71% of Musicians Miss THIS Secret to Dexter’s Sound 

His articulation is iconic!

Thanks Jamie! There's a reason I'm not able to get my videos out weekly 😂

Absolutely! His tone is gorgeous!

Thanks Brian, it's great to hear you enjoyed it!

Yes. He is consistently right in the middle of time. Most players aren't, at least most horn players.

I find that really interesting, because everyone I've ever spoken to about this, including high-profile jazzers, have all said that Dexter is behind the beat. I agree it helps create a great sense of pocket, but I've always seen pocket and beat as two slightly different things (I could well be in the minority with that)

Oh man I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! There's always so much to learn from Dexter!

Thanks Gary!

Thank you so much, it's great to hear you enjoyed the video!

Oh man, that's such a playful solo!!

Thanks, Will! That means so much!

Thanks Max!

Charles Parker really grabbed my attention as did Bradford and yes Dexter. Very easy to listen too and he's great

Thanks Paul, I really appreciate that!

Thanks, Will. I haven't checked out Stanley Turrentine properly for years! I'll add him back into my listening rotation and see what I can do!

@@joshwakeham I'd absolutely love that. I've been digging the Live album up at Minton's with grant green and his blue note stuff generally.

Yeah you're right with both of those things. Perhaps I should have used a different 3-beat cell in the example to avoid any confusion 😅

....Pres is like.... Beautiful and quite uncomplicated.... and beautiful.... really....more people should be aware of The Pres....

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You're 67.8 percent right

So work your ass off, find your own sound, dex did it and it's quite acceptable... Good luck lady's and gentlemen... Xoxo

Haha my bad! Whenever I'm writing a video I always think "make sure to say 8th note not quaver" but then as soon as I press record it immediately slips my mind! 😅

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Thanks for checking out the video! As for copyright, to be honest I don't get around it at all 😅 RU-vid has 3 different categories of copyright when it comes to videos being uploaded. 1) your video contains no copyright material so if your channel is monetised you will get some ad revenue. 2) your video contains copyright material that the copyright owner does not allow other people to use, so RU-vid will give you a copyright strike. If you reach 3 copyright strikes your channel is taken down (I think). 3) your video contains copyrighted material that the copyright owner allows other people to use on RU-vid, but that copyright owner gets all of the advertising revenue from the video. This video, and pretty much all the videos on my channel fall into the 3rd category, so there aren't any serious repercussions from me using the music, except the record labels get all the advertising revenue from the video. I've experimented with the length of the audio examples I use, and using Transcribe! to adjust their speeds, but unless I make the clips so short that they become unusable from an educational perspective, RU-vid still flags them for copyright. So for your own videos, as long as you're happy with the video never makinig your any advertising money you should be ok! I hope that helps

Thanks, Abel!

It's a Joe Lovano Borgani. Best horn I've ever played!

@@joshwakeham thanks! Love your videos by the way, learning a lot from them!

Yeah you're right. I chose those two examples because the difference is so clear and obvious, but perhaps picking examples with more similar tempos would have been a better way of demonstrating the point!

Yeah it's a great example of a lick Dexter uses all over the place!

...BINGO...!!!!!

He did play dome altissimo later in his career when he incorporated Coltranisms. But always sounded like LTD!

And he had loads of gimmicks!!

He does have a little bit of inconsistency, although I get the feeling he's not trying too hard... Nice sound but indeed a full universe away from dex... But not bad....

@@patrickkelcey2435 bad is subjective, and my taste has me avoiding all advice this guy gives for tone lol I'd rather just play transcriptions mimicking as best I can, and do long tones to get that buzz and clarity working up my ear to hear exactly where I want to be.

No more, no less. Definitely 100% proven by science. Definitely...

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I don't know his favourite breakfast. Although, from what Jean Toussaint told me, it involved a surprising amount of whisky

@@joshwakeham I expect he dipped his toast in it.

I just went back and double-checked. The line definitely starts off with straight quavers, before switching to the more triplet feel. Even then though, the notes (disregarding accents etc) are more even in length than Joe Henderson's

@@joshwakeham Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But I think if you listen more closely, especially to the slowed down version, you may realise the merit of my argument.

And to emulate his quaver feel it is really important to avoid accenting the offbeats and ghosting the onbeats.Both notes of the quaver pairings have equal weight in terms of accents and volume.In fact if you accent the onbeat quavers you get closer. This is an aspect of Lester Young's influence on his phrasing.

Definitely 71. There's no way at all it was even slightly made up to make people click the video...

It’s a laid back 100% - that’s Jazz!

Thanks Francis, I'm not sure I'd be able to handle such an influx 😂

It's one of the loops on the app Drum Genius