Pentatonic Exercises for Improvisation- All Instruments

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  • @tommythegunny
    @tommythegunny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is not just educational "material", it's beautiful music in its own right, and presented with such elegance and grace. My heartfelt gratitude to Nick from Jazz Duets - you're bringing light into the world through your music and teaching. My best wishes and thanks.

  • @atanuduttamusicclassesadmc4626
    @atanuduttamusicclassesadmc4626 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Best channel to learning real music

  • @Kulah-SS
    @Kulah-SS ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is amazing.
    So expansive and compelling.
    Thank you

  • @hernanmeza2355
    @hernanmeza2355 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Forma I
    1453-4715-7341-3574-5137-1 Ascendente
    1547-5314-3751-7435-4173-1
    Descendente
    Muchas gracias Nick. La estudiaré con todas las pentafonas menores. 🇨🇱

  • @peterprosch-jensen712
    @peterprosch-jensen712 7 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    You are an educational legend. I just discovered your videos today and your approach to improvisation and scale patterns clicks with me immensely. Concise but not condescending. Thank you for all the amazing content, Nick!

    • @Jefdelima
      @Jefdelima 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nick, you are a gift of god!

  • @joshcharlat850
    @joshcharlat850 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Cm7 vamp set up the change, and then when that low end of the piano began with THOSE chords, it was so cool it made my day!!! The acute sound of the soprano with those bass notes on the piano made an incredible effect.

  • @winstonsmith8240
    @winstonsmith8240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this channel, and I love the way you play the sax. The alto always sends shivers up my spine. Beautiful. Thanks.

  • @saxyrep1
    @saxyrep1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love these exercises, it just sounds beautiful.

  • @roystongold
    @roystongold 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The sax playing is beautiful and information extremely helpful. Thank you for all your hard work.

  • @Anddrew914
    @Anddrew914 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is a fantastic channel. I'm glad I found it.

  • @salvadorebaham7059
    @salvadorebaham7059 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for this awesome video on the pentatonic scale. It is so easy to understand the way you explain it. You should have been my teacher when I was in college. Keep the videos coming.

  • @kpmaynard
    @kpmaynard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is so helpful in opening up more creative use of this scale. Thank you!

  • @antibalas79
    @antibalas79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best channel on here.

  • @ThePrimeTimer100
    @ThePrimeTimer100 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Just found your channel two days ago and I’ve probably learned more information about jazz here than the two years of high school jazz class that I took. Amazing channel you are building for jazz, great content overall!!!

  • @douglasthomson2986
    @douglasthomson2986 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yes I did. Listening to patterns over chords in this way is very helpful. Thanks

  • @jacquelamontharenberg
    @jacquelamontharenberg 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Nick.... Great patterns to internalize

  • @neilloughran4437
    @neilloughran4437 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A lot of this reminds me of Oliver Nelson and Patterns... I never read his pattern book but can imagine it's like this. Really wonderful stuff.

  • @MJCGuitar
    @MJCGuitar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Part 2 - Applications. Amazing. It makes you "see" the instrument differently👌🌟

  • @alexgordon175
    @alexgordon175 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That is a fabulous piece of jazz education- I will watch and absorb this for time- probably more times than I watched quadrophenia when it was my only Betamax vid (17 times). Thank you

  • @gmahajan991
    @gmahajan991 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    You teaching method is top notch...

  • @alphonsechanekayebone7871
    @alphonsechanekayebone7871 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good exercices for every days

  • @zsuzsannaszucs4473
    @zsuzsannaszucs4473 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am so amazed how much you can take out of pentatonic scales... :) Thank you very much for sharing!!!

    • @lobster54328
      @lobster54328 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      listen to David Sanborn

  • @tonyborthwick1234
    @tonyborthwick1234 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great concepts and played with such a warm and inviting tone .. Thanks Nick

  • @kyei-mensahemmanuel57
    @kyei-mensahemmanuel57 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    sir you've been giving hope always
    thank you may God bless your beautiful work

  • @chrismills5110
    @chrismills5110 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a raw beginner to tenor sax, and I found this helpful. Many thanks

  • @rockplay100
    @rockplay100 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is great for a guitar. Fingerings are sometimes super weird and very helpful for building a great technique.

  • @YoBoView
    @YoBoView 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Nick I just Got the PDF & backing Track !! will for pratictice ! thank a lot for this material simply explained !

  • @joshcharlat850
    @joshcharlat850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Having listened to this a few times...it it the left hand on the piano that gives it that mustard.

  • @peanutsfrancavilla8549
    @peanutsfrancavilla8549 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great channel and great musician, you play divinely soprano sax !

  • @gsaxita
    @gsaxita 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are an educational legend.!!!

  • @eckerjoe
    @eckerjoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful playing and examples. I love your approach to approaches !

  • @joelperez3331
    @joelperez3331 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jerry Bergonzi peut être fier de vous ! Quelle privilège d'avoir étudié avec un tel musicien...

  • @emanuelaugusto6399
    @emanuelaugusto6399 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks a lot!! cheers from Argentina!

  • @zeenimy8037
    @zeenimy8037 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wao 👏🏼 the penny just dropped💃! Thank you.

  • @pbh07
    @pbh07 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really cool lesson! If you close your eyes, you can almost imagine a choir singing chords in the background

  • @johnshin3410
    @johnshin3410 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for your effort! I really like your videos. 감사합니다! 이렇게 좋은 내용을 공유해주셔서

  • @a.j.veneziano2669
    @a.j.veneziano2669 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You sound like Korg from Thor ragnarok. I love it

  • @pleximanic
    @pleximanic 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very very good stuff so clear! and what a amazing sound you get on the Soprano one of the best Soprano tones i have heard !

  • @margimusicschoolkathmandunepal
    @margimusicschoolkathmandunepal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    super
    this is nice exercise in the world
    thank you for lessons

  • @BodhiFitness
    @BodhiFitness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just became a patron today. Thank you for inspiring me to get more disciplined with my practicing!

  • @Swalexbass
    @Swalexbass 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video!! Thank you for uploading

  • @user-fi4nz1vu9f
    @user-fi4nz1vu9f 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. just what I needed

  • @aristidebossou
    @aristidebossou 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Genius man 🙏

  • @drachenfeuer7410
    @drachenfeuer7410 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man, you are so blessed for sharing with us all these precious, and for so long hide knowledge. God bless you Man. Skol

  • @MrBeeCee
    @MrBeeCee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i tend to think of a relative major pentatonic like Bflat pent vs G- pent......this broadens the approach

  • @joshcharlat850
    @joshcharlat850 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    C-7 A7b9+5 D7b9+5 G7#9+5 that kicked ASS!! What more can I say but like a really good drug.

  • @paulfairchild3461
    @paulfairchild3461 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes great like it .very helpful ,shall tune into this channel lots more . For help and inspiration 👍

  • @skymision3815
    @skymision3815 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Muchas gracias seguí haciendo en español. Dios te bendiga

  • @rafaelortsespadero4870
    @rafaelortsespadero4870 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Muchas Gracias !

  • @psicopolitica
    @psicopolitica 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for content!!

  • @kipanshi
    @kipanshi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Your saxophone sounds so good, I wish i could make my guitar sound like that

    • @TypingHazard
      @TypingHazard 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ugh same

    • @brighthsu8027
      @brighthsu8027 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      you can do with something like gr300

    • @AdrianFarrell
      @AdrianFarrell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now you understand Holdsworth's frustration 😉

    • @asukalangleysoryu6695
      @asukalangleysoryu6695 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a clarinet

    • @MayerHonza
      @MayerHonza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@asukalangleysoryu6695 its not lol its a soprano sax

  • @yonahweiner
    @yonahweiner 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your videos!

  • @ericking9061
    @ericking9061 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love it great thanks

  • @brucedobson860
    @brucedobson860 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved it man!

    • @brucedobson860
      @brucedobson860 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ps Subscribed and echo Peter Prosch-Jenson below.

  • @claudemiropacheco
    @claudemiropacheco 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice approach. Sounds a little bit like triad pairs clashing each other. Makes my default up's and down's in pentatonics sound so silly. Same notes, but this arrange is a killer.

  • @dbrapowell1306
    @dbrapowell1306 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very Interesting how you approach your method from different instruments and actual recordings. I just saw your channel today.

  • @arnieus866
    @arnieus866 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An interesting aside I thought fascinating. In Lascaux, France there is a famous cave with paintings dated to 30,000 B.C. A flute carved from a bone was discovered there. There is a documentary where a guy plays a perfect pentatonic scale. He played the US Star Spangled Banner. Apparently we still like the pentatonic.
    BTW, great video. I have already started practicing.

  • @LegacyOfHill
    @LegacyOfHill 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah, lovely. Thanks for sharing.

  • @nice-recordingstudio8512
    @nice-recordingstudio8512 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have a great sound, you make me remember the great Javier Girotto

  • @MrAdvoga
    @MrAdvoga 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing!!! Maravilha!!!

  • @artoan
    @artoan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Super usefull, thanks!

  • @moehudson001
    @moehudson001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love these patterns! Excellent practice.
    Question: At the beginning of the video (0:30) it says the scales are in Cm. -- is that correct? I looks to be in Gm.
    I am new to music theory and am confused. From what I understand Cm has 3 flats Bb, Eb and Ab?

    • @UlisesRockerHR
      @UlisesRockerHR 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thought the same thing. Prolly its cos its about pentatonics, so the sixth degree is not present, nor the second

    • @EanGidman
      @EanGidman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just in case you get to read this....
      you are correct, Cm has those 3 flats: Bb, Eb and Ab. This is the natural minor form and is used to notate the key signature and is used more commonly in classical music but not only there. In jazz we tend to use more often the Dorian form of minor. This differs from the natural minor form (also called aeolian) in that it has all the same notes except for what we call the Dorian sixth which is a major sixth. In natural minor it is a minor sixth. Hence in the key of C minor we get Ab in natural minor and A natural when going Dorian.
      In the end it‘s all about sound.
      Perhaps you might try playing the 2 scales (natural and Dorian) over a Cm7 chord, one after the other. You‘ll probably find the sound of the Dorian sixth to be more „jazzy“. Combine that major 6 with the 9th and you have 2 wonderful sounding notes in your playing repertoire.
      By the way and just to round things off, G minor has 2 flats - in the key signature and of course in natural minor form. G Dorian only has 1 flat because the note E natural is the major (Dorian) sixth.
      It is also important to realise that when writing notes, we write the key signature in the proper corresponding key, I. e. Cm has 3 flats, G minor has 2 flats, etc. regardless of whether we play Dorian (using basically 1 flat less/1 sharp more in other keys) or not. The differences are usually written in the notes using naturals and sharps. Thus in the key of C minor the key signature always has 3 flats and a Dorian sixth is notated as A natural within the music.

    • @EanGidman
      @EanGidman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      By the way... to answer the question as to why there are only two flats in the key signature, although stated to be C minor... well, only Nick can really answer that - maybe „thinking Dorian“ even though Cm pentatonic doesn‘t have a sixth.

  • @SACHMUSIC
    @SACHMUSIC 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent!! 🙂

  • @ianjohnson4987
    @ianjohnson4987 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Liked very much and subscribed

  • @jont8161
    @jont8161 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    too useful! thanks! keep it up!

  • @themaxwelsexebitioninartsa8677
    @themaxwelsexebitioninartsa8677 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I AM impressed

  • @jamielundy8220
    @jamielundy8220 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great help thanks

  • @bustan44
    @bustan44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well I was just going to relax and watch some jazz instructional videos but then my brain exploded.

  • @michaelroach4219
    @michaelroach4219 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you!

  • @miguellegoff
    @miguellegoff 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much!

  • @tdpatibet
    @tdpatibet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey nick Im
    new to music transcription but MA doubt is that does the E and B note on the notation will always be flat as there aren’t any E and B natural in C minor pentatonic...

    • @tdpatibet
      @tdpatibet 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good exercise I will learnt it through MA ear...

  • @tarifanocturnajazz7564
    @tarifanocturnajazz7564 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    TECNICA Y CAMPO PARA BUSCAR MELODIA.

  • @ugurcanozeroglu
    @ugurcanozeroglu 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    He is the Jedi Master !

  • @ericking9281
    @ericking9281 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    need that backing track to practice

  • @henryobi7738
    @henryobi7738 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Am improving through this channel
    But how can I get some backing tracks to improvise with

  • @mariannevigeland6044
    @mariannevigeland6044 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Should this transcription be in the key of Eb? Yes, the Ab doesn't appear in C pentatonic minor, however, thinking modally, the foundation scale is Eb, not Bb- right? Please clarify- considering the high quality of your postings, bet you have reason. Thanks for your wonderful teaching.

    • @marooned6052
      @marooned6052 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's C dorian not C aeolian

  • @oizaurare
    @oizaurare 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    merci , tu as un beau son

  • @joaoperes5527
    @joaoperes5527 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing!!! Thank you!!! Is there any pdf?

  • @calogero4537
    @calogero4537 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Calogero
    Congratulations master for the work he prepares

  • @josemariapaterninamedina4550
    @josemariapaterninamedina4550 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Genial hermano. Mil gracias. Por favor en español tambiem. Tengo sed del jazz. BENDICIONES

  • @2009assu
    @2009assu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you GREAT

  • @johnpritchard9753
    @johnpritchard9753 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What boring old pentatonic?! Lovely sounds. Thank you.

    • @MrFree-vj8qj
      @MrFree-vj8qj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Boredom is the rut in your head, penta is anything and everything

  • @DanielVerdesca
    @DanielVerdesca 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super Merci

  • @ray66antonio
    @ray66antonio 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    obrigado

  • @78naturalmystic
    @78naturalmystic 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excelent!!!

  • @elgabytrastornado5993
    @elgabytrastornado5993 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!!! 🎸 🎼 🤓 Hugs!!!

  • @jojotheworld
    @jojotheworld 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nick! I just purchased this set of PDFs from the website but there is nothing for Bass Clef instruments. Can you help a trombone player out?

  • @garysnowdon1918
    @garysnowdon1918 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing stuff here, where is the link to get the pdf?????

  • @tajaejemison966
    @tajaejemison966 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you soooooooooooooooo much

  • @trancosomarcus
    @trancosomarcus 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Try to find the exact fingering for piano is an extra exercise.

  • @davidsmusic
    @davidsmusic 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    A M A Z I N G ! ! Thanks my friend, excellent!! (Y) :D

  • @kidpoker007
    @kidpoker007 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How come no examples over the most come of all chord progressions 2/5/1 and 1/6/2/5

  • @iamg07
    @iamg07 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great!

  • @saxfish
    @saxfish 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    < DelightFully amazed. You have made me come down from the branches to hug the trunK & rOOts ! FarOut ! >

  • @wayne8161100
    @wayne8161100 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do you have this in bass clef? Or for bass clef instruments

    • @magohipnosis
      @magohipnosis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can always read it as E minor, lol

  • @dylancarther9627
    @dylancarther9627 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    can you put notes instead of partitions
    i dont know how to read

  • @wojtekwardega6917
    @wojtekwardega6917 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    master !

  • @orlandovaldiviabravo5816
    @orlandovaldiviabravo5816 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Por favor subtitulos en español gracias

  • @Kulah-SS
    @Kulah-SS ปีที่แล้ว

    0:23

  • @SirDLee
    @SirDLee 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    NICE!!!!!