Brilliant. This is absolutely the correct way to study this. I'm a guitar player and there are hundreds of guitar "teachers" on UA-cam who specialize in the famous five pentatonic fretboard patterns. Millions of guitar players spend their lives running up and down the neck using 90% visual patterns for minor pentatonic cliches------- instead of learning the actual names of the notes and scale/chord positions they are playing. Your teaching is 100% easier and more musical and more interesting. Do I hear Charlie Christian here or what?
I just want to tell you that you have been a part of my jazz journey. Im too poor to take lessons so I just watch your videos. Im currently working on a solo for a jazz festival. Again Thank you Jeff. @jeffschneider
Jeff! I’m coming back to this video like three years later and realizing I remember every word. What an impact borrowing your licks from this video has made in my playing since then! Thanks for the quality content. Would love to hear what you’re favorite licks/pieces of vocabulary/idea starters are nowadays in your next video!
A great example of major-minor mixing is the melody to Clifford Brown's "Sandu", in which the first four bars are entirely major, the next four are entirely minor pentatonic, and the last four are both. Check it out, it's pretty cool.
Jeff Thanks for making your lessons in concert pitch so I can slow it down and study on my Harmonica with you. Jesus bless you lift you up... Cool multiphonic closing
One of the most common "grace note" moves is to go from the b3 to the 3, which is quite literally THE transition from minor to major. (In C, from the Eb to the E).
Your videos are great Jeff, I'm a 'play by ear' player rather than a theory player, but your videos make theory very interesting and far less complicated than what I've experienced before. Keep up the good work!
Minor pentatonic scale: Alabama, major pentatonic: In a sentimental Mood, minor to major Street Scenes by David Sanchez ? Great to be able to relate your lessons to some tunes I love. It's highly educational. Thanks Jeff for all those vids, including collaborations with Nahre Sol and Adam Neely ;)
Just paid and downloaded your guide for this video...well worth 12 dollars! Like the way you deviated the phrases in tempo and octaves..what a difference hearing them made.
Hey Jeff just want to thank you for your awesome work and ignore the haters talking shit. You're doing a great job, and I realize you are becoming my favourite music educator on UA-cam
Just learning to phrase on guitar and want to first learn and play different musical variations of phrasing with just two notes so this will be very useful God Bless and Happy New Year
Honestly, this is the BEST sax learning channel on UA-cam! You sir make it interesting and easy to understand, although sometimes you go to fast with the Theory. LOLOLOL. I get lost sometimes when you explain the 5TH OR 6TH OR 3RD. I have to count it to figure it out. But AWESOME lesson here as usual.
Hi Jeff. I am 51 and learning saxophone. I have become addicted to your you tube videos. You make me confident of learning saxophone and music in general . I would to develop jazz impro. skills . Please send me some written impro licks pdf to my email.
Hey Jeff! I have to say I think your lessons are the best i've found on youtube, thanks! Do you have some tips for getting that classic 80's/90's very bright vibrant alto tone? I realise a great deal of it is to do with the setup/mouthpiece but is there more I could be doing with my technique to get that big full sound?
Hey! Im in day 2 with a jsax and this was crazy helpful. I'm a string instrument player just getting into woodwind so noodling in pentatonics comes quick to the ears. Really nice to know the mixture of fingerings and grace notes. Thank you :)
Great video. One thing that would be good to hear you talk about: how to play over the IV and V chords in a blues. I see that one can stay in the main key (say Bb7) and use Major Penta, blues notes, Minor Penta, blues scale. But what can one do when the Eb7 (IV) and F7 (V) chord appear? Do you switch to playing notes from the Major Penta, Minor Penta etc Eb7 and F7 or stay with Bb7 throughout? Cheers, Mike.
Hi Mike, you could definitely switch gears and play the corresponding arpeggios and scales for each chord. Depends how closely you want to outline the changes.
Thank you Jeff. Great video as always. I bought all of your lick books from your store and they are fantastic. I like the blues licks one the most, great content. Keep up the work :)
It seems like mixing the major and minor pentatonic scale is only applicable in a major blues... any thoughts/general principles for creating lines over a minor blues? Any great recordings/artists/tunes to study to get a better handle on minor blues?
Javier, you need to transpose! C concert is D for Bb instruments, and A for Eb Instruments.Without going into to much theory, If you're playing a Bb instrument, the second note of the concert key is your key. For Eb instruments, the 6th note of the concert key is your key. Good luck!
I'm a guitar player and I try to incorporate sax type lines into my playing.... I'm always strugling with Dominant I and IV chords.. I'm trying to use diminished, melodic minor, while tone and all types of other scales.. I just cant seem to fit them in to my playing fluently... any suggestions to simplify this? thank you!
+Nicholas Dentato Listen to Michael Brecker, Coltrane and Scott Henderson and practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice !
+Nicholas Dentato Hey Nicholas, I would first "compose" lines using the scales you're working on and then practice incorporating them into your improvisations. It will make the abstract a bit more concrete. Let me know how it goes!
+Michael Danny Hi Michael, I don't have too many recent videos of me performing because I've been doing more composing these days, however you can check out some of my older stuff here: bit.ly/1NudK1R
Brilliant. This is absolutely the correct way to study this. I'm a guitar player and there are hundreds of guitar "teachers" on UA-cam who specialize in the famous five pentatonic fretboard patterns. Millions of guitar players spend their lives running up and down the neck using 90% visual patterns for minor pentatonic cliches------- instead of learning the actual names of the notes and scale/chord positions they are playing. Your teaching is 100% easier and more musical and more interesting. Do I hear Charlie Christian here or what?
tell you what man your teaching is so clear. I'm a bass player and your tips are great
Thanks so much, Steve!
Jeff Schneider Your a great Teacher wish I had you in my living room everyday
Dj Hott kinky
Holy fuck, a bass player that understands something!!
Isaac Temple Bass players be underated... Sadly for a reason
I just want to tell you that you have been a part of my jazz journey. Im too poor to take lessons so I just watch your videos. Im currently working on a solo for a jazz festival. Again Thank you Jeff. @jeffschneider
Jeff!
I’m coming back to this video like three years later and realizing I remember every word. What an impact borrowing your licks from this video has made in my playing since then! Thanks for the quality content. Would love to hear what you’re favorite licks/pieces of vocabulary/idea starters are nowadays in your next video!
A great example of major-minor mixing is the melody to Clifford Brown's "Sandu", in which the first four bars are entirely major, the next four are entirely minor pentatonic, and the last four are both. Check it out, it's pretty cool.
Jeff
Thanks for making your lessons in concert pitch so I can slow it down and study on my Harmonica with you. Jesus bless you lift you up...
Cool multiphonic closing
Very well explained. I conceptually know this but hearing you explain it, makes me more aware of the tool in the tool box. Thanks!
One of the most common "grace note" moves is to go from the b3 to the 3, which is quite literally THE transition from minor to major. (In C, from the Eb to the E).
Your videos are a blessing, man. Thanks for all that you do to help others.
+Mark Nardone Thanks, Mark! I really appreciate the comment. Best of luck with your music!
Your videos are great Jeff, I'm a 'play by ear' player rather than a theory player, but your videos make theory very interesting and far less complicated than what I've experienced before. Keep up the good work!
I agree with Steve Crozet, your teaching is very clear. Love the harmonic structure stuff. From another Bass Player.
Thank you so much, Brian. I really appreciate that.
i have 45 years old i loved sax and i have sax... because i like you.. i can say.... your my teacher... thank you
I am a singer and your tips are very useful for my scat lines. Thank you!
So glad to hear this is helpful. Thanks for watching and happy practicing!
Hi Jeff. You are simply an awesome teacher. Thank you!
+katterberry Thanks so much! I enjoy it.
I learned the concept of this. Thank you. I will apply it to my current scale I’m working on
Minor pentatonic scale: Alabama, major pentatonic: In a sentimental Mood, minor to major Street Scenes by David Sanchez ? Great to be able to relate your lessons to some tunes I love. It's highly educational.
Thanks Jeff for all those vids, including collaborations with Nahre Sol and Adam Neely ;)
Love the way notes just bounce on saxophone; no other instrument like it.
just what i need to start understanding the major minor and blues scales !!! super !! even a beginner on alto sax like me can understand .. yuhu
Great lesson! Adds a lot of flavor to the playing
Just paid and downloaded your guide for this video...well worth 12 dollars! Like the way you deviated the phrases in tempo and octaves..what a difference hearing them made.
Thanks so much! Exactly what was needed. :)
The opening lick made me cry a little. Sounds amazing!
Hey Jeff just want to thank you for your awesome work and ignore the haters talking shit. You're doing a great job, and I realize you are becoming my favourite music educator on UA-cam
Thanks Aman :)
Awesome teaching. I've learned a ton from your videos and as a fellow alto player it's great to have such great examples.
Thanks, Joe! So glad you're learning.
I really like your channel. You explain well and keep it interesting and relevant. Also, I'm bald- really jealous of your hair.
great videos. I like that you start about simple from the fundamentals and then build on them, much easier to understand. thanks!
You tell 'em, Jeff!
+Music Teacher Guy YUP!
Just learning to phrase on guitar
and want to first learn and play different musical variations of phrasing with just two notes so this will be very useful God Bless and Happy New Year
terrific, as usual, thanks
+nr3rful Thanks!
Terrific - thanks!
I had so much fun with this.
Im coming back here!! 💯💯🙏 Subscribed.
Awesome. Im going to purchase the blues lick guide on Friday.
Thanks, Dorian!
Honestly, this is the BEST sax learning channel on UA-cam! You sir make it interesting and easy to understand, although sometimes you go to fast with the Theory. LOLOLOL. I get lost sometimes when you explain the 5TH OR 6TH OR 3RD. I have to count it to figure it out. But AWESOME lesson here as usual.
You are so good and thanks for your tricks I was searching this type of video for long time !
Helpful video, thanks
Great and simple to get
Great tips! thank you so much ... so very helpful
My pleasure, Mario. Thanks for watching.
Thanks, great lesson!👍🎶
this is great for singers!! thank you!
these videos are awesome, appreciate your work! keep on doing them
jeff your great
Just stumbled across a couple of your videos. Super cool! Definitely gonna try some of these techniques! 👍🏼👍🏼
Love your videos!! You are helping me a lot!!
Bro you are alright with me! thanks for all the information and I'm getting those licks!
+Nehemiah Stewart Thanks!!
So when playing w a band you would use major and minor while they play c right
SICK, yet tasty! :)
yes yes yes!
You're greatttttt
Thank you, Alireza!!!
Hi Jeff. I am 51 and learning saxophone. I have become addicted to your you tube videos. You make me confident of learning saxophone and music in general . I would to develop jazz impro. skills . Please send me some written impro licks pdf to my email.
This helps so much!
Great advicee
+Marie Joe H. Thanks, Marie :)
EXCELLENT
You are amazing!!
this is Great! thank you very much :D
+vkitor Thanks for watching :)
Hey Jeff! I have to say I think your lessons are the best i've found on youtube, thanks!
Do you have some tips for getting that classic 80's/90's very bright vibrant alto tone? I realise a great deal of it is to do with the setup/mouthpiece but is there more I could be doing with my technique to get that big full sound?
Muchas Gracias !
cool ideas Jeff, thanks! Hey, I like your articulation. Do you have a video that discusses articulation practice techniques?
+Fred Spek Thanks, Fred. No articulation videos just yet, but I'll be doing some soon, so stay tuned!
Super cool.
Hey! Im in day 2 with a jsax and this was crazy helpful. I'm a string instrument player just getting into woodwind so noodling in pentatonics comes quick to the ears. Really nice to know the mixture of fingerings and grace notes. Thank you :)
Greatinstruction great sound again!
thanks... I'll work on that.
3:06 my favorite lick! killing!!
+Ian Jones hahahah
Ian Jones that's the minor pentatonic scale + the #11 or the blues scale not a lick lol
Ethan Auringer that's the joke....
great videos. Thanks so much!
super cool
Thanks for the video, this has always been one of my fav things to do on guitar, (along with blue notes).
Hi Jeff . May you guide on how approach Take 5 as played by SKA.
Great video. One thing that would be good to hear you talk about: how to play over the IV and V chords in a blues. I see that one can stay in the main key (say Bb7) and use Major Penta, blues notes, Minor Penta, blues scale. But what can one do when the Eb7 (IV) and F7 (V) chord appear? Do you switch to playing notes from the Major Penta, Minor Penta etc Eb7 and F7 or stay with Bb7 throughout? Cheers, Mike.
Hi Mike, you could definitely switch gears and play the corresponding arpeggios and scales for each chord. Depends how closely you want to outline the changes.
this helped out so much! Thanks! you got a new sub :D
I've bought your collection of ricks and I'm studying jazz. Can I use the same rick with a different key?
Love your videos, Jeff. Any advice on bluesy/gospel 16th note runs?
Thank, Dan! Did you check out the guide that goes along with this video? There are some in there!
+Jeff Schneider Haha I didn't want to spend $12. No worries though, I'll look into it at some point
great boy
Hey Jeff, great videos, thanks a lot man. Will these licks be appropriate for bass?
Where are you from Jeff? Would you happen to know any Canadian sax players like P.J. Perry or Phil Dwyer. Love your channel.
Nice !!
Thanks, Gabriel!
10-9-21 what is formulas for minor to major pentatonics? Good stuff!
Thank you Jeff. Great video as always. I bought all of your lick books from your store and they are fantastic. I like the blues licks one the most, great content. Keep up the work :)
I want the 25 motifs but I can't find a link..... Boo! Awesome lesson
Fun fact: The Among Us theme uses the blues scale. Now you have to live with that.
Hey Jeff, couldn't find the lick pack in the link.
good vid
+punching walls Thanks!
It seems like mixing the major and minor pentatonic scale is only applicable in a major blues... any thoughts/general principles for creating lines over a minor blues? Any great recordings/artists/tunes to study to get a better handle on minor blues?
i like your hair
+Jonathan burrito Thanks, it's REAL.
Wavy
Jeff I’m not working during the COVID19 Pandemic. Do you have a discount code available?
Are there places within blues where this (i.e., ‘mixed’ pentatonics) doesn’t work so well? What about outside of blues?
I bought the 25 licks but unfortunately is only for concert key instruments, is not included for Bb or Eb instruments :(
Javier, you need to transpose! C concert is D for Bb instruments, and A for Eb Instruments.Without going into to much theory, If you're playing a Bb instrument, the second note of the concert key is your key. For Eb instruments, the 6th note of the concert key is your key. Good luck!
nice dude
After you do the grace note (b5 to 5 and b5 to 4) what are the other notes in the riff?
Hey I love your videos but can you say the notes on the sax as well as Concert C to make it easier.
Jeff please help every time I try and purchase a course from your website it says in valid zip code i have tried like 10 times can you help?
Hi Jeff!
Is your licks in all keys?
great vid, sadly link to licks no longer work
I Need help...please what should I learn to start playing songs by ear..
For an alto sax do you advice metal mouthpieces for blues and gospel?
would I be able to learnt these licks on the keyboard if I buy this ??
yes definitely
The link gives an error page on your site. Is there a new link?
So I presume you can play these major/minor riffs over major or minor chords ?
Everything possible I guess but a c minor major chord c eb g b should be interesting…
Is that a mark vi or a series ii
I'm a guitar player and I try to incorporate sax type lines into my playing.... I'm always strugling with Dominant I and IV chords.. I'm trying to use diminished, melodic minor, while tone and all types of other scales.. I just cant seem to fit them in to my playing fluently... any suggestions to simplify this? thank you!
+Nicholas Dentato Listen to Michael Brecker, Coltrane and Scott Henderson and practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice !
+Nicholas Dentato Hey Nicholas, I would first "compose" lines using the scales you're working on and then practice incorporating them into your improvisations. It will make the abstract a bit more concrete. Let me know how it goes!
can I see videos of you performing?
+Michael Danny Hi Michael, I don't have too many recent videos of me performing because I've been doing more composing these days, however you can check out some of my older stuff here: bit.ly/1NudK1R
I tried to go to the page couldn't find it?