Learn Chord Changes on Sax | .pdf exercises

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  • Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
  • Dr. Wally teaches a simple method for analyzing chord changes to learn tunes faster (and remember them)! Download the free .pdf of diatonic 7ths:
    www.thesaxophoneacademy.com/s...
    00:00 Let it Begin
    1:51 Syntax - ordering the order
    3:10 Roman Numeral Analysis
    6:54 Play along Exercises!
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Комментарии • 76

  • @joedakroub
    @joedakroub Год назад +17

    "Let's not create so many rules that we ruin a perfectly good hobby." Such great advice. Life is too short or long (depending on ones perspective) to be so bogged down in dogma. Let's make some music! 🎷🎵

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      Well put, Dogma is the enemy of art (and fun)!

  • @MaxVian77
    @MaxVian77 Год назад +8

    This video is the consecration of the educational value of this channel and its creator. It is possible-perhaps not probable due to my limitations-that these methodological pointers will change my life as an (amateur but passionate) saxophonist. This video also tells us a lot about how ripe the time is now for a radical updating of music teaching methods. Especially here in Europe. Thank you Dr Wallace.

  • @PL-rf4hy
    @PL-rf4hy Год назад +8

    Thanks for this. If I had had this explanation 45 years ago when I started playing jazz on my saxophone, I think I would have grasped the matter much more firmly. As it was, I relied mainly on my ear for years. Keep up the good work.

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      Thanks my friend, happy practicing!

  • @user-xi3ff9vz2r
    @user-xi3ff9vz2r 5 месяцев назад

    I am a beginner in the alto saxophone, I do play clarinet and incorrectly told that it was an advantage, rubbish. Even though your lessons are above my level (mostly), I have learned more through you than most other methods. Your humour and way of teaching practicality far out weighs many I have watched. So thanks Wally, keep it up you make it fun for me when I was losing heart because I didn't know what anyone was talking about,

  • @EricPalmerBlog
    @EricPalmerBlog 10 месяцев назад

    The Sax Fundamentals is amazing. Thank you so much Doc!

  • @javierdiaz8013
    @javierdiaz8013 Год назад +1

    Excelente consejo!!! Recordaré estas palabras cada vez que tome mi sax alto. Gracias!

  • @constandinr8260
    @constandinr8260 Год назад

    I watch your videos at night drinking malt while having a cigar! You have a great and retro taste! Thank you Sir.

  • @connorbrockman599
    @connorbrockman599 Год назад

    Even though I have only found your channel today, I am automatically subscribing. In a world where we have ALL the information, it’s so incredibly important to have a knowledgeable person hep curate this information in a way that supports growing players!

  • @Kirktracy
    @Kirktracy Год назад +2

    Great video Doc, and very clearly explained.

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      So glad it's helpful, happy practicing!

  • @Kathreleena72
    @Kathreleena72 Год назад

    This is really helpful. Thank you!

  • @ailishbethd4033
    @ailishbethd4033 Год назад

    Excellent! Thank you!

  • @Vitupers
    @Vitupers Год назад

    That’s a brilliant way to explain that, very appreciate it. I’m waiting now the minor but overall the alterations, that ll be fun…

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      Thanks, and happy practicing mik!

  • @BobMazzo
    @BobMazzo Год назад

    I'm a piano player but also enjoy your channel (my son plays the alto).

  • @monkeyrater
    @monkeyrater Год назад

    This video gives the most fundamental aspect of playing sax, no one with sax tutorial videos on youtube states this, they expect you to play scales for 6 months before they tell you this. Really sad how so called music teachers hide basic info like this.

  • @ChipTheMusicMan
    @ChipTheMusicMan Год назад +1

    Nice one Doc - your presentations keep getting better! Witty, concise, practical, & clear...now, help me play Rhythm Changes 😅

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      Easy - just play a bunch of Bb major, then some noodly chromatic stuff at the bridge!

    • @ChipTheMusicMan
      @ChipTheMusicMan Год назад

      @@drwallysaxSo simple. So profound. I’ll need some time to ruminate on that one…😁

  • @shipsahoy1793
    @shipsahoy1793 Год назад +2

    Wow, that’s really good. “Let’s not create so many rules that we ruin a perfectly good hobby!” Wow, Doc, that’s a good one!!
    🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      Let's keep this fun my friend! I know you agree :)

    • @shipsahoy1793
      @shipsahoy1793 Год назад

      @@drwallysax You know your secret is safe with me, Doc! 😉👨🏻

  • @jaylevert2312
    @jaylevert2312 Год назад

    Nice!

  • @MrBoybergs
    @MrBoybergs Год назад

    That is how an alto should sound. Beautiful tone.

  • @thomascordery7951
    @thomascordery7951 Год назад

    Such a useful exercise! Have you ever used this as part or all of the warmup for a band class?

  • @TheAaronRodgersTao
    @TheAaronRodgersTao Год назад

    1:26, WELL SAID 🙏

  • @SaxmanShawn
    @SaxmanShawn Год назад

    Love the video Dr. Wally! I can’t find the pdf exercises on your website that go with it though. Is it in the saxophone fundamental download? Which pages?

  • @pondfred
    @pondfred Год назад +1

    Great video! Thanks Doctor Wally! I see how major, minor and dominant chords work in the roman numeral system but what about half diminished or fully diminished chords? Thanks again!

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      Half diminished are created on the 7th scale degree of major (diatonically). 2nd scale degree creates diminished in minor key (half and fully dependent on the 7th).

    • @pondfred
      @pondfred Год назад

      @@drwallysax ok, so half diminished is labeled as vii-7b5 using Roman Numerals? Is there a Roman Numeral label then for fully diminished chords? Or is it just vii (with a little circle on the upper right)7?

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      @@pondfred half diminished can be written with a b5 or a circle with a line through it. Fully diminished is usually a circle (or "dim"). Good questions!

    • @pondfred
      @pondfred Год назад

      @@drwallysax Got it! Thanks Dr. Wally!

  • @chrysoulaalexiou7241
    @chrysoulaalexiou7241 Год назад

    Thanks you so much!!!

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      Most welcome, happy practicing!

  • @hflynnjr
    @hflynnjr Год назад +1

    Wait, I'm confused....so we do not need to perform a Schenkerian Analysis to learn the chords, but we do need context and something else about Art Pepper and Taylor Swift?

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      You'll need Hankerian analysis.

  • @justinjohansen5992
    @justinjohansen5992 Год назад

    What is the background music you have interspersed throughout the video?

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      It's the SONONAUTS! (my band)

  • @paulnasipak6247
    @paulnasipak6247 Год назад

    Can’t figure out how to download the PDF’s. Can someone help please?

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      Click the link in the description

  • @blueeyedsoulman
    @blueeyedsoulman Год назад

    I don't see this .pdf on the site :(

  • @cb1940
    @cb1940 Год назад +2

    Just upset that I can only push the (thumbs up) like button only once.

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      Appreciate that VERY much. Happy practicing my friend ;)

  • @emanueleziglioli499
    @emanueleziglioli499 Год назад

    Playing outside the key I suspect is what makes improvisation interesting and listeners interested. Too many times I listen to amateur players in gigs and I wonder: why does that solo sound so pedantic, and that must be why. But wasn't dixie improvisation mostly diatonic, and still sounded great? Mmm
    Oh, great exercise the 7s by the way

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +3

      It's a fine balance to be sure! Stepping "outside" too often in predictable ways sounds pedantic as well. Art, brother, ART! We're lucky to study it aren't we?

    • @emanueleziglioli499
      @emanueleziglioli499 Год назад

      @@drwallysax I thought for a minute, what's wrong with Art Blakey!? Ha ha

  • @jazztime4
    @jazztime4 8 месяцев назад

    The set of diatonic 7ths exercises does not come up as a PDF choice. ???

  • @blueeyedsoulman
    @blueeyedsoulman Год назад

    Ever dealt with tinnitus from playing sax? (yours or someone else) Any suggestions?

    • @thomashunt2905
      @thomashunt2905 7 месяцев назад

      My problem was being in front of the trumpets and trombones!

  • @SuperDuperTuberTube
    @SuperDuperTuberTube Год назад +1

    Terrific video (as always), but didn't the ancient romans call this "figured bass?"

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      Well, the Baroque cats, but that was much much later ;)

  • @joshcharlat850
    @joshcharlat850 Год назад

    "Turn and face the strain...Changes!!"

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      Time may change me, but I can't trace time....

  • @lyntedrockley7295
    @lyntedrockley7295 Год назад

    You have a new piano?

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад +1

      friend of mine is a piano restorer (dealer), he came across a "cottage" Steinway and held it for me. Perfect lil' piano for my space. 1960, plays beautifully :)

    • @lyntedrockley7295
      @lyntedrockley7295 Год назад

      @@drwallysax fantastic! And its found a lovely home.

  • @thomashunt2905
    @thomashunt2905 7 месяцев назад

    ii is the pre-dominant? What happened to the supertonic. Did the sub-mediant change? Sub-dominant? So...subtonic to mediant to submediant to predominant to dominant to tonic? Also, in roman numerals was there something to show the difference between, say, the ii and the vii (which is diminished)? I don't even want to get started on the I6 etc. i don't really know the inversions anyway. I further question the roman notation covering the function of the chord. It gives the place in the major scale and the quality (minor/major) but I would call, "V", the location not the function. One of the advantages of the roman notation is that it is not related to a specific key. Therefore when the horn player wants to play in Eb instead of E, the keyboardist can easily transpose. Naturally the saxist forgot to bring his E sax! Of course, back then the brass sections were full of crooks and the conductor was armed with a staff. Thanks.

  • @vannigio6234
    @vannigio6234 Год назад +1

    uah! 💥🎷💥... by the way... there are not lowercase romans numbers! is a modern jazz trick using lowercase letters not numbers... i now this because i m an ancient roman too... 😜... ave atque vale doctore Wally anglo et saxone! Johannes dixit in Augusta Praetoria Taurinorum, Italia

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      ha! Happy practicing my friend :)

    • @thomashunt2905
      @thomashunt2905 7 месяцев назад

      Doctore not dottore? No parlaro Italiano. edit: Or Latin!

    • @vannigio6234
      @vannigio6234 7 месяцев назад

      dottore: modern italian
      doctore: ancient latin
      🐻👍👍👍🎷

    • @vannigio6234
      @vannigio6234 7 месяцев назад

      in modern italian almost all the ancient latin words with 'CT' sound are written and spoken doublig the consonant: arkiteKTura: arkiteTTura , sruTKura: struTTura ecc. 😋😀

  • @screech57
    @screech57 Год назад

    Did the Roman saxophonists get their reeds from Sparta? I'm just trying to put it all into historical and economic perspective. :0)

    • @thomashunt2905
      @thomashunt2905 7 месяцев назад

      The way reeds usually work I'd expect them to be made by Spartans!

  • @some1992
    @some1992 Год назад

    First

    • @dougjsax
      @dougjsax Год назад

      No, no, no-didn’t you watch the video?! It’s ii, V7, and then First!

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      Well played...well played djSquared

  • @mikemeskel
    @mikemeskel 6 месяцев назад

    We shouldn’t create lyrics to Wayne Shorter songs? Nobody told Kurt Elling.

  • @rlgoodman7
    @rlgoodman7 Год назад

    Gershwin is eyewear 🥸🤓😎😮‍💨😅

    • @drwallysax
      @drwallysax  Год назад

      I mean, it do sound that way...

    • @lyntedrockley7295
      @lyntedrockley7295 Год назад

      @@drwallysax Ah no, you're thinking of his lovely wife, Eyewear Gershwin.

    • @thomashunt2905
      @thomashunt2905 7 месяцев назад

      Did she write the lyrics?@@lyntedrockley7295