Forgot the person who only calls classic bebop tunes and refuses to play anything written after 65 and vibes you for calling literally any Miles Davis tune. Pretends to not know Girl From Ipanema
Just for the laymen and younger viewers: "Jam Session" was something which people did before 2020 - spontaneous gathering of more than 10 people in rooms with bad air and plenty of alcohol to play some music. Horrific and irresponsible, I know, but back then people were THAT reckless...
One day this apocalypse will be over and we'll be back jamming, irresponsibly but without guilt! BTW this was brilliant Dave, you humor and wit put a smile in our face in these crap times
Lmao #4 happened to me. This bass player called a samba that I don’t know by heart, so I was gonna read it (I’m a sax player), but then he counted it off at somewhere around 260... it was a note-y head. The audience really got a look at my humble side there
Omg Dave I just watched this the third time and I’m still laughing. Beyond the humor your playing is phenomenal. I’m a tenor guy but your alto sound is beautiful.
You must have something to tell the listener. I have met all these players, well educated, fast as hell, but even with that high speed they never get to the goal.and suddenly they just stop playing leaving the listener confused.... great video!
So I'm not allowed to go with jam with the gang anymore... but that's okay. At least I can count nested tuplets over the barline in 15/16 and pi/9 time signatures alternating!
I have stumbled a couple of times into the rhythm section player (double bass or piano) who doesn't know the tune by heart, doesn't want to read the changes, and picks the tune that the soloist is supposed to play.
Too funny! I have another one for you. Mr. One Day! He's the guy who sits right up front at your gig, strokes his horn case, and sports an all-knowing smile but is never "quite ready" to have a play.
Hysterical, and awesome playing as always - I could spend hours transcribing just 4 bars of your playing! I think I was one of these once a long time ago, but I don’t want to say which one😂
I was at an after hours jam in LA many years ago, and there was a tenor player who wouldn't stop playing a fast blues. He wasn't making any sense, and the rule (unwritten) was that if you couldn't say it in two choruses, you couldn't say it. Anyhow, this guy is on his 20th chorus of fast blues in F, and Willie Bobo slowly takes off his ride cymbal and drops it on the ground. Didn't even move the needle. Dude kept playing for another 10 choruses.
So Dave, these 10 people all have to be your alto ego, because you have them all down so well! I laughed and cringed all at the same time. And only you could make sax that is supposed to be so bad sound so good!
Written solo guy was so funny. I think I've seen one in my country. It's good to know that I wasn't the only one to think rehearsed solos are not that cool.
hahaha, this fabulous playing, thanks Dave, proves to me that I don't have a clue what I'm doing, but at least I only inflict my junk on my YT followers, and the neighbours
So let me ask, if I internalize phrases from several different solos is that acceptable. Or say learn a solo and not play it in that order but play things from that solo.
Absolutely! A great way to build vocabulary is to internalize phrases and lines from solos you like, find out WHAT you like about them (notes, rhythms, articulation, dynamics, intervals, etc) then either edit that line or write out some new lines based on the parameters of that original line.
@@DavePollack well, I've gone through many books that show you about things like camping, but I would love to know how to put it all together in order to play melodies and chords, as if you were playing a solo piano gig type of thing. I love comping and all, but sometimes I want to actually play a tune as well, know what I mean? In college, I was only exposed to the comping part.
It's a 10mfan "Alto Madness" in Ultem material (size 5). Well I don't use that one because...well...I donated it to the church. It is a holey mouthpiece afterall 😉
I organaize a jam session here in germany for I think over 3 or 4 years now and pretty much every other session has died like 90% of Jazz and non Jazz Sessions are dead in a radius of 50km (and I live in one of the most populated areas) we had a culture problem here in germany but now I think the culture is really in deep trouble We're bearly hanging in there with all the regulations and madness that is being thrown in our direction it has been hard for the pub because it is at the same time a hotel so the regulations hit from all sides. we have like 2 weeks until the regulations are slowly lifted and a month until most of the regulations will be lifted but I can tell that all of this has taken a big toll we used to have a big hip hop session with lots of people coming and some serious freestyle skills they tried continuing their session on twitch but it just didnt feel right and not enough people were watching really kinda sad most of the "trees" in the garden will have to be planted anew
Hi, that back track you use on when i fall in love, where can I find this? Its not on any aebersold I think? I have one of my students working on that tune so would be cool to have a nice play along for him. Keep up the flow, I realy like your channel and he humor to:)
Send this to someone who I described in the video!! 😂
I jam with my friends often and we can never agree what to play. We are all "I'll play anything" and you described how that ends up
Forgot the person who only calls classic bebop tunes and refuses to play anything written after 65 and vibes you for calling literally any Miles Davis tune. Pretends to not know Girl From Ipanema
You jammed with Wynton?
@@sequoyahcisneros8719 Lol
@@sequoyahcisneros8719 lmaoooooooooooooo
Literally learned girl from ipanema today. First full song after 3 years or so out. Cant wait to get back into it
I love that you are still able to display your crazy talent through these little sketches!
Much appreciated!!
Honestly - Mr Pollack is absolutely outrageous! 🤩
You forgot the narcissistic beginner that has only played for a few months or years but thinks he's the best one there
Just for the laymen and younger viewers: "Jam Session" was something which people did before 2020 - spontaneous gathering of more than 10 people in rooms with bad air and plenty of alcohol to play some music. Horrific and irresponsible, I know, but back then people were THAT reckless...
😭😭
By the way: I was #1 more than one time, I confess (the opener bands here are not always something to write home about...)
we used to smoke inside during them, and not just weed!
One day this apocalypse will be over and we'll be back jamming, irresponsibly but without guilt! BTW this was brilliant Dave, you humor and wit put a smile in our face in these crap times
@@matteodeste Don't hold your breath for whether it will be allowed again...
Texter gordon! 😂😂
Listen, I can't listen to the piano solo...gotta check IG!!
This made me laugh out loud too.
@@jimmyjazz78 me too
This was fantastic. I know this one is about the sketches, but I really love that alto tone you had going on.
Thanks! I try to still have substance even when I'm messing around, hahah
Okay but 4:53-5:02 was actually sick 🔥😂 love your vids as always!
Thank you so much!!
The only weakness Dave has is he can't play a bad solo.
I lov the ,video, im a classic rock drummer and every sunday i am at the JAZZ Jam, happens the " types " are a match for both worlds.
😂
2:51 Damn he hit the Bill Evans
😂
Lmao #4 happened to me. This bass player called a samba that I don’t know by heart, so I was gonna read it (I’m a sax player), but then he counted it off at somewhere around 260... it was a note-y head. The audience really got a look at my humble side there
Of course the people who aren’t playing the melody call stuff like that! Haha
Omg Dave I just watched this the third time and I’m still laughing. Beyond the humor your playing is phenomenal. I’m a tenor guy but your alto sound is beautiful.
You must have something to tell the listener. I have met all these players, well educated, fast as hell, but even with that high speed they never get to the goal.and suddenly they just stop playing leaving the listener confused.... great video!
I know a #2! Called like 10 tunes and they didnt know any, and we ended up on....GIANT STEPS lol
HAH! ...was it me?
@@DavePollack Ha! I think youre safe! This is in Michigan😂😂😂
I don't want to be disrespectful, but "He's everywhere" reminded me of Sonny Stitt.
Not disrespectful, a well deserved compliment.
I feel like Dave makes fun of Sonny stitt for overplaying subliminally in a few of his videos 😂😂
I wish I could be the jazz school kid😭
aha true
Then go to jazz school hehe
Me and my friends in high school played Mercy Mercy Mercy in 3 and we loved the sound, so we would adapt it into regular use.
Also, I was #10.
So I'm not allowed to go with jam with the gang anymore... but that's okay. At least I can count nested tuplets over the barline in 15/16 and pi/9 time signatures alternating!
Hahahahahaaaa
As a Berklee student, I loved the shout out. Very appropriate😂
We called 90 tunes..... ended up on concert Bb whole notes exercises.
😂
This guy should have over 100k views on every video man he’s so cool he deserves so many more subs, likes, views and so much more
Wow - thanks so much!
I have stumbled a couple of times into the rhythm section player (double bass or piano) who doesn't know the tune by heart, doesn't want to read the changes, and picks the tune that the soloist is supposed to play.
This is probably the best video of this series! The sky is the limit, man! Keep up the great work
Thank you so much!!
@@DavePollack you're very welcome. Thank you for providing us with such entertaining videos!
I'm ms written solo just because I can't improvise... That au privave solo is actually the one I use all the time.
True story, Dave!
*waiting for part 2 anxiously*
🙂
Too funny! I have another one for you. Mr. One Day! He's the guy who sits right up front at your gig, strokes his horn case, and sports an all-knowing smile but is never "quite ready" to have a play.
He might make an appearance in part 2!
The quality of the production of this video is definitely the highest quality you've ever achieved. Keep it up!
Thank you!!! I’ve really worked hard on it, so I appreciate you noticing.
Let’s play Some Day my Prince will Come in 3.14159.... lol
Hahaaaa
Now I really want to hear Satin Doll as a funk!
Hysterical, and awesome playing as always - I could spend hours transcribing just 4 bars of your playing! I think I was one of these once a long time ago, but I don’t want to say which one😂
Wow - thanks so much! Hahah, it's okay - we all forgive you!
I was at an after hours jam in LA many years ago, and there was a tenor player who wouldn't stop playing a fast blues. He wasn't making any sense, and the rule (unwritten) was that if you couldn't say it in two choruses, you couldn't say it. Anyhow, this guy is on his 20th chorus of fast blues in F, and Willie Bobo slowly takes off his ride cymbal and drops it on the ground. Didn't even move the needle. Dude kept playing for another 10 choruses.
Jeeeeez...I would LOVE to be there for something like that.
So many songs that actually have written solos in the band arrangements...
Next, do different types of RUclips Musicians. :D
OH MAN that's a good idea...
So Dave, these 10 people all have to be your alto ego, because you have them all down so well! I laughed and cringed all at the same time. And only you could make sax that is supposed to be so bad sound so good!
Hahaha, thanks so much!
Written solo guy was so funny. I think I've seen one in my country. It's good to know that I wasn't the only one to think rehearsed solos are not that cool.
You sound great even when you try to sound bad...you are skilled in all those ways
It's honestly ridiculous that a shitpost vid has this level of musicianship lol. I fucking love the Brecker quote towards the end
LMAO. Such niche parody while also so well executed.
Thank you!!
This one of your funniest best videos yet🤣
Thank you!!!
your piano is amazing thats something I'd like to learn
Thanks Keith! Piano is a ton of fun. For jazz stuff, start out with Bill Evans shell voicings
@@DavePollack thanks K
lolol this is great ! But to be honest the Jazz school cat sounds a lot like Sonny Stitt on a ballad if we are be totally honest! 🙈😂
Hey i love playing like that sometimes too!
No more taxes saxes, hilarious. Love the HW Bush reference
I can’t wait for my book to come.
There won't be a physical book - just digital. You can print it out if you want it on paper though!
I would be honored to get vibed by you at a jam
Hahahah! Except I don’t vibe people.
Texter: while the rest are jamming to Giant Steps, He is continuing down the cursed Giant Steps mashups rabbit hole
😂
i played with that guy. never took the horn out of his gob
yup. i'm gonna need that full video of the jazz school. that shit should be illegal.
You are a fantastic saxophone player. But this video I didn’t get so much out of. Creative, yes. Too creative? Yes.
I appreciate the Ad timer. even if it wasn't, awesome videos as usual 😂
Playin great Dave.
Thanks!
Is “jazz school” Dave Pollack, God?
Hahahahaaaaa
Love you Dave. Keep it up!
hahaha, this fabulous playing, thanks Dave, proves to me that I don't have a clue what I'm doing, but at least I only inflict my junk on my YT followers, and the neighbours
Uh oh. Mr. Written Solo- uh guilty sometimes
So let me ask, if I internalize phrases from several different solos is that acceptable. Or say learn a solo and not play it in that order but play things from that solo.
Absolutely! A great way to build vocabulary is to internalize phrases and lines from solos you like, find out WHAT you like about them (notes, rhythms, articulation, dynamics, intervals, etc) then either edit that line or write out some new lines based on the parameters of that original line.
This is awesome 🤣🤣😂😂😂😀😀👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️ Great video!!! You have some great humor!!! Thanks for all you do for, I’ll check out your book of great stuff!
Thank you so much!!
You’re playing is so good I know it’s a skit but jheeez
Hah, thanks
The Mr Jazz School was actually a great solo
Jazz school for life!
Funny and so true! On the serious note, as I've asked before, you need to do some videos on your piano playing bro!
Thanks! What would you want to see?
@@DavePollack well, I've gone through many books that show you about things like camping, but I would love to know how to put it all together in order to play melodies and chords, as if you were playing a solo piano gig type of thing. I love comping and all, but sometimes I want to actually play a tune as well, know what I mean? In college, I was only exposed to the comping part.
*comping*
Dude, your videos are gold!
Yoo thanks so much!!
Dude, I think everyone is gonna start calling tunes in Pi now. Lol. Beautiful sound, all jokes aside.
Hahaha!!! I can’t wait to hear that. Thanks!
Underrated channel wtf
Thanks!
You are Desmondesque at 3:34.
I love your alto sound.
Thanks so much!
Hehe, you made my day! Im probably all of these and beyond🤣😂
Love these! Keep 'em coming!
Will do!
great playing as always!
Thank you!
Berklee Funk 😅😅
another variation of this is someone who tries to play everything as a latin groove
These are accurate and hilarious I love these vids man
Love your videos Dave!!
Thank you! I appreciate that
Fantastic - laughed the whole way through
Wooo thanks!
If it wasn't true we wouldn't be laughing so hard right now!
Haha! 😂 I always try to put truth in there.
#1 is almost every student in UNF lmao
Ha!
Just for the record I made that Joey Alexander meme that’s shown for a spilt second, no flex
Well thank you for your service!!
@@DavePollack No thank you, you made jazz bigger on the online community, and your videos are something we can all relate to👍
#6 is basically John Coltrane
#2 is almost everybody in UNF
dude, your mr. jazz school runs were sick! :D
Thanks! I do like playing like that from time to time, hah
NO NEW SAXES IM WHEEEEZINGGGG
Odd meter monte is just Steve kortyka.
I am without a doubt number 9
Tbh I’m “Mr. Written Solo” because I’m terrified of improv 😎
"After today, I think I will just come here to make cameo appearances".
laughed so hard on #8 lol
This has probably been said somewhere but what mouthpiece do you use now, and why don't you use the Meyer you drilled through :(?
It's a 10mfan "Alto Madness" in Ultem material (size 5). Well I don't use that one because...well...I donated it to the church. It is a holey mouthpiece afterall 😉
I thought the spoof on online études, patterns & pdfs was funnier.
What spoof are you referring to?
#5 made me laugh - sounds like an idea I would have
#6. The bane of bass players and drummers everywhere.
Jazz school is sick!! 🤘🤘
Haa thanks Ant!!
I organaize a jam session here in germany for I think over 3 or 4 years now and pretty much every other session has died
like 90% of Jazz and non Jazz Sessions are dead in a radius of 50km (and I live in one of the most populated areas)
we had a culture problem here in germany but now I think the culture is really in deep trouble
We're bearly hanging in there with all the regulations and madness that is being thrown in our direction
it has been hard for the pub because it is at the same time a hotel so the regulations hit from all sides.
we have like 2 weeks until the regulations are slowly lifted and a month until most of the regulations will be lifted
but I can tell that all of this has taken a big toll
we used to have a big hip hop session with lots of people coming and some serious freestyle skills
they tried continuing their session on twitch but it just didnt feel right and not enough people were watching really kinda sad
most of the "trees" in the garden will have to be planted anew
Texter Gordon
Jazz Memes on IG > listening to any other soloists
@@DavePollack either ig memes or Simon Fransman videos mid gig
Love your playing, even when its sarcastic!!!!
Thanks! I always try to have substance to everything
Dude's a beast! Cheers
Much appreciated!
I used to be a texter Gordon but I was never that obnoxious 😂😂😂
😂
The Jazz school:
He is everywhere and nowhere
Hi, that back track you use on when i fall in love, where can I find this? Its not on any aebersold I think? I have one of my students working on that tune so would be cool to have a nice play along for him. Keep up the flow, I realy like your channel and he humor to:)
It’s just the app “iRealPro”
I knew a teacher who made us play standards in every other meter than it was actually written in😂
Hah, well it is a good skill to have in your pocket.
Lmao I'm the guy who plays the written solo lol, I live quoting
Dave, you play awesome even when you're just joking. Very nice video.
Thanks! I always try to have substance even when I'm messing around.
3:48 HE QUOTED BIRD BLUES BY JIM SNIDERO!
Hi Dave! I would like to know what is your mouthpiece? I’m looking for something with dark sound and easy to play. What you recommend me?
I feel seen.