Much love Nathan! Thanks so much for the shout out! Greatest of all men is a bit much pal, haha! As always great stuff, love that pic of Master Seamus Blake you threw in there!
Wheter they're short meme-y vids or long tutorials, I'm watching them. In both "formats" there's something to learn, and no matter the length they're funny to watch and interesting. Keep it up man!
I think there is enough demand for all of them. I personally won't use the tutorials, but you have lots of followers who will. My favorites are the original music.
This video right here. So many students I’ve had “know their scales” but can only start on the fundamental and play the “audition pattern.” Understanding intervals and getting them in your ear seem to be seriously underrated. One of my catchphrases is “If you can sing it, you can (probably) play it.” Great stuff Nathan!
Geez I’m on a super steep learning curve with all this theory stuff having only ever really played by ear as a teenager, learning basic sight reading in high school band and having no idea about keys, modes, chords or progressions and have just picked my sax back up 30 years later and practicing 4 hours daily and studying up on fundamentals at night so tutorials like this are super helpful to me, thank you! 🎷
My brother-in-law is a jazz/classical pianist and he suggested the same thing as you; singing along with notes I play to help with ear training and interval recognition. This is seriously powerful advice... I'm finding that I'm actually applying the theory I'm learning into practice while learning guitar!
I just wanna say, watching your vids always entertaine me so much and just make me forget about the negative around my life man. This year I made state with my solo that i worked really hard on. It was ganna be me first time at state but it got cancelled due to the virus. Watching your vids have motivated me to keep moving forward man👍🎷
Your videos are always on the money, you keep it stupid simple and appreciate the bigger picture and foundation of what makes a good sax player, and musician in general. I only started learning sax a year ago but everything you say ties with my experience of learning this awesome instrument so far.
You know those "how to make all-state" vids? I'm eagerly awaiting "how to get into grad school" talking everything from theory placement exams, GREs, applying, and auditions. I think it'd be a great little resource and could probably serve more than just those few looking to get that pretty graduate degree
None of the schools I applied to required the GRE. Ultimately start early, schools have their repertoire lists up already. Start now, play them for a recital if you can to get experience performing them (I did a full length recital and pulled my pre-screening recordings from it). Make sure you get video and audio recordings.
wow you are a breath of fresh air I've been fooling around with music since the 9th grade I'm 67 now been through a lot of life had horns did have a horn been through addiction not in addiction, never had any lessons, been through high school band college jazz band but never had this explained as you have. Keep up the good work LUKE(as in Skywalker)😎
I’ve looked at your vid description lol and personally, I love meme vids, tutorials and original music. As long as you make your vids funny and keep up the hard work we’re good.👍
Hey Saxologic! Thank you for your videos! They are educational while also being funny lol. I really like the jazz videos and the length doesn't matter to me! Congratulations on your acceptance letter too! 😊
Thisssssss. Ted Nash, alto player in the Jazz Lincoln Center, always picks up his horn and starts off with singing a line and plays it back on his sax. He says it’s a way to connect with your horn before starting any sort of practice or rehearsal :)
It's pretty basic knowledge I agree. But i guess sometimes they feel they don't need it. Especially if you don't need to improvise or learn by ear or copy what other musicians are playing.
I definitely procrastinated on improving my ear in terms of solfeggio and transcription for many years. Mostly because I procrastinated, never had to formally develop it, and was decently good at sight reading. I'm slowly developing my ear - better late than never! While not everyone falls in this category, there's definitely a lot of musicians who could really work on developing their ear for sure. They just need to get started and stick with it - it'll definitely be worth it in the long run, though probably tougher in the shorter term!
In your video description, you asked if we like "long tutorials like this". Definitely! This is an eye opener, especially since you break it down and play slowly enough for me to understand what I'm hearing. Thanks for letting me be a fly on the wall through your process. Just one thing... I'm having trouble reading your shadowed font. Might you consider using a regular black text for your messages, in future videos? Of course, it's fine if there's a special reason to use the shadowed one. Again, thanks for these videos. I've just discovered you and I love your sound and the way you explain things.
I remember that moment too. there are people who can improvise by scatting over giant steps, but are trash when they pick up the horn. they have good ideas, but they don't have that fluency on the horn. I remember that moment where I realised I could even learn the chord progression of Moment's Notice or Giant steps if I knew all the intervals and did it all as slow as possible. glad someone else is actually talking about this! also I think you accidentally said Tritone at one point, but it was a Diminished arpeggio (minor thirds)
Paul Grass The laptop I use to edit vids like crashes and burns when I try. Currently trying to invest in a new laptop - editing this whole vid was a pain. My program froze on me at least 30 times lol
Paul Grass Nope green is superior :)) :)) jk, this is my basement, the only room where I can record late at night without waking anyone. Perhaps a different back curtain is a good idea!
It's interesting coming from guitar -- where it intuitively makes sense to focus primarily on intervals and kinda neglect notes -- to saxophone, where, inversely, it makes sense to just think in notes constantly and sorta neglect intervals.
I'm a weekend bedroom warrior and a monthly wanna-be sax player (I SUCK), and I'm like, there are people NOT thinking in terms of intervals?!?! Blows my mind. Interval training is where it's at, can also practice it online, on places like teoria!
Honestly, whatever content you put out, I’ll watch! But it would be cool to see a video on how you improv? Like is it all based on licks, how do you know what you want to play?
Definitely not all based on licks haha, but a lot of my inspiration and origin of my own original ideas spawn from analyzing other people’s well-thought out ideas (like licks)
Could you do a video on what process you went through to be able to stay in form and in time while improvising? I pretty much immediately get lost, give up, and play random notes. It sounds okay most of the time, but I want to be deliberate with my choices based off genuine ability. It's the one part of playing that I am embarrassed by.
Play through the backing track of a song you want to improvise over while only playing the root note of each chord. Once you've done this several times, do the same but now only playing the 3rd of each chord. After that, the same process only playing the 5th of each chord. Now you can start to be creative by making your own choice of root, 3rd or 5th over the chords. After you've gone through this process, the basic structure of the song will be easy to follow. It may sound long winded, but it's the best way to really get under the skin of the chord changes of any given song. The more you do this, the easier it becomes.
Can anyone help me find a way of knowing what chord or scales of a song is in /When I randomly play any song I can’t hear the chords of the song does anyone have any suggestions thank you play tenor
Hi dude great video as always! I would like to ask for some help about the subject. I started the saxophone about 6 months ago, I used to play bass for 4 years and decided to play professionally about a year ago. Thats when I realised that I am talentless. I literally cannot distinguish intervals without doing some warm ups even with 4 years of gig experience and playing stuff. Can you recommend me some tools to strenghten the ear? Sry about the spelling not englishman but drunk
So for the analysis at the end, does the G#half dim and C#7 act as a iiV to the ii of V? (V being E7). Then the Ab7 is used to bring it back to AMaj7? I'm trying to wrap my brain around the substitutions in an attempt to be able to utilize similar harmonic substitutions
Saxologic I have as much to learn from you as the other way around. I agree that singing is super important and once I can sing a line or a solo I can play it in any key. But I like how you think about it intervallically. Is that a word!
Any suggestions on learning my intervals While having a real Bad singing Voice? It’s really frustrating and slowing me down! It will take like forever, I am the „no That is not the right tone“ guy you mentioned but at least I notice it myself... Greetings from germany and keep up ur work!
I had a lesson with a sax teacher and he told me that, "if you know your 12 major scales, you know all minor, dominant, half diminished scales." it seems bout right if you go diatonically with the key of a major scale.
Yep, I was just about to comment that. Its that tonic diminished sound. Like a B/C = dimmaj7. It's used a lot as a delayed resolution to the tonic chord. Here it happens over the 5 bass note so that a pretty cool sound too.
My second attempt at watching one of your videos, I really like the content but I am finding myself trying to find a way to edit out the BS. I want to watch and learn but you're making it difficult for me to hang in there. The BS just far outweighs the educational benefit for me, I guess it might be funny to someone 14.
rk702 Fair enough brother. My priority is making someone's day a little better or reintroduce to them that music is meant to be fun, through humor. You can always purchase an online teacher/in person lessons or click the next RUclips tutorial if mine are not your style! Thanks for your criticism though, I will experiment to find a better balance.
I am not a hater or someone just spewing negativity, you've very talented and I love your content. You're offering insights into really cool aspects of the learning processing but for me the goofiness is very distracting. You do you and I'll figure out how to hang thru the filler. Loving your tutorials!
How would you approach this issue: There are some intervalls I can't play properly. Like, I can play them but they don't sound smooth. There's a slight bit of inpreciseness that drives me crazy. I usually practice all my scales at 45-50bpm quarter notes, but even when I turn off the metronome and play just the intervall as slow as possible, I can't get it right. I'm talking about stuff like Bb (with bis key) to C or Ab to Bb (with side key).
Haha I feel the frustration. Well first you need to realize that it is an accomplishment that this bothers you. A lot of people don’t strive to be as particular about these little things as you! So, I like to identify if the problem is a mental comprehension problem, or a technical problem. What you are describing is a technical problem. The way to solve this is to just drill the crap out of it - accurate reps only. The speed will come later (sometimes much later). Play that interval over and over, as slowly as needed to get the interval sounding smooth. Listen to your body when it comes to speed - don’t play the interval faster than you know you can play it right. See if you can play it cleanly 10 times in a row. 20 times in a row. Etc. Once you feel good for the day, take a break from the sax, then come back to the sax and move on to the next thing in your routine. It’s important not to beat a dead horse and waste practice time. You can only make so much progress on one thing per day - a lot of the progress happens in your sleep! So, keep practicing all kinds of things everyday - do not spend 4 hours on ONE thing. Never worked for me in the end. Keep doing this everyday. You might find that it feels like you aren’t progressing on some days. But keep going. Your body is listening. Remember, if you want the accuracy to carry on to fast speeds, you need to listen to your body on dictating your speed of accuracy. It will grow if you give it time and consistency. There is no shortcut on this.
Cooproxx thats great! I’m in high school too, and part of our jazz program is ear training. Having a good ear to identify chords and intervals makes huge leaps in your playing. When you’re able to start identifying 7th chord qualities and extensions that’s when your playing really takes a huge new leap, because instead of relying on remembering each bar of a chord change, you can just listen then replicate
I am going to do the stream after my final papers; school work is a bit heavy rn. I haven’t learned know how to work gaming streams via 3rd party devices (I bought the elgato thing). Plus, I have to find a space in my house (most likely will have to revamp a room or least a big part of it) that is fitting as a setting, so that’s gonna he a whole process in itself.
@@Saxologic thanks man, it legitamently means so much to me that you take the time to actually reply in detail to your fans in the comments. Even though I play trombone your videos are still super helpful and great!
You don’t need to know music theory to sing. Which means the best advice for playing music has to have nothing to do with music theory. Something like call and response or repetition would be the best advice for any musician. Relating music to the real world is more important than any music theory.
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Much love Nathan! Thanks so much for the shout out! Greatest of all men is a bit much pal, haha! As always great stuff, love that pic of Master Seamus Blake you threw in there!
You look like a cooler version of Bill Nye.
What I learned from this video: the licc is the most underrated fundamental in learning music
I am gonna learn it-
@@LinneRinne God pls no
Wheter they're short meme-y vids or long tutorials, I'm watching them. In both "formats" there's something to learn, and no matter the length they're funny to watch and interesting. Keep it up man!
Seriously? I really enjoyed this. You were so funny when you were doing the singing demonstration section. Thanks bro. Great content bro.
i am a guitar player but i just bought an alto sax , you inspire me so much man , thanks for your videos
I think there is enough demand for all of them. I personally won't use the tutorials, but you have lots of followers who will. My favorites are the original music.
Love these tutorials. Very helpful for me and my high school students. Thanks for the quality content!
This video right here. So many students I’ve had “know their scales” but can only start on the fundamental and play the “audition pattern.” Understanding intervals and getting them in your ear seem to be seriously underrated. One of my catchphrases is “If you can sing it, you can (probably) play it.” Great stuff Nathan!
Geez I’m on a super steep learning curve with all this theory stuff having only ever really played by ear as a teenager, learning basic sight reading in high school band and having no idea about keys, modes, chords or progressions and have just picked my sax back up 30 years later and practicing 4 hours daily and studying up on fundamentals at night so tutorials like this are super helpful to me, thank you! 🎷
I really like your jazz tutorials, because I’m mainly a primary jazz tenor, so this helps me a lot.
My brother-in-law is a jazz/classical pianist and he suggested the same thing as you; singing along with notes I play to help with ear training and interval recognition. This is seriously powerful advice... I'm finding that I'm actually applying the theory I'm learning into practice while learning guitar!
Man you are such a great channel, I was introduced to this stuff in college jazz departement, doing gods work!!!!
Cheers
I just wanna say, watching your vids always entertaine me so much and just make me forget about the negative around my life man. This year I made state with my solo that i worked really hard on. It was ganna be me first time at state but it got cancelled due to the virus. Watching your vids have motivated me to keep moving forward man👍🎷
Your videos are always on the money, you keep it stupid simple and appreciate the bigger picture and foundation of what makes a good sax player, and musician in general. I only started learning sax a year ago but everything you say ties with my experience of learning this awesome instrument so far.
You know those "how to make all-state" vids? I'm eagerly awaiting "how to get into grad school" talking everything from theory placement exams, GREs, applying, and auditions. I think it'd be a great little resource and could probably serve more than just those few looking to get that pretty graduate degree
None of the schools I applied to required the GRE. Ultimately start early, schools have their repertoire lists up already. Start now, play them for a recital if you can to get experience performing them (I did a full length recital and pulled my pre-screening recordings from it). Make sure you get video and audio recordings.
Eddie Harris wrote a saxophone book in the 70s called "The Intervallistic Concept", good resource for basic to advanced interval studies 👍🏼
wow you are a breath of fresh air I've been fooling around with music since the 9th grade I'm 67 now been through a lot of life had horns did have a horn been through addiction not in addiction, never had any lessons, been through high school band college jazz band but never had this explained as you have. Keep up the good work LUKE(as in Skywalker)😎
4:30 This is me in every fundamental class.
pushing his glasses up like an anime character 3:26
also at 8:24 lol
Or, Joe Morello...
I’ve looked at your vid description lol and personally, I love meme vids, tutorials and original music. As long as you make your vids funny and keep up the hard work we’re good.👍
Hey Saxologic! Thank you for your videos! They are educational while also being funny lol. I really like the jazz videos and the length doesn't matter to me! Congratulations on your acceptance letter too! 😊
L. J. Thanks man :D
@@Saxologic acceptance letter to wat???
drums n bari it’s towards the end of the vid
Thisssssss. Ted Nash, alto player in the Jazz Lincoln Center, always picks up his horn and starts off with singing a line and plays it back on his sax. He says it’s a way to connect with your horn before starting any sort of practice or rehearsal :)
Very nice, makes me feel better it took you a number of tries to play the lick by ear. takes me like 5 min to find the first note of a lick.
The 2 people that disliked this are "musicians" who doesn't know their intervals
Shomari Nichols *dont
It's weird to think about how some musicians don't know their intervals
It's pretty basic knowledge I agree. But i guess sometimes they feel they don't need it. Especially if you don't need to improvise or learn by ear or copy what other musicians are playing.
I definitely procrastinated on improving my ear in terms of solfeggio and transcription for many years. Mostly because I procrastinated, never had to formally develop it, and was decently good at sight reading. I'm slowly developing my ear - better late than never!
While not everyone falls in this category, there's definitely a lot of musicians who could really work on developing their ear for sure. They just need to get started and stick with it - it'll definitely be worth it in the long run, though probably tougher in the shorter term!
Or is it?
@@macmuggo5459 lol hey vsauce Michael here
URGR8 dear Nathan! Thanks a lot for your clear and humorous way of explaining!!!
In your video description, you asked if we like "long tutorials like this". Definitely! This is an eye opener, especially since you break it down and play slowly enough for me to understand what I'm hearing. Thanks for letting me be a fly on the wall through your process.
Just one thing... I'm having trouble reading your shadowed font. Might you consider using a regular black text for your messages, in future videos? Of course, it's fine if there's a special reason to use the shadowed one. Again, thanks for these videos. I've just discovered you and I love your sound and the way you explain things.
You are my favorit youtuber, thanks you. Saludos from Argentina capo, maquina, idolo, titan.
I love your learning perpective. Cheers from Colombia.🇨🇴
I remember that moment too. there are people who can improvise by scatting over giant steps, but are trash when they pick up the horn. they have good ideas, but they don't have that fluency on the horn. I remember that moment where I realised I could even learn the chord progression of Moment's Notice or Giant steps if I knew all the intervals and did it all as slow as possible. glad someone else is actually talking about this! also I think you accidentally said Tritone at one point, but it was a Diminished arpeggio (minor thirds)
He's finally teaching us how to sing
Why the heck do you record in front of a green screen and not use it!!
Paul Grass The laptop I use to edit vids like crashes and burns when I try. Currently trying to invest in a new laptop - editing this whole vid was a pain. My program froze on me at least 30 times lol
Saxologic then don’t record there... a white wall is better than a green wall, if anything
Paul Grass Nope green is superior :)) :)) jk, this is my basement, the only room where I can record late at night without waking anyone. Perhaps a different back curtain is a good idea!
@@Saxologic do nottt change a thing man lol, I love the green screen:)
@@Saxologic i've never seen you plug a patreon, you should do that. I'm sure people would help you out in support of your channel.
Bruno Mars plays alto???? I’m sure you get that a lot... btw thank you for all this info, super helpful to my training! I appreciate you!
Im very glad my memory of mario karts "results screen" having a minorthird helped me hear what the first interval you chose was
Im so happy i understood intervals as the key to why notes Sound the way they do played after eachother Early on
Addressing your bio, more classical sax my friend! Nothing wrong with jazz of course, but there is already plenty out there for it.
Alejandro Macias I am going to try and do a duet with James Barger. Let’s hope he replies to my DM lol
I prefer the tutorial videos over meme-y vids! But do what makes you feel gud !!
It's interesting coming from guitar -- where it intuitively makes sense to focus primarily on intervals and kinda neglect notes -- to saxophone, where, inversely, it makes sense to just think in notes constantly and sorta neglect intervals.
I'm a weekend bedroom warrior and a monthly wanna-be sax player (I SUCK), and I'm like, there are people NOT thinking in terms of intervals?!?! Blows my mind. Interval training is where it's at, can also practice it online, on places like teoria!
What u did at 2:10 was illuminating.
This is needed for jazz
You're awesome, great lesson
For some reason the intervals remind me a lot of giant steps
Honestly, whatever content you put out, I’ll watch! But it would be cool to see a video on how you improv? Like is it all based on licks, how do you know what you want to play?
Definitely not all based on licks haha, but a lot of my inspiration and origin of my own original ideas spawn from analyzing other people’s well-thought out ideas (like licks)
You deserve all the things you want
what an awesome lesson !!!
Could you do a video on what process you went through to be able to stay in form and in time while improvising? I pretty much immediately get lost, give up, and play random notes. It sounds okay most of the time, but I want to be deliberate with my choices based off genuine ability. It's the one part of playing that I am embarrassed by.
Play through the backing track of a song you want to improvise over while only playing the root note of each chord.
Once you've done this several times, do the same but now only playing the 3rd of each chord. After that, the same process only playing the 5th of each chord.
Now you can start to be creative by making your own choice of root, 3rd or 5th over the chords.
After you've gone through this process, the basic structure of the song will be easy to follow.
It may sound long winded, but it's the best way to really get under the skin of the chord changes of any given song.
The more you do this, the easier it becomes.
Hey dude, I love your content. Thank you for this advice:)
That crisp 9:00 AM upload from big boy,
i love your Artaud background
I like the new intro. Thanks for the lesson!
P.S. I will try out the interval practice. Very great point on that one!
4:03 Every kiss begins with Kay. Lol
thanks for the vids, will start those techniques in my practice 👍👍to
interesting! makes me want to pick up my flute again
12:34 hahahahaha love your videos super informing with comedy ahahahhahahaha
I really like your meme vids but more of these tutorial vids would be really cool (with a bit of meme sprinkled in)
Congratulations on the scholarship!
4:24 best part!
Thanks!! Could you make a video on articulation
Already did !!
Can anyone help me find a way of knowing what chord or scales of a song is in /When I randomly play any song I can’t hear the chords of the song does anyone have any suggestions thank you play tenor
Interesting… and cool… made my head hurt a little bit, though.
11:21 I'mma actually die of laughter. This is too relatable.
Could you explain a bit more about the chromatic and diatonic enclosure and why you placed them where you did? That could be helpful!
3:43 Midna’s Lament?
Sounds like the round change music in black ops zombies.
Although it would be more on point if the upper notes were like 2 semitones lower
I hear Alleycat from Persona 5. I think it's even the same notes.
Hi dude great video as always! I would like to ask for some help about the subject. I started the saxophone about 6 months ago, I used to play bass for 4 years and decided to play professionally about a year ago. Thats when I realised that I am talentless. I literally cannot distinguish intervals without doing some warm ups even with 4 years of gig experience and playing stuff. Can you recommend me some tools to strenghten the ear? Sry about the spelling not englishman but drunk
I would really prefer tutorials for jazz vocabulary (especially in a fusion context) and some lessons on efficient improvisational practices :)
11:30 song?
this guy is so cool an real..LOL!!! God bless you
Yes new saxlogic
Is it better to sing vowels or solfege
Does this apply if I’m a trombone player?
I want to buy a sax but idk which brand should i choose.Can you make a video about this?
The Jean Paul is a good, inexpensive horn. ~$500 on Amazon.
Saxologic, what would you say are the other fundamental things to learn besides intervals? Many many thanks
Wow, this is good thank you!
"BRAIN FOOD" 4:50
So for the analysis at the end, does the G#half dim and C#7 act as a iiV to the ii of V? (V being E7). Then the Ab7 is used to bring it back to AMaj7? I'm trying to wrap my brain around the substitutions in an attempt to be able to utilize similar harmonic substitutions
AdventureAndy G#-7b5 is the ii, yes. If it helps, I included the tonic next to the roman numerals. See the “f#:” and the “A:”?
@@Saxologic oh I see that now! So it is vi VII7 I. That is a cool sound over the V
Yeah! Parker liked to do it a lot too
Interesting in that it’s not the way I’d go about it, but your way is definitely more comprehensive and thorough.
Marshall Keys Hey Marshall!!! What is your way? Because obviously you are much more qualified to talk about this than I am haha
Saxologic I have as much to learn from you as the other way around. I agree that singing is super important and once I can sing a line or a solo I can play it in any key. But I like how you think about it intervallically. Is that a word!
Yep
Yu rite!!!!
Any suggestions on learning my intervals While having a real Bad singing Voice? It’s really frustrating and slowing me down! It will take like forever, I am the „no That is not the right tone“ guy you mentioned but at least I notice it myself...
Greetings from germany and keep up ur work!
yessir dude, this is the way
You’re the way, master Gaben
@@Saxologic #LeeKonitz #RIP
I had a lesson with a sax teacher and he told me that, "if you know your 12 major scales, you know all minor, dominant, half diminished scales." it seems bout right if you go diatonically with the key of a major scale.
Exactly
mmm that boondocks lick my guy
The part of the lick at 10:45 could also be seen as resolving C dim to C maj.
Yep, I was just about to comment that. Its that tonic diminished sound. Like a B/C = dimmaj7. It's used a lot as a delayed resolution to the tonic chord. Here it happens over the 5 bass note so that a pretty cool sound too.
Did not catch that but you are right! Thanks!!
this man is singlehandedly putting aural skills classes out of business
My second attempt at watching one of your videos, I really like the content but I am finding myself trying to find a way to edit out the BS. I want to watch and learn but you're making it difficult for me to hang in there. The BS just far outweighs the educational benefit for me, I guess it might be funny to someone 14.
rk702 Fair enough brother. My priority is making someone's day a little better or reintroduce to them that music is meant to be fun, through humor. You can always purchase an online teacher/in person lessons or click the next RUclips tutorial if mine are not your style! Thanks for your criticism though, I will experiment to find a better balance.
I am not a hater or someone just spewing negativity, you've very talented and I love your content. You're offering insights into really cool aspects of the learning processing but for me the goofiness is very distracting. You do you and I'll figure out how to hang thru the filler. Loving your tutorials!
How would you approach this issue: There are some intervalls I can't play properly. Like, I can play them but they don't sound smooth. There's a slight bit of inpreciseness that drives me crazy. I usually practice all my scales at 45-50bpm quarter notes, but even when I turn off the metronome and play just the intervall as slow as possible, I can't get it right. I'm talking about stuff like Bb (with bis key) to C or Ab to Bb (with side key).
Haha I feel the frustration. Well first you need to realize that it is an accomplishment that this bothers you. A lot of people don’t strive to be as particular about these little things as you!
So, I like to identify if the problem is a mental comprehension problem, or a technical problem. What you are describing is a technical problem. The way to solve this is to just drill the crap out of it - accurate reps only. The speed will come later (sometimes much later). Play that interval over and over, as slowly as needed to get the interval sounding smooth. Listen to your body when it comes to speed - don’t play the interval faster than you know you can play it right. See if you can play it cleanly 10 times in a row. 20 times in a row. Etc. Once you feel good for the day, take a break from the sax, then come back to the sax and move on to the next thing in your routine. It’s important not to beat a dead horse and waste practice time. You can only make so much progress on one thing per day - a lot of the progress happens in your sleep! So, keep practicing all kinds of things everyday - do not spend 4 hours on ONE thing. Never worked for me in the end.
Keep doing this everyday. You might find that it feels like you aren’t progressing on some days. But keep going. Your body is listening. Remember, if you want the accuracy to carry on to fast speeds, you need to listen to your body on dictating your speed of accuracy. It will grow if you give it time and consistency. There is no shortcut on this.
Saxologic Great advice! Thank you!
@@jazzygiraffe8589 that is sooo F'n cool... (listen to your body... your body is listening !)
Is it good that I could name the interval immediately? I am a high school alto sax player
Cooproxx thats great! I’m in high school too, and part of our jazz program is ear training. Having a good ear to identify chords and intervals makes huge leaps in your playing. When you’re able to start identifying 7th chord qualities and extensions that’s when your playing really takes a huge new leap, because instead of relying on remembering each bar of a chord change, you can just listen then replicate
minor 3rds sounds like giant steps bar 10, 11and 12
Better a good melody than hundred scales
I’ve watched adam Larson perform and my band director is friends with him! UMKC is close to me!
Is there a video of Seamus Blake talking about singing and playing? (I'm presuming the picture of him touching his throat is him explaining it..)
Yes! He has a course (Elite Music Mentor). He says “the voice doesn’t lie” in the trailer (and the full course. I bought it lol)
This applies to not just saxophone
good shit. thx
amazing thumbnail from insta lol
Max Perek ;)
Did I just miss his smash stream announcement? Or is it happening?
I am going to do the stream after my final papers; school work is a bit heavy rn. I haven’t learned know how to work gaming streams via 3rd party devices (I bought the elgato thing). Plus, I have to find a space in my house (most likely will have to revamp a room or least a big part of it) that is fitting as a setting, so that’s gonna he a whole process in itself.
@@Saxologic thanks man, it legitamently means so much to me that you take the time to actually reply in detail to your fans in the comments. Even though I play trombone your videos are still super helpful and great!
That is The Gospel Truth
Thanks for bringing the awareness. How much do you charge for lessons?
$35 an hour or $20 for a half hour
@@Saxologic Not a bad price. I guess you would not need a long session to point out key areas to work on
ok epic
You don’t need to know music theory to sing. Which means the best advice for playing music has to have nothing to do with music theory. Something like call and response or repetition would be the best advice for any musician. Relating music to the real world is more important than any music theory.