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Josh Wakeham
Великобритания
Добавлен 11 окт 2011
I'm a professional musician vlogging and teaching all things music & improvisation
New videos every week!
New videos every week!
Is This the Only Chord Progression You Need to Know?
Improvising musicians need to be able to solo over chord progressions with ease. But with so many different combinations of chords, how can we learn to do this easily? Well, there's only actually one chord progression you need to know, and then you'll be able to improvise over almost any song. It doesn't matter if you play jazz, pop, funk, Ibiza club classics, this chord progression will help you solo in any genre!
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Master the ii V I in 5 Simple Steps
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.6 месяцев назад
The ii V I chord progression is one of the most common in jazz and pop. Every improvising musician needs to know how to play killer solos over it. In this video, we break the chord progression down and go over a really easy 5 step process to get you improvising incredible solos over it. Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshw...
Miles Davis' Trick for Engaging Solos
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Miles Davis was able to keep listeners engaged, without relying on anything complicated. He was an absolute master at using space to keep his solos interesting. Whatever the style of music you play - jazz, pop, rock, it doesn't matter - space is always an essential, and easy, way to elevate your solos, and no one has ever done it better than Miles Davis. Today I go over how he uses space, and a...
I Was Wrong About Stan Getz
Просмотров 20 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Stan Getz is one of the all-time great jazz musicians. An influential saxophonist that at one time was considered even greater than John Coltrane. For years though, I didn't give him the respect he deserves. Well that changes today as we explore his genius on his recording of 'I Want To Be Happy' with the Oscar Peterson trio. Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWa...
Is This the Only Skill Musicians Need?
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Audiation is a necessary part of any musician's skillset, but almost no one has heard of it! I sat down with author and saxophonist Jordan Ferrin to talk about what audiation is, why it's useful, and how we can start to develop the skill for ourselves. Whether you're an improvising musician or not, this skill will give your musicianship a huge boost, and transform the way you play. Jordan's art...
Jordan Ferrin Discusses this Unknown Musical Technique
Просмотров 3709 месяцев назад
Audiation is an important skill that every musician needs to develop, but most of us haven't even heard of it! Jordan Ferrin is an expert on audiation, as well as a published music educator and Jazz saxophonist based in Long Beach, California. He joined me to chat everything audiation, and improvisation. Jordan's article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/874926/pdf Jordan Ferrin's Storyband: www.jord...
I Hate This Incredible Practice Technique
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Recording yourself playing your instrument is one of the best ways to make sure you are practising the right things, the right way, making sure you keep improving as a musician. Here's why it's such a great way to enhance your music practice, even if we may hate doing it! Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tik...
Straight, No Chaser w/ Josh Wakeham, Andrea Rinciari, Lorenzo Morabito
Просмотров 796Год назад
Straight, No Chaser performed at our first ever Live From the Bop Cave concert. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar Lorenzo Morabito - Double bass Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
S'Wonderful w/ Josh Wakeham, Andrea Rinciari, Lorenzo Morabito
Просмотров 298Год назад
S'Wonderful, performed at the very first edition of our Live From the Bop Cave livestream concert series. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar Lorenzo Morabito - Double bass Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
71% of Musicians Miss THIS Secret to Dexter’s Sound
Просмотров 16 тыс.Год назад
Dexter Gordon is one of the all-time great jazz musicians, but so many musicians don't realise what makes him so unique, and his style so identifiable. Let's break down how he uses his time feel, riffs, and phrasing to add some drama and spice to his solos Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wa...
Blue Bossa w/ Josh Wakeham, Andrea Rinciari, Conor Murray
Просмотров 857Год назад
Blue Bossa performed on our Live From the Bop Cave livestream concert series. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar Conor Murray - Double Bass Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
Was Cole Porter America's GREATEST Composer?
Просмотров 520Год назад
America has loads of amazing composers, Gershwin, Sondheim, Bernstein, Copeland, but it Cole Porter remains that absolute best. This is why! Ebooks available here: bit.ly/3omRmRf Patreon: www.patreon.com/JoshWakeham Stay Connected joshwakeham www.tiktok.com/@josh.wakeham www.joshwakeham.com/
Live From the Bop Cave Vol. 6 - Josh Wakeham & Andrea Rinciari
Просмотров 531Год назад
We're scaling it back for this week's Live From the Bop Cave - an intimate duo performance from the founders - Josh Wakeham & Andrea Rinciari. Playing through some of their favourite standards including Out of Nowhere, Body and Soul, and S'Wonderful. Josh Wakeham - Saxophone Andrea Rinciari - Guitar 0:00 Spontaneous Combustion 6:58 S'Wonderful 14:40 Anthropology 21:31 Body & Soul 30:55 Out of N...
Never Play a Boring Solo Again Using This Sonny Rollins Trick
Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад
Never Play a Boring Solo Again Using This Sonny Rollins Trick
Jazz Greats Use THIS Instead of the Altered Scale
Просмотров 91 тыс.Год назад
Jazz Greats Use THIS Instead of the Altered Scale
Beginner Improvisers: PRACTISE THIS Instead of Songs
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Beginner Improvisers: PRACTISE THIS Instead of Songs
I Exposed Dexter Gordon's Melodic Formula
Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад
I Exposed Dexter Gordon's Melodic Formula
Why Jazz Bassists are Better than You
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.Год назад
Why Jazz Bassists are Better than You
Every Musician NEEDS to Know These Singers' Tricks
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Every Musician NEEDS to Know These Singers' Tricks
Dexter Gordon's 3 Favourite Harmonic Devices
Просмотров 14 тыс.Год назад
Dexter Gordon's 3 Favourite Harmonic Devices
3 Diminished Patterns the Jazz Greats Love
Просмотров 58 тыс.Год назад
3 Diminished Patterns the Jazz Greats Love
This is the MOST Important Thing in Jazz
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This is the MOST Important Thing in Jazz
How to Improve Your Improvisations in 2023
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How to Improve Your Improvisations in 2023
I use a vandoren a35 on my alto for everything 😊
Having lessons with this guy will give you an anxiety attack..
😂😂
That's what I was doing before lessons.
Another explanation is you're tritone subbing the entire ii V instead of just the V. Instead of D-7 G7 C, you're playing Ab-7 Db7 C
You should change your name to Josh Wokem as this definitely woke me up!
Mind altering substances required! Apply within!🎶🎶🎷
Space
Mind blown!
Rather than calling it the 7th mode I think it's easier to tell people to play the melodic minor a half a step up from the root of the dominant chord. G7 - Ab melodic minor
Best explanation I've seen on this topic. Thank you
🙄 some things just don't need over complication! This I fear, is one of them
Hi Josh, Here two albums of Stan Getz that are heavy and swing hard: Serenity : ruclips.net/video/qy_mlVmmVsQ/видео.html and Anniversary: ruclips.net/video/P3X3xXgxroE/видео.html , both worth to be listen over and over haha so much language. Cheers
Nice videos. I have lots to practice😂
1:57 the face of the alt chord resolving!!! Freakin hilarious!
What a great video, and what a great channel!
I’ve been using the melodic minor a half step above the root of the dominant for quite a while(through sheer laziness 🤓), but I never thought of just using minor language. This is great. Thanks.
You could also just thinking of it as the tritone of the 2 in a 251. For instance a 251 in C, would be D-|G7, the tritone of that would be Ab-|Db7. So over the G7 you could use either Ab- which is what the video is talking about or you could think of Db7 it ultimately creates the same effect.
So you're basically reinventing tritone substitution? Playing Ab Dorian on G7 is the same as playing Db7 dominant, hence the subV7
Turn on the lights, wake the ham.
How do you actually get to try different mpcs to find the one that suits you best without lots of (wasted) expense? I have no actual shops near me and online the mpc always seems to be excluded from being returned, obviously for hygiene reasons.
Awesome lesson. I use this all the time on guitar and think of it as a major scale a flat fifth above the root of the I I'll resolve to or as the major scale a half step below the root of the V I want the altered tones on; same results. It basically gives me the b9,#9,b5,#5 along with the 3 and b7, leaving the "rogue" 7th degree, which is a great chromatic passing tone. I think of it this way because guitarists often think in patterns and it's a very easy way to quickly shift i/o of the altered sounds and I can dip into the altered if I want some triads and arpeggios from that scale. It's also very useful for getting all the outside note when playing over a major "vamp" in fusion, e.g. Amaj7, move i/o of D#/Eb major. Immediate options for something like an Amaj7, there's the A major scale, the D#/Eb major (tritone) and the side-slipping (aka "side-stepping") major a half step up and down from the key. That's a lot of sounds for just one chord. [I use the maj7 chord as an example because it can potentially be the most boring chord to play over for some musicians.]
Amazing video plus editing effort wow.
Getz au go-go. Might as Well be Spring. Changed my life.
This worked, but I’m squeaking on my low notes whenever I play.
Are we talking Dorian, melodic or natural minor? Asking for a friend
Excellent delving into Dexter's wonderful playing.
Altered scale works if you work from the harmonized arps that it contains. It's challenging as a melodic set, I feel. I work with the arps a lot. Your example here is on the naturally occurring ii chord of G altered, which is of course A flat minor. Try B flat minor as well! Or even B flat minor pentatonic and you get all the upper extensions without a bunch of half steps to worry over
I have messed with this scale a lot, and it rarely sounds right starting or thinking from the "g" root of the scale (if resolving to C/cm) it sounds GREAT thinking in terms of Am ... I guess its is because of the way it pushes you to think in terms of note choice and then resolution . Could also play D7#11 or think in those terms
Must say Josh you are a goldmine of understandable jazz info.. cheers from Australia 😁
Don't be that guy 😂 Great content, thanks!
Maaaan, you are such a good teacher! Thank you so much for posting this. ❤
You are a handsome man.
Thank you, Josh. This video is exactly at the limit of my current appreciation of jazz and saxophone, so perfect timing for me. Looking forward to a bit of a binge on your other ones. Cheers from France.
Hello, I am a Korean senior trying to learn jazz on the alto saxophone. I feel lucky to have seen your RUclips video lecture today, Thank you. I will continue to watch the lecture and learn.
Thank you for this! My daughter is progressing with learning sax and plays bari about 60% of the time. How would you work out the "geometry" to mic a bari?
I was wondering why I didn't hear Stan Getz' name popping up enough, when discussing favourite sax players. Glad I followed the thought, if only to learn more about this legend (and indeed one of my all-time favourites.)
Epic thank you for this!
How about Cannonball Adderley, solo on Miles Davis, Milestones. + Stan Getz, playing on The Peacocks. Anyway, Peace to all.
How you calculated that exactly 71 percent?
Theory explains practice. Music is SOUND. Thanks for a nice way of looking at this sound.
That's a cool looking sax bro, what is it? I am trying to buy a new sax, this looks dope!
It's a Joe Lovano Borgani. Best horn I've ever played!
@@joshwakeham thanks! Love your videos by the way, learning a lot from them!
thanks Josh? So what's the deal with the so called "double-diminished" scale others are talking about? seems to be nothing more than an ordinary half-step/whole-step run-of-the-mill diminished scale!
My understanding is that the double-diminished is just the same notes as the half-step/whole-step diminished. Some people just refer to it as double-diminished because it contains two different diminished 7th arpeggios (e.g. C Eb Gb A, Db E, G Bb) and they prefer to think of it like that as it's a bit easier to think about chord tones/patterns/shapes than when thinking of a whole scale
awesome Josh, thanks so much! I just got ripped off buying an online course raving about what I thought was some new altered scale The guy had come up with, and that’s all it was was the usual diminished scale! What a joke.
Oh man, that's so frustrating! I'm sure the course will still have some useful stuff in it though, so hopefully it wasn't a complete waste of money!
@@joshwakeham thanks! the introduction vid looked fine, but the course vids look just thrown together, rehashing the same stuff. Instead it should have been titled maybe "how to use diminished scales for 2-5-1s" and free. LOL
I feel like a lot of the best jazz musicians don't pick one way or the other to think about it, but have spent so much time understanding how it works that they have multiple ways to think about it and hence multiple perspectives to approach it from.
Does Transcribe actually write the notes down below the wave form like at 8:45 or is it a superimposition?
No, that was me superimposing it
I feel like this advice holds true regardless of what (wind) instrument you play. I’m not a saxophonist, but I could tell that when I switched trumpet mouthpieces from the one I got with my trumpet to the one my late grandfather used, my tone drastically changed for the better, and I’d practiced the same amount of time across both. Now I play on Granddad’s. Mouthpiece and all. Gotta keep his spirit alive, even if he’s been gone for 20 years.
hi, I fully agree with what you say that the mouthpiece is a personal choice and each of us has our own tone, but I must say that the set up is also important because it sometimes helps in a truly remarkable way, the emission of the sound, the dynamics etc.. but it is equally true that it has now unfortunately become a very expensive business
I am mostly a tenor player, and comfortable with an Otto Link with 6 opening. I am thinking of dabbling size 7* on alto which has the same opening at 0.09 inch as the tenor 6. Would you think for different tenor or alto instrument it is still a good idea to stick with the same opening you found a sound for?
I usually don't recommend having the exact same tip opening (e.g. 0.09'') on alto and tenor. The different size of the instrument means that having the same tip opening can end up really skewing things - a 0.105 is relatively standard tenor tip opening, but a giant one on alto. Instead I tend to recommend going for the equivalent size, so if you're using an Otto Link 6 on tenor, an Otto Link 6 on alto (or a mouthpiece with the same tip opening as the alto Otto Link 6) would be a good pick. I hope that helps!
Thanks. I'll try with a size 6 first.
Just discovered your channel man. Love your tutorials. You earned my sub.
Great stuff !!
I think Dex already did that