Thanks Maestro! You really get to the point. I am a self-taught amateur studying in an academic way and I feel like I am not able to connect with my musical brain while improvising or approaching songs. This will definitely help me a lot!
I am a full-time professional pianist, and these videos are creating breakthroughs in my thinking that simplify and allow me to move more freely on the keyboard.
Ive been studying music theory and jazz on the piano for about a year, and have been really conscious of the gap between traditional theory presentation and the use of scales/theoretical ideas in a popular music context. i really appreciate your videos! i also like: adam neeley tantacrul new jazz nahre sol jeff schneider if you dont know them already you might like their pedagogical ideas!
I've been using this note grouping for years. I just called it a major blues scale. Soul scale works for me too. Love your videos! I can't afford the pdf's right now so I take the time to write them down from the videos. You put out some great information. Thanks so much! 🙏
This man is giving such invaluable advice. It took me years of listening and studying music to grasp all the subtleties in the Jazz idiom he's teaching in just a few hours of video. You rock man, and I hope everyone appreciates your work too.
Great stuff! I call it the "Happy Blues" scale. Listen to Rolling Stones piano players Ian Stewart, Chuck Leavell....any blues based rock piano players. (and b5 for extra flavor of course)
Amen to this. Guitar players especially, I think (being one of them), many of whom transition from rock and natural blues, may tend to think this language just kinda comes along with them. Newsflash: Not. If anything, it's actually country players who have more of a leg up here. Anyway, if you look to keep some blues in your jazz playing (without which, why even bother 😉), it isn't gonna just happen by itself, so definitely work this material.
What a great video, I'm just getting to the point where I can play the scales I've been learning consistently (I'm just an amateur who plays in his spare time), but could not for the life of me get a good melody actually flowing, and I swear that from 3:33 onwards, you opened my eyes. It's exactly what I needed to progress,. or feel like I'm progressing. Thank you very much, I'm definitely subbing! P.S.: also, 4:21, what a close encounter...
Hi, great video. I have some questions. Does this scale only work for major triad? Or on 7 chords as well? And does only work if the chord is pedal? Or on any diatonic, in this case F major? Thank you so much. I literally on my way to buy your bundle and doing my research before buying. Thank you again for posting so many great stuff
Nick. Love your tutorials, and your playingI thought of another tune with the soul scale. Chucky's in Love. Ricky Lee Jones.. All the best to you and your family. Anthony, bass player from Brighton
Nick.. after having surfed the web for zillions of tutorials on how to improvise I've finally headed for the right place.. The way you gradually take a musician THERE, is simply fantastic! I play bass and guitar, soloists and singers love to play with me cos I can't improvise, so I've developed a consistent way to accompany them. Now, I'll study your videos, if eventually, I'll become good at improvising and they will get rid of me, you will be responsible for that ;-)
Nick, I subscribed...need I say more? Oh, wait a minute!! I have one editing request. You show a line which you play, and as soon as the sound of your playing it stops, boom it disappears. Because I'm playing tenor and you write out the lines in concert C, and I use my ear better than I read (though my reading is improving), it would be great if you left the line on the screen for about 1 second longer, so I could more easily pause it to study it. One second longer would help out greatly. Believe me. We have to do a lot of pausing because your videos are dense with information. I'm working hard to get these sounds under my fingers. Just learning a lot of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. A fun language.
Any chance you could lower the volume of the wind instrument in the mix so I don't have to keep cranking up the volume on the speech parts then turn the volume down very quickly when you play the examples onscreen which are ear piercingly loud? Ta!
This is very helpful. I wonder, if there is something similar for minor progressions - to simply play the same in parallel key doesn't work. Or am I just not getting something?
So I purchased the PDF and all chords above the lines are written as Triads I guess. How do we know which ones we can play over Major 7th chords...thanks
context is everything- but I do not tend to use these kind of sounds on major 7ths. I use them on triads, and 6ths and dominant 7ths more.Thanks.I need to do a video on this! Its real hard to answer in one line!
Hey play guitar and love to learn from horn players. If I were to purchase anything from your site, could you send me musicxml, midi, gpx or ascii? My software reads all of those and can easily translate to tab for guitar fingerings/positions.
I have been learning so much from this. I play this scale on the guitar. Do you have print outs I can buy? I am really interested in the pentatonic shapes and the soul scales. This is amazing stuff. Just started playing the alto sax.
