Jazz Saxophone Snob Attempts Classical Saxophone
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2020
- When will the snobbery end? Probably never...
You asked for it - here is my second iteration of the sax snob episodes. Please remember that I am not being serious in the video; the snob character is the embodiment of many ridiculous things I've heard in my undergrad about the contrasting genre.
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"Dude its just about the vibe" 😂😂😂
I died at that part 😂
Hahahaha
😂😂😂
T h a t ' s a l l t h a t m a t t e r s
2:39
I lost it at “Jazz is commercially viable”
One time i had a gig that covered my parking for said gig
@@aaclar one time i had a gig that covered half of the gas money to get there
Damn bro, leave some money for the rest of us.
Actually, Classical outsells Jazz!
Ah yes a slice of pizza is enough to pay my rent.
*Classical saxophonist plays*
*Nathan creeps in* “Did Coltrane make that?”
Funny guy
“Your sound is just nasally...like a clarinet”
Sadness
I am sorry!!!!!
@@Saxologic How dare you attack the clarinet :(
@@ericolens3 Nasally isn’t necessarily an insult. I like clarinet! The jazz snob is not who I am lol
*says phrase nasally*
@@ericolens3 bruh it’s a freaking joke
I gotta be honest man, classical music with a jazz articulation sounds pretty awesome. If I had never heard the classical piece, I would think it was a legit "jazz" tune.
Same! Also your videos are great too.
I think it just sounds wrong and overall bad
Ive got a friend who can play Flight of the Bumblebee jazzy and its insane
Honestly, that lick from Concertino da Camera with jazz articulation would fit well in a solo
I’m specifically referring to 5:23
Kinda sucks how the classical orchestra doesnt include sax
yeah it does, so much opportunity wasted
In our Country It Does And It Sounds Great!
@@gijskikkert5761 From which country do you come from?
Netherlands
@@richardplate8255 Netherlands/Holland
Playing Bach like that is Sacrilegious
Blasphemy!
laMentAblE
@@Saxologic Fellow cultured man sighted... 😂
welcome TSV initiate... 😂
Blasphe- damn it
you're sacrilegeous
Piece starting off with mezzo piano low c.
Jazz snob: DETONATE!!!!
😂😂😂
I had a solo piece last year that ended with a ppp Bb and decrescendos into silence. “Sonata for tenor saxophone and piano” mvmt 2 and 3. Being a high school student, this piece made me wanna light it on fire sometimes.
Love how he completely ignores the dynamics
LMAO and his face at 4:29
This classical player was chill but his technique definitely needs more eyebrows
-It needs more cow bells
Which one is the classical player
@@naomihannah7586 The one on the right.
😂😂😂
Ngl the jazz version doesn't sound all that bad compared to the classical on the other video 😂
The classical saxophonist playing jazz ep almost made me pee my pants!! I was all classical until the end of my studies, and my sound was so uptight... still kind of is...
I like the brighter tone a bit but the scooping and the grace notes thrown in don't really work. However, the Creston played over the jazz chords was really cool and I would definitely listen to the whole sonata arranged that way!
@@BigAl72ZGE I sorta disagree. I think he made smart choices about where to put the scoops and grace notes. But the style is completely different lmao.
@@jarrickhillery8664 I agree they were musical choices, but they were so wrong for the style that it overall didn't work. The brighter tone probably wouldn't have bothered me though maybe I might have noticed something if I was listening to the whole piece played with that tone.
Another morgana... OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY
Jazz snobs don't look at sheet music.
The classical saxophonist shouldn’t need the music either. True musicians don’t have their eyes glued onto the paper. Sight reading and doing stuff on the fly then okay reading is fine but if one is truly studying and performing any kind of music (classical or jazz), then you shouldn’t need the sheet music after a month of working of the pieces... and I bet my ass that the guy on the right has been studying these pieces for much longer than a month
Hey you never know, the snob community is a diverse one 😌
@@steveyin7929 uhh...
@@steveyin7929 I guess you must be a memorization snob
@@kennyr1161 ehhh I’ll own up to that haha
Not gonna lie- jazz sax on classical sax music doesn't sound bad at all...
Would beg to differ imo...
@@xadielbenejan8274 lol you do you
@@shaddjimenez4524 nah they wouldn’t get skinned alive because who the hell goes to concerts that feature the classical saxophone. There are barely any of those concerts to begin with
1000% agree
@@steveyin7929 actually the sax is so dang loud that at any concert, the way he was playing, it’ll be louder than literally everything there. (except the trumpets)
Ah yes, the Jazzunov Concerto and Coltrane Sonata
Oh my goood :DD
“You can’t just hack giant steps into the piece” 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
I really appreciate how Saxologic respects classical AND jazz music styles. Too often musicians praise one and bash the other.
Jacob Bernat was the student teacher at my high school like 4 years ago:). He was universally loved by all the students and after he was gone we were all really upset.
He is great!!
MATT BAHAAHAHAHA
I can sense sarcasm
Can you please (somehow) make the Jazz Saxophone Snob meet the Classical Saxophone Snob?
Props to you for not laughing after every sentence.
Every jump cut was me cutting out a laugh lol
you really spent the time to put coltrane changes over the creston, god DAMN how sacrilegious LMAO
Creston Steps
Giant Crest
Giant Crust
Crusty Steps
Giant Crest White Strips
Crest Tooth Paste
@@Saxologic 1 week later.... my professor just assigned me the Creston...
CRUSTY STEPS
I love how Nathan fits being a classical snob and a jazz snob WE GET IT YOUR TALENTED!!!
Lol that first prelude Bach was rolling over in his grave 😂
in the end kenny G has already defeated them both
With money yes. With talent no.
@@Roxanneredpanda my teacher actually knows Kenny G, met him back when he was still just getting into the scene, and apparently he had a ton of chops and was/is an amazing player. But you gotta pay the bills, so dude basically became the master of the pentatonic scales and made the music he liked
@@Roxanneredpanda Ehhh, he's actually just a sellout. He's got good chops.
Kelpy G
@@LowReedExpert1 Yeah, Kenny G is (or at least was) a master a jazz fusion. Check out almost any song he did with Jeff Lorber Fusion. Totally different than his mainstream stuff
I’ll say that creston and especially glazunov wouldn’t dig the jazz interpretations of their pieces but Ibert probably would’ve been all over it. Not only because the jazz version sounded better but ibert was inspired by jazz music when he wrote his saxophone concerto. The “jazz” interpretation of the creston and glazunov sounding better than the classical versions was definitely not meant to be (even though imo they did sound better) but the “jazz” interpretation sounding 300% better than the classical version of the ibert was no coincidence. Coming from the perspective of a classical saxophonist by the way
Honestly the Ibert kinda sounded cool lmao
my teacher was talking to me about the classical snob video. we were both so excited for this one and it did not disappoint! great job!
Bro, did you come up with Creston sonata over giant steps?! It’s crazy how well that fit with only a few note changes 😂
I was thinking the same thing 😂. That was lit 🔥
35 years of classical saxophone playing, and I still really enjoyed those tunes in BOTH styles. Keep it up!!
classical snob vs jazz snob next?
He has already done it, it's great!
@@spectrumfamily7227 no that was classical snob vs jazz saxophonist not snob vs snob
@@christianjingco2237 Oh yes you're right
@@christianjingco2237 Yes, that’s what I thought. Thanks for clearing it up!
This is like the third person experience of someone trying to teach me classical sax 😂
Not Jacob being absolutely adorable in the bloopers🥺
The sequel we've all been waiting for. Bless🙏
You should make the two snobs meet and have a pointless but entertaining argument
"Did Coltrane make that or...."
dude, it's the
*vibe*
The opening of Ibert actually sounded pretty cool that way even if it did make me shrink back for a moment haha
The fact you were not hit in the face with a tuna shows a great deal of restraint from Jacob. Well done Jacob.
NGL I love how both of you can jsut do both classical and jazz so damn well.. and encapsulate the snobbishness of both so well.
1:19
Bach: Dead again*
😂😂😂
It litterally says PIANISSIMO and he is blasting the notes out XDD
I’ve been waiting for this for a while thank you😁
I don’t even play a brass/wind instrument but I love this. The whole Jazz vs. Classical thing (or literally any other style of music vs. Classical) is always hilarious 😆
"Sorry did I bore you?"
"Nah, I'm sorry it's just wrong."
those coltrane changes were a *V I B E*
Seriously though, Jacob tone sounds so good, and 4:30 sounds like a mix of cannonball and a johnny hodges ballad lol 😂
Agreed, that one actually sounded really nice.
The 4:30 part was hilarious with all those extra jazzy glizzs he added in and the over bearing stylistic vibrato was hilarious, he made Ibert sound so jazzy lmao.
LMAO the bebop articulation on the second part of the Glazunov concerto had me dead😂
I think both interpretations sounded really cool! Another great one, Nate!
I just love the jazz sound you are getting with these classical language. Sometimes it felt something duke ellington could wrote. And the overal approach, sounds a lot like Coltrane or Kenny Garret. Man you make me want to steal all the classical lines and make them ''jazzy''.
Love your channel
Appreciate the kind comment man!!!
To me I've found sax is such a unique instrument because you can pick it up and within a few months be playing with a constant jazz feel (both in swing and note choice) that seems alien on other instruments. Perhaps it's because my own ears tell me 'this IS the jazz sound' when I hear it due to only listening to it in that context, but it feels very natural. Comparitavely, I started on guitar and it took me years to learn how to play jazz, mostly because it's not solely designed as solo instrument, and getting proper jazz feel with your wrist takes a long time.
Also holy shit, I had no idea you could make the saxophone sound like the classical guy, it literally sounds like a different instrument.
Yes exactly. The sound of saxophone is unbelievably versatile
Finally I’ve been waiting for this video for so long!!
Yessss! I’ve been waiting for thissss!!!
Do you improvise?
Yeah, sometimes.
So you play..like...Giant Steps?
Ahh a classic xDD
“So you know, like... gIaNt sTePs” 😂😂
Haven’t heard these pieces in years since I played them in school - nice to hear them quoted, even as a gag!
I like the zoom into Bach's face - my kind of humor. Keep having fun with music 👍
The Creston Sonata over Coltrane changes 😂😂😂 genius haha!
No careless whisper. Unsub
Agreed
Lmaoooo haven’t heard that song in a minute
This entire video reminded me of my undergrad when me, my friends, and my professor at the time quoting classical literature during jazz band. Great video!
So glad you showed this second side of the coin. Hilarious video! ^_^
This is literally just the right and left brain of a saxophone while practicing lol I always play my music in both styles to have fun lmao
The thing is, we need classical saxophonists to sound like clarinets because god forbid a clarinet player uses vibrato.
I play both, and vibrato can sound good on clarinet, it jus takes a lot of practice
And my playing of classical sax was sorta unintentional
How do you get vibrato out of a clarinet? Your breath
@@avah9721 lol ava i found you
@@Yngsatchvaiik its been like 2 years since and you forgot about this comment but its your embouchure
@fortumon2570 wow learned q new word and everything.
Thanks 😊
I've never heard classical sax. I've impressed that a sax could sound that beautiful in that way
Much as the discussions are no doubt tiring for players, it just goes to show the range and diversity of what you can get from the instrument. Awesome to see examples of what directions you can take with it creatively.
Imagine the look on the jazz snob's face when he finds out that saxophone is also a regular in concert band.
When he attempted Bach but in a jazz "vibe" 🤣🤣
Jazz is salt water and classical is fresh water.. they are both beautiful and tasty fish in water
This was funny and educational! Thank you!! I am trying to learn how to develop my classical sound so I really appreciate this.
Band directors always complaining that trumpets are too loud yet you got this man
I can vouch there’s people like this that ACTUALLY exists 🤦🏽♂️💀
“So you know Giant Steps”? 😂
I think it’s super cool how the same line sounds like both classical and jazz depending on how you play it. You can really hear it in this video it’s super dope
This was so much fun to watch! Love the bloopers most. 😂😂😂😂😂
These videos are the equivalent of "here, i've fixed your art"
yoooo I was laughing so hard when you started playing Ibert at 4:55 because I was just practicing his concerto last year before covid took over. My instructor would not be happy with wat you played to say the least 😂
Song name?
@@nikayahmonroe Concertino Da Camera for Alto Saxophone
That made me so happy to hear the Glazunov Concerto! I learned to play that last year for a concert.
Jacob was amazing! Thank you for making me aware of him!
There are two kinds of people: "Who prefers the sound of jazz saxophone and who lies."
@@ericolens3 classical music is anything but rebellious. Jazz is the rebellious style of music 😂 it rebels against the strict guidelines of sheet music. 1920’s? The lost generation? Anti-Victorian mentality? Ever heard of it? Jazz stems from the loss of morality that the First World War caused. The kids rebelling and listening and dancing to jazz. Flapper girls and drinking and promiscuity. To say classical music is rebellious is to say that Coltrane or Davis wrote Beethoven’s 5th. It’s ridiculous and completely not true 😂 you can not like jazz that’s perfectly fine, but don’t act like classical music is rebellious. Thats poster child music 😂
@@christian5026 pretty sure they meant rebellious for them because they’re parents didn’t like it as much but otherwise you’re right of course
@@christian5026 Styles don't have rules-they have customs. When certain customs are abandoned, others appear.
@@christian5026 your comment just shows you don’t study classical 😂
What we learned from this video: "It's just the vibe!!!" 😅🎷
😂😂😂 Hilarious, but in all seriousness I love that you can get such polar opposite tones out of the same instrument. I love both!
I have never been into jazz but I absolutely love classical sax. I definitely don't listen to enough of it!
I play bari saxophone, and I mostly stick to classical music; I couldn't play jazz to save my life. It requires an insane amount of skill, at least in my opinion. It's also really cool to see how individual musicians interpret music, and the different sounds they produce.
Now i wanna see a classical sax excerpt written as a sax soli
Man this channel always makes me smile 😀
You’ve done classical snob vs jazz player, you’ve done jazz snob vs classical player, now the thing we need is classical snob vs jazz snob
notifications are on a whole new level.
Only if you are a classic sax player you can get all the wrong in there😂 otherwise you can think it's okay like a lot of these comments omg... if Ibert or Creston heard these they would DIE again.
They definitely would die again lolll
Do some research on ibert’s sax concerto... he would actually love the jazz interpretation of his piece
@@micahmazzella4501 it’s better to the cultural human ear. .. Western European music created a culture of conformity that isn’t really in most of the world music.
I am a still living classically trained clarinet player. My soul started leaving my body when he played Bach, and not in a good way
@@KCCCX Are you serious?
Hahaha always posting great videos!!
Fact that these types of videos are also super educational about music and instruments. Also, i love both classical and jazz so I’m always in shambles (trying to pick a side) when you make these videos lmao.
Jazz makes everything sound better, change my mind
“Did Coltrane make that?” HAHAHAHAHA
"Snobbery" is HILARIOUS! Keep up!
It is so funny that both sounds great for the same piece. Maybe at the end both styles should play the same thing for a bit longer, just for pure enjoyment. And also, thanks for the series, I have learned new names, who are amazing players!
“you just have to vibe” that’s the best thing about jazz
Ah yes, I loved playing the Jazzunov Concerto
Some of these were a bit...
*SACRILEGIOUS*
I N T E R E S T I N G
The jazz dude falling asleep... Lol
i found my people
@@samfenix welcome to the lingling outpost in the saxologic quadrant if youtube space
Bro I have been waiting for this
loved the dinamics on the classical player, fantastic
I LOST IT AT THE CRESTON OVER GIANT STEPS 😭
Bach's Cello prelude but its Coltrane changes
I love this because I am classical flute player, but I play jazz saxophone/flute, and this is exactly how I would imagine my internal battle going on in my head on how something is supposed to sound.
the long awaited sequel is finally here
I’m so proud that I recognized all these pieces
You are a true master
Wait, what are the pieces? I’m trying to find some good classical pieces to try on my saxophone.
@@ashsnyder5936 Glazunov concerto in Eb op.109 are the first 2, then it’s Ibert concertino da camera twice, then it’s avec vigueur all are super great pieces
These are literally like the 3 most famous saxophone classical pieces lmao
5:16 you could play that over Rhythm Changes and it'd be pretty darn hip!
You guys are crazy! I was laughing through the whole video. Great job.
Nice one! Both great players! Congrats!