You are my spirit animal of _"what if my life borrowed from the melodic minor"_ but for my whole life lol It's really impressive how far you’ve come as a creator- you’ve always seemed like "a guy like me" but you've become a truly wonderful RU-vidr, musician, & educator
Yeah; avoided that scale until someone told me it's just a major scale with a flatted third. now I use it all the time. takes a while to develop an ear for how to use it. this guy sounds great playing it, but I'll play the same licks over the same chords and it sounds alien to me, kinda wrong. there's something about intention that's hard to put into words. You can't just play the notes and expect them to sound good. Right notes sound wrong when played by someone who doesn't hear them right in their own head and feel them as they play. This is a very strange world we are exploring. But far more interesting to me than anything the physical world has to offer.
Hey Nathan, you might really like Masaya Yamaguchi’s “Lexicon of Geometric Patterns for Jazz Improvisation” if you haven’t dove into his literature yet. And that goes for anyone else here, of course.
Bro, I have to give you my congratulations! You have become, due to your consistency, humbleness, professionalism, and talent, a fantastic sax player and teacher! Thanks for sharing your wisdom. Blessings!🙏🏼
I've never learned the melodic minor scale bc a year ago i saw a yt video that said something about it being played differently ascending than you play it descending and I found it annoying but I recently saw a video where the dude said that what I've heard a long time ago is garbage, and now after seeing your video it motivated me to learn it👍 great video and great playing!
same kinda story here as others have mentioned; got told what melodic minor was at university but noone ever showed me how to use it like this !!! thank you so much
that doesn’t really mean anything. i think it’s good practice to learn from other instruments, and to see your instrument as more than what it is on the surface
Hi, bit confused here, can you please clarify. In the section starting at 2:01 You show the chords for the key of Melodic Gm I think as G-(maj7), A-7, Bbmaj7, C7, D7, E-7b5, and F#-7b5, and say the same melodic minor phrase will work over all of them, but you then play the example phrase over just 4 chords; G-(maj7), C7(#11), F#7alt, and E-7b5, and a different phrase over A-7b5. So some of the chords are missing, some are altered (from the Harmonic Gminor chords given), and the phrase is different on one chord. It all sounds REALLY good, but what am I missing in my comprehension here? Does the phrase still work over all 7 of the basic harmonic Gm family of chords without them being altered?
Teaching private lessons, gigs, lessons, selling courses, making books, selling tickets to your shows, professorship, military band, band director. A lot of these are magnified with social media though (YT or insta or Tik Tok) since it can increase your audience drastically
@@Saxologic that's wassup bro. I thought I heard some Braxton influence in there. U got some great sounds and ideas. I messed around with melodic minor shapes and using cells from it to shift keys after watching this video and I definitely appreciate this video man
