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

Major pentatonic saxophone scales all have minor key equivalents that can be used for blues scales. Play major pentatonic blues scales on the saxophone with lessons from a music teacher in this free video on woodwind instruments.

Expert: Mariane Nielsen
Bio: Mariane Nielsen has been teaching and playing the saxophone professionally for more than twenty years. She is also a professor of music theory and history at the University of Hartford.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

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[admac76]

Great sound!

[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.

[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

[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 :)

[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?

[DNAblues]

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

[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.

[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]

@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.