Saxophone Lessons: Pentatonic Scales : Saxophone Scales: Major Pentatonic Blues Scales

[admac76]

Great sound!

[VojtechSedlakMusic]

Great :) did you see my blues? :)

[ricoadventuravideos]

i need some help I am trying to help an african friend of mine he is a real bluesman in the sense that he plays on the streets for money.I play bass and he likes working with me because i have experience but i dont know anything about sax.We have been using a guitar tuner to combine our notes and getting CLOSE results but I am musically ambitious so I have been pushing to get the EXACT note to match both instruments.Is it important to play exact notes?or should we just feel it

[hallobaaaby]

@ricoadventuravideos You guys make yourself a small "template" recording of a scale on which you can both tune your instruments and will both have ready for use at any time.

[IronPump89]

hallo I am totally new to alto saxophone: I have this PROBLEM: when I want to play "Bb" at the "1-2 - Bb-low key" position, I get the same sound like the "A" note at the "1-2" position... Its like the pinky pressing the low Bb key doenst change the pitch as it should :( help anyone?

[marcusambri]

@IronPump89 That happens to begginers it happens to me I just started on the tenor, make sure the read is moist and blow heaps of air throw! Hope this helped :)

[DNAblues]

great tutorial. Thank you for your lessons. I am learning a "lot" from your work.

[mjazzguitar]

Another interesting use of the pentatonic is playing one built on the relative III of a major seventh. For example e g a b d over a C major 7.

[drunkass77]

@mjazzguitar So you are saying to play a minor pentatonic in the phrygian position while someone else is playing a major 7 chord? I've messed around with an E penatonic over a song in E before and that sounds pretty good

[mjazzguitar]

@drunkass77 That pentatonic scale also woks well against the V chord also, because it is it's relative minor. You are skipping the seventh, but playing the thirteenth.

I've heard of musicians playing an Eb7 Mixolydian scale over a C7 chord. You would think it wouldn't work because it skips the third entirely, but it can.

I've also heard of playing an Abmajor scale over a G7b9 chord.

[drunkass77]

@mjazzguitar Your knowledge of music theory is much sharper than mine haha. So the E minor pentatonic contains the 13th but not 7th of the V chord. That makes sense, at first I thought you meant the 7th and 13th of the I C chord, i was not getting it. The Eb7 mixolydian over a C7 is still blowing my mind. I'm gonna have to work with that one and see how it works. I might be getting back to you to help me figure it out. I not even touching the Abmajor over a G7b9 yet :)

[mjazzguitar]

@mjazzguitar Then again Bird would play in the prevailing key over a Vb9- let's leave it at that, though, i don't want to detract from the lesson at hand.

[mjazzguitar]

You have a great tone.

[ericrob2112]

nice



[TheUberWise]

freakin awesome!!!!! i've played alto for 8 years and now the bari for 2, and we don't have a real saxophone director or even a band director, she's a choir director that's directing the band, so the saxophones can't learn much. that's really awesome what u do with the saxophone, but could you write down the notes in your videos?

[hhayes70]

i wish i could do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[crashkahuna]

Cool. This is where the the major and minor come together and make sense in blues. It would be nice to add some comments about playing with guitar based bands such as if they are playing in key X you should be based in minor pentatonic in key Y etc.

[FluffyGiraffe21]

@crashkahuna hey, not sure if this is what you meant, but if a band is playing in the major key, u can play using that pentatonic scale, or the equivalent minor pentatonic scale. to find the equivalent minor of a key, count up 6 in the major scale. (in C major, the 6th note is A, therefore A minor is the equivalent minor. or, to use the example here, in G major, E is the 6th note in the scale, making it the equivalent minor. u can use either pentatonics over both keys) hope this helps :)

[CharlieMoher]

EXCELLENT but I wish they'd number these lessons and up front so the series number doesn't get clipped by my browser.

[bahalvorsen]

*Amazing. Expert village... Sure lives up to its name.

[stew5500]

I'm in love with my sax teacher and don't even know her name...

[Christblackwell]

I like watching your lessons.you are my favorite in youtube.keep posting video

for us thanks

[lindz4nicky]

i think ur fab