Sax Lesson 014 Add Some Character : Grace Note & Scoop

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Summary Of Video
This video is about grace note & Scoop
We use grace note & Scoop to accentuate a note.
There are two things you should be careful of.
First, you don’t make fingers leap from the key!
Second, hit the grace note with right on the click of metronome.
Scoop is a similar effect to grace note, but adjusting your mouth chamber makes it. You start with bigger chamber of your mouth and make it a bit smaller, like saying ‘oh uh’.
Make sure that you start with flatted pitch and get to the note that is in tune. If you do scoop by tightening lips, the tone you emphasize would be sharped and it would sound off the pitch.

[@hecateswolf6007]

Thanks very much for the upload. Very useful

[@VGANick]

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[@shojiashikawa725]

Great video man! this really helped me with grace notes!!!

[@Yourbosskid]

Thank you Sir! What a great video!

[@warakron9]

I have a question
What's the difference Bend and scoop?
Thank you very much.

[@watarujazz]

Bend could mean pitch control to make the note either higher or lower. Scoop generally means to start a note with the pitch that is flatted and bend the note up to the right pitch. Swing era saxophonists tend to use the technique in exaggerated ways. Relatively new players have more control of small pitch changes.