4 SIMPLE EMBELLISHMENTS TO IMPROVE ANY MELODY (for all instruments) 

Best lesson I’ve ever seen. Very good. Just what we beginners need. Rhanks

1. Grace notes (one below) 2. Scoops ("doit") 3. Turn (S around the note) 4. Falls

🙏You are great teacher Scott🙏

Superbly clear teacher! Quick and clear explanation without unrelated babble :)

Scott, the 4 embellishments are great. I love especially the turn and the "fall". And You are "excelentissimo" as an instructor, teacher and coach. Lohvissimo!

Scott - You're videos are excellent. You are able to get across some useful ideas and techniques very easily by explaining them clearly and then showing how it's done, drawing on your obviously vast musical knowledge and experience of playing this wonderful instrument - the saxophone. Your graphics are also brilliant in reinforcing the learning. I learned the sax when I was sixteen at school and have picked it up again many years later at the grand age of 68. They say you can't teach an old dog news tricks but you have proved this wrong. You're teaching style is enthusiastic and informative and gives one great motivation to have a go and improve. I will watch all of your videos - they are infectious. Keep them coming. Thank you.

Thanks your one of the best instructors!

Awesome lesson! straight to the point, thanks!!

Thanks, Scott! I need to listen to so much more; my knowledge of tunes is so embedded from rock and prog jazz from 1970s it limits my imagination.

Awesome Scott

Awesome video, this is very helpful and I will begin to use these concepts (and the ones from your adlibbing video too) into my practice starting today. Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Excellent Scott.....you have a real gift for breaking everything down in to bite sized pieces of info, which is just what students need. Thanks again for your excellent videos

Amazing lesson!! This is exactly what I've been looking for to make my jazz standards more interesting, thank you!!!

Great stuff (as are your other videos). Instant subscribe - thanks for providing all this amazing material!

You nail it everytime Scott! 👍

Great video will try these out, been playing 2 yrs need afew tricks to pick it up a it many thanks Gordy

Thanks Scott, great tip on the turn. I played in school but back at it again. so all the styles are new..your tips are great.

Thanks for that ! Very helpful

I just said "Doight" in an Australian accent. I really appreciate your content Scott. Thanks for being a concise and awesome player and educator.

Thanks. Superb lesson!

Great lesson.

Thanks a great help

Great lesson👍👏Thank You👈

super good teaching, & very beautiful saxophone sound . tks Scott

excellent ,informative,always something good to learn , from Scott paddock ; well done 👍 my playing has improved, since I’ve listened to you . ✅

Your are amazing, the best info provider

Nicely explained and well executed. Thanks for the video!

Thankyou sir I’ll be trying this one right away

Thank you for this! You cut to the chase with this video! In just 11 minutes, you gave me the tools to transform my playing. Going from classical music to trying jazz, this is earth-shattering!!! I subscribed and will watch again!

Thanks, master!!! 😀

Great tutlrial, thanks

I'm about a year in on an alto - i've an awesome teacher every week - i come to you to fill in some gaps - great grace notes

Amazing lesson . Thank you

Great lesson

Your sound on the alto is awesome! Congrats!

Amazing man, just loads of cool stuff

Sick. Love it

Beautiful horn, great sound and control.

This is really nice thanks....

Awesome

Hey Scott I've been playing a while and do all of this stuff, and to your point, have to be aware not to overdo it (I was in fact thinking that very thing earlier today). But I must say, you sound fantastic. You have great technique, and your tone puts you in the world-class category. There are some players you can recognize quickly and you are becoming one of those guys for me. The sound is drawing me in, so I'm about to search for a live setting and really hope you have something posted....and I subbed...

from UK EXCELLENT Scott

Thank you so much

Very helpful!

Thanks Scott, useful lesson combining tricks. I encourage all followers watching your summer time live vdo, your band is fantastic....and we can try to copy your style ;-).

excellent Scott

Superb lesson Scot. Will try these techniques to add life to the tunes i practice / play on my alto saxophone

I found this useful Scott paddock

I really learnt a lot thank for the lesson

thanks for sharing. only this video help me on how apply Embellishments.

thnks for the great lesson!!

Great!

Very Goodall lesson!!! T hanks a lot.

Really excellent video. Lots of illustration on the points you make. You need to do a video where you play some simple phrases for us to copy and learn by ear. Maybe do 20 starting with simple three note phrases working up in complexity. Great teacher!

Thanks Scott , those tricks are the "Alleluya" and "Wows " playing the sax.

Fantastic tutorial. My what a difference the embellishments make When I played summertime on tenor sax it sounds quite flat. Something I can work on to improve the sound. Many Thanks.

Nice Lesson here

I'm the first to comment... Yeeey... Love your videos Scott...

great,. Please share the Fall video. thanls

Awesome you are a natural sax teacher good work Scott. Please tell me what notes are you playing for the free standing fall, I can't get that sound effect on my alto sax. Thank you it is a beautiful sound. (8.48min video positiion)

Thanks Scott for teaching the language of the sax. This will take some practice but practice I shall. How much are your Skype sessions?

You just got another subscriber!

Hi Scott, this are by far the best sax teaching videos !. A question: how do you deal with the middle C# that is in the melody?. It sounds nice you you play it. In most alto sax models it sounds thin and out of tune. Do you use alternate fingerings there ?.

Do you have a website with all your teaching videos? They are great! Thank you!!

Great lesson ... I just need a sax 😆.

Hey Scott, just curious if you change the audio settings on the recording when you talk vs. when you play? You have a great sound, very free and effortless in all registers. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for Lessons, you can talk about bossa nova style ?

very helpful sir thank you

Scott what make of Sax is in this video? In your opinion what is the best sax for your money?

Im a guitarist but i need this lesson

How did you do the falls> could you explain the slowly

How do I sign up for lessons

What Microphone do you use for recording the sax?

when you finger g sharp it sounds lower than G. Why?. On my alto G sharp sounds higher than G.

Baritone saxophone please!

Nice. Your Bb B grace notes are much shorter than C C# at the start.

A case of "the scoops" that sounds like a bad thing to have😀

Wich is the name of the song?

Great video. thanks!