This is why Dexter is one of my favorite tenor players; his note choices and phrases land perfectly, always sound interesting, but also, somehow inevitable, like nothing else would have fit in the moment. When you analyze his playing, he simply and elegantly plays beautiful lines, respecting the chords. Scott Hamilton carries on this approach nicely, but with fewer quotes. Good video - cheers!
"The Scale Is not The Chord" What an important and shocking foundational teaching tip!! I've played for too long without a proper understanding of the chord / scale / licks relationships so I signed up for your Patreon because your method definitely speaks to me. I was scratching my head when I saw the Bb in the D minor scale @6:15 but a light bulb went ON when you explained it. I then too a look at the full PDF and now I'm super excited to apply this! Take my money bro! TY!!
Hi Greg, I was reading your comment, and thank you so so much for taking the time to get in there and commenting in such a positive way. You really struck me with the workds you are saying. Of course I just speak what I do and what I see, but when someone else reminds you that what you are saying is helping them in a way you are mentioning it menas so much. Dm with a Bb - yes 6th degree of F major! In patreon - ask all the question you need to get an answer to, love to help! Thanks for signing up to Patreon. All the best and ty too. Søren
@@johnsweenie ok, then play it without. The general key is Dm the parallel of F major. Making the Dm the tonic. So I think you should check again. Just me saying. I'm pretty sure there is a Bb in that particular Dm scale, but you can play whatever you want.
@ there is a Bb in the parallel minor (aeolian mode) of F. But no jazz improviser would ever use that mode improvising over a Dm7. It’s Dorian pretty much all the time. Theory is secondary to accepted practice
@jsweenie13 what would you then play over the Em A7 in a Cmaj progression? Em Dorian and A mixolydian? Again it's ok to play the sound you like over the chords you like. All good with me. But that Dm7 Chord is the parallel of F major, and the first step is to play d arolian on it. What ever extensions you choose to play is also good. You can play melodic minor, or even play Ab7 on it going into that Gm7 chord. D diminished scale half whole would fit too. Lots of options. I do not believe in ruling anything out, but directly saying there is no Bb in the Dm chord and scale of blue bossa is not true.
Soren, ALWAYS look forward to your videos! You never fail to connect application with information. You're a great teacher, brother. Be well, my friend.
For this tune in d minor, I have found that a G7th works very well in bar 8- this will lead you directly into the key of E flat, or C minor- the soloist can play a C minor over the chord F minor very well, on bar 9- the soloist is on the tonic, while the chord is a subdominant-
Thanks so much for your content, i just found your channel and I'm a beginning jazz bassist, would your content on Patreon help me and when i join what would you recommend i check out? Thanks so much..
Thank you for commenting! Love the bass!!! I would love to say - yes do it - go to patreon and join the community. But I would ask the questions differently. Where are you going with your playing - what do you want to learn? All the Patreon lesson manuals are also in bass clef! So you can try the first tier and if you do not like what you see - sign off again - its super easy!
For all my videos I edit with davinci resolve. The sound bar my editor place in the picture - make it follow the music! :) Let me know if this is what you mean
Hi, thank you for your comment. yes all manuals are in Bb, Eb, C and bass clef. Some are in the works now, but if you are on Patreon you will get a message when I relase the manuals in all 4 transcriptions. Coming within the next 2 weeks - the work is going on as we speak! www.patreon.com/posts/112417517 The subscribe and unsubscribe is super easy. Upgrade and downgrade your abonnement on patreon monthly. Pick what you need - upgrade and downgrade Let me know if you have any questions! All the best Søren
YES YES YES! May i formulate it a bit different? Apply the scales you practice to the tunes you are playing - only practice scales you need in the tunes you learn! :) love you enthusiasm!
Thank you for all your exciting lessons Soren and also the analysis of Blue Bossa by Dexter Gordon (one of my favorite saxophonists with Stan Getz) I studied Dexter Gordon's solo in Blue Bossa for months and then I published it on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/xTvUZ2CGJcc/видео.html Studying a solo and playing it in full is exciting but very long and difficult. I have never regretted studying solos in full but now I rather study phrases and of course your lessons 😎 Thank you for the analysis of this piece and this exciting solo and I hope to see one of these days the analysis of a piece by Stan Getz Again a big thank you for your lessons Soren it motivates me to play the Sax every day 🎷😉😎
Thank you so much for commenting such positive comment. I am really happy that i inspire and that I can help. Small hint: remember to use the solo material to make your own solos :) This is what I think is the greatest when transcribing and learning solos - getting the stuff into my own playing!
Thank you so mcuh for commenting. Chords and scales - Depends so much on which sound you want to project. I do think scales are a a very important factor in jazz improvisation. But how people practice and interpret them both chords and scales are of course personal :) :)
So I'm asking why you are watching an obvious jazz saxophone channel. Seek help man, that kind of self torture must be crazy to live in. Call someone, you need help
your outburst - what I would call it is pretty harsh - Hate saxophone - Duck Farting - Cant stand it - awful instrument. Did you at all consider what you wrote? You tried the suggestion - brave - but you do not need to leave any comments - all good from here though. I think its really funny that you went through with it and on top of that took the time to comment LOL
@@sorenballegaardmusic Some sounds make me ache. Deeply. Sax is among those sounds that have always hurt me. I needed to let the pain out. Sorry. In the past, I even had to look for an explanation of why i found it so hurtfuL. I randomly tried "I hate saxophone" on Google. Well, there are plenty of people who feel the same. Please dont take it personnally. I am sure you are great at your stuff. And plenty people love it. It was rash of me. I know. Can't help be hurt by the sound of this instrument. Strange innit ?
like nails on the blackboard, rubbing styrofoam, fork on a plate kind of thing :) all good man! its all in the brain and the brain is an amazing thing - but sometimes does its onw thing. Indeed strange Have a good one and do good things :)
This is why Dexter is one of my favorite tenor players; his note choices and phrases land perfectly, always sound interesting, but also, somehow inevitable, like nothing else would have fit in the moment. When you analyze his playing, he simply and elegantly plays beautiful lines, respecting the chords. Scott Hamilton carries on this approach nicely, but with fewer quotes. Good video - cheers!
Dexter Gordon almost always tongues 👅 each note .
Love Dexter in that way!
Really keeps amazing me!
each and every note! Indeed!
"The Scale Is not The Chord" What an important and shocking foundational teaching tip!! I've played for too long without a proper understanding of the chord / scale / licks relationships so I signed up for your Patreon because your method definitely speaks to me. I was scratching my head when I saw the Bb in the D minor scale @6:15 but a light bulb went ON when you explained it. I then too a look at the full PDF and now I'm super excited to apply this! Take my money bro! TY!!
Hi Greg, I was reading your comment, and thank you so so much for taking the time to get in there and commenting in such a positive way. You really struck me with the workds you are saying. Of course I just speak what I do and what I see, but when someone else reminds you that what you are saying is helping them in a way you are mentioning it menas so much.
Dm with a Bb - yes 6th degree of F major!
In patreon - ask all the question you need to get an answer to, love to help!
Thanks for signing up to Patreon.
All the best and ty too.
Søren
There’s no Bb in that scale. It’s almost always Dorian mode for minor 7 scales not the natural minor.
@@johnsweenie ok, then play it without. The general key is Dm the parallel of F major. Making the Dm the tonic. So I think you should check again. Just me saying. I'm pretty sure there is a Bb in that particular Dm scale, but you can play whatever you want.
@ there is a Bb in the parallel minor (aeolian mode) of F. But no jazz improviser would ever use that mode improvising over a Dm7. It’s Dorian pretty much all the time. Theory is secondary to accepted practice
@jsweenie13 what would you then play over the Em A7 in a Cmaj progression? Em Dorian and A mixolydian?
Again it's ok to play the sound you like over the chords you like. All good with me. But that Dm7 Chord is the parallel of F major, and the first step is to play d arolian on it. What ever extensions you choose to play is also good. You can play melodic minor, or even play Ab7 on it going into that Gm7 chord. D diminished scale half whole would fit too. Lots of options. I do not believe in ruling anything out, but directly saying there is no Bb in the Dm chord and scale of blue bossa is not true.
You are a marvelous teacher
Thank you so much for your kind comment. I do my best
Soren, ALWAYS look forward to your videos! You never fail to connect application with information. You're a great teacher, brother. Be well, my friend.
Thank you so much! Your positive comments means so much! Great support!
let me know if you have questions!
@@sorenballegaardmusic You bet, my friend. Peace
Soren for president!
Brilliant approach. Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much!
Great video Soren. Too many people I hear jump right into the crazy diminshed and altered stuff and struggle to play the changes properly.
Always keep it simple - there is no need to go complicated - it just needs to sound good thats it!
For this tune in d minor, I have found that a G7th works very well in bar 8- this will lead you directly into the key of E flat, or C minor- the soloist can play a C minor over the chord F minor very well, on bar 9- the soloist is on the tonic, while the chord is a subdominant-
These are the small details that gives interesting tone material - change a few notes and you get different sounds.
You said play the chord tones and when you have mastered this start playing the arpeggios. Aren't they the same thing?
learn chord tones, scales, use a metronome, and remember music is melody, harmony, & rhythm.
True true and true
And dynamic 🎉
Thanks so much for your content, i just found your channel and I'm a beginning jazz bassist, would your content on Patreon help me and when i join what would you recommend i check out? Thanks so much..
Thank you for commenting!
Love the bass!!! I would love to say - yes do it - go to patreon and join the community.
But I would ask the questions differently.
Where are you going with your playing - what do you want to learn?
All the Patreon lesson manuals are also in bass clef!
So you can try the first tier and if you do not like what you see - sign off again - its super easy!
Please Which software do you use to project the sight reader score to your video recording?...
For all my videos I edit with davinci resolve. The sound bar my editor place in the picture - make it follow the music!
:)
Let me know if this is what you mean
Hey Soren, do your manuals come in C?
Hi, thank you for your comment. yes all manuals are in Bb, Eb, C and bass clef.
Some are in the works now, but if you are on Patreon you will get a message when I relase the manuals in all 4 transcriptions.
Coming within the next 2 weeks - the work is going on as we speak!
www.patreon.com/posts/112417517
The subscribe and unsubscribe is super easy. Upgrade and downgrade your abonnement on patreon monthly.
Pick what you need - upgrade and downgrade
Let me know if you have any questions!
All the best Søren
are you from amsterdam?
Lived in the Netherlands for 20 some years, now live in Denmark. Born in DK. So no Amsterdam.
Longest ad I've ever seen on youtube.
Glad you watched it, you can get the lesson manual on Patreon
Stop practicing scales, start learning tunes (note to self)
YES YES YES!
May i formulate it a bit different?
Apply the scales you practice to the tunes you are playing - only practice scales you need in the tunes you learn!
:) love you enthusiasm!
@@sorenballegaardmusicto add to that; seek the jazz idioms from your vocabulary for the chords that matter and knock em out tune by tune....
Thank you for all your exciting lessons Soren and also the analysis of Blue Bossa by Dexter Gordon (one of my favorite saxophonists with Stan Getz) I studied Dexter Gordon's solo in Blue Bossa for months and then I published it on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/xTvUZ2CGJcc/видео.html
Studying a solo and playing it in full is exciting but very long and difficult. I have never regretted studying solos in full but now I rather study phrases and of course your lessons 😎
Thank you for the analysis of this piece and this exciting solo and I hope to see one of these days the analysis of a piece by Stan Getz Again a big thank you for your lessons Soren it motivates me to play the Sax every day 🎷😉😎
Thank you so much for commenting such positive comment.
I am really happy that i inspire and that I can help.
Small hint: remember to use the solo material to make your own solos :)
This is what I think is the greatest when transcribing and learning solos - getting the stuff into my own playing!
Scales are unnecessary -- chords are enough.
Thank you so mcuh for commenting.
Chords and scales - Depends so much on which sound you want to project.
I do think scales are a a very important factor in jazz improvisation.
But how people practice and interpret them both chords and scales are of course personal :)
:)
I've always hated saxophone. Sounds like a terminally ill duck farting. Can't stand it. Awful instrument.
So I'm asking why you are watching an obvious jazz saxophone channel. Seek help man, that kind of self torture must be crazy to live in. Call someone, you need help
@@sorenballegaardmusic random yt suggestion. I watch piano stuff. I tried the suggestion.
your outburst - what I would call it is pretty harsh - Hate saxophone - Duck Farting - Cant stand it - awful instrument.
Did you at all consider what you wrote?
You tried the suggestion - brave - but you do not need to leave any comments - all good from here though.
I think its really funny that you went through with it and on top of that took the time to comment LOL
@@sorenballegaardmusic Some sounds make me ache. Deeply. Sax is among those sounds that have always hurt me. I needed to let the pain out. Sorry. In the past, I even had to look for an explanation of why i found it so hurtfuL. I randomly tried "I hate saxophone" on Google. Well, there are plenty of people who feel the same. Please dont take it personnally. I am sure you are great at your stuff. And plenty people love it. It was rash of me. I know. Can't help be hurt by the sound of this instrument. Strange innit ?
like nails on the blackboard, rubbing styrofoam, fork on a plate kind of thing :)
all good man!
its all in the brain and the brain is an amazing thing - but sometimes does its onw thing.
Indeed strange
Have a good one and do good things :)