The Smooth Note - Saxophone Improvisation Lesson by Paul Haywood

Do you want to add some of that smooth jazz sound and romance into to your sax playing? Here we'll look at the "Smooth Note" a note that will add some really nice smooth jazz flavour to your improvising and solos. A note you can add to your improvising when you want to add that sexy romantic feel. ;)
This will be part of my upcoming how to improvise on saxophone series where we'll cover the very basics on how to get started up to more advanced improvisation concepts.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hi everyone, paul haywood here. Welcome to the channel, this is where i upload saxophone lessons to help you be the best sax player you can be.
In this video i'm going to show you what we could call the "smooth note" or even "romantic note". We'll look at what it is, how you can find it in every key and when and how to use it in your playing. This is a great sound to know about which will add extra colour and emotion to your playing.
Stick around till the end of the video where i'll do some extra improvising to demonstate how this addition sounds and i'll leave some empty backing track for you guys to practice over.
So this smooth note has it's own character and colour.
So if we are playing over a minor chord or key and using a minor pentatonic scale as the basic notes to improvise with, we add this in and get that smooth or romantic sound.
In a static improvising context (improvising over one key or chord) the pentatonics are a great place to start and they are probably the most common used scale in funk, pop , smooth jazz and many other styles of music. I like to think of adding in specific notes to add specific flavours, moods or colours.
We've recentlyt looked at the "funk note" (link in the description) and we'll look at the "blues note" in an upcoming video. With all of these it's important to know the numbers of the note we are adding so we can apply it to any key we need to play in.
This smooth note is the 9th. Thats the same as the second note of the major scale but we call it the 9th bacause of how chords are constructed. 123456789, the F#, jump down an octave to F#, the second note, it works in every octave anyway
When ever anyone including myself talks in numbers about notes or scales or phrases, those numbers relate to the major scale. it's like a music theory constant that everything can relate back to.
So whatever key you are playing in you play the 9th or second note of the major scale of that key. So for example we're in the key of Concert G minor, thats Eminor for us on alto and A minor for Tenor sax. So we've got E major scale to find our 9th from. E-E,F# F#,E-E,F# see 2nd note and 9th are the same. We can also try and remember that the 9th is just a tone (or two semitones) above the root. So start from the root and go up two semitones, which is one whole tone, and there is your 9th. Using one of those 2 methods, you should now be able to find it in any key.
Playing in B minor? whats the 9th? (major scale technique) (or two semitones up from root)
PLaying in Eb minor? whats the 9th? (major scale technique) (or two semitones up from root)
Got it? So get started by adding this note in to your playing as an addition to your minor pentatonic scales. The ninth is already present in a lot of other scales and you should still think of it as having it's own character in those situations, but because the minor pent doesn't have it already it really pops out when you add it in that context.
OK so no matter what key you're in, if your minor pentatonic scale is working nicely, try adding in this extra note to get that smooth or romantic sound. So you'll be adding in the 9th of whatever key your playing in.
I'm going to finish up by playing a little demo improvisation and i'll leave the backing track playing so you can use that to practice this idea as much as you want.
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