I've watched so many 251 improv videos and this is the one that got ready to create my own music phrases. I don't know enough music yet (I've only be learning clarinet for about 18 months) to explain what's different about this video. But it made something inside me click. Massive thanks for sharing this!!!
Dude. The first time this material has made complete sense to me. Your illustration of the difference between kinds of chords makes the 3/7 guide-tones clear, again for the first time. Thank you.
Men! , Italians will say, grazie Mille, thank you very much brooo, this is the type of class and teacher I've been searching for on TH-cam, this is great! , you really took your time to present this lesson , this is for all stages, begginer, intermediate, and advanced, Thank you very much once again, may God almighty richly reward you in Jesus mighty name
Thanks for the comment. There are lots of videos on improvisation using the guitar and piano on TH-cam which can be adapted for the saxophone. I am working on a few videos but will do more videos like this one.
The piano is great for soloing. It can have strong rhythmic and melodic effect. I find it helps learn other instruments. I am starting to use it to teach some guitar students. I currently have a Casio Ctk 4200. It needs another octave..
Thank you for this tutorial video presented in a precise voice & visual diagrams , and I understand the scales and appegio runs 🍫🍬🤩 improvs will make an instrument blend or join well with other musical instruments. RIGHT ! I am trying to write my first melody with 4/4 chord EG♯B, Great bands had great musician that improvised. Putting these improvs on paper makes their music a legacy.
I just want to note that the music example played at 5 min 39 sec is not in C Major as written, but is in Eb Major. The melody is also played in a lower octave. So to play along with the melody exactly - transpose the notes up a minor 3rd, then down an octave (melody is Ab-Eb-D-Ab-G-D). If you want it exactly in tune - tune A to 442.56 Hz.
Hi. I'm glad you are understanding this. Sometimes knowing the theory behind the music doesn't help. The way to improve is just to do lots and lots of practice. Thanks for the comment.
Holy the amount of good information in this video is insane. Thank you! really brushed up on my knowledge of soloing, next maybe analyzing solos and specific licks?
@@Saxcomprehensive I try to learn from other instrumentalists. A saxophone player has a slightly different vision, approach and feeling than a guitarist.
I am reading this . I have spent..I'm estimating possibly a thousands hours or more on music. That includes studying, taking lessons..Spanish guitar, classical etc. I was teaching possibly the best guitar student I ever had.. I was doing the circle of fifths in all 12 keys. I noticed there were a few keys that I was weak in. I could say C F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb ..I really did this as circle of ascending 4ths..rather than thinking C is the 5 of F etc. Gb goes B..B to E..Now I would probably say Gb goes to Cb..found by the Gb scale going 4 notes. Gb Ab Bb (Cb) Db Eb F Gb. 20 years ago..I would have just moved the Gb to F# and got a B as the 4th of that scale.. F# G# A# (B) B is a #s 🔑. So B E A D G and back to the magic C key. So 20 years ago aprox. I noticed that there seemed to bea pattern. I stopped everything and wrote every thing down to visualize it C F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb B E A D G C. I wrote it out in various ways. Then it hit me Readers see below. (BEAD)(GCF) Next part is amazing. ((BbEbAbDb) ((GbCbFb)) that last part is( F# B E...this goes in a circle ..the B E A D G C F just keeps on going..starts in B (5#) E (4#) A (3#) D (2#) G (1#) C (0 #) The above 2 5 1 follows this as far as the root goes.
Soy principiante estudiante de armonía y he visto infinidad de tutoriales pero este es el más completo y explicativo. Me gustaría que tuviera traducción al español. No encuentro muchos libros de armonía en español.
Hi. I have added an English subtitle so you should be able to change the settings to read it in Spanish, hopefully without mistakes. Thanks for watching.
Hi. The basic seventh chord is made up of the root, 3rd ,5th, and 7th note of the chord. The guide tones are the 3rd and 7th notes of each chord. So for Dm7 it will be f and c, but for G7 it will be B and F. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks
Hi. I will add within a few days a video on improvisation using the pentatonic scale over a 251. This will have a piano diagram and written notes to help those beginners. Check out my playlist on music theory where it shows how to read sheet music. it is not as difficult as it looks. Thanks
@@Saxcomprehensive There is or used to be a free android app on playstore..it had name like midiwriter..thats not the name Ill try to get back to you on the name. it shows the piano as the notes go by. I think it just picks up the audio and goes from there. That would certainly be a good think. i also have written in maestro and it might have piano graphics. The best.
Would it make the visualization of chord tones, target notes etc. even better if they were shown on a piano keyboard? One problem with staff notation is, chromatic steps often occupy the same space, for example D - Db. But on a piano keyboard, everything is visible like on a map and every chromatic note has a separate spot. To me, the issue of targeting notes and stepping is like dance steps. You are in location X and you want to get to one of possible locations Y in three steps. Any 5-year-old can improvise step sequences like this when they're playing games outside. Why can't musicians.
Hi. I think that you are right about the visualization but I also believe as sax players we should also get used to using sheet music notation. It may be difficult at first, but the more we struggle through identifying the notes, the better we become at it. Then, we are better able to go through with ease the countless books on music theory and improvisation. I'm reading a book now on improvisation and its all sheet music. Nevertheless, I will try and add some piano visualisations in my next video on improvisation. Thanks for the suggestion.
By using an endless repetitive chord progression sounds a bit of a limitation though. Or should I use another expression like "what you are playing, I 've heard it numerous times before" :)
Hi. The 251 chord progression occurs a lot in jazz and pop music and that is why it is used so much as an example. Obviously, there will be other progressions within a song. This video is aimed at giving ideas which can be used over a 251 progression but can also be used for creating melodies over other progressions. See my analysis of the song 'all the things you are.' Here, the song is full of 251 progressions but it changes the key often. If you can improvise over 251 then you can play over the majority of jazz songs. Try to understand the principles in the video and use it to come up with your own creation for a melody. It would be the same ideas for improvising over other chords. Thanks.
Your story about notes, scales, chords and progressions is a part of the story! THE STORY of IMPROVISATION is more complex. An improvisation should be based not only on the many facts you mention, it should also be based on the MELODY and on your own INTERPRETATION feeded by the MOOD and the FANTASY of the individual player. Use also your heart and not only your brains when you improvise ....to express in other words ...... what I want to say.
Did he write the lick, phrase, tune out first and later play it, or did he play it then someone wrote it out. This seems it would take a lot of planning to get music out of your instrument if you're thinking about every note before playing. I'm a relative beginner so bear with me.
Hi. Charlie Parker practiced for 15 hrs a day. With this amount of practice, playing becomes instinctive. To start off he would have thought about the theory behind the chords but later he would have had so many memorised licks that it would have been easy for him to adapt them to his playing. We will get there in time. Thanks
Hi. It has subtitles so you can change it to Italian by pressing the settings button and auto translate. Hopefully there should be little errors. Thanks.
I've watched so many 251 improv videos and this is the one that got ready to create my own music phrases. I don't know enough music yet (I've only be learning clarinet for about 18 months) to explain what's different about this video. But it made something inside me click. Massive thanks for sharing this!!!
Never seen such a clear explanation of guide tones! Thanks mate!
Dude. The first time this material has made complete sense to me. Your illustration of the difference between kinds of chords makes the 3/7 guide-tones clear, again for the first time. Thank you.
Thanks for the comment. I hope to make more videos like this.
Its funny because you took what my professor was trying teach me and made it so much more digestable and easier to understand!!
Many times teachers and professors etc. are teaching at a bit of advanced level. Hard to understand. been there..got the T shirt.
There is so much information packed into this. I’m learning jazz guitar and this is the clearest explanation I have found, thanks.
You are a very good teacher of music, straight to the point..
Thank you so much, this could be the clearest explanation that I've ever found on TH-cam.
So smart and creative teaching method , I have ever met !!
Great, great, great !!
I love it !
One of the best explanations I've ever seen
Thanks for the comment. There are lots of good videos on improvising using the guitar and piano which can be adapted if you play the saxophone.
Love that last example. Always learning.
This can't be explained better. You are a legend
Men! , Italians will say, grazie Mille, thank you very much brooo, this is the type of class and teacher I've been searching for on TH-cam, this is great! , you really took your time to present this lesson , this is for all stages, begginer, intermediate, and advanced,
Thank you very much once again, may God almighty richly reward you in Jesus mighty name
Thanks for the comment. There are lots of videos on improvisation using the guitar and piano on TH-cam which can be adapted for the saxophone. I am working on a few videos but will do more videos like this one.
Perfection explanation. I use the saxophon solo for bass line when do a jam Big thx for this .
Brilliant explanation. As a piano student, I find that it brings all the elements together for me.
Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed it.
The piano is great for soloing. It can have strong rhythmic and melodic effect. I find it helps learn other instruments. I am starting to use it to teach some guitar students. I currently have a Casio Ctk 4200. It needs another octave..
Thanks mate, I have been trying to understand this for a while.
Hi. I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for the comment.
Wow, liked and subscribed immediately before the deal is off!
Thank you for this tutorial video presented in a precise voice & visual diagrams , and I understand the scales and appegio runs 🍫🍬🤩 improvs will make an instrument blend or join well with other musical instruments. RIGHT !
I am trying to write my first melody with 4/4 chord EG♯B,
Great bands had great musician that improvised. Putting these improvs on paper makes their music a legacy.
Thanks for the comment. I wish you success with your channel playing the kalimba.
Outstanding Tutorial!
SUCH a good lesson, I’m in .
Gold. Subscribed. Great lesson.
I just want to note that the music example played at 5 min 39 sec is not in C Major as written, but is in Eb Major. The melody is also played in a lower octave. So to play along with the melody exactly - transpose the notes up a minor 3rd, then down an octave (melody is Ab-Eb-D-Ab-G-D). If you want it exactly in tune - tune A to 442.56 Hz.
Finally start to understand this nice clear explication. Thanks a lot
Hi. I'm glad you are understanding this. Sometimes knowing the theory behind the music doesn't help. The way to improve is just to do lots and lots of practice. Thanks for the comment.
You are a good teacher
Thank you. I really appreciate you for this lesson. I can see clear for what I need to do as a musician.
Holy the amount of good information in this video is insane. Thank you! really brushed up on my knowledge of soloing, next maybe analyzing solos and specific licks?
Hi. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the suggestions.
Thank you, you explained it very clear. Good video!
best introduction ever :D thank you
Thanks for an excellent lesson. The graphics are very clear and helpful.
Another well presented tutorial. Excellent content!
Brilliantly explained.
Really like your channel subscribed.
Wow. That great! Thanks so much for this clear explanation, I FINALLY start understanding :) Cheers.
Best video ever I have seen on this topic. Thanks a lot 🙏👍👍👍
Hi Stephan. glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment.
This is is an impressive amount of information in a relatively short video. Well done! 10 minute lesson, now go woodshed for a long time. :) Cheers
Thank you much needed
Thanks - very clear explanation. Helped me a lot.
Very informative. Thank a lot!
Wonderful channel good teaching plz up load more and more ...may God bless you and channels Tq🖐🤝🤝🤝
congratulations its a very simple explanation for 2 5 1.
Thanks. In part 2, I will look at extensions in order to create more tension
Great lesson. Thank you. I'm not a saxplayer but guitarplayer.
Hi Dave. Thanks for watching. There are so many good videos on the guitar and piano that sometimes I think about learning those instruments too.
@@Saxcomprehensive I try to learn from other instrumentalists. A saxophone player has a slightly different vision, approach and feeling than a guitarist.
I got it ken but it take plenty practice 🙏🏽 keep posting ken thanks again👍🏾💯❤️🎼🎶
Great! God bless you!
I am reading this . I have spent..I'm estimating possibly a thousands hours or more on music.
That includes studying, taking lessons..Spanish guitar, classical etc.
I was teaching possibly the best guitar student I ever had.. I was doing the circle of fifths in all 12 keys. I noticed there were a few keys that I was weak in. I could say C F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb ..I really did this as circle of ascending 4ths..rather than thinking C is the 5 of F etc. Gb goes B..B to E..Now I would probably say Gb goes to Cb..found by the Gb scale going 4 notes. Gb Ab Bb (Cb) Db Eb F Gb.
20 years ago..I would have just moved the Gb to F# and got a B as the 4th of that scale.. F# G# A# (B)
B is a #s 🔑. So B E A D G and back to the magic C key. So 20 years ago aprox. I noticed that there seemed to bea pattern. I stopped everything and wrote every thing down to visualize it
C F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb B E A D G C.
I wrote it out in various ways. Then it hit me Readers see below. (BEAD)(GCF) Next part is amazing.
((BbEbAbDb) ((GbCbFb))
that last part is( F# B E...this goes in a circle ..the B E A D G C F just keeps on going..starts in B (5#) E (4#) A (3#) D (2#) G (1#) C (0 #)
The above 2 5 1 follows this as far as the root goes.
Make me understand there is so awesome Thank a lot of
great video. also, did anyone else initially think this was primer to learn how to play over two hundred fifty one progressions in 9 minutes? lol
Soy principiante estudiante de armonía y he visto infinidad de tutoriales pero este es el más completo y explicativo. Me gustaría que tuviera traducción al español. No encuentro muchos libros de armonía en español.
Hi. I have added an English subtitle so you should be able to change the settings to read it in Spanish, hopefully without mistakes. Thanks for watching.
Thank you
Super gracias Maestro.... Por favor traducir al Español...muy buen tutorial
ohh i really easyly understand. i wana buy your book if you publish
Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed it.
I love your accent
Gracias.
5:33 How does that make sense, are those the 3 and 7 from each of those chords
Hi. The basic seventh chord is made up of the root, 3rd ,5th, and 7th note of the chord. The guide tones are the 3rd and 7th notes of each chord. So for Dm7 it will be f and c, but for G7 it will be B and F. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks
Thank you for
Nice video lession good 👌👌
Glad you liked it
@@Saxcomprehensive Please to you, good music to you 🤞👌
any plans to make same video with piano roll showing which keys it is for beginners not reading notes
Hi. I will add within a few days a video on improvisation using the pentatonic scale over a 251. This will have a piano diagram and written notes to help those beginners. Check out my playlist on music theory where it shows how to read sheet music. it is not as difficult as it looks. Thanks
@@Saxcomprehensive There is or used to be a free android app on playstore..it had name like midiwriter..thats not the name Ill try to get back to you on the name. it shows the piano as the notes go by. I think it just picks up the audio and goes from there. That would certainly be a good think. i also have written in maestro and it might have piano graphics. The best.
Would it make the visualization of chord tones, target notes etc. even better if they were shown on a piano keyboard? One problem with staff notation is, chromatic steps often occupy the same space, for example D - Db. But on a piano keyboard, everything is visible like on a map and every chromatic note has a separate spot. To me, the issue of targeting notes and stepping is like dance steps. You are in location X and you want to get to one of possible locations Y in three steps. Any 5-year-old can improvise step sequences like this when they're playing games outside. Why can't musicians.
Hi. I think that you are right about the visualization but I also believe as sax players we should also get used to using sheet music notation. It may be difficult at first, but the more we struggle through identifying the notes, the better we become at it. Then, we are better able to go through with ease the countless books on music theory and improvisation. I'm reading a book now on improvisation and its all sheet music. Nevertheless, I will try and add some piano visualisations in my next video on improvisation. Thanks for the suggestion.
Great!!
Please do you have other lessons on improvisation eg b bub?
Hi. I will create some more. Thanks for the suggestion. Glad you enjoyed it.
By using an endless repetitive chord progression sounds a bit of a limitation though.
Or should I use another expression like "what you are playing, I 've heard it numerous times before" :)
Hi. The 251 chord progression occurs a lot in jazz and pop music and that is why it is used so much as an example. Obviously, there will be other progressions within a song. This video is aimed at giving ideas which can be used over a 251 progression but can also be used for creating melodies over other progressions. See my analysis of the song 'all the things you are.' Here, the song is full of 251 progressions but it changes the key often. If you can improvise over 251 then you can play over the majority of jazz songs. Try to understand the principles in the video and use it to come up with your own creation for a melody. It would be the same ideas for improvising over other chords. Thanks.
Your story about notes, scales, chords and progressions is a part of the story!
THE STORY of IMPROVISATION is more complex.
An improvisation should be based not only on the many facts you mention, it should also be based on the MELODY and on your own INTERPRETATION feeded by the MOOD and the FANTASY of the individual player. Use also your heart and not only your brains when you improvise ....to express in other words ...... what I want to say.
Did he write the lick, phrase, tune out first and later play it, or did he play it then someone wrote it out. This seems it would take a lot of planning to get music out of your instrument if you're thinking about every note before playing. I'm a relative beginner so bear with me.
Hi. Charlie Parker practiced for 15 hrs a day. With this amount of practice, playing becomes instinctive. To start off he would have thought about the theory behind the chords but later he would have had so many memorised licks that it would have been easy for him to adapt them to his playing. We will get there in time. Thanks
Great
thank for sharung
Hi Cathy. Thanks for your support
Purtroppo non capisco l'inglese se fosse possibile in italiano....😢
Hi. It has subtitles so you can change it to Italian by pressing the settings button and auto translate. Hopefully there should be little errors. Thanks.
metodo di Hal Crook
i thought he was going to improvise over 251 different chord progressions.. lol
🙂👍🏻🎯💦☘
Needs to slow down.