Hi Jamey, I don't understand the English language but I follow your lessons with Italian subtitles. Glad I came across your courses. For me as a beginner it is tough but pleasant, you are very nice and you have given me so much in music. Thank you very much for your commitment. Giuseppe - Solopaca Italy
Great video! Your advice to make the last note of the phase short really changes up the feel. I like it. Wondering if you have any notes on how to end the solo, sounding like a pro and not ending on the tonic as a default.
Absolutely love your tutirials only bought a altosax 2 weeks ago and upgraded the mouthpiece with yamaha 4c and ligature and yes what a difference this made
Hi Jamie, great video this is exactly where I’m at at the moment so very helpful. Chords and chord changes all makes me go cross eyed so looking forward to your next video too. Great help as always, thank you. 🎷
Thank you for such fantastic advice on how to approach the construction of improvised solos. Yes, one of the best tutorials I have seen on this subject.
Another great video. It's easy to remember and apply these soloing tips. I like how you keep things simple and how your demonstrations and instructions make everything ... FUN! 👍🎷🎶
Just want to say brilliant. I'm always listening to sax music. And can recognise the steps showing improvisation. I never comment really to much . But found this very informative and inspiring and will certainly be practicing. Thanks
#4 is my #1 thought when soloing, especially on a tune my band leader wrote "Walkin' Away" since the audience doesn't have any other pre-conceived references like typical cover songs. I'm so looking forward to your "Improvisation Mastery" course, too!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you are a great teacher! Sign me up now for your Improv course. I’ll prepay to make sure I can hit it running on day 1. :-)
Hi iv been looking at loads of teaching here on RU-vid, I’m now settling here, very impressed, thanks for sharing, I been a lead guitarist for many years self taught, my wife bought me an Alto sax for my 60th ,end of February, it’s so addictive I can’t put it down , I’m trying to play to backing tracks in Gm concert , I’m trying to play Em scale on sax , but can’t find all the notes I can on guitar. Is there a video you recommend. Thanks you I know I have a lot to learn but love jamming also.
@@GetYourSaxTogether no not yet ,iv got D major, part of Em. I need to see the fingering, do you have a lesson for this , I’m sure you do , I’ll keep working through your videos. Thank you.
Thanks Jamie! Great step-by-step video-course... looking forward your new course man! regards! And, BTW, while practicing it was almost inevitable to come out with Boney M's "Sunny"..hahahaha
What’s the video that directly follows this one. I’ve learned so much from #119 and #120. P.s., I am a jazz guitar player and have learned more from your videos than any other guitar video I’ve seen on youtube. It’s your teaching style I am sure.
The next video was a teaser for a three-day Improvisation Challenge. Next came On Green Dolphin Street: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3Lu-WOqEhO4.html, then What's In My Head When I Improvise: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dFD4AU_aBO8.html. You'll find them all here on my YT channel: ru-vid.com Enjoy and thanks for tuning in!
Good morning Jamie, as an avid follower of yours , I need your advice! I am very much a sax beginner and it’s quite impossible to have access to a local saxophone tutor . Is it plausible for me to be successful as a sax player but not to a professional level by following the likes of yourself ?, I just want to do some recordings and upload to Facebook and RU-vid . Online one to one lessons are expensive £30 an hour considering it will be on a weekly basis. I would be very grateful for your input on this matter . Thanks , Robin
That’s a great question and I don’t have a definitive answer. In theory there should be enough information on my channel to get you on the right direction, but you have to self correct and that’s the hard bit. Maybe the proof of the pudding is in the eating?
Great lesson as always Jamie! The minor pentatonic scale fits just about anywhere as you've demonstrated. I'm a bit of a theory nerd, so can you tell me what the chord progression is on the backing track? The reason i ask is that the G- pent fits over it entirely. (It would also fit over the G blues progression). There are going to be songs in G that the G- Pent does not fit over so I'm trying to figure out what the sweet spot is with respect to the usability of this scale. (I'm assuming you are remaining diatonic with a G key centre but I can't pick out chords individually).
An interesting video. «Everybody steel from Shakespeare “. However, when you systematically are picking up licks from others and put them into your solo, are you then improvising or are you just playing another song?
@@GetYourSaxTogether When you write something, you are using words that others have been using. Otherwise nobody would understand what you are saying. But I would not put the words together in the same order as Shakespeare. When you are to make a solo over a song and chords, you are supposed to be a composer. When you take somebody else’s solo and making it your own, you are stealing.
@@hansmathiasthjomoe4817 in that case, every single sax solo ever played by every single saxophonist is stealing, because there’s not a sax solo ever recorded that isn’t built using parts that have already been played by someone else. But maybe you’re confusing stealing entire chunks of solos with small phrase fragments. The finished solo is the Lego house, the licks in the middle are just individual bricks.
