UNWRITTEN RULES OF JAZZ ARTICULATIONS 

Yes! .. Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice .. 1000 times. Then, PRACTICE some more. The best advice! 👍🎷

This subject cannot explained more clear and understandable than this. Youre a great teacher Scott. Thank you.

Priceless…thank you!!

Thanks for 'writing' these unwritten rules. You've made them clear through your articulation!

Blimey Scott, so many Sax tutorials out there you would think it's all been done and said before but nope, your videos always produce new things and broken down in a way that improvers such as myself can really relate to. Thanks so much for all your efforts, they're very much appreciated.

This is exactly what i've been looking for, thank you so much Scott! I'm 18 and have been working my way through tunes in the Charlie Parker Omnibook for the last few weeks trying to get in shape for my freshman year of college jazz band auditions on alto. I knew something wasn't slicking in my lines. This video was super helpful and I can't wait to implement it into my practice routine!!

Man the energy you bring is tremendous

Brilliant! Superb teaching

Thanks Scott!

Cheers Scott. More great tips man!

This is one of the most important videos I have seen in your channel so far (I haven't seen all but this one has been very helpful). Thank you very much. I would love to see more videos like this one, about the nuances of articulation in jazz.

Superb education! I wish I had known your channel 40 years ago. It would have saved me a lot of time figuring these rules out intuitively on my own over the years. Thanks much Scott! I love your channel.

Your tips make me improve by leaps and bound..

Thank you for explaining and more importantly demonstrating such a vital part of the jazz language. One of the best jazz RU-vid tutes ever, for any instrument!

Thanks Scott!!! Amazing video as always!!! Keep It Up!!👍👍👍

Great video!

Awesome lessons 👍🏽

great scott

Great advice Scott-will think hard about what you said --cracking video-great teaching - thanks , john - UK

Good video thanks! I love your mic set up the sound comes through nice and clear

Well done sir

Music is the only magic especially in the hands of a player. Keep these coming they certainly are of a great assistance to me.

Your the best, Scott, thanks for the many tips to make me a better sax player.

Thank you so much. I have learned so many importent things in your lessons .

LOVE IT!!! It's about paying attention to details and a looooot of practice until these concepts come naturally!!

Thanks again Scott! Your lessons are right on the mark. I am an intermediate player, and I have learned so much from your videos. Please keep it going!

This is a game changer for me. Thank. You.

Super, cheers

Recently started with the Sax. Love your videos. Keep them coming. Thank you very much.

Fantastic videos, wonderfully simple and precise explanations of loads of important stuff. Thanks a bunch.

"Don't give up life on your saxophone!" Let good lines live!

Hi Scott, these rules are really helpful, great job!!

very very instructive and helpful, thanks Scott !

Thank you for sharing 🎶🎶🎶🎷✌🏽😎

Awesome video Scott. Thanks a MILLION.

lots of creative tips that are hard to put into words but you did it very well! thanks for the great videos & keep it up!

Thanks for sharing that! And congrats...you are a natural teacher..the topic is really clearly presented . To be immediately incorporated into playing!

Thank You Very Much!!! This is GOLD!!!

Thanks Scott. Really clear, really helpful.

Excellent Scott ! I wish I had found this sooner . It leads to a more physical and rhythmic style of playing . Nice !

Thanks, Scott!!

Great description. Thank you.

Love your sound! 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️👍👍

This is awesome

Very Educational! GREAT JOB!

JUST GREAT! Thank You again Scott!

Thanks great post really Great Scott.

Great video thanks Scott👍

Great, thank you very much.

Thanks scott!

Awesome video of how to pronounce in our saxophones. Thanks a lot, Scott.

Thanks for doing this. Saves a ton of time and is the best at this I've seen. I'd only add that this works hand in hand with understanding things like HEMIOLA, and various other elements of musicianship. Hemiola is like in the sax line at beginning of "In The Mood", the accents call out the obvious musical effect. "Dop a quarter" is a great expression. I'm going to start using that. Beboppers were heavily trained in swing style in general. It's no coincidence that Parker and Gillespie, etc. had worked in swing bands, and they had this fantastic comfort in laying these style effects into all their phrases.

Very good and nice please more about articulation on phrasing

Вот выписал коротенько, что я вынес для себя из этой беседы. В видео идет речь о неписанных правилах джазовой артикуляции и "золотых" нотах, которые придают музыкальной фразе законченный вид. 1. 02:17 Делать "ДАП" на четвертях, которые играются на сильную долю (ноту снимаем без филировки) - в 80-85% случаев, т.е. бывают исключения из правила. 2. 04:33 Удлиненная и укороченная нота в конце фраз, которые заканчиваются двумя восьмыми (be-bop) - 99%. 3. 05:18 Акцент на четвертях, которые играются на слабую долю. 4. 06:22 В триолях играть с языка только первую ноту. 5. 07:07 Атака с языка и акцент на длинных нотах, которых играются после быстрого пассажа (шестнадцатых или триолей). 6. 09:12 Акцентировать ноты, которые играются с большими прыжками по диапазону (при смене направления движения фразы снизу-вверх и обратно). Иногда это нота сразу перед или после смены направления (по смыслу фразы). 7. 11:54 В продолжение предыдущего правила акцентировать верхние ноты, на которых направление снизу-вверх меняется на противоположное ("рикошетные" ноты).

Good one Scott!

< Very Clear & Helpful !¡! Gracias Scott !>

Tocar muito. Será que vou chegar na metade desse talento? Meu Deus!

Hey man, great content that has helped me alot when I get stuck on certain topics very informative and easy to understand. I know Im not the only one but I tend to sometimes get stuck on what to practice, wondering if you could go over some tips on creating a personal practice routine or an idea to make it more efficient? Thanks in advance man

very clear!

This actually good to know. Guess I've kind of done it unconciously already. But it's always good to get some conciousness up in this b.

Great lesson!

I'm a pianist by far and large. That said, I've had my alto sax collecting dust for years. This video made me subscribe, will be sharing it and will clean the alto sax for resurrection. INCREDIBLE, outstanding job on this tutorial. Crazy good.

Thank you for those notes of highlights...

I’m using this advice to play jazz on clarinet. I’m mostly a classical clarinetist but have been taking lessons in jazz. I’ve always had trouble to make it sound appropriately jazzy, but it’s starting to make a lot more sense now!

Good stuff. Thanks.

This is great, and I'm a trombonist!

4:49 I Weak at the Paddock Sick face!! Thanks love your videos and I'm considering buying the piece.

this is very good teacher

Great Video!

hi Scott great video goof luck with your tour - regards Paul

I have asked articulation questions for years and have never gotten a good answer. I can hear great players doing the articulations; but, haven't been able to figure out what they are doing. Thank you, thank you, thank you for explaining this. I know what I'll be working on! Really, really appreciate it.

Excellent vid

Ey man, thank you. That was really lifechanging. 12:44 Actually sounds very nice. That remind's me a bit of Cory weeds and Charlie watts.

Really great vid, exactly what I needed! Many times articulation and rhythm is hard to conceive even for intermediate level players. I've often thought one could play all the wrong notes with great articulation and rhythm and it would sound good, simply because I've played all the right notes in the past without articulation and rhythm and it sounds, well dead!

Big, big tips...what a difference a dop makes. I will spend some quality time with vid... ty.

If there was ever a Nobel prize on music education, Scott Paddock gets the first one

I have so much to learn and this is very helpful learning to play Jazz with better understanding of the rules. It would be helpful and easier to follow you if you subtitled your lesson. Thanks.

This also help me in playing piano Contents will be easier to follow if you put a list at corner

Someone posted a link to this video at the Jazz Guitar Forum (jazzguitar.be/forum) That's where I saw it. Good stuff! I play an archtop guitar and articulation is a real challenge. Thanks for the tips!

That was interesting Scott! Jazz does rely on those subtle accentuations. I would just add that as you said some lines also sound good without emphasizing the gold notes. Different players play differently in terms of how they swing , or the intensity of that swing. Some play even eights it sounds jazzy too. Just saying that bebop is long past (even if always an important reference) and there are style options. I find that sometimes it can be overdone (the jazz articulation). Anyway thanks for this I found it a very useful analysis about what jazz is about.

Thank you very much Scott, now I understand better a lot of mistakes that I do when i play. Have you ever think to write a book or make a pdf online with all these rules with videos when you make dimostration like this? I would sure buy so Many others people i think. In Italy where i live nobody teach these gold rules. You have a Great soud and feell i like a lot.

Hey Scott Paddock...why is it that the old horns sound so much "better" than the new horns ? Like that alto you're blowin sounds insane!!

Good video man! How about maybe making a video of how to, of your opinion, know how you are in the right pitch? How do you I, as a beginner know? Is it just to buy a tuner app thing or can you pratice from play-alongs? Cheers, nice playin

Hi Scott, U are amazing! what are best practices for people like me who cant totally read music but picked up the sax and have learnt things by ear. how can i easily learn especially chords and chordal pitches by ear. how best can i get them stuck to my brains. I have learnt a lot from your chop chop videos but how can i stick all that without ability to read. how best can i develop technique especially in phrasing and articulation. looking forward yo your answer. Lastly, What is that ultimate path to get better fast? ( From Major scales to what next and what next )

I'd be interested in learning how you play that falling skirl in your intro. Maybe more generally what's going on in the articulation of the phrase.

3 thumbs down??? We'll never know why...and we'll never care. Great video. They're ever better.

Some phrasing in chord changes..what works and sounds good..how to sew them together..thanks for all your vids..

You say only tongue the first note of a triplet, what are your thoughts on tonguing a string of triplets like 1, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, etc to get a kind of quarter note triplet-esque feel

Hey Scott, wondering if you can talk about the improvisation chops of some players (in the context of their style). Top on my head right now it's Fela Kuti. I can hear a bit of Coltrane in his intentions, but at the same time a different and refreshing approaches to play the horn. Nice video as usual! Thanks for sharing :)

1. Love your pacing 2. Love your repetition of goal phrasing X3 3. I actually skip your non-goal phrasing 'cause I've heard enough of that emanating from my own horn. ;)

Great info. This analysis works well for transcriptions but if you're improvising you have to follow these same articulation rules almost in reverse or plan ahead. Question: would like more analysis of the goal notes and approach notes from the point of view of improvising out of your head.

Hi Scott. Could you do a video of yourself playing Amazing Grace (plain) and then again "Jazzed up" explaining what and why you are doing when you do it? Help us to understand what you are thinking ... even though it is your own style and taste.

Rule of thumb number one Parker always sounds better on Alto. So if you play Tenor as I do you have to firstly NAIL it as per articulations, but also buy the Eb omni book to really see what was going on... Hang on, tenor is awesome fun, cos you get to do other stuff that's way cool...

awesome . I'm a new player less than a year . And I just did a solo I like in a song I recorded and It seems I doppted.

I’ve been making an effort to articulate more and it shows in my playing, plus it’s kinda liberating for my fingers. It helps get me off the chord tones so much. I’m beginning to feel more like it’s not what you play, but it’s how you play it! Great rules Scott ! Do you only have a SYOS mouthpiece for you soprano?

Hi Scott, great vids as usual. Hey... perhaps I heard that u also brought the surrounging notes down a little when bringing any other out? Many thanks in advance! Cheers.

Thanks, Scott, for bringing up these important notes on jazz feel. As andizagmusic mentioned, does ghosting some of the setup notes or notes in”the valley” help to accentuate the gold (goal?) notes?

Great video Scott. Why dont you show us how to improvise on reggae? There is often a horn in a song that is playing melody (sometimes in the background) that completes the music. How to build that?

Great video Scott. Just wondering how many of these rules carry over to other styles of modern music like Funk/Soul etc.? Obviously in Funk you don't swing your 8th notes. Can you elaborate?

I have a selmer reference 54 alto sax. Which mouth piece would give the best sound? I am using the selmer Spirit mouth piece at the moment but it ain’t giving that lovely sound I’m hearing in here