Blues Alto Sax Solo

This is my first you tube video. Its of me playing an improvised blues solo on my Vintage alto sax.

-edit- looking back, i realise this isn't really blues, but at the time I was focusing on tone more than anything else.

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Music

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• sax
• solo
• saxophone
• blues

[kuntucky123]

What key is your sax in?

[SaxPlayer567]

its an Alto in Eb

[KWOOTfluke]

what brand is your saxophone. Selmer? Yamaha?

[SaxMonsterSteve]

@runescapedude258 

[runescapedude258]

@ipodgenius1x1 Actually, the Blues Scale for Eb instruments is G, Bb, C, C#, D, F#, B.

[ipodgenius1x1]

@kuntucky123

assuming its Eb, the blues scale would be:

(C, Eb, F, F#, G, Bb, C)

[chaserehn]

This is way cool man. Just what i was looking for at this point in time.

[barney71777]

i used to play alto, it was too high for my likings, and too many people played it, so i switched to bari, what a great move i made by switching....

[mdwallin]

I also play guitar, so I gueses it might be a little easier for me to think of chords, having had to construct so many already.

[mdwallin]

Sorry, I didn't mention anything about tri-tone substitutions. You're right they would be very advanced. Extensions on chords is just adding b7ths or b9ths, its not that hard and adds a very bluesy feel.

And yes I was looking up growling, because I was trying to do it myself. I'm sure I added a few videos to my 'favourites' so that i could refer back to them. I found it very hard, and have since given up :P

[ericrhodesax]

The blues scale over a simple 1/4/5 blues progression (which is what he is playing over) is the place to start for a beginning improviser which is what he is. Extensions, tri-tone substitions, altered chords are all great, but you don't start there. What is funny though, is that on your youtube page, the first video you have is a sax solo of a guy who does nothing but growl over a blues scale in a very elementary fashion. One of the worst blues solos I've ever heard actually.

[mdwallin]

The blues scale is good to look at, but I think it really limits a lot of soloists who use just that.

If you think about it, its only 6 notes :(

Try thinking of a bass line in your head instead, and outlining the extensions of the chords that might go with that.