Improvising over the 251 chord progression for saxophone
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
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In this video we take a careful and thorough look at the most common of all chord progressions, the 251. We look at what it is, why it works, how to approach making some beautiful solo's over it on the saxophone and how to practice being not terrified of chord charts in general.
We look at how to understand guide tones which makes you sound completely awesome.
If you're not sure about modes, Dorian minors, mixolydian or major scales then you might want to look at some of the other videos that I have made first.
There's also some dancing, my sausage fingers get a mention, my complete terror of chord charts in general when I first started comes up and I call a 7th a 5th by mistake. It's a whole bunch of fun, honest.
Major scales here: • Understanding major sc...
Dorian minors here: • Dorian minor scales fo...
Mixolydians here: • Mixolydian scales for ...
Modes here: • Modes for saxophone
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Thanks
Thank you so much Kev, I really appreciate your support 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
Hi Lynden, as a 68 yo absolute beginner I appreciate your relaxed pace and attitude.
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I'm 50 years of age and just learning music and jazz theory for the first time. Your videos are some of the most helpful I've come across. Thank you.
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I am 45 and in the same boat (tenor saxophone)
@@GritznGravy-nx8ei 45? A spring chicken! 😆😆🤝🤝🎷🎷
Lynden. Your approach is such a clever way of teaching. I returned to the sax 6 months ago after a 25 year break. Your teaching technique is so refreshing & enjoyable which makes a musician want to pick up the sax & practise. Hope to catch one of your gigs one day as my daughter lives in Bedford. Thanks a million. K
Kevin, that’s so nice of you to say, thank you and I really appreciate it. And thank you so much for your support too, it’s people like you that help to keep this channel going 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
You have made this very easy to understand. As you were playing the notes, I could already hear in my head other notes to go with them. Thanks Lynden, I'll be having a go at this today.🙂
Thank you so much for your feedback and I’m so happy that you’re finding this helpful 🎷🎷😎😎🤝🤝
I am 62 age just could start my ambition to learn sax around 7 months. Doing really well. This video of yours is just nonstop and very learning.
Joseph thank you so much for your comment and your feedback, great to hear that you’re enjoying playing the sax and I’m very happy to know that my videos are helpful 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
Hey Joseph. I'm 62 also and have been playing jazz for a while as did my dad😢. I need to practice more and more to get much better. Keep at it Joseph.
Joseph that’s is so cool and thank you for your feedback. Keep playing 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
You are, hands down THE best sax teacher on RUclips!! And yes, this video, like all your videos, is very informative. Thanks.
Wow, thank you so much 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
I've been watching several 2 5 1 training sessions. This one, is only only one I understood. Thanks so much..
Hi Marty, thank you, that’s really great feedback 🤝🤝
Best teacher on RUclips, Thank you. hope you rip the seeds of your teaching👏👌
That is so kind of you to say and has such impact, thank you sir 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Lynden, your content is pure gold!! I follow most of the RUclipsrs teaching Sax but they don’t explain as clearly or simply as you do. I now understand 251’s and it seems so simple! So 🙏🏻
Gary, thank you so much! Your comment is pure gold to me because it means that perhaps I have something a bit different in the way I present this information. And as you say there’s a lot of RUclips tutors and if what I’m doing stands out a bit more then that is awesome. Thank you so much for your feedback and please let me know if there’s things that you’d like to see me make videos about. I’m so happy that you now understand 251’s and I’m over the moon to think that I have had a hand in that. Thanks again and all the best 🤝🤝🤝
Hi Lynden I have been really struggling to understand this concept many thanks for being so clear in setting out how it works Cheers Andy
Hi Andy, you’re so welcome and thank you for your feedback and for your support, it’s really appreciated. I’m absolutely delighted that this brings some clarity for you. Thanks again 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
I'm not even a saxplayer (bassplayer here), but learned a lot. Thanks!
Glad I could help!🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Thanks!
Thank you so much Michael 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
as a highschool student this was the explanation ive been looking for this entire time i hate it when people just talk about 251s like i understand and then just don’t explain it. so this video really helped
Hi Adam, I’m so happy to hear this, thank you for your feedback and I’m delighted that this video has helped you 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Thanks Lynden, keep up the great work
Thanks Andy, will do! 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
Brilliantly simple explanation of something I have been struggling with. Thanks for the help.
You're very welcome! 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Really great. Thanks for these sweet and professional presentations.
Thank you David 🤝
This is the second one of your videos I've watched and it's another excellent one. I'm glad I subscribed. Thanks.🙂
Awesome, thank you! 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Lovely.And I felt it was much easier to follow along with your illustrations
Excellent, thank you 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Lynden, I think this is the best Saxophone lesson I have ever seen. Thank you, I just found you in the last week and think the lessons are fantastic.
Wow, thank you so much, that’s really kind of you to say 🎷🎷😎😎🤝🤝
I like your style Lynden, Thank you.
Excellent lesson. Thanks 👍
Thank you Gary 🤝🤝🤝
Again ……a fantastic and helpful video ..and so well explained. Thanks Lynden.
Thank you John 🤝🤝🤝
Hi Lynden, this is my 5th time, and counting listening to this again. Thanks for showing how the piano can be used to visualise scales - which works 100% for me, though I had teachers that discouraged that. Though I had lessons explaining some of these things, how you had put everything together is very helpful and allows easier understanding of the concepts. Please keep doing what you are doing - very helpful for an adult learner who is a beginner at improvisation. I love the video where you demonstrated how all the patterns can be used together for improvisation. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! For now, I am pouring through some of the contents to wrap my head around the videos! 😁
Thank you so much and I’m absolutely delighted that you’re finding my tutorials helpful, thank you 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Keep it up! The channel is super helpful
Thank you Kris 🤝🤝
Very well explained Lynden.Excellent content one again- thank you so much for posting this great content cheers
Brian thank you for your feedback 🤝🤝🤝
Love it, thank you.
You are so welcome Dexter, thank you 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
Your explanations are so clear! Thanks!
Thank you John, that’s great feedback 🤝🤝
very clear. I missed this with other online teachers
Thank you so much Rob 🤝🤝🤝
Excellent lesson so many thanks.
Glad you liked it! Thank you 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
Thank you so much your explanation of 251 made things simpler for me and interesting .
Thank you 🤩 for the opportunity to help 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Thanks for your explanation, very understandable 👍
Glad it was helpful! 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
That's the best explanation I've ever heard! Thank you so much, new sub!
Danic, you’ve absolutely made my day! Thank you so much 🙏🙏🤝🎷🎷
This is excellent, easy to follow, and not too much to have to take in..Thank you..
Thank you for your feedback Dennis 🤝🤝👍👍🎷🎷
This is beautiful work my friend!!!
Thank you so much 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Great explanation 🙏🏼🙏🏼🤗
Thank you 🤩
Thanks Lynden
Wow, thank you so much that’s really kind 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Great explanation!
Thank you Fredrick 🤝🤝🎷🎷
Another fantastic tutorial video. Much appreciated 🎉😊
Jackie thank you so much 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Best explanation with so much passion.
Very inspiring 👏
Thank you so much 🙏🥰
Thank you so much, that’s very kind of you to say and I’m really happy to know that this is helpful for you 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Wow how spooky just revisited this very exercise last night in my lesson. Lyndon you are such a great teacher. It’s uncanny how you complement my yea her in many ways. Keep it up
That’s so kind of you, thank you very much, and it’s feedback and support like yours that’s motivating me to keep working on these videos
Excellent! Now I can to start some exploration on improvisation with more confidence. Hugs from Brazil!
Ah thank you so much and hugs back to you from the UK 🤝🤝
This great Lynden! I'm self-taught like you and just getting into jazz. I bought the SessionBand app and have managed to reproduce the backing you used here, which I will use for practice. Thank you.
Thanks for this Gerry and I’m delighted that you’re finding my videos useful 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
This is a great, practical explanation of 2-5-1s.
Thanks.
Hi Deryck, thank you very much for your support and encouragement 🤝🤝🤝😎😎
Am 64 from Philippines, and I just learned to play saxophone by watching RUclips bloggers/saxophonists...but you are the ONE who greatly made things easy and understable the study of Sax..thank you for ur effort..KEEP IT UP!!!
Hi there, thank you for letting me know, I’m so happy that this video has helped you. Thanks again 🤝🤝🎷🎷
Sir. I'm from South Africa. I'm very much impressed easy to follow lessons so far .Thank you very much.
Thank you for your feedback and I’m very happy that my videos help you 🤝🤝
Lynden, “this is absolutely gorgeous “. Seriously, you are the best ! You have made learning music and the teaching of the saxophone a delight. Your technique is superb, with notation in different colors, it makes it easy for us beginners to follow along and NOT get frustrated! Thank you.
Jim, that’s so kind of you to say, thank you and I’m delighted that you’ve found this useful, thanks again 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
really enjoyed your clear explanation of 251. greetings from Jerusalem
Wow! Thank you so much Jamie, I’m delighted that this was useful for you and greetings from the UK 🇬🇧 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Great video Lynden. I love the way you break things down and I love your enthusiasm. Maybe next time provide the notes for both alto and tenor saxophones. Lovely playing!
Thank you so much Art, really appreciate your feedback 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
I don’t know what to say.. you are simply amazing! This is worth sooo much 😃 most content creators seem to have forgotten what it felt like before they became fluent in music and what is actually important in order to understand these things in the early stages. You hit the spot for me! Thanks ❤
Chris thank you so much, I really appreciate your feedback and your support. It’s very kind of you, thank you 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
WOW Lynden, I turned 80 at the beginning of the year and I have heard of the scale progression but never really thought I’d ever get to understand it but I must say say that your explanation (though I must say I’ll have to look at this clip several times) is really thoughtful and helpful. Thanks from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Thank you so much John, really happy to hear that this is helpful for you. And I married a kiwi girl 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
@@lyndenblades thanks for your reply Lynden, do appreciate it. Tell your wife that I live In a small settlement called Manakau in the Horowhenua, about half way between Wellington and Palmerston North, your wife may have heard of it. Cheers John J
She was from Palmerston North 😎😎
@@lyndenblades ahhh great, that’s about 40 minutes north of where I live. I picked up my older keyboard from a friend who I had lent it to, I believe that we wet weather on the way in the next few days so I hope I can use it to my advantage 😜🎷🤫😂
@@johnjenkins2315 🎷🎷😎😎🤝🤝
Best explanation thnx
@@fernandoesparaguera1820 thank you so much 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
You are amazing! Just the best! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷 🎷😍
That’s so kind of you to say and you’re welcome 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷 One day I would LOVE to visit Brazil 🇧🇷 😎❤️😎
@@lyndenbladesyou’ll be more than welcome in Brazil! Come to enjoy our Samba, Bossa Nova and Chorrinho music! 🎶 🎷😍
I would absolutely love to 😎😎🎷🎷
great!
Thank you 🎷🎷🤝🤝😎😎
Sounds gorgeous and so simply explained makes it even better. No the BEST.
Now the real challenge for beginners is gonna be to hear the chord changes on the panio, the bass or any accompanying instrument. Any recommendations to practice in hearing these changes?
Thank you Lynden 🎷👍
You’re welcome and thank you for your encouraging feedback 🤝🤝
With the app that makes the backing track, you can isolate just the bass and just the piano if you like, that might be a useful way to train yourself to hear them better 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Oh yes, this video is, as all the others, very helpful, I get the feeling, there is light at the end of a dark, dark tunnel, eventually
Thank you Spikey, so glad that it was helpful 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
Lovely video, something that I have been trying to understand how to play over chords. Your video is absolutely awesome letting me understand in an instant. And you also show how to practice progressively. Do you have pdf on lessons like this? I would want to buy
Hi there, thank you so much for your comments and I’m delighted to know that I was able to help you. I am working toward making PDF’s and deeper dive videos into this subject so please watch this space. Thank you again, your support and kind words have more impact than you can imagine 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Very good lesson and explanation. Second half still a bit of a brain breaker but thoroughly inspirational. Thank you. P.S. Great dancing!!
Glad it was helpful! 🎷🎷🤝🤝😎😎
Merci! From Quebec, Canada
Thank you so much and warmest regards from the UK 🇬🇧 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Hy Lynden, I only discovered your stuff a few days ago and as someone said - it's pure gold. And I'm not even a sax player. But that's where I'd like to ask for a favor. I play a concert C instrument and it would be great if you could add notes to say what key concert C players should be in to play along with you. For one guy, not worth the hassle, but I find it hard to believe that I'm on my own and there are no other non-sax players who find your stuff super helpful
Wow Tom thank you so much for your feedback. What instrument do you play?
I will definitely consider adding concert pitch information in the future but the whole post production and editing side of things is extremely new to me and incredibly time consuming as it is. I’m working on building a website for tutorials, it will take me a year to do probably and on that I’ll definitely have concert pitch information 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
@@lyndenblades I'm looking forward to that. I play a chromatic harmonica. I had a harmonica teacher who is a brilliant and accomplished jazz musician. The problem was he played and studied music his whole life and I had a feeling he didn't really realize how overwhelming it all could be for someone who picked up a new instrument and was just learning to read music in his late 50s and had a pretty demanding day job. I think you said somewhere you're self-taught and it shows. Not in a sense that your playing is lacking anything but you understand how to make music accessible and fun because you've been there. There's great of instructional stuff online nowadays but I even if it says otherwise most of it is really addressed to fellow professional musicians (or those who have the time to become one)
Thank you so much, it’s really helpful and thoughtful feedback 😎😎🤝🤝🎷🎷
Rock,n,Roll is out of style Lynden: have been for years 😂. Thanks for the very useful information.
Thank you Samuelle 🎷🎷😎😎🤝🤝
Great Lession again, very easy to follow and well structured! You are such a gifted teacher! One question: what´s the reason for not using the root or the fifth as guide tone?
Thank you so much for your encouraging feedback! You absolutely could use the root or the 5th as a guide tone!
What I think of this video?
Well, I can say I've watched dozens of 251 lessons, and I know music theory forward and backward, and I completely understand the logic of 251 and what we should do. Now, knowing all of that, the actual "process" of getting there has always been a challenge to me! I've watched countless videos that followed a process very similar to yours, basically start with roots, then chord tones, maybe scales, and guide tones and all of that. But something was always missing on those videos!
I commented yesterday on another video of yours, and I mentioned that you have a thing for teaching. That's what is missing elsewhere!
Thank you so much again..
Ashraf
Ashraf, thank you so much, I really appreciate your support and feedback, it’s very helpful and kind of you.
Is there content that you’d like to see? I’d be very interested to learn about your opinion on that and thanks again 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
@@lyndenblades
Man, there’s so much I’d like to see 😂 but for now I’d really love to see a video on improv strategies on Misty! Well, not really Misty in particular, but any song with a rather complex-looking chord progression. In A Sentimental Mood also looks just as complex.
These kind of songs intimidate us, beginner-to-intermediate improvisors, and I think your teaching style will help a lot navigate those changes
Thanks
@@zoaltamam thank you for those suggestions, that’s really helpful. Did you see my video on improvising over Autumn Leaves? There’s a tenor and an alto version, take a look here:
How to Improvise over the Autumn Leaves on Tenor Sax
ruclips.net/video/SVZDXw00OSg/видео.html
@@lyndenblades
Not only have I seen the Autumn Leaves video, but my practice session last night was all about it 😂
I watched it three days ago and I loved the explanation of the A minor harmonic scale, especially when you start it from E! So I was working on that last night and the song is becoming a lot clearer to improvise over.
So, the more awesome videos like that the more I get to work on improving my improv skills.
Thank you again
@@zoaltamam you’re so welcome and thank you for your feedback 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Nice
Thank you Fred 🤝
Ti ascolto sempre con piacere amico!
Thank you so much, you are very kind!
Thanks again Lynden. I’m not good at computer!
Thank you Wilson 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Await your updates
I’m going to be recording more videos really soon. I’ve been working on content for my new website
Love your tutorials, do you give private sessions and help to grow playing one on one, thanks.
Thank you so much, I’m really happy that you like them. Yes, I teach privately from home full time when I’m not gigging. I can offer Zoom lessons too. Where are you based?
Valeu!
Thank you so much for your kind support 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
Thanks again for another interesting lesson Lynden! Got the first part ok..😁👍Then tried to get that slow Latin feel 251 in C on Session Band and I couldn’t enter it in & got stuck at the 1st hurdle! 🤪🤪Think you said you were going to create the backing for us to practice…is it on RUclips somewhere? Thanks again.😁🎷
Hi Jilly, thanks for this and I’m really happy to know that this was useful for you.
You can find the backing track for alto here: Backing track for alto saxophone; a 251 in C major
ruclips.net/video/LRV6xeXNef4/видео.html
You make learning easy Lynden! Thank you...bought you a coffee (I hope it is a good cup of coffee for 5 pounds :))
Thank you so much Paul, I really appreciate your support 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎☕️
Fino!!!!😁
Thank you 🤩
Hi it’s David again. I just watched this video again and I might watch it again as I work with the app. I’ll be playing my tenor on these 2 5 1’s I bought the app and I’ve read all the sections on how to use it, however I find the chord wheel to be confusing, How do I write d minor 7 chord. When I use the chord wheel wherever it stops it plays that chord but I don’t wish it to do that unless I hit the little button. All I want to do is right in the chord nut hearing every other chord as I’m trying to put in a simple d minor 7. I’m rambling opps, Sorry. By the why Lynden I’m 78 😂😵💫👀but that’s a very poor excuse. Thank You again. Mr Sax
Hi David. It’s tricky because I can’t see what you’re doing, but make sure you have touched the chord box and you’ll see a small white cross or x in the top left corner, then move the wheel and that should solve the problem. If not, let me know and I’ll try to help again 🤝🤝🤝
Thank you so much sir I wish you were my teacher. I think you are great. Wife is not bad either lol 😂
Thank you Errol, that’s very nice of you to say 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎❤️
Hi Lynden, Question: If I would like to comp your playing the C Maj 251 (as you played on this video) on the piano, should I do a 251 in BbMaj (transposing)?
Hiya! Yes, that’s right 🎷🎷😎😎🤝🤝
Hi Lynden quick question if I may, does the same process apply to making up a 251 in a different root key and for the 2 part of it, assuming sharps or flats are flattened on 3rd and 7th for the dorian or minor scales? Is there a rule thank you, I am playing alto sax thanks Andy
@@andyd3955 hiya Andy, I’m not sure I completely understand your question, do you want to drop me an email at lynden@saxandhoney.com? Thanks
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I would like to continue to learn from you, but the ads are driving me crazy. Have you thought about a subscription service?
Hi Paul, thank you for the suggestion and I’m sorry the ads are driving you crazy. We are weeks away from launching a subscription or membership website and if you subscribe, when it launches I’ll be able to let you know. Thanks again 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
I’m definitely interested in your subscription service. Yes, please let me know when it is operational
Thanks I will 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
hi Lynden. i cant find the backing track you said you would put down below. regards. Brent
Hiya Brent, here it is
251 backing track in C for tenor sax
ruclips.net/video/okI4Gm-k9hI/видео.html
@@lyndenblades thanks
@@brenttrading2363 you’re welcome 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷
@@lyndenblades hi Lynden.. is it possible you can send me the alto version of the backing track in C . Thanks brother.
@@brenttrading2363 hi Brent. Unfortunately I didn’t save it as an MP3. Do you have an iPad?
Is the sax transposed to concert c?
Hi Dave, the example given on the piano is in concert C and everything on the sax is in C major for alto, hope this helps 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Are you playing the actual notes in the chords or are you transposing the notes?
I’m playing the notes as written for alto sax. Does this make sense?
Yeah, no more dancing 😊
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You threw around the three note idea and you lost me. I didn't follow where the BEG was coming from although it meant more to me on the second hearing.
Hi there, thanks for your feedback and sorry if I could have made what I was doing clearer. Did you know that you can slow RUclips clips down? Perhaps if you slow the clip down it might make it easier?
Thanks!
Wilson thank you so very much 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Thanks
Andy thank you so much, your support is greatly appreciated 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Thanks!
Andy thank you so much, I really appreciate your support, it keeps my channel going!! 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎
Thanks!
Thank you Gerry, I really appreciate your support 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷