I like this prescription Doctor. I felt for awhile now that I needed studies like Klose. I repaired my flute and clarinet and started from the start practicing beginning courses and found that I really needed to study the basics. The Marcel Mule oboe transcriptions are difficult to get a flow going. I started practicing the Klose since you announced it on the Academy and feel very motivated. I have already incorporated them into my daily practice towards "Saxophone Mastery." Thanks Doc!
Always great seeing your videos Doc. Back a bit over a year now since a 43 year pause. Have made tremendous progress. I would need 3000 words to state why every page of your Saxophone Fundamentals book is important. Now know all my majors, good knowledge of minors and the 7 scale modes. While in excellent health at 62, the big limit is sluggishness between the brain and fingers. I could probably hack it as second chair alto in a 40s style big band. Keep up the great work.
Hey doc, life is funny right? I saw this video at the time of launch and put it in the backburn of my practice routine. Yesterday I played in my school's band recital and decided to improve my subdivision skills and by accident I end up discovering Klosé method. Between free PDFs online and weird pricey books guess where I finally found out the perfect Klose guide that works for me, lol? Thanks for providing us such quality materials it's awesome! Cheers from Brazil!
Berbiguier (18 etudes by mule). My teacher didn’t believe in teaching ferling and took after his teacher (Londeix) and decided to teach this book. This was my introduction in classical saxophone studies. A blessing i am grateful for
Why thank you! I very much appreciate your video and the free Klose exercises. Have a feeling I'm not nearly as advanced as most of your students but I do get the gist of it. Still don't know all my scales - work in progress. You make progress seem possible! 🎷🎵
One thing about playing from the Klose' as well as the CP omnibook is that they both help me to produce the notes I'm hearing in my head while soloing. It really has nothing to do with technical aspects. It's just a way I get my head and fingers wired together.
Love this, very similar to what I was assigned in college. My prof split up exercise 1 into four sections (after the half note bars) A/B/C/D. I'd rotate through sections A/B/D (dropping the section with accidentals) playing with 12 different articulation patterns through the circle of 4ths in all 12 keys. It's always been a great way to get things back in shape after I've been away from the instrument for a while.
Hi Wally. I'm fully on board with the Klose. I was drifting a bit there about 10-12 weeks. My teacher gave me some clear, simple guidelines for each practice session; some simple varied scale exercises to warm up, 1/2 hour of Klose, then playing some transcriptions solos and then tunes. The Klose has really helped in getting around the solos especially the Parker omnibook. There has been a noticeable difference when I play the solos. The Parker semi-quaver triplets are cleaner and much less "fluffy" (eg. the lead in to the bridge in Yardbird Suite, E F#, E, Eb). These quick little patterns are getting more accurate and precise and less like a "blur" of notes. The approach I'm taking is to practice the Klose straight with a metronome, slowly increasing the speed. The objective is the quicken up the fingers and play the long runs and phrases in time. I'm not necessarily employing swing articulation.
Klose Etudes were the first I ever played. At first they were useful in just getting me around horn. Later, I saw that famous George Carzone video where he says "cut your tongue out" and I started to use them to focus on playing evenly. They are amazing for practicing that.
Love your lessons, been practicing your blues 4-bar mixolydian phrases sheet in all 12 keys for the past month or so. Will add this to the practice regimen!
Hi! yes, it MUST to work! this is the thing I miss- connection between ears and fingers. till I try to play what Im hearing, I lose the common picture and mode to go on trying. Im sure those exercises will help! Thank you, Doctor!👏👏👏👍
I don't allow my state of mind to "dislike" any of the etudes. They all serve different purposes. "Animato" is one that resembles Klose the most, I guess? Lacour is another set, which I sometimes like, and hate more often than not. But I keep at it to practise them.
I used reichert daily exercises and or Macquarre for years but I will give these a go...Ferling is great for oboe and a lot of fun but not so idiomatic for sax!
One of the advantages of working on the cycle is that we get to hear the motion of V to I wich will be important . Ej C is the V of F so the ear gets use to the motion V to I ....
Ok PTSD from college music lessons... and wasn't this type of torture being used during the Spanish Inquisition? LOL Joking of course - except for the PTSD from music college classes. I still wake up in a cold sweat in fear of Ferling/DeVille/Klose. Hits really Klose to home I guess! Love that you're back Dude. We all missed ya!
@@drwallysax Summer has been awesome. Waiting for you to come and check out my vinyl collection. Paul Desmond, Art Pepper and more. Would love to show you my setup dude....
I agree with you about the Circle of FOURTHS - I always draw it for my students with the flats on the right side because that's the way that traditional harmonic motion goes. However, I still call it the Circle of FIFTHS; I just explain that you are descending by fifths, not ascending. I do like the Klosé exercises - my book was "Jay Arnold's New Edition" from 1951 which I got in 1978 for the princely sum of $2.50. The one thing I don't like about them is that they are only in four keys - C, F, G, and A minor. Some of them go into different key centers in the middle, but never into the more remote keys. Do you ever practice these transposed into different keys? Since you have the digital files, would you ever make different keys available? Good to have you back!
I've not done the entire etude in different keys, just select passages. No plans on releasing more versions currently - more version, MORE QUESTIONS! Happy practicing!
Love this post! Key Q: Memorization. Would you worry about memorizing these as you play them or more just focus on playing them? Is it useful to play them without memorizing them just to "get them under your fingers"? Thanks for reading my q and thanks again for the post!
GREAT question! I would not memorize the entire enchilada - but the selected excerpt's were applying to jazz. Mainly because: There's a ton of stuff on Netflix I need to catch up on :)
i find the exercises perfect for my ability. i’ve been playing for two years and finally feel my embouchure is allowing me to play full range. i’m living in Napoli and find it difficult finding English speaking teachers. could some online lessons be arranged?
OMG 😳 what have you given us?!?! The klose looked good but....i didn't expect it to be such hard work on the embouchure. I did page 1 & 2, which is excercise 1,2&3 slurred as written. Was that not the way to practice? Should I have done 1 excersise at a time? One line at a time? One bar at ay time, one note.....? Did i miss yhe memo on HOW to practice. Ill watch the video again, but any constructive advice from anyone would be appreciated. Thank you. I know its like Brussel sprouts.... good for you lol. ❤❤❤😊
At 8:25 you make a comment about the "mental math" of moving around the circle of 4ths that leaves me in profound despair. I'm one of those people who has memorized that F -> Bb -> Eb. And when I finish my F major scale I "think" about switching to Bb and adding another flat. In other words, I definitely don't "hear" that transition. Is that a skill that will ever come? Or am I thinking about it wrongly? I'm concerned that I've simply given up using my ears because I know what comes next. I know this might seem to be splitting hairs but I'm aware that my ear is quite terrible despite some decent technical proficiency. To put an even finer point on it, I'm quite sure that if you hadn't told me I wouldn't have been able to tell which direction around the circle you were going.
First, don't stress (certainly no reason for despair)! It's a trained, learnable skill. Andy. May I call you Andy? I know college saxophone professors (classical) that couldn't play happy birthday by ear. It's just not a skill they've practiced! Here's how to start. Play Frère Jacques starting on C. Then, start it on F (without think of scale degrees or intervals). Now - play it on C again - then before moving on - SING an F! Miss it?! Who gives a shit. Play the F and try again. Then, when you can predict how the "F" will sound - finish the tune in that key - keep going around the circle. It's not about "completing" the exercise, but building the aural skills. If everyone could already do this, I'd be unemployed.
What puzzles me at Klosé, is when to breath. Here you did it at the end of the bars of 1/2 notes, making quite a pause, resulting in 11, 10, 14 and 10 bar phrases. It may be difficult for a beginner, or when playing slower. Furthermore, starting from exercise 3 there are no such clear breathing points. Any tips or suggestions?
Absolutely - it's moving "down' a 5th (same as up a 4th) - it's the dominant to tonic function (harmonically). A very common progression in jazz - check out the bridge to "I got Rhythm" - circle of 4ths! Tons of tunes use this, it sounds cool to practice too :)
@@drwallysax lovely sound, obviously has nothing to do with thousands of hours of practice! Do you play with many different mouthpieces? How does the Hyperion differ from the Selmer C* S 80
There haven't been any particular etudes that I've *hated*, but my parents truly hated hearing me work on Rascher's 158 Exercises. Some of the more dissonant shapes lead to a pretty serious moment with my father, and led to me refusing to practice at home for the back half of my senior year of high school. Thankfully, I'd already passed my audition for uni, but yikes.
@@drwallysax I like the phrases in klose 1 with the chromatic passing notes. It’s hard for me to remember where the chromatic passing notes are when I go to head transpose though.
That is possibly the best/funniest autocorrect I've ever seen. "Ferling" was autocorrected to "FEELING" (just did the same to me). I know what you mean (but man, that was funny). Happy practicing !
I'm not easy to follow for non-native English speakers, admittedly. But, I speak how I speak! You can always slow down in the video settings (gear icon in the video player). Happy practicing!
No BS, easy to apply, free exercises. Such great, consistent, honest, non-clickbait and helpful content.
Awwww, thanks! I hate selling, but I do love teaching :)
Happy practicing!
The good doctor tricking people into practicing their scales in all 13 keys for a month. Love it!
Shhhhhhhh! Don't tell them ;)
I like this prescription Doctor. I felt for awhile now that I needed studies like Klose. I repaired my flute and clarinet and started from the start practicing beginning courses and found that I really needed to study the basics. The Marcel Mule oboe transcriptions are difficult to get a flow going. I started practicing the Klose since you announced it on the Academy and feel very motivated. I have already incorporated them into my daily practice towards "Saxophone Mastery." Thanks Doc!
Excellent! hit me up with any questions. They just feel...good? Right?
Hope you and your family are doing okay Doc!! Life is challenging a times. Although I am new here, you already bring joy and music!!
You have made it so easy for me to get back into playing the saxophone after a 15+ year hiatus. Thank you so much!!!
My 12 year old son is learning alto sax and your channel is providing him great material to practice!
Hi Doc, good to see you are back !!!
Awwww, thanks!
Always great seeing your videos Doc.
Back a bit over a year now since a 43 year pause. Have made tremendous progress. I would need 3000 words to state why every page of your Saxophone Fundamentals book is important. Now know all my majors, good knowledge of minors and the 7 scale modes. While in excellent health at 62, the big limit is sluggishness between the brain and fingers. I could probably hack it as second chair alto in a 40s style big band.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for this Dr Wally!
Tough season at our house too. I hear you. We'll get through it, maybe we'll get through it with easily applicable saxophone studies! Thanks
Hey doc, life is funny right? I saw this video at the time of launch and put it in the backburn of my practice routine. Yesterday I played in my school's band recital and decided to improve my subdivision skills and by accident I end up discovering Klosé method. Between free PDFs online and weird pricey books guess where I finally found out the perfect Klose guide that works for me, lol? Thanks for providing us such quality materials it's awesome! Cheers from Brazil!
Very generous of you Dr Wally, I love a new practice regime. These are very versatile 🙂
Berbiguier (18 etudes by mule). My teacher didn’t believe in teaching ferling and took after his teacher (Londeix) and decided to teach this book. This was my introduction in classical saxophone studies. A blessing i am grateful for
MISSED YOU!!!! Thanks for the resource!
Good to see you, Dr. Wally!
Glad to see you back! 🎉
Well thanks Dragon Girl! If you are really a dragon....I'm skeptical.....
Why thank you! I very much appreciate your video and the free Klose exercises. Have a feeling I'm not nearly as advanced as most of your students but I do get the gist of it. Still don't know all my scales - work in progress. You make progress seem possible! 🎷🎵
Progress is the goal my friend! Enjoy the journey, there is no destination :)
@@drwallysax Thank you so much! I needed that. Thinking I'm going to buy The Dip too. 😊
Yes I need more of things to practice for saxophone.
One thing about playing from the Klose' as well as the CP omnibook is that they both help me to produce the notes I'm hearing in my head while soloing. It really has nothing to do with technical aspects. It's just a way I get my head and fingers wired together.
Jazz makes me want to pawn my saxophone but always glad to learn something new on your channel.
Thanks, I love the Klose Daily Exercises, but have not been sure how to incorporate them into my jazz practise.
I think you're going to love this application, happy practicing!
Thank you very much. Got the link in my email today. Downloaded and will start playing them when I'm off work Thursday.
Love this, very similar to what I was assigned in college. My prof split up exercise 1 into four sections (after the half note bars) A/B/C/D. I'd rotate through sections A/B/D (dropping the section with accidentals) playing with 12 different articulation patterns through the circle of 4ths in all 12 keys. It's always been a great way to get things back in shape after I've been away from the instrument for a while.
That's hardcore! I've enjoyed the re-conditioning feeling of these as well!
Hi Wally. I'm fully on board with the Klose. I was drifting a bit there about 10-12 weeks. My teacher gave me some clear, simple guidelines for each practice session; some simple varied scale exercises to warm up, 1/2 hour of Klose, then playing some transcriptions solos and then tunes. The Klose has really helped in getting around the solos especially the Parker omnibook. There has been a noticeable difference when I play the solos. The Parker semi-quaver triplets are cleaner and much less "fluffy" (eg. the lead in to the bridge in Yardbird Suite, E F#, E, Eb). These quick little patterns are getting more accurate and precise and less like a "blur" of notes.
The approach I'm taking is to practice the Klose straight with a metronome, slowly increasing the speed. The objective is the quicken up the fingers and play the long runs and phrases in time. I'm not necessarily employing swing articulation.
Klose Etudes were the first I ever played. At first they were useful in just getting me around horn. Later, I saw that famous George Carzone video where he says "cut your tongue out" and I started to use them to focus on playing evenly. They are amazing for practicing that.
That full supported, even airstream. Feels goooooood! Happy practicing !
Thank you for the helpful videos.
Odd that this is exactly what I need right now. Thanks You maestro!
Excellent Dr Wally . Thank you.!
great ! I Love Klosé exercises.
the new engraving is much nicer!!! Im a Klose fan from my clarinet days!
So glad you like it, happy practicing!
I have the Klose books for sax and for clarinet.
I should pull them out and use them!
Indeed you should! Happy practicing!
Wow, brilliant! Thankyou Dr Wally.
You are MOST welcome :)
Now this I can get into!!!! Thank you DR Wally!!!
Excellent, happy practicing!
Love your lessons, been practicing your blues 4-bar mixolydian phrases sheet in all 12 keys for the past month or so. Will add this to the practice regimen!
(also thanks to you hepping me to Hank Mobley I have been transcribing his version of Remember - Love it!)
Excellent! I hope you enjoy these!
Thank you. Nice exercise.
Hi! yes, it MUST to work! this is the thing I miss- connection between ears and fingers. till I try to play what Im hearing, I lose the common picture and mode to go on trying. Im sure those exercises will help! Thank you, Doctor!👏👏👏👍
Thanks for the book Dr Wally as allways another good lesson.
My pleasure! Happy practicing!
i’ve never played it but Ferling no. 12 seems like a living hell
Thanks Doc. My kinda etudes. I note the utility of, after playing a continuous stream of notes, sneaking in those held tones.
Occasional unwarranted fermatas can be forgiven ;) (I'm neeeeveer guilty of it ;)
Happy practicing!
I don't allow my state of mind to "dislike" any of the etudes. They all serve different purposes.
"Animato" is one that resembles Klose the most, I guess? Lacour is another set, which I sometimes like, and hate more often than not. But I keep at it to practise them.
Grazie infinite, Maestro !!!😊
Thanks doc, will practice first thing in the morning (...after coffee)!
Of course, we're not animals!
🙉
I've missed you, too, Dr. Wally.
Nice content.... Thanks
I need more explanation on modal interchange
I have absolutely no idea what "modal interchange" means?
Thanks for all of your help!
You are absolutely welcome. Keep practicing and hit me up with questions!
The Ferling etudes were soul crushing to me in college. But remember the Rose etudes?
Ha, the Rose! There were some violin transcription that took years off my life as well :)
Thankyou. It looks good. Now... I go practice.
I used reichert daily exercises and or Macquarre for years but I will give these a go...Ferling is great for oboe and a lot of fun but not so idiomatic for sax!
Ferling.BLURGH. I spent half the lessons explaining archaic ornamentation in the slow etudes my students would never see again. Never again.
One of the advantages of working on the cycle is that we get to hear the motion of V to I wich will be important . Ej C is the V of F so the ear gets use to the motion V to I ....
Ok PTSD from college music lessons... and wasn't this type of torture being used during the Spanish Inquisition? LOL
Joking of course - except for the PTSD from music college classes. I still wake up in a cold sweat in fear of Ferling/DeVille/Klose.
Hits really Klose to home I guess!
Love that you're back Dude. We all missed ya!
Missed you too Jamie! How's your summer?
@@drwallysax Summer has been awesome. Waiting for you to come and check out my vinyl collection. Paul Desmond, Art Pepper and more. Would love to show you my setup dude....
My fingers were moving along with you playing. I had these down decades ago. Every once in awhile, I wonder whatever happened to the book.
Aw, I missed you too, Doc!
I really am curious about why fourths instead of fifths, but I suppose I'll just have to bide my time.
It's the harmonic motion of Dominant to tonic function! Lot's of jazz changes have this :)
@@drwallysax Of course. The way you couched it, I was expecting something nefarious!
Thanks Dr. Wally! I love these exercises! There's so much you could spend a lifetime on them.
And I expect you to, Danny :)
happy practicing my friend!
Massive value with this.
For me it is the book about the saxophone in the 80s, I finished it completely.
@@Iatergator Well, I simply finished that book from beginning to end. I mean Complete Method for Saxophone H. KLOSE.😇
thank you man good stuff😉
Thank you, Dr. Wally! Could anyone tell me the advantage of going round the Circle of 4ths vs the 5ths?
I agree with you about the Circle of FOURTHS - I always draw it for my students with the flats on the right side because that's the way that traditional harmonic motion goes. However, I still call it the Circle of FIFTHS; I just explain that you are descending by fifths, not ascending.
I do like the Klosé exercises - my book was "Jay Arnold's New Edition" from 1951 which I got in 1978 for the princely sum of $2.50. The one thing I don't like about them is that they are only in four keys - C, F, G, and A minor. Some of them go into different key centers in the middle, but never into the more remote keys. Do you ever practice these transposed into different keys? Since you have the digital files, would you ever make different keys available? Good to have you back!
I've not done the entire etude in different keys, just select passages. No plans on releasing more versions currently - more version, MORE QUESTIONS! Happy practicing!
Love this post! Key Q: Memorization. Would you worry about memorizing these as you play them or more just focus on playing them? Is it useful to play them without memorizing them just to "get them under your fingers"? Thanks for reading my q and thanks again for the post!
GREAT question! I would not memorize the entire enchilada - but the selected excerpt's were applying to jazz. Mainly because: There's a ton of stuff on Netflix I need to catch up on :)
Thank you mister Dandy man
i find the exercises perfect for my ability. i’ve been playing for two years and finally feel my embouchure is allowing me to play full range. i’m living in Napoli and find it difficult finding English speaking teachers. could some online lessons be arranged?
We’ve missed you too…. I’ve now been learning for 4 years and have hit a wall….
We ALL hit the wall time to time. There's an excellent book called "The Dip" by Seth Godin, highly recommended! Stick around, I'll set ya right!
Can you review the Selmer signature ? I hear nice things about this horn compared to the supreme. Thanks
Not sure I have access to one, sorry!
OMG 😳 what have you given us?!?! The klose looked good but....i didn't expect it to be such hard work on the embouchure. I did page 1 & 2, which is excercise 1,2&3 slurred as written. Was that not the way to practice? Should I have done 1 excersise at a time? One line at a time? One bar at ay time, one note.....? Did i miss yhe memo on HOW to practice. Ill watch the video again, but any constructive advice from anyone would be appreciated. Thank you. I know its like Brussel sprouts.... good for you lol. ❤❤❤😊
Thanks a lot doctor. Very useful
Most welcome! Hope you enjoy practicing them!
...just what the Doctor ordered!!
On the exercises can you still implement the other major/minors scales.
Thank you very much doc
You are absolutely most welcome! Happy practicing!
Lenny Niehaus has a similiar method.Is it a ghost tonguing?
At 8:25 you make a comment about the "mental math" of moving around the circle of 4ths that leaves me in profound despair. I'm one of those people who has memorized that F -> Bb -> Eb. And when I finish my F major scale I "think" about switching to Bb and adding another flat. In other words, I definitely don't "hear" that transition.
Is that a skill that will ever come? Or am I thinking about it wrongly? I'm concerned that I've simply given up using my ears because I know what comes next.
I know this might seem to be splitting hairs but I'm aware that my ear is quite terrible despite some decent technical proficiency. To put an even finer point on it, I'm quite sure that if you hadn't told me I wouldn't have been able to tell which direction around the circle you were going.
First, don't stress (certainly no reason for despair)! It's a trained, learnable skill. Andy. May I call you Andy? I know college saxophone professors (classical) that couldn't play happy birthday by ear. It's just not a skill they've practiced! Here's how to start. Play Frère Jacques starting on C. Then, start it on F (without think of scale degrees or intervals).
Now - play it on C again - then before moving on - SING an F! Miss it?! Who gives a shit. Play the F and try again. Then, when you can predict how the "F" will sound - finish the tune in that key - keep going around the circle. It's not about "completing" the exercise, but building the aural skills.
If everyone could already do this, I'd be unemployed.
There is a “no smoking” sign up in my practice room. So when I’m in there working this stuff, it’s Klose, but no cigar.
Level 9 Dad joke, I'll allow it.
Nice video quality bump. New camera and lens?
Upgraded to a Sony A7vi a few months back, thanks for noticing!
What puzzles me at Klosé, is when to breath. Here you did it at the end of the bars of 1/2 notes, making quite a pause, resulting in 11, 10, 14 and 10 bar phrases. It may be difficult for a beginner, or when playing slower. Furthermore, starting from exercise 3 there are no such clear breathing points. Any tips or suggestions?
Can you talk any more about going around in the circle of fourths? I don't really understand that part
Absolutely - it's moving "down' a 5th (same as up a 4th) - it's the dominant to tonic function (harmonically). A very common progression in jazz - check out the bridge to "I got Rhythm" - circle of 4ths! Tons of tunes use this, it sounds cool to practice too :)
I started to work on the Marcel Mule 53 Etudes… never got even close to the written tempo on those 🤣
what Mouth Piece are you using Doc?
that is the soon to be released GS: Hyperion! Collaboration with GS mouthpieces and my new company! Thanks of asking :)
@@drwallysax thanks for the blazing response.
@@drwallysax lovely sound, obviously has nothing to do with thousands of hours of practice! Do you play with many different mouthpieces? How does the Hyperion differ from the Selmer C* S 80
There haven't been any particular etudes that I've *hated*, but my parents truly hated hearing me work on Rascher's 158 Exercises. Some of the more dissonant shapes lead to a pretty serious moment with my father, and led to me refusing to practice at home for the back half of my senior year of high school. Thankfully, I'd already passed my audition for uni, but yikes.
What?! Who doesn't love endless diminished patterns for hours on end?!!! Hey Tom!
When you say to play around the circle of fourths, do you mean just adding the flat or playing it in C, F, Bb and so forth?
EXACTLY! It's the dominant to tonic function (V7-I root movement). Rhythm changes bridge and tons of tunes feature this motion. You got it!
Thanks... I haven't played for a few months, I'm rusty
I missed you too
Awwwww :)
@@drwallysax I like the phrases in klose 1 with the chromatic passing notes. It’s hard for me to remember where the chromatic passing notes are when I go to head transpose though.
Klose is the best. Good bye feeling
That is possibly the best/funniest autocorrect I've ever seen. "Ferling" was autocorrected to "FEELING" (just did the same to me). I know what you mean (but man, that was funny).
Happy practicing !
Confused! Do my tongue touch the reed or not? Different information all over!
Why did you changed bar 20?
Feelin sassy, might change it back, dunno
How can I enroll for classes?
My private studio will likely have some openings in fall (I send out emails 2X a year, usually). Happy practicing!
If you look a little Klose it’s easy to trace The Tracks Of My Tears
Klosé your eyes and I'll kiss you. Tomorrow I'll miss you. Remember I'll always be Tru-Tone
Hello.
The worst etude I’ve ever played has to be selective studies pg 3
I think you should try to explain it a little more slowly. Maybe it would be more accessible to everyone who follows you. Thank you.
I'm not easy to follow for non-native English speakers, admittedly. But, I speak how I speak! You can always slow down in the video settings (gear icon in the video player). Happy practicing!
BORING!
Why George, that's not polite. You could hurt my feelings!
@@drwallysax sorry but long tones are boring too.
My fingers were moving along with you playing. I had these down decades ago. Every once in awhile, I wonder whatever happened to the book.