How To Improvise Using Any Scale

In this SHORT, I'm going to teach you how to turn ANY SCALE into improvisation with a quick step-by-step breakdown. This is just the starting point, but if you've ever wondered how improvisers turn scales into solos, here is a quick look behind the curtains. If you'd like to dive deeper into this topic, I've done several full-length RUclips videos, and I have an entire course dedicated to beginner improv in my Sax School.
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[@HahnJames]

I'm liking this idea. I'll have to give it a try.

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍👍👍

[@quadaar1017]

KNOWING your Major Scales is a BIG HELPING FACTOR!
I remember when I Made It to College! The only scales I knew were C Maj and Bb Maj! It was kinda embarrassing but Now I KNOW & CAN PLAY ALL MY SCALES! Thank God 🙏 🎷 😇

[@quadaar1017]

Fyi because in High School I played Tuba and the majority of our Concert Keys barely left C Bb Eb etc...

[@ScottPaddock]

Yeah, knowing your scales makes EVERYTHING easier when it comes to theory and playing songs. Yeah, as an alto player, I've always been more on the sharp side of the circle of 5ths.

[@samseltoter560]

I don't understand how this guy has the perfect tone. It's the best tone I have ever heard on any instrument.

[@Obviously_not_mars]

I love improvising it's soo fun 😅

[@icyice5004]

Has a student who is try to learn and make jazz solos this is crazy help like you get a car I want to buy a 170k car and I got 50k from working getting help from other and you come over and tell me I been doing it wrong my hole life and told me how to make money and get into life and give me 100k and let me do all the work all the work I mean by practice to get the final 20k I need for my car so thanks man much love 100% sun ❤❤❤❤❤

[@ScottPaddock]

Glad I could help you get the car you've always wanted 😁😁😁😁 I've done longer versions of this concept on my RUclips channel, and go way indepth in my Sax School if you want some step by step guidance.

[@ramise5932]

Thank you so much!!

[@ScottPaddock]

Glad it helped!

[@armandobarahona5586]

Amazing example! Thank you so much!

[@Mega-.-mind]

Thank you

[@denisivanov2522]

Thanks master. Lease make lesson on blues fast lines, which Sonny Stitt always play on his blues

[@corystajduhar]

Nice!

[@ButterMilkRanch69]

bro thank you

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!

[@LivingWeirdly]

Imma do this for my solo in November

[@red_flapple2]

Howd it go

[@LivingWeirdly]

​@@red_flapple2I was successful 🥳

[@ignaciochom1478]

Beautiful Sax what brad it is?

[@emmanuelsantos3966]

Nice

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!

[@hecateswolf6007]

Superb as always

[@ScottPaddock]

Thank you!

[@AECEntertainment]

I must remember that hes talking about the keys of the instrument. When he played the g major scale, the concert pitch was Bb

[@ScottPaddock]

Yes, I always talk in the key that I'm playing in. It's hard enough to say all of the correct notes on camera without having to transpose 😅

[@stephenritz5581]

Hi - love your channel. Do you find it's easier (especially for rank beginner's like me) to stay in the pentatonic, or should I practice with the entire scale? Thanks.

[@wheresmahat345]

I have been playing for several years - I would recommend to start off with only a few notes, which is what the pentatonic is. After you feel confident on pentatonic, you could switch to longer scales and such.

[@stephenritz5581]

@@wheresmahat345 terrific; thanks! Have a great weekend.

[@ScottPaddock]

Hey Stephen, I start students off with the BLUES SCALE. It is a great starting point because it sounds like a musical idea. It is the same thing as the minor pentatonic scale, except it has the b5 which makes everything sound better. If you are learning from scratch (and you are a sax player) you should take a look at my Sax School. You'll have a clear step by step pathway to learn how to improv.

[@stephenritz5581]

@@ScottPaddock thanks Scott!

[@Fight-on-fighter]

How do you make the higher notes sound more stereotypical saxophone-like rather than more Clarinet like?

[@Noah.trumpet08]

if you’re playing on a classical sax mouthpiece it might be stopping you from getting that sound. play more relaxed and open than classical too, that helps get you a fatter sound

[@costarico5545]

Whats the black thing you use on the F/ key?

[@dawsonrosswurm]

That is a palm key riser, it raises the key a little bit so it’s easier/more comfortable to play

[@Coda_J]

What do you mean by swing 8th notes?

[@ScottPaddock]

The type of 8th notes you hear in jazz where they are not completely equal one is slightly longer than the other to give it a swing feel.

[@user-hf1bx5xy9m]

What I do is I play random notes and go up and down octaves and my band teacher says they all sound amazing

[@FunnyShorties1]

pro sound....

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!

[@ewhresamsonmajohnmajohn668]

This is good. But if you can write out the note it will help for beginners like me. G( D R M R.....😅

[@woodsonpayne8378]

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