.
Thanks for your reply, Scott. It's very helpful. Cheers!
Good vid.
Do you "doodle tongue" the ghost notes, using your tongue, or just with airflow?
There might be a lil' doodle in there, but it's mostly pulling back with air.
Eeeee)) new video ^_^
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