Jazz Articulation For Saxophone Part 1. 

Dude! You are So Generous! Been doing this for 45+ years and found many, but not all, of your 'Best Nuggets. I'm amazed at your teaching technique, you place the purpose of a statement verbally as if it was a lyric. My head is ready to hear it - I'm gobsmacked at this gift in addition to your nuanced experience. This is conservatory level masterclass knowledge handed to ya and it's a treasure!

oh man, you would not believe I would listen to you daily!

Thank you! After picking up my sax again after 20 years, You have taught me things that I never knew existed. And you teach in a manner that doesn't condescend. I'm so grateful for you and your lessons.

Everyone of your videos changes my playing forever. Thanks man!

I really like the way this guy articulates in ALL his videos! He speaks with clarity and accuracy; no unwanted waffle. This video is interesting, and goes some way to demonstrate how a written score/transcription often lacks a lot compared to a favourite recording/performance. So much is in the unwritten articulation and dynamics.

Fascinating lesson. Really helped me grasp why my own lines often don't sound the way they do in my head. Thank you!

Brilliant. I've never been taught that before. Very interesting. Clearly I was classically trained!

Thank you very much. You go directly to the roots of the right jazzarticulation. I like your comment to Cannonball Adderley playing out of this world.

Man this has been the BEST JAZZ lesson NO one ever taught me! FREAKIN AWESOME man! Thanks a MILLION.

Please never stop doing these videos!

So helpful thank you! You are the best technical teacher on RU-vid and I love that you’re never trying to sell me something.... are rare jewel! 🎷💗

Thank you very much. It really help me learning jazz as a beginner

Great teaching. Thank you.

Great lesson. Thank you!

The best articulation video out there, period. Keep up the good work it’s it’s a pleasure!

Nver even thought of this, thanks dude!

Great to hear your teachings even as an Alto-Sax-Beginner since 3 weeks!

Yes-super cool and clear explanation-thanks -really enjoyed

Super helpful Sir, I been needin this instruction! The wrong contrasted with the right, the stress to transcribe things I love.. yes!

Keeping this one for my practice sessions!

Excellent video, really useful, thx man!

First video I watched of you....That big heart in the outro fits perfectly.....I wanted to say that I can feel the love in you brother and I love you for that! Great video, keep doing them!

I'm 33 and havent played a sax since maybe 2013. Just wanted to get back into sax and stumbled upon you page the past few days. I was always a decent player from paper lacking in the improv department. My sax will be here in a few days and I feel like ive found my own personal instructor lol You def got a new sub even and i love your tone I am a tenor/ bari player, so I'm shooting for a bright edgy tone on tenor and dark fluffy on bari.

Thanks for this video. This makes sense. My middle school band teacher taught us that when playing, for example, a triad, the root should be the note with the most emphasis. Otherwise, it will sound like the wrong chord. That's similar to jazz articulation, where if the emphasis (articulation) is put on the wrong note, you sound like you're playing over the wrong chord!

bro you articulate so well it transcends your instrument to your speaking! thanks 🙏

Super clear video, thanks a lot Sirvalorsax. If you are a guitarist looking to improve your articulation like me, check the sheet music at minute 2:55. You can imitate the phrasing by picking the accented notes only, instead of picking all the notes as most jazz guitarists do. Accent the upbeats, use a hammer-on or pull-up to the target note. This is the way Mike Moreno picks, adds a lot of swing and sounds both "in style" (so to speak) and modern. The phrasing itself makes it swing despite of how straight or "triplety" your swing feel is.

I can't thank you enough for this - but my thanks you certainly have!

You are great!!

Man. I'm a guitarist trying to improve my articulation and this lesson was a revelation to me. Enlightening stuff that really transcends instruments. Thanks so much!

Very good advice. I've been struggling with getting the F-F-E-Eb-D run in Moose The Mooche to sound right. You sure know what you're talking about so I'm looking forward to learning some more about articulation from you. I have really bad technique (not as in unclean but as in slow) so I always have to force myself to do some more transcribing, etudes etc. and not just technique. Playing without the rhythm section is a great advice. Once heard Jimmy Heath talk about being able to play the chords and the groove of the tune all on your own without metronome or playback so that you're not depended on the band but able to use it to your advantage.

Really good lessons, best I have seen, Thanks a lot!

Amazing teachings

Great advice Adrien.

Thank you,haiti watching you

Great video! Hugs from Brazil! 👏👏👏

Great! Thank you!

First of all amazing video, it's going to completely change how I practice, but secondly, I can't believe you mentioned Cannonball's solo on Limehouse blues! That's literally one of my vavorite solos ever

From France: This is great, will show it to my friends

Well, that was a breath of fresh air. I have been accenting the chord tones instead of outlining them. No wonder I sound so wrong. So very very wrong. Thanks.

This is a beautiful video, very well explained. Thanks bro.

Great very valuable content!

This Guy is fabulous

Great informative videos thank you sir

Great explanation. Thanks

Wow excelente !

Yess In Deedy!!!!!! Sonny Stitt was a prime example of how to do it right Listen to the eternal triangle solo especial the bridges he kills them and his phrasing is the shit......... Great teaching Brotha Love your work

WOWW THANKS

Really good thankyou

Very well communicated as usual. You are one of the best!!!

Good Sir, very nice... thank you. Played out last night...heard "Dude , you're good!" Come home and pull you up... hear myself saying "Dude, you suck!"

Top Shelf Gold

Make 4 octaves on alto and the top 10 mouthpieces for that. 👍

good

Keep it up bro. Any tips on good sound quality? Thanks

Another old school way we were taught to think of this is using "syncopation" where you accent the AND or UP beat of every beat... one AND two AND three AND four AND one...etc. so as you very nicely explained, the non-accented chord notes are on the down beats and the upbeat is accenting (or articulating) the non-chord tones. Seems counter- intuitive since you may think the chord tones should be the ones getting accented, but the accent on the slightly delayed UP beat is essentially to establish the "swing" rhythm feel, and the DOWN beat establishes that it is a chord tone...this technique may not always be fixed in stone, but certainly prevalent in swing and bebop jazz. Great video on a very important concept!

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Excellent what about how one articulates a high note used to reverse direction versus a low note when reversing direction

Wow lot to digest. If I got this right we play the cord tones on the downbeat, but accent the next note in the scale on the upbeat. Thanks it does sound good. Dick

Please,can you to make a vídeo about resonators and power in tenor Saxo. Gracias

This makes so much sense, and I wouldn't have know to do this. I wonder whether there is also a need to have the chord tones on downbeats, Or is articulation on the chord tones wherever they fall in a measure what is important? Thank you.

Could you do a video of yourself transposing a piece of sheet music? Would really appreciate one!

Very important video! Thank you so much!! :) If you'd post your PayPal link somewhere - beer's on me!

I'm slightly confused! Is this the same as the 'dooden' tonguing technique? Some well-known players/educators put the accent on the first note...the 'doo' if you like, and on the third and so on. The chord tones. The 'den' always sounded like the softer articulation. Please could you clarify? Thanks!

Greetings from the UK. What do you think of the Silverstein ligature now you've had it for some time please?

I understand how you start by just ‘blowing’ the first note. I also get the tongue on the off beat. What I cannot understand, is what happens to the third note in terms of what your tongue does. Do you just slur and let go or do you tongue it too and cut it short? I ma not sure I can explaine but it has been an eternal doubt to me. Thanks for the videos. THey are truly awesome!

So are you only articulating the off beats or am I missing something? Like you air hit the first one but what about the rest or is it just being slurred kinda after each off beat articulation?

Do mouthpiece pads make an impact on your tone?

we always say jazz articulation is when you accent on the up Beat rather than down Beat but i was just working on the Articulation of A Section of Anthropology , there you see every accent is on down the beat, any explanation ?

why are we accenting the non chords note, its counter intuitive but seem to work ,

2.nd part?

Please embochure video

If you can play it slow you can play it fast