THIS ... WAS ... EXCELLENT ... GUIDANCE. I practice scales ... they are important! But I will NEVER practice them "mindlessly" again (unless I am just learning them). The wisdom and basic common sense presented in the tutorial cannot be argued against if the context it understood and respected. Thanks, Jeff! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JazzWire! :-)
@@JeffAntoniukEducator... One of the reasons why I enjoy your video-tutorials so much is that you move beyond the "this is how you play this" to the way more enriching: "this is how you apply this" approach. It's way more enlightening! It challenges me to be a better player. Anyway ... I gotta go practice! 😉
@@aljerones99 I love it!! You are totally correct of course. "Here's a new thing to do" is not teaching at all. "Here's what it means, and here is how to get traction" is always my goal.
Happy B'day Jazz Wire !! Jeff, I recall hearing that everything you play as you practice should sound musical. Thanks for the tips on how to go about doing so. I remember my late mentor. I told him that I've been practicing playing scales, maj, minors, dom7. He said, yeah I can hear that when you play. He did not tell how to not sound like scale practice.
For years I've practiced scales ( keyboard ) in an attempt to learn jazz. Yet, I've never been able to establish a relationship between them and actually being able to play a tune or a melody. This gives me great insight. I will continue to practice scales - rather I will use the methodology you have postulated. I think that hereafter my practicing while becoming more challenging will at the same time be more engaging and rewarding. Btw what you propose is not heretical - it's different :- ) Thank you, Jeff - Will
So glad you are going to dive in with this. When the time is right, join us at www.JazzWire.net. That is the rocket fuel we can pour on your development. I hope to get to work with you there.
@@jazzdorefree194 Wow! It's a rather long but scholastic response to my remarks. I'm not very practiced with my theory. So, i just try to play things that sound good to me. So, of what i understood from what you said i can reconcile with my approach and amend. Thank you. 😊☺
Thanks for taking the time to write. As I say in the video, there is nothing inherently evil about scales, but we can just be a bit more creative, with scales, make them a bit more useable.
Great lesson there Jeff I love it, I too often go octave to octave, really valuable information here I'm definitely going to practice these variations, thankyou :)
I had a laugh during this video. I worked out that yes, I have been playing scales for exactly forty-five years! 😁 Although nowadays, I usually only use them to get myself back into shape on the piano when I’m feeling rusty, or haven't played for a while. Playing them similar motion on piano is a good workout! On my other main instrument (chromatic harmonica) I tend to practise the bebop scales mostly. Again, mostly for technical proficiency. However, I have a slightly different take on the good advice you present here. I incorporate enclosures at various places in the scale. This has the effect of turning things into a more musical phrase, and gets the various enclosures drilled as well. Twelve keys of major and seventh bebop scales interspersed with the many variations of enclosures gives almost limitless variations. Thanks again for the great videos. 👍
Happy birthday to Jazz Wire. My question is: How many shirts do you actually own? Every week for the past 125 lessons you seem to be wearing a new shirt. Am I wrong or are you a shirt maven? :) And, BTW, thanks for all the effort you have put into Digging Deeper. I have learned a great deal that I've applied to my practicing and gigging.
An excellent question. I have an aircraft hanger outside London, near Gatwick, where I store my shirts in hermetically sealed pods designed by Elon Musk. I have a courier hand deliver me batches of 15 at a time, flown to the USA on a bootleg Concorde jet. We wrote a pretty complicated algorithm that allows us to repeat a shirt only once every 319.324 years. It's based on the Fibonacci Series, if I'm not mistaken. At any rate, SHIRTS is really what this channel is about. Jazz and music, clearly a distant second! 😂😂😂. Thanks for tuning in, and MANY thanks for giving me the opportunity to be a huge smart ass. Cheers, Ken!
Another great video, Jeff! A couple of questions: first, do you literally mean we should stop practicing scales traditionally once we have them learned, and instead only practice scales as music? Welcome advice if that’s what you mean. Second, and further on this topic, how about one or more videos no runs? Thanks!
What I understood, the wrong thing to do is to only practice scales over and over again. A better approach is to make it so that the scales don't take the majority of the practice time. I might be wrong though. What do you think?
I just don't see a reason to EVER practice a C major scale from C to C again. Go up to the 9th. C D E F G A B C D and back down. JUST that ONE change is an amazing thing.
Absolutely! This video suggests doing what he says, which is step #1. Then I'm suggesting we move on to step #2, and not stay on Step #1 for 45 years!! Hope you enjoy trying it out!
Thanks for taking the time to write, and it is indeed too bad that you learned nothing. The video was 90% teaching an incredibly important concept. The other 10% was offering a path that has worked for many thousands of students of mine over the years. I feel strongly about both the 90% AND the 10%. Sorry that Digging Deeper isn't for you, but that's OK. Best wishes.
THIS ... WAS ... EXCELLENT ... GUIDANCE. I practice scales ... they are important! But I will NEVER practice them "mindlessly" again (unless I am just learning them). The wisdom and basic common sense presented in the tutorial cannot be argued against if the context it understood and respected. Thanks, Jeff!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JazzWire! :-)
Thanks Alex. Glad you enjoyed this. Just moving away from "mindless practice" is SUUUUCH a big deal.
@@JeffAntoniukEducator... One of the reasons why I enjoy your video-tutorials so much is that you move beyond the "this is how you play this" to the way more enriching: "this is how you apply this" approach.
It's way more enlightening! It challenges me to be a better player.
Anyway ... I gotta go practice! 😉
@@aljerones99 I love it!! You are totally correct of course. "Here's a new thing to do" is not teaching at all. "Here's what it means, and here is how to get traction" is always my goal.
Happy B'day Jazz Wire !! Jeff, I recall hearing that everything you play as you practice should sound musical. Thanks for the tips on how to go about doing so. I remember my late mentor. I told him that I've been practicing playing scales, maj, minors, dom7. He said, yeah I can hear that when you play. He did not tell how to not sound like scale practice.
That's really the deal, David! Just make your practice MUSICAL and you are moving ahead faster than you would otherwise.
Very good video, as usual, Jeff. Happy Birthday, JazzWire! The sale ends on my birthday! Sign up today!
Excellent Willian. See you on www.JazzWire.net, brother!
For years I've practiced scales ( keyboard ) in an attempt to learn jazz. Yet, I've never been able to establish a relationship between them and actually being able to play a tune or a melody. This gives me great insight. I will continue to practice scales - rather I will use the methodology you have postulated. I think that hereafter my practicing while becoming more challenging will at the same time be more engaging and rewarding. Btw what you propose is not heretical - it's different :- ) Thank you, Jeff - Will
So glad you are going to dive in with this. When the time is right, join us at www.JazzWire.net. That is the rocket fuel we can pour on your development. I hope to get to work with you there.
@@JeffAntoniukEducator Bet!
@@jazzdorefree194 Wow! It's a rather long but scholastic response to my remarks. I'm not very practiced with my theory. So, i just try to play things that sound good to me. So, of what i understood from what you said i can reconcile with my approach and amend. Thank you. 😊☺
@@jazzdorefree194 OK I'll do my best with it. And when I encounter difficulty I'll step back, take a time out and come back to it later
Awesome lesson, Maestro Jeff!
Happy Birthday, Jazzwire!!
Thanks for being here!!
Thanks Jeff. I recently had a discussion with some musicians about this very thing. Don’t practice scales!
Thanks for taking the time to write. As I say in the video, there is nothing inherently evil about scales, but we can just be a bit more creative, with scales, make them a bit more useable.
Great lesson there Jeff I love it, I too often go octave to octave, really valuable information here I'm definitely going to practice these variations, thankyou :)
So cool! That ONE little change really changes everything in a very hip way. Give it a try ad let me know who it goes for you.
I had a laugh during this video. I worked out that yes, I have been playing scales for exactly forty-five years! 😁 Although nowadays, I usually only use them to get myself back into shape on the piano when I’m feeling rusty, or haven't played for a while. Playing them similar motion on piano is a good workout!
On my other main instrument (chromatic harmonica) I tend to practise the bebop scales mostly. Again, mostly for technical proficiency. However, I have a slightly different take on the good advice you present here. I incorporate enclosures at various places in the scale. This has the effect of turning things into a more musical phrase, and gets the various enclosures drilled as well. Twelve keys of major and seventh bebop scales interspersed with the many variations of enclosures gives almost limitless variations.
Thanks again for the great videos. 👍
Haha! You and me both. 45 years of scales is maybe, just maybe . . . enough. Time to mix it up a bit!! :)
Happy birthday to Jazz Wire. My question is: How many shirts do you actually own? Every week for the past 125 lessons you seem to be wearing a new shirt. Am I wrong or are you a shirt maven? :) And, BTW, thanks for all the effort you have put into Digging Deeper. I have learned a great deal that I've applied to my practicing and gigging.
An excellent question. I have an aircraft hanger outside London, near Gatwick, where I store my shirts in hermetically sealed pods designed by Elon Musk. I have a courier hand deliver me batches of 15 at a time, flown to the USA on a bootleg Concorde jet. We wrote a pretty complicated algorithm that allows us to repeat a shirt only once every 319.324 years. It's based on the Fibonacci Series, if I'm not mistaken. At any rate, SHIRTS is really what this channel is about. Jazz and music, clearly a distant second! 😂😂😂. Thanks for tuning in, and MANY thanks for giving me the opportunity to be a huge smart ass. Cheers, Ken!
@@JeffAntoniukEducator haha nice
Another great video and simpel solution to stop practice beeing a zombie ,-)
Se you on jazzwire, the birthdaypresent sounds fantastic.
So glad I'll be working with you on www.JazzWire.net, Michael!!! Great news. Glad you are taking advantage of the "First Birthday Gift!"
Nice, thanks! Great lesson!!
Thanks for taking the time to write. Glad you enjoyed it.
Another great video, Jeff! A couple of questions: first, do you literally mean we should stop practicing scales traditionally once we have them learned, and instead only practice scales as music? Welcome advice if that’s what you mean. Second, and further on this topic, how about one or more videos no runs? Thanks!
What I understood, the wrong thing to do is to only practice scales over and over again. A better approach is to make it so that the scales don't take the majority of the practice time. I might be wrong though. What do you think?
I just don't see a reason to EVER practice a C major scale from C to C again. Go up to the 9th. C D E F G A B C D and back down. JUST that ONE change is an amazing thing.
ernnie watts says practice all the scales how can you play if you don't have the tools?
Absolutely! This video suggests doing what he says, which is step #1. Then I'm suggesting we move on to step #2, and not stay on Step #1 for 45 years!! Hope you enjoy trying it out!
I understand how you are not saying don't play the scales just change them, rhythm, playing to the 9 and kind of make a tune out of them. I get it.
@@pkbby1 You GOT it!!
I thought I was going to learn something but it's just a sales pitch 😕😕😕
Thanks for taking the time to write, and it is indeed too bad that you learned nothing. The video was 90% teaching an incredibly important concept. The other 10% was offering a path that has worked for many thousands of students of mine over the years. I feel strongly about both the 90% AND the 10%. Sorry that Digging Deeper isn't for you, but that's OK. Best wishes.