The Best Way to Nail Chord Changes 

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I think he wants me to check out the full masterclass 🤔

I am glad I'm on the right track. I have been using this approach and gaining traction now over a few standards. Had to break things down even simpler at first just stuck to 1/4 notes and chord tones till I got the basic arppeggios down. Then slowly add just one beat of eighths then the same at different locations within the bar leading to eventually being able to do the whole bar in eighths. Now beginning to add triplets and later will move on to sixteenths. You can do the same with scale tones. I.e. just add a scale tone passing note between chord tones at say beat 2 ,at whatever rhythm designation your working on and apply this to each chord. I have been using the same approach with encircling also. Another great lesson thanks!

Lesson start around 5:25

SAXOLOGIC!!!

YES! LEARNING ABOUT CHANGES FROM CHAD

Sir, you sound even more amazing on this horn...

A HUGE thank you for this Chad. I've been looking for insight into playing fluidly and developing coherent 8th/16th note lines for ages. So grateful! Keep shredding!

Brilliant video. Just what I needed to spice up my chord tone practice. Thank you.

This is really helpful. I’ve been considering switching my major to jazz and trumpet, and this could definitely give me an edge!

Clear, inspiring, top quality = Chad !

Chad, every time I watch a video of any content that you cover is like going to college again and learn everything the right way. Thank you so much! BTW, you sound great on this new horn.

i love that phrase

Thank you for these free lessons these help a lot

He sound amazing on that sax

Excellent content as usual. Thanks!

This is very helpful . Thank you so much

Chad, awesome tutorial, great approach, thank you. I found it very helpful and comprehensive. Greetings from 🇩🇪

Chad, great video as usual! Very informative!

He Sound Amazing

Great lesson Chad... I will be purchasing. I need to work on this. Thanks

I’m a bass guitar player and this lesson help me to learn to be more musical through chord changes. Thank you

Thank you Chad ,really great advice mate 👍

Chad, this is one of the best breakdowns I’ve seen on this concept. Thanks so much! I’ll have to checkout your full Practicing Standards masterclass. Exactly what I’m looking for at this early stage in my sax journey. 👍

just bought your ebooks! incredible stuff to study! cheers from Buenos Aires

awesome~ always thank you~!

That new neck is awesome! Sound more toned down in higher partials.

I’m bit bit not usually one for buying jazz books but this I might have to get

New sax sounds great

Thank you very much for your very good lessons.🎄🎷👍🏻

Hi Chad, I whatch your videos as a bass player, and I think that the way you articulate the notes on the saxophone (melodically) is similar to the way bass players do. I 've already bought a few of your books written in bass clef. Some of the line are a bit tricky and also challenging to be played on bass,. your explanations are minimalist and get straight to the point. LOVE IT !! "Bassophonics" congrat.

I don't play sax but this is super helpful to me as a horn player. I had started taking a combo class but it was cut short due to covid... But I want to learn more! Thanks for the videos

Mr chad you are da man and I love you and your amazing work keep it up my dude🔥🔥🔥

High as shit and that intro solo he rips through blew my fucking mind! One day I'll play like that and it will be fucking beautiful!

Superb; simplicity you take for granted & proves basics build your foundation. Very much appreciated

your videos are very informative and helpful

New sax!

How come someone dislikes such good material? Great, as always

Really great video Chad! The real nuts and bolts...

I really enjoy your lessons. I'm a guitarist but there is so much to glean from this

Awesome..

Thanks for the awesome content! Would you be willing to do more song analysis or Roman Numeral analysis videos?

What he said at 6:47 is what I needed to hear in middle school

Bravo

Ayyy you went to saxquest in St. Louis. That store is my happy place

Damn dude great lesson. I can play bass solo now

Why do people dislike on such great legends like Chad LB yoh !those 9people who hit thumbs down should get a life ...don't bring your problems to such legends please 🤬

When you play through the chords like that 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 it sounds a lot like the great Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young’s style. What is the difference between this chordal approach and a strictly linear approach? I feel this approach helps you learn what the chord changes are far better than trying to play something linear through it.

1. Play arepggios through the standard - Add the 9th to allow continuous eighth notes - Vary the shape 2. Improvise w/ only scale notes

I have a question, is it better to get either the standard package or the practicing standards masterclass? It seems to me that you cover all the topics from the package on the masterclass

Please explain how to improvise on different harmony sounds like 6th, 7th, 9th,

What is your thought process on a tune as burning as Cherokee? I understand the concepts and exercises you speak of in this video, but to make scales and arpeggios to sound like language and like you are saying something has been my struggle. I can copy all these licks from the greats like Dexter Gordon, Ritchie Cole, Vincent Herring (imo), Parker, Stitt/Rollins, etc. It's developing my own language at speeds like Cherokee that I have trouble with.

Great stuff Chad, thank you. I noticed that you have your SYOS mouthpieces in at least 3 different colors (Brown, white, red...). Is there any difference between them (other than the color) or are they all exactly the same model?

Dat sexologic guy better have a full section devoted to the Mario Kart lick

Video starts at 3:50

Hey Chad! I love watching your videos for inspiration on what to practice! However, I find it hard to get through a practice session sometimes because of my tone. I don't feel like I'm getting any closer to my goal of being able to play out because I'm really conscious of my sound. I know that there is no magical way to get a good tone other than lots of practice. Would you possibly be interested in doing a video on how to improve your tone and how to break bad habits?

I am in a jazz school, we are playing so long Eric, Four Brothers, Work song, etc. I am lousy playing the chord changes. I need help. I like your approach, but you are so good. I want to be good like you. Please be my teacher.

Hey Chad do you have a book on all the fundamentals of jazz , chord tones phrasing? What do you have available for beginners to intermediate? I'm new at this.. I play piano not sax.

What brand of mouthpiece do you use and also your reed type

the jesus joke came very unexpectedly :-D

How to easily memorize the chords with their different forms and the licks in the twelve tones to improvise?

Por favor . subtitulos en español 🙏

I'm looking for this book in your website but I cant find it.

What tune on beginning?

You listen to Joel Frahm a lot, don't you

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Before the the "testing new sax" sign came up, I was thinking "what happened to Chad's tone"? Immediately noticeable, not necessarily for the better.

What horn? Is that p

Hi Chad, I have been curious for a while now as to why you play from the right side of your mouth. Is it because you have more lip cushion there rather than in the middle?

How can I advoid those disturbing undertexts? It provent you from seeing tue notes.

are you really thinking about each chord in the tune or key centers?

7:34

You played so well you can stick a clean sock in it instead!

Herbie Hancock: but I’m not supposed to play those butter notes

I really dig your videos, and no I'm not going to buy a Reedgeek.

This exercise is surprisingly difficult to master.

10:40 cuts right before he starts shredding 😥

I think Chad went to Ross' dentist...

You look like Adolph Sax Chad, maybe you are his great great great great grandson. Lol.

Your tone is off the chain. Don’t change it...

Dec 22 2020 was the second time you watched this.

He takes about 4 minutes to get into the lesson.

This guy should have his own Jesus candle! Coming to a car crash near you!

I don’t want to sound butt hurt or anything, because I’m truly grateful for these videos you put out Chad, but what I hear you saying sometimes is if your playing isn’t world class then don’t play until it is. I could easily be misinterpreting your message, but the comment you made about what world class soloists, and even laypersons hear when you’re not hitting every single change kinda sounded to me like ‘don’t play cuz it isn’t good enough until you can’. In jazz it’s extremely important to hit changes, obviously. But We can’t all be Chad LBs so does that mean if we can’t hit every change the musicianship isn’t worth a damn? It sounds like perhaps you’re saying that, but I’m probably about to get roasted in the comments for being off about that. For me, being able to play most of a tunes changes fluently and intelligently has taken a lifetime and I still can’t do it perfectly, at all... but if you’re telling me that there are no great jazz solos out there where the player soloed and didn’t already fully understand the chord structure of the song then I would have to disagree.... it’s always great to strive for perfection but that isn’t possible for most of us, and that shouldn’t have to mean don’t play jazz. In my opinion there are other acceptable approaches. Again, could be totally misinterpreting your attitude towards lesser musicians. Probably am.... in fact, I know that a big part of what you do is because you enjoy helping others become self actualized musicians like you’ve become. And again, love your videos. Thanks again 🙏

The video ACTUALLY starts at 6:18 Your welcome

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Five minutes in and all you’ve done is make pitches for your other stuff. Sorry, that’s enough.

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