How to Shred on Diminished Scales (15 Exercises!)

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  • Опубліковано 9 гру 2019
  • For sheet music of all 15 Diminished Scale Exercises applied to both diminished scales in all 12 keys visit: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/pdf-...
    Chad LB plays Nexus Saxophones, Mouthpieces and Reeds. For more information upon release, visit www.nexussax.com
    Tour dates: www.chadlb.com/shows
    Chad LB is an international recording artist who has toured globally as a bandleader, and with superstars ranging from Chris Botti to Taylor Swift. He has been a featured soloist with premiere ensembles like the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and was formerly a member of the multi GRAMMY winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Despite his demanding tour schedule, Chad is on faculty as a visiting artist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for their new Roots, Jazz and American Music degree program.

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  • @ChadLefkowitzBrown
    @ChadLefkowitzBrown  3 роки тому +2

    For sheet music of all 15 Diminished Scale Exercises applied to both diminished scales in all 12 keys visit: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/pdf-packages
    Mouthpiece: use $10 coupon code CHADXSYOS at www.syos.co/en/shop/products/signature-saxophone-mouthpiece/chad-lefkowitz-brown-tenor

  • @jasonbedford466
    @jasonbedford466 4 роки тому +15

    I've been practicing these PDF packages for a few weeks now... Feel like I've had some real practicing breakthroughs for the first time in years! Thanks for all the great content.

    • @romeubeatotech
      @romeubeatotech 4 роки тому +1

      Jason Bedford same here! Incredible!

  • @johnnycash4850
    @johnnycash4850 2 роки тому +3

    This is amazing. I don't play saxophone, but this is endlessly useful on guitar. I'm writing a metal song that is in the half whole diminished scale alot and I couldn't find an interesting way to solo in it

  • @glazesax
    @glazesax 3 роки тому +1

    I've got your books from your website... This is the really best Jazz Saxophone Lesson. Ever! Thanks.

  • @iTriguy1
    @iTriguy1 4 роки тому +4

    I wish I had these resources when I was in school in the mid 90s. It would have made such a huge difference in my playing.

  • @haroldtheraypist8774
    @haroldtheraypist8774 4 роки тому +35

    I appreciate these tutorials a lot Chad, you are one of the few youtubers who will actually give concise information in one video!

  • @davideastlee9983
    @davideastlee9983 4 роки тому +4

    This is very excellent Chad. Thank you for ALL your videos, playing and teaching!

  • @Funk1o1
    @Funk1o1 4 роки тому +3

    Just got this pdf. I have been trying to obtain this sound for years. Thank you!

  • @jamelsaxo6788
    @jamelsaxo6788 4 роки тому +1

    Good morning Teacher . Thank you very much for these valuable lessons. The thing that struck me is the clear and sound pedagogical method. I also hope that all professors follow the same path. Thank you .

  • @martinlehfeldt5514
    @martinlehfeldt5514 Рік тому

    Chad, I love your lessons. I've downloaded several, over last couple years. Really helped my playing. Lots of material for the money. Thx

  • @newtonlkh
    @newtonlkh Рік тому

    Great exercises! They all sounds cool!

  • @davidsmusic
    @davidsmusic 4 роки тому

    Such a great video Chad!

  • @maumosrecorder
    @maumosrecorder 4 роки тому +1

    Great educator and performer!

  • @sergej100qca4
    @sergej100qca4 4 роки тому +2

    Great video!

  • @eternalrainbow-cj3iu
    @eternalrainbow-cj3iu 4 роки тому +1

    Hi Chad, being 35 years a jazz guitarist and now 5 years a pianist, I still can learn a lot of you...Great! I had my first gigs with piano since 11/2 year...and have a teacher for both guitar and piano, I studied classical guitar, and did a lot of Bach, My favourite style is Fusion, Still Warm/Pick Hits live Scofield, Spryo Gyra etc...Joe Henderson I am also very interested in I played with a Dutch drummer who played with Joe henderson...Henk Zomer is his name, his younger brother is a genius saxphone player who invented in the days here in Holland Hybrid Hexatonic...which still is not so much played..because it is rather difficult(creating jsut 6 scale to play a tune...)I had some lessons from him and I am still searching this sound further out still very difficult for me to applie it rightly...

  • @edthesaxplayer8450
    @edthesaxplayer8450 3 роки тому

    fabulous thanks

  • @codetta801
    @codetta801 2 роки тому

    thank you. you are very giving with your knowledge,

  • @rafaelortsespadero4870
    @rafaelortsespadero4870 4 роки тому

    Muchas Gracias !

  • @nicholasheide688
    @nicholasheide688 4 роки тому +1

    Gold Mine!

  • @fernandof.8248
    @fernandof.8248 4 роки тому +1

    Very good

  • @johnspiby9793
    @johnspiby9793 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks for your insightful tutorials Chad. For me, it's great to have your lesson 'events' to inspire revisiting neglected directions of practice materials. I also appreciate you paying homage to educators before you such as you have at 1:39, by using the DNA symbol used on the cover of Walt Weiskopf's 'Understanding The Diminished Scale'. Great stuff, and I do, without sarcasm, anxiously look forward to future tutorials.

  • @bryan2ghyss
    @bryan2ghyss 4 роки тому +1

    You play so beautifully, when is your show (

  • @azzafadaly
    @azzafadaly 4 роки тому +1

    Great

  • @fernandof.8248
    @fernandof.8248 4 роки тому +1

    Muito bom chad

  • @JJ_Photo
    @JJ_Photo 4 роки тому

    Great video! And also a study on how you shape your tone. You bend your tone with a sligth fall, especially when going up to the next higher tone. Just a sligth bend, that (among many other things) creates your unique sound. Listen for example to 7:12 Interesting.

  • @paracletusrevelation4080
    @paracletusrevelation4080 4 роки тому +1

    That's science!

  • @user-uw5bb8ry7l
    @user-uw5bb8ry7l 4 роки тому

    Wow very thank you 😍😅😍😎😭😭

  • @esdrasbrandao4247
    @esdrasbrandao4247 3 роки тому

    Muito bom

  • @Darrylbpoagent
    @Darrylbpoagent 3 роки тому

    Great content. I have been hearing this sound and could not get it for years. Which PDF package on your site has the exercises from this video?

  • @JeffLewisTrumpet
    @JeffLewisTrumpet 4 роки тому

    Well done Chad!

  • @jonathanstewart5269
    @jonathanstewart5269 4 роки тому +9

    I'm pretty sure the pattern you are playing at 9:23 doesn't match what you are showing on the staff. It's actually the next pattern you play.

  • @charlesmungai1281
    @charlesmungai1281 4 роки тому +1

    Hello sir,
    What are the 3 key centers of the diminished scale (at key of c) that you were talking about?

  • @sylwestersosniak220
    @sylwestersosniak220 Рік тому +1

    ♥♥♥

  • @olivierkrug5915
    @olivierkrug5915 4 роки тому +1

    Hi Chad, your short youtube lessons are great but it would be just perfect to end up the lesson with an actual example of solo using what you just explained. Just over 12 standard bars. It would allow us to decide whether this is what we actually want to practice first. Like "God! this is the stuff I have been hearing that sounds so great. Let's do it."

    • @ChadLefkowitzBrown
      @ChadLefkowitzBrown  4 роки тому

      Hey Oliver, thanks for the feedback!! That’s actually what we’ve done in the very beginning of the video :)

    • @olivierkrug5915
      @olivierkrug5915 4 роки тому

      I know you are playing on diminished right at the start of the video but what really makes a difference is to hear it as way out of a stable chord line. As a surprise. I don't know if I make myself clear.

  • @carlinhosguita
    @carlinhosguita Рік тому

    👏👏👏👏

  • @crazysoccer6178
    @crazysoccer6178 4 роки тому

    One question: if if I want to use a T-ST scale, does the first note has to be an half-step ahead? For example, I've an Fdim7, if I want to use the T-ST, have I to start from F#? Maybe I'm making too much confusion

  • @melvinwburks3936
    @melvinwburks3936 3 роки тому

    Oh I thought I could buy the 15 diminished excercises seperately I see now that it is within a package

  • @Osnosis
    @Osnosis 4 роки тому

    New digs! LIC high rise?

  • @LarryJazzLouis
    @LarryJazzLouis 2 роки тому

    👍🏾

  • @emperorpilaf3030
    @emperorpilaf3030 4 роки тому +1

    There is a mistake. At 9:24, you play the descendant diminished H/W Diatonic Exercice 1 and we see the score of the descendant dimished H/W diatonic exercice 2. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO PRACTICE HERE? (and not buying the pdf lol) thanks Chad, you're the best!

  • @philipbrown2225
    @philipbrown2225 Рік тому

    the descending of diatonic ex 1 and diatonic ex 2 is exactly the same notation

  • @7deepbreaths.sounds
    @7deepbreaths.sounds 2 роки тому

    The exercise at 9:24 is written differently than what is being played. What you're playing sounds hipper.

  • @jaquesdouglas94
    @jaquesdouglas94 8 місяців тому

    Meu irmão como eu faço pra adquirir seus estudos em PDF.

  • @mannytuzman3461
    @mannytuzman3461 4 роки тому

    Question wihe Use of bis key in these chromatic lines.
    Do you use bis much more than the side Bb key and is B-Bb bis a no no sometimes????
    Thanks

    • @DaDarkGuy
      @DaDarkGuy 4 роки тому +1

      My two cents: using bis anytime you're ascending on the horn is ok. Never use it to go a half step down from Bb to A, in some cases you can get away going Bb to B with it.

    • @MrBoybergs
      @MrBoybergs 4 роки тому +2

      Imo, use whatever feels more natural, comfortable and fluid for you. I prefer bis most of the time as it requires only very subtle movements when going up or down a scale. I tend to use side Bb mostly for trills, altissimo or tonal harmonic effects. Any tone quality differences between bis and side Bb can be minimised/eradicated by practicing long tone transitions from one to the other.

    • @Jtibbssax
      @Jtibbssax 4 роки тому +2

      Learn to use both. Everything is situational and it’s good to be able to use both on any scale .

    • @MrBoybergs
      @MrBoybergs 4 роки тому +1

      @@Jtibbssax Sound advice

  • @davek3200
    @davek3200 4 роки тому

    With Half diminished shouldn't I have to use the half diminished scale (C C# D#E F#G A A#) instead of Locrain/Locrian Natural 9?

    • @ChadLefkowitzBrown
      @ChadLefkowitzBrown  4 роки тому

      The scale you outlined above is actually a half/whole diminished scale, not a half diminished scale. A half diminished scale is the same as locrian natural 2 (C D Eb F Gb Ab Bb). Most people just refer to it as locrian natural 2 to avoid confusion.

    • @davek3200
      @davek3200 4 роки тому +1

      @@ChadLefkowitzBrown ohh got it thanks!
      Just to take more informations, should I have to superimpose a Half/whole diminished scale over a m7 chord or a Whole/Half diminished scale? Thank you so much

  • @MrDjangofan
    @MrDjangofan 4 роки тому

    Shred: ua-cam.com/video/7FWYwsj_oaY/v-deo.html

  • @joaovicenteribeiro1468
    @joaovicenteribeiro1468 4 роки тому +1

    just one small note: 2:02 diminished chords don`t have major 7ths as tensions, its actually a diminished 8th.

    • @mrgabifour4
      @mrgabifour4 4 роки тому

      A diminished WH scale is 1 2 b3 4 b5 b6 6 7. A diminished 8th would be a b7 (bb8) and even that doesnt make any sense to me. Ive never seen that anywhere. Care to elaborate?

    • @DaMonster
      @DaMonster 4 роки тому +1

      Gabriel Červeňák Since the 8th is a perfect interval a diminished eighth is technically a major seven, but I’ve never seen that written before. I bet there’s some theoretical reason dim8th makes more sense, but I’ve never seen it

    • @joaovicenteribeiro1468
      @joaovicenteribeiro1468 4 роки тому +1

      @@DaMonster If you analyze classical composers from the modern period, you`ll notice they wrote diminished chords with major sevenths as diminished chords with diminished 8ths. the intervallic order maker more sense and you`ll notice the b8th always takes the place of the diminished 7th. Also, having a major interval inside the formation of a diminished chord has no logical sense. Hope this clarified the the question.

    • @DaMonster
      @DaMonster 4 роки тому

      @@joaovicenteribeiro1468 That's cool! I guess since the symmetrical diminished scales can be built by combining two of the three diminished sevenths all of the tensions on a diminished chord would be explained along that sort of line as well - just goes to show how many cool sounds there are out there worth exploring

  • @andrewfrancisjames
    @andrewfrancisjames Рік тому +1

    Man you need some furniture and kitchen stuff bro. Eat well play well ;)

  • @guidemeChrist
    @guidemeChrist 4 роки тому

    diminished chords are dominants
    Cdim7=B7, D7, F7, Ab7
    the whole half and half whole are the same thing and it's just called the diminished scale

    • @jazzman1954
      @jazzman1954 4 роки тому

      So in How Insensitive how is 2 bars of C#dim a dominant?

    • @jazzman1954
      @jazzman1954 4 роки тому

      Jeffrey Long Which Altered Dominant and where is it resolving to? Interested in your idea. Thanks

  • @fakejake3372
    @fakejake3372 4 роки тому +2

    This dude lives in the lap of luxury Bird lived in a boarding room

    • @Creabsley
      @Creabsley 4 роки тому

      Probably helps to not be an alcoholic heroin addict.

    • @malachia8590
      @malachia8590 4 роки тому

      who cares?

  • @randyborra3464
    @randyborra3464 5 місяців тому

    great exercises, but there's only 3 dim. keys/scales