I started with Jay around a year ago maybe longer and use his patterns as a daily warm up.now I have just finished year two playing and although I study in various places Jay's methods have been invaluable and nothing developed tone quicker than The Pentatonic course, I really couldn't recommend this enough, I need to finish Jay's playing by ear as I got side tracked and that works too. Thanks Jay will add this to my routinesKind regardsMark
At the young age of 71, i have just started to play (alto) ,Jay, you are talking my language !!! I've been listening to funk,soul,jazz & world music since i was a kid & i know i have a good ear,however my brain froze over,every time i opened an Abersold book, total information overload ! Definitely agree with everything you say about the traditional music education hierarchies, praise be that i happened upon your channel & will be signing up to foundation soon,(when i clear a coupla debts)!! BTW, that's a beautiful looking horn you have there & i love your sound on it....will be in touch,keep on keeping on & BIG THANKS !!
Tony, you're not the only one with that information overload experience. I'm determined to teach this stuff in a way that doesn't overwhelm students and comes more from the ear than rules about music theory...
I'm a starter saxophonist and watching your vids from the start. Good thing we have people like you who can shorten my rookie times. Hah Keep rocking hard this way, Enjoy life! Greetings, Jeff
I gotta say that I've had my Tenor Sax for a minute and haven't really been able to do much but on it. After finding these videos, I am actually making her sing. All of the videos from Better Sax have been such a great help. Now I just need to learn to actually play music , rather than just random notes. 🎷
Trumpet player here. Congratulations on your fantastic approach for making practice FUN and meaningful. I was taught the extremely boring practice concept called Arbans-Clarke scales and arpeggios and is still today considered sacred. They are meaningful for discipline of rudiments but are great only if you really want to be a fantastic player of scales. For YEARS I've searched for a concept of practicing these scales/arpegg in all keys played to music backing tracks. Imagine practicing scales and music at the same time, WHY IS THIS NOT TAUGHT WIDELY? And here it is! Fantastic job, complete, well thought out. Thank you.
I'm 76. Just got my first sax yesterday. Played guitar , and sang in bands all my life, until the the Chinese virus ruined everything a few years ago, and the band ended.. Always loved the sound of a well played sax, so I figured get one and see how much I can learn before I die. I don't have enough time left to get good,... but I'll make some kind of noise with it. I learned a lot , and am inspired by Jay, and other great players making helpful videos.
Really enjoyed the video and the simplicity of using the pentatonic scale. Thanks for keeping it simple Jay so a guy picking up the sax again after a 40+ year break can have fun doing it. I'll be investing in your pentatonic course.
I played the tenor and baritone saxophones for 7 amazing years during my middle and high school years, and now im on my own playing the soprano sax watched a couple of these Better Sax videos and they where pretty good👍. Just found out about the website and i fell in love with the improvisation tutorials! Thanks Jay😁
I had a go with the pentatonic scale today together with some improvisation, which I've never done before because I've always been a strictly 'play with sheet music' pianist. I definitely had fun making up my own music with the backing track and the notes of the pentatonic scale (1 octave at the moment).Thank you for your fantastic advice. It's a wonderful freeing feeling being able to play anything you like. The pentatonic scale is so versatile.
Definitely something to work towards Reuben. Try to eliminate all unnecessary movement. Watch your favorite sax players playing live, and they are probably staying very relaxed as well.
I need to get into your better sax courses, I Hage 2 tenors and an alto in which I'm relearning at the same time. Yeah I could use your classes. 👍🏼👍🏼🎷🎷
very good tip! I like to play by ear using what I (barely) listen in chords (1,3,5,7,9...), but I sound boring or lost when I go on adding 'strange' notes all the time. But now those pentatonic scales (or tetratonic! :) ) give me a 'center', a basic skeleton to build up from. I can go away and then come back to them. I realize now that it's better to play a very simple lick first, and then add new notes one by one later. Everyone knows the 'pentatonic sound', it sounds familiar, everyone likes when you come back to it from time to time. But they also like it when you add a new precious 'strange' note to a simple lick, though! :) Is really amazing to realize how many great solos were built using those basic scales. thanks (excuse my bad english)
I think your advice is great? I enjoy your lessons, I've been playing for four years on alto saxophone I started on clarinet, which I found really difficult to get anything out of? But perseverance paid off, I found sax a bit easier,with your tutorials , I'll keep watching your lessons and hope to get better, I'll always mention you as someone who helped me in getting "There" thank you.
I'm so glad I saw your video. Your brief and simple way of explaining things is just what I was looking for. I'm convinced that this is the course for me. Invested immediately without hesitation. Thx so much.
Thank you so much for the quick lessons. I have a Student Alto sax (a cheep one - lol). Practicing everyday for 1hr. I would love someday to play like you man! Again thank you so much and Merry Christmas!
A truly excellent sax video lesson that has opened me up to the all important pentatonic scale on the saxophone. There I was learning and practicing the major, chromatic and blues scales in different keys, completely oblivious to the fact that the pentatonic scale had so much immediate application, especially to the kind of music that I like. I am a beginner alto sax player but it did not take me too long to learn to play the entire solo in this video (okay so I slowed the speed down to 0.75 to make it even easier! Just being honest!). I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and on the back of this lesson I have now subscribed, downloaded the "Pentatonic Patterns for improvisation e-book sample" and the mp3 backing track used in this video (I love soloing to it!) and I have also signed up for the free crash course "Play Sax by ear" and the Pentatonic Foundation Course (currently discounted by 40%). As you can see, I am both inspired and enthused by this video and I thank you for posting this great video. I look forward to rapidly improving my sax solo / improvisational playing and also my enjoyment of this great instrument. Thank you for posting Jay.
Hi Jay. I really enjoyed watching (and listening) to this video. I play clarinet and I know most of my scales, but improvising seems daunting. You are making it less so. Thanks.
Ha! I’m doing the course now and just when you think your getting up to speed, you try this lick. It’s like my fingers are broken. 🤣🤣🤣 nothing like jacking up a 4 note lick. But darn fun anyway.
I just bought this mouthpiece from your link. I had been thinking a metal mouthpiece would be too bright but this vid has a sound close to what I'm after.
I also bought the Rigotti Gold 4s you recommended on another video, and they just came in today. I wasn't sure I could play on a 4 since I've been using Vandoren 2.5s but I love them! Already darker/jazzier even on my original Yamaha 4C mouthpiece!
I feel like I'm doing alright and then hear your tone and feel like trash. 🤣 but I'm having fun so whatever. Thanks man. Your vids are super fun, educational, and interesting. Good on you.
Sweet! Love your tone, Bro... Please do a separate video on your recording setup. Mic, Eq, DAW... etc. Much magic and juju in getting that golden tone. Thanks, again. Enjoy your vids!
+Joseph Miller Thanks! I have been trying lots of different stuff lately but do plan on making a video about recording saxophone at home. My room has a terrible natural sound so it's challenging in there...
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I started with Jay around a year ago maybe longer and use his patterns as a daily warm up.now I have just finished year two playing and although I study in various places Jay's methods have been invaluable and nothing developed tone quicker than The Pentatonic course, I really couldn't recommend this enough, I need to finish Jay's playing by ear as I got side tracked and that works too. Thanks Jay will add this to my routinesKind regardsMark
+Mark Holland, That's great to hear and exactly the sort of thing that inspires me to continue creating content. Thanks.
I am looking forward to taking Jay' courses
Nothing better for a guitar player than to cop sax licks, Thanks.
Agreed. Guitarist helping kid saxophonist in other room. Cool instrument
amen
At the young age of 71, i have just started to play (alto) ,Jay, you are talking my language !!! I've been listening to funk,soul,jazz & world music since i was a kid & i know i have a good ear,however my brain froze over,every time i opened an Abersold book, total information overload ! Definitely agree with everything you say about the traditional music education hierarchies, praise be that i happened upon your channel & will be signing up to foundation soon,(when i clear a coupla debts)!! BTW, that's a beautiful looking horn you have there & i love your sound on it....will be in touch,keep on keeping on & BIG THANKS !!
Tony, you're not the only one with that information overload experience. I'm determined to teach this stuff in a way that doesn't overwhelm students and comes more from the ear than rules about music theory...
Good luck Tony !
You beat me Tony! I was worrying about starting too late after a gap of 15 years :)
@@zumbadancesandy try a gap of 25 years 😂 that's my time frame from 1995 to 2020!😂💪🎷
I'm starting at 58 🙂
Started to learn to play the saxophone now at the age of 52 and I find your videos very helpful. You speak so well and you have a great voice as well!
I'm a starter saxophonist and watching your vids from the start.
Good thing we have people like you who can shorten my rookie times. Hah
Keep rocking hard this way,
Enjoy life!
Greetings,
Jeff
Been a player since 1974 at 12...Aways love finding other Sax approaches. Great sound.
I gotta say that I've had my Tenor Sax for a minute and haven't really been able to do much but on it. After finding these videos, I am actually making her sing. All of the videos from Better Sax have been such a great help. Now I just need to learn to actually play music , rather than just random notes. 🎷
Trumpet player here. Congratulations on your fantastic approach for making practice FUN and meaningful. I was taught the extremely boring practice concept called Arbans-Clarke scales and arpeggios and is still today considered sacred. They are meaningful for discipline of rudiments but are great only if you really want to be a fantastic player of scales. For YEARS I've searched for a concept of practicing these scales/arpegg in all keys played to music backing tracks. Imagine practicing scales and music at the same time, WHY IS THIS NOT TAUGHT WIDELY? And here it is! Fantastic job, complete, well thought out. Thank you.
Thanks for the comment. Much appreciated. Glad the information found you well.
Hahaha, oh I know that too well!
I'm 76. Just got my first sax yesterday. Played guitar , and sang in bands all my life, until the the Chinese virus ruined everything a few years ago, and the band ended.. Always loved the sound of a well played sax, so I figured get one and see how much I can learn before I die. I don't have enough time left to get good,... but I'll make some kind of noise with it. I learned a lot , and am inspired by Jay, and other great players making helpful videos.
The start of the video sounds so good😍
You are truly a revelation ...I have now the courage to do some improvisations like never before
Jay wish you lived near me, all these years looking for a teacher like you who knows what we sax players want to know.
Really enjoyed the video and the simplicity of using the pentatonic scale. Thanks for keeping it simple Jay so a guy picking up the sax again after a 40+ year break can have fun doing it. I'll be investing in your pentatonic course.
Mace, great to hear you're back to playing the sax!
I'm starting back after a 20 year break. It's exciting!
great teaching, straight to the point. not a lot of talk. concise and useful!
THANKS!
I played the tenor and baritone saxophones for 7 amazing years during my middle and high school years, and now im on my own playing the soprano sax watched a couple of these Better Sax videos and they where pretty good👍. Just found out about the website and i fell in love with the improvisation tutorials! Thanks Jay😁
I had a go with the pentatonic scale today together with some improvisation, which I've never done before because I've always been a strictly 'play with sheet music' pianist. I definitely had fun making up my own music with the backing track and the notes of the pentatonic scale (1 octave at the moment).Thank you for your fantastic advice. It's a wonderful freeing feeling being able to play anything you like. The pentatonic scale is so versatile.
I love how relaxed you are while playing! That’s one of the issues I have, I get too animated I guess because of the music
Definitely something to work towards Reuben. Try to eliminate all unnecessary movement. Watch your favorite sax players playing live, and they are probably staying very relaxed as well.
@@bettersax unless my favorite happens to be Leo P xD
This is a very handy lick, thanks for posting this!
I play guitar, but y'all sax players got lines though.
😂 2 years late but yall got lines to fr
@@STenobtch Feel the love. I play guitar but learning alto sax. It's making much a much better guitarist.
Muy buenos videos, para los que queremos conocer los principios de la improvisación, lo mejor es que están subtitulados en español. Muchas gracias.!!
That sax is flawless man.
I need to get into your better sax courses, I Hage 2 tenors and an alto in which I'm relearning at the same time. Yeah I could use your classes. 👍🏼👍🏼🎷🎷
Awesome! Thanks Better Sax!
wow what a great tone!
Okay that's final. I'm enrolling in the pentatonic course! Thanks Jay
Yess sir
That sounds amazing. I can't believe that was only four notes.
This simple piece sounds so great... Have to learn this....
I occasionally replay this video for enjoyment just to get to the lovely solo entrance at 5:55.
very good tip! I like to play by ear using what I (barely) listen in chords (1,3,5,7,9...), but I sound boring or lost when I go on adding 'strange' notes all the time. But now those pentatonic scales (or tetratonic! :) ) give me a 'center', a basic skeleton to build up from. I can go away and then come back to them.
I realize now that it's better to play a very simple lick first, and then add new notes one by one later. Everyone knows the 'pentatonic sound', it sounds familiar, everyone likes when you come back to it from time to time. But they also like it when you add a new precious 'strange' note to a simple lick, though! :)
Is really amazing to realize how many great solos were built using those basic scales.
thanks (excuse my bad english)
+Ivan Ferrer exactly!
Jay your help is much appreciated.
Awesome for solos, I wish I had watched this video a few years earlier so I could have had a lot more fun with solos and impressing my friends!!
I think your advice is great? I enjoy your lessons, I've been playing for four years on alto saxophone I started on clarinet, which I found really difficult to get anything out of? But perseverance paid off, I found sax a bit easier,with your tutorials , I'll keep watching your lessons and hope to get better, I'll always mention you as someone who helped me in getting "There" thank you.
loved the video....and your playing.....clear-simple-to the point and fun.
Jay, you make everything you play sound great. Such a beautiful tone!
Your such a wonderful teacher
Thank you Jay, I didn´t know Eric Alexandre!!! Super useful and wonderful video, thank you!!!!
Hello from Peru !! Thanks for this lesson, was great..
Wooow its such wonderful improvisation
Direct and useful, as always! Thanks!
Excellent video. You've demonstrated not only the lick but how to use it, also. Awesome!
I'm so glad I saw your video. Your brief and simple way of explaining things is just what I was looking for. I'm convinced that this is the course for me. Invested immediately without hesitation. Thx so much.
+Michael Bryant Thanks and welcome aboard. Glad you signed up!
Thank you so much for the quick lessons. I have a Student Alto sax (a cheep one - lol). Practicing everyday for 1hr. I would love someday to play like you man! Again thank you so much and Merry Christmas!
I like the way you improvised with the triplets
A truly excellent sax video lesson that has opened me up to the all important pentatonic scale on the saxophone. There I was learning and practicing the major, chromatic and blues scales in different keys, completely oblivious to the fact that the pentatonic scale had so much immediate application, especially to the kind of music that I like. I am a beginner alto sax player but it did not take me too long to learn to play the entire solo in this video (okay so I slowed the speed down to 0.75 to make it even easier! Just being honest!). I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and on the back of this lesson I have now subscribed, downloaded the "Pentatonic Patterns for improvisation e-book sample" and the mp3 backing track used in this video (I love soloing to it!) and I have also signed up for the free crash course "Play Sax by ear" and the Pentatonic Foundation Course (currently discounted by 40%). As you can see, I am both inspired and enthused by this video and I thank you for posting this great video. I look forward to rapidly improving my sax solo / improvisational playing and also my enjoyment of this great instrument. Thank you for posting Jay.
Hi Jay. I really enjoyed watching (and listening) to this video. I play clarinet and I know most of my scales, but improvising seems daunting. You are making it less so. Thanks.
+Roger Henderson I'm glad this helped. Thanks!
Best Lesson I've heard on improvisation for a long while. Fantastic. Thank you!!!
+Omagbemi Kakayor Thank You.
You are an AMAZING TEACHER! thank you
Exelente video, muchas gracias por hacerlo e ESPAÑOL. gracias BETTER
WOW. This is so good! Thanks for the video!
+Frank Chu Thanks!
I love listening to your art Jay! I wish you had an album.
Hi from Sicily, thank's for your job! You're great!!!!! Ciao😉
I could listen to that all day long....all day long bro!
+tzone Yes!
Sounds great thanks 😎
Can you please send me the PDF ??
Great approach. Simply put.
Jonny Hodges is the best sax man ever. Talk about him a little. Thanks
Thanks for your lessons 🙏🏻Master
My pleasure!
OUTSTANDING TONE AND SKILL!!
Man, I love this little lick!
Jay, you make it look so easy, it’s scary... 👍
Great lesson! Thank you!
Ha! I’m doing the course now and just when you think your getting up to speed, you try this lick. It’s like my fingers are broken. 🤣🤣🤣 nothing like jacking up a 4 note lick. But darn fun anyway.
Jay that was nice! Can't wait til I'm off work Wed-Fri to try that out and I am subscribed to your Pentatonics course!💪🎷
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for the translator, good video👍
THANKS DAN
Hi from Uruguay, so good video Im gonna download the pdf now to start to play! thanks.
Thanks!
I just bought this mouthpiece from your link. I had been thinking a metal mouthpiece would be too bright but this vid has a sound close to what I'm after.
I also bought the Rigotti Gold 4s you recommended on another video, and they just came in today. I wasn't sure I could play on a 4 since I've been using Vandoren 2.5s but I love them! Already darker/jazzier even on my original Yamaha 4C mouthpiece!
I have been practicing this pattern for last 4 years
Great approach for improvisation!
Tried this as soon as I finished the video, so awesome ! Thanks for the video :D
+PeeWee Kinz Good to hear!
Thanks brother....good stuff!!!!.....keep it comin' !!!!
Great Master Teacher, Keep On Teaching!!!!
Great sound
+chriss1152 Thanks!
Great lesson!
Hi sir can you please send me the backing tracks and the PDF for this easy pentatonic scale sir
I’m in love....with the sax 🎷😊
You are a good teacher
Thanks for video
Great !!! thanks for all!!!
Hey Old Bones, got you beat! I'm 78 and just getting going!
Thank you! This video is absolutely great.
Love this
VERY NICE... THANK YOU
muy bueno y esta subtitulado desde Argentina muchas gracias
Nice sound my friend
Queee bueno que subtitularon al Español,gracias.
nice one thanx, even in 2019
I feel like I'm doing alright and then hear your tone and feel like trash. 🤣 but I'm having fun so whatever. Thanks man. Your vids are super fun, educational, and interesting. Good on you.
Интересно и познавательно, спасибо, супер.
i like the sound and the way u play. thank you
+shawn Cheng Thanks. Nice to hear from you.
thanks
Sweet! Love your tone, Bro... Please do a separate video on your recording setup. Mic, Eq, DAW... etc. Much magic and juju in getting that golden tone. Thanks, again. Enjoy your vids!
+Joseph Miller Thanks! I have been trying lots of different stuff lately but do plan on making a video about recording saxophone at home. My room has a terrible natural sound so it's challenging in there...
great were helpful. thanks
Wow...
Thanks for that.
The tutorials are🔥🔥🔥
You're talented sir
beautiful sound
+Cesar Bustos Thanks!
Love its!!
good teaching
Awesome stuff love your site. Great stuff
Thanks Vinnie!