When you do great stuff like this, wish you could put the notes up for beginners like me. Playing tenor for 10 months. Hope to get t your level one day. Great sound.
This is such an an elegant and simple analysis of a complex musical form. Like all concepts thought of by a genius it seems simple and obvious now that it is explained. I hope that the concept of a blues scale chord is accepted, discussed and used in our world of music. Thank you for sharing your genius
Yup, you are definitely one of the most insightful saxophonists on RU-vid! I would like to see a lot more stuff like this! I do mostly blues transcriptions on my channel and I learn TONS checking you out! Keep em coming bro!
Love your videos! Discovered you today and probably learned more from your "lip out embouchure" video than I did from just about everyone else combined. But what I really wanted to comment on was that intro music. That bass slaps harder than almost anything else I've heard on YT. I listen to some pretty bass-heavy music with 808's, and I play the bass, so I pay attention. Even on my old-a$$ JBL studio reference monitors, the bass in your intro hits HARD, even with no sub. Excellent mixing/mastering.
I have it very clear. Excellent and simple explanation to provide the whole idea how to play blues. I have a better idea, but I have a long way to go. Thank you.😂
A beautiful lesson. And it reminded me how everything in authentic American music started from blues and it tremendous narrative style. The suspension and resolution are as reading the book; the suspension is on the right page, resolution on the left. Narrative, narrative -- music MUST tell a story. Also one note; if the piano is not at top-notch form, suspended chords and resolved chords may sound awfully similar on it; blues is really a melody instruments game, or a vocal game, which must pull the magic through. Which you demoed on the sax.
Watching this is like living in a nice house and working on it for years then going down to the basement and seeing the foundation was never done properly. I need remedial slow motion. Like these are the notes I play on the one chord. Here's at half speed. Now the four chord. It doesn't help that you are not moving your fingers and I know that is great form but it's invisible. Here's my idea of ez blues. Blues in 12 bars will often have a pattern of 1111 44 11 55 44 1145 Over first four bars I can play this....... Over the 4 section this..... Back to 1..... Up to5.... Down to 4.... And the turnaround 1145.... That's the rhythm and now you can add fills or trade leads playing this scale. Or this scale. Here's a funky note for the turnaround and you're done. Thanks for the lessons hope you take this as it's meant like ha,ha. Much love for all teachers ,and those who spread knowledge for free are another level.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I try to make the videos so that over time, a different part becomes easier and you can continually come back and watch it as a reference point of info.
Never thought about blues changes that way. Most stuff I got into based on simple pop R&B and 50’s ,60’s stuff can be described that way, we just navigated them by trial and error until we worked them out. The way they place those sponsor breaks are brutal! lol I wish you had some control over that. Thanks Man! Love this stuff!
Sometimes I hear blues that seem to go back and forth between minor and major. Kinda like when you played a 1 instead of a 1-7 in part of the demo. That resolution just comes down like a ton of bricks and feels really good. ( I'm thinking of Parker's KC Blues. )
What timing, I was just practicing the blues for a song I'm playing in high school and thought I had some good ideas but couldn't figure out why they sounded good and here you come dropping this gem right when I needed it. I understand everything so much clearer now. I think this is one of your best videos.
Wow, I've been playing around with 12 bar blues on the piano for years now and not been able to get why it often didn't sound quite right. This suspension esolution idea transformed my sound on the first try. THANK YOU!!!!
Thank you! This is the BEST video to get started with The Blues ever. Great insight, I really like your prespective and concepts. Really helpful. I'm going to revisit this video several times cause it's pure gold. Please keep doing more video tutorials like this 🙌🙏
Thanks so much. I will follow your advice to see how I can go. I was trying to built sone phrases by my self and reach the boggie you mentioned but then I got stuck. This will help me, for sure.
You provided a tool box with tools, and I'm smart enough to know they're valuable and important; but I'm not savvy enough to know exactly how to use them. I need schooling in music theory.
@@Sirvalorsax I have played for about 12 years with no formal educational school. In the last 2 years I have dedicated to study the basis: scales, their modes, chords, triads, etc., I stopped reading, started leaning chords progressions, finding transition notes, etc., and, definitively, even when I do not understand completely what you said I can break it into small pieces and most of the time I get there.. so , you are not a Sale Pitch, you got a lot to share... and the right to make some income out of that too. Thank you.
@@freddymclain No. Call and response is more of a mimicking of a melodic phrase where this suspension resolution has to do with completing a harmonic circuit often referred to as tension and release.
This is great. Could we drop the fifth and make it a half diminished with an 11? I never thought about this before but you js opened an interesting door. Thanks a lot!!!!
Thank you so much for the tips. It's very insightful. I tried it out on guitar and found it very effective. It also helps breaking the habit of too much reliance on automatic fingering pattern (which is hard to avoid on guitar).
Yes, more of the blues stuff please, also what’s this Bari piece you are playing at end of the video,? I would love to see you perform that piece on the Bari sax.
I really like you’re manner of teaching, but as a beginning beginner-whosh-way over my head. Looking forward to the day I’ll know what you’re talking about. 😊
Adrian, great video, as I have been practicing blue scales for the last month or so, I found that chord progressions can be done out of the hexatonic scale. But did not think about the dominant 7th... very interesting and enriching... keep on doing this. Thank you.
Hey Good Sir, Do you ever go off on the bass clarinet? Always wanted one since Bitches Brew. The octiver on the bari rules. Stick it on the alto and leave the bari at home!
REALLY LOVE YOUR TEACHING . . . KEEP IT UP! WHAT IS HIGHLY ANNOYING ARE THOSE G.D. ADS EVERY 1.5 MINUTES OR SO ARE HIGHLY DISTRASCTFUL! HOW DOES ONE GET RID OF THEM? THEY MAKE IT HARD TO LEARN WHAT YOU ARE TEACHINHG! THANKS!
