This is BRILLIANT. I played the flute when I was a kid and learnt the piano to grade 8, but I'm lost past the blues scale with jazz. These lessons allow me to go over and over stuff in my own time and get my head around it all. A god-send for the self-sax-teacher! Thanks so much!
I've been playing Sax now for 7years or so (on and off) Just got my Saxophone upgraded from a Beginner's Century Alto Sax to an Italian imported Grassi Alto Saxophone, the sound is much more crisp then the old one and so much eaiser i find to play now. I've been doing classical mainly for my exams (on Saxophone, Oboe and Piano), but I love playing jazz/swing on the sax so this comes in really handy for me! Thanks.
how do you know what scales are appropriate to use for the chord when improvising? And what are you supposed to do with accidentals in the song's key signature when you're playing a scale with different accidentals in it (playing an e major scale, for example, when the song is in the key of d major- like a II-V-I progression)?
@FunnyCorpNN DO NOT PLAY WITH EAR PLUGS!!! you need to be able to hear yourself. It is essential to practice as much as possible, but if you can't fit it into your schedule, don't worry. But always, ALWAYS LISTEN!!! I reccommend Charlie Parker, Gerald Albright, Eric Marienthal, Everette Harp, Michael Brecker, and Joshua Redman (even the last 2 or mainly tenor players, it will just really help to listen to them and study their playing. Good Luck!!!
If your going to play tenor next year i would definetly recommend to listen to Dextor Gordon if your playing bebop or a slow ballad, and check out John Coltrane, Micheal Brecker, and Joshua Redman! Good luck on your solo.
one thing that would help because i am a visual learner and a sax player would be if you would show you lower hand so we could see the fingerings. Thanks
dude if you love playing that sax like i do then improv is flow if you know how to do vib and make you sax scream then you know how to improv "Im improv is flow." Remember that
negatory dude, rasengangpinp is right on this one, that is an alto... the alto has a straight neck, like the bari... the tenor has the curvey one.... and the tenor goes about to your thigh... this one makes it to your hip...
@melkor65 nobody cares. If they did, we would not watch the videos. I longed to have negative stars for really shitty videos that contained even shittier music that seemed "cool" to the owner. Where the info is makes no difference if they do not put anything there to begin with. Commercials are for getting a drink, somthing to stuff in your face or going to the bathroom. Things change. Just play the game.
when you are messing about at the minute mark (approx.) you don't always play the pentatonic scale. Practice slowly to get it right before you post cack like this
This is BRILLIANT. I played the flute when I was a kid and learnt the piano to grade 8, but I'm lost past the blues scale with jazz. These lessons allow me to go over and over stuff in my own time and get my head around it all. A god-send for the self-sax-teacher! Thanks so much!
I've been playing Sax now for 7years or so (on and off) Just got my Saxophone upgraded from a Beginner's Century Alto Sax to an Italian imported Grassi Alto Saxophone, the sound is much more crisp then the old one and so much eaiser i find to play now. I've been doing classical mainly for my exams (on Saxophone, Oboe and Piano), but I love playing jazz/swing on the sax so this comes in really handy for me! Thanks.
very useful lesson i never really checked out how to use the pentatonic one. thx
Great performance
great lessons
@GamerDrifter but it's good to be able to tell what kind of saxophone it is by the sound
You have a great way of explaining things. Thanks
Great way of explaining the concept
@Musician0at0Work well I don't know what kind of neck straight tenors have...
how do you know what scales are appropriate to use for the chord when improvising? And what are you supposed to do with accidentals in the song's key signature when you're playing a scale with different accidentals in it (playing an e major scale, for example, when the song is in the key of d major- like a II-V-I progression)?
Thanks a lot swid441.
Great videos and great web site.
what is the fingering for the top note you play at 1minute 12sec
Love the tone (and the tarpaulin)
hola un favor puedes mandarme partituras de jazz gracias..
@FunnyCorpNN DO NOT PLAY WITH EAR PLUGS!!! you need to be able to hear yourself. It is essential to practice as much as possible, but if you can't fit it into your schedule, don't worry. But always, ALWAYS LISTEN!!! I reccommend Charlie Parker, Gerald Albright, Eric Marienthal, Everette Harp, Michael Brecker, and Joshua Redman (even the last 2 or mainly tenor players, it will just really help to listen to them and study their playing.
Good Luck!!!
thnx ill use that in jazz band!
@muzikmaka89 i have it too, it really plays nicely with my Meyer 5M
If your going to play tenor next year i would definetly recommend to listen to Dextor Gordon if your playing bebop or a slow ballad, and check out John Coltrane, Micheal Brecker, and Joshua Redman! Good luck on your solo.
that is soooooo awesome!! youre an expert
Hi, I dont speak english and I am not understand
Please write me, how tones you play ??
Did you flat the b to make it blues
one thing that would help because i am a visual learner and a sax player would be if you would show you lower hand so we could see the fingerings. Thanks
you use it in the general key signature
hermano, entra al website sax on the web, ali encuentras gente que te manda lo que quieras,
this really helps. thx bro
so when your improvising, you don't play those two notes?
At first I was listening this at low volume and it sounded like you would've said "Hi. My name is Peter Erskine" and I was like wtf!
true but, the neck doesn't tell you everything cuz some people have a custom Saxophone that doesn't have a curved neck....
i find the pentatonic very useful
dude if you love playing that sax like i do then improv is flow
if you know how to do vib and make you sax scream then you know how to improv
"Im improv is flow."
Remember that
You'll be just fine. =D
Dexter*
all scale have to go at the 9th
your English is fine:)
it's probably a custom alto anyways...
it's tenor saxophone
@ShaunaTrout lol
I turned it off at 0:30 because I only wanted to LISTEN to the jazz, not get a LECTURE about it!!!
@mar000m4 uh... do you play saxophone? you should know if you do.. dot dot dot
negatory dude, rasengangpinp is right on this one, that is an alto... the alto has a straight neck, like the bari... the tenor has the curvey one.... and the tenor goes about to your thigh... this one makes it to your hip...
uhhhhhhhhhh...............
dude, this is definitely an alto.
altos have those "L" shaped necks (kinda)
and tenors have those "S" shaped necks
Use your ears.
Listen to some good jazz like the big band stuff. Try and play some of the notes that they play as you listen.
i guess you could say that
your good haha
i find the pentatonic asian sounding
i thot pentatonic was only in guitar...
i guess not
You realize that this is a lesson right?
@melkor65 nobody cares. If they did, we would not watch the videos. I longed to have negative stars for really shitty videos that contained even shittier music that seemed "cool" to the owner. Where the info is makes no difference if they do not put anything there to begin with. Commercials are for getting a drink, somthing to stuff in your face or going to the bathroom. Things change. Just play the game.
that's not puffiness...its just fat! puffiness only happens when you blow, but this guy still has it when he stops blowing. so it's just fat...
i feel like a complete idiot , cause i have no idea what he's talking about ...-_-!
when you are messing about at the minute mark (approx.) you don't always play the pentatonic scale. Practice slowly to get it right before you post cack like this
your not suppost to puff ur checks
terrible