Hey, this actually works! At first I thought there's no way this is gonna happen - this is essentially perfect pitch. But I tried it and it's actually not that hard. I just never considered even trying such a thing. Like he said, it's a different part of the brain than understanding and thinking about theory and how the tones relate to the changes. It's just like a direct connection from the sound in your head to the fingers, bypassing the thinking part of the brain entirely. Of course this is assuming you are hearing specific pitches in your head to begin with - that is a must.
This is the training. Hear something specific in your head, then see if you can guess what notes they are on your horn. Start off with one note, then hopefully over time, with practice, more notes and lines. I'm at the one or 2 note stage. @@sarpkahvecioglu8701
@@sarpkahvecioglu8701 This is the training. Trying to hear specific notes in your head and then seeing if you can guess where they are on your horn. Learning to relate the sounds in your head directly to your instrument, bypassing theory. That's how I am working on it.
Dear Greg, Thank you very much for your valuable advice. I play jazz on my alto Eb saxophone, and also classical on my soprano. Won't playing soprano distort my work? Should I only play Eb or Sb instruments? Thank you very much for your wonderful work. Phil
Another approach to this: sing, as bad (but tonally correct)or good as needed, one well known to you standard (Autumn Leaves?... All of Me?) A whole song! You'll then have the basic skill to do use great approach to learning
Three years later but still relevant. Do you mean learning to recognise the individual notes of the tune and then using that tune /notes as a reference point to figure out random notes when played? There is reference to perfect pitch in some of the comments but I don't think Greg is talking about perfect pitch. He used the bell as a reference so its a matter of relative pitch?. Although I have often wondered how we instantly recognise friends and family when they phone and on the other hand we have so much difficulty recognising 12 musical pitches.
Just curious. Suppose I learn this. How does it apply to Being able to Improvising a solo to a standard tune in a particular key? Is there a follow up video?
lol...@08:07, GREG (carefree): "...It's just great! (rapid riff) There ya go! Alright...Have fun with that. I'll see you soon. " (walks off w/ viewers thinking: 'WTH!)
Greg fishman you are a genius. Super creative I've always noticed that about you. Super musician super saxophonist. I agree on that Note situation with hearing a object like a bell and it had an actual note because I noticed that too everything kind of has a note to a certain degree and I would notice that but I never thought about memorizing the note and then I can hear a song and know that note was f sharp so that's kind of cool that you can do that. I'm pretty close but not as good as you but I have noticed that everything does have some type of note tonal texture. Thanks for that great information. Take care my brother. ❤
Good point ，most of the saxophone players never thought about this cause they cant sing while playing .But this is like a common thing for pianist,guitarist,etc. i've tried to sing first and then play on my saxophone these days .But its more difficult to hear lines in tune for me . that made me so frustrated..should i try to sing each chord note in a tune and then goes to licks or phrases i practiced?
I used to think that but if you stick with it eventually it starts to happen. I started by working. out nursery rhymes by ear, so if you find you can do that the rest is just a matter of concentrated work. I do agree it seems easier for some than others though.
