4 Techniques for Infinite Patterns in Music

4 Techniques for Infinite Patterns in Music
Check out these unique (but simple!) techniques I use regularly in my improvisations. When practicing improvisation I find myself constantly returning to these methods to help my fingers coordinate with what my imagination is telling me. What are some ways that you like to shed diatonic patterns? Leave a comment below 👇
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Gear:
Boston Sax 2 Strength Reed
Boston Sax E Series Mouthpiece
JL Woodwinds Artist edition Tenor (use the code 'SAXSTEVE' for a discount)
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[@rolysax]

Great video bro

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Aye thanks cat!

[@dhack1]

This really helped me. Thanks!

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Aye thanks for this Dan! So glad to hear it 🎶🚀

[@DanKortyka]

as always nice step by step demo!

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Thanks pops!

[@artoan]

You are very clear in what You are telling. That is great! Thanks!

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Thanks very much !

[@andrewbell4361]

Hey Steve, I just want to say thank you, your U tube lessons, and info have helped me finally get my altissimo notes out…up to Hi …F… It will take some time to get them under my fingers and actually become usable…but again thank you for giving us wanna bee’s …access to such great and useful continent Abs/pops👨🏼‍🦳

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

My pleasure Andrew - I'm so glad you were able to find some things that work. Altissimo *can be* fun with the right fingerings. Hopefully these get you there :)

[@DanKortyka]

as always, well done!

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Thanks very much !!

[@ginohernandez5143]

thank you!

[@oroszlan5048]

Great Video! Thank you! I watched a video where you described your set up with a Boston Sax Shop neck etc… did you change recently?

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Thanks so much happy to hear this! I'm still using it just was trying the one that come with this horn on this video :) The one that came with this JL Woodwinds artist edition tenor is very similar to the BSS neck but because of the angle of the BSS it gets a slightly better response. The hole on the octave key is also more open which is also making a difference on the BSS neck.

[@garyhickam7970]

Great video as always, thank you so much!

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Sure thing Gary :)

[@marike1100]

Good stuff. To this day, I invariably start a warm up with the ascending-descending major one in all keys. Gets my fingers moving. Interested in some minor patterns if you have any. Thanks.

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

It’s so great! Have you tried this one in melodic minor! Great idea for another video. There’s a triad pair pattern I’m always returning to 😎

[@marike1100]

@@SaxophoneSteveKortyka Melodic Minor one is fun, I should do that every day. Lately I’ve just been picking up-ish standards like My Shining Hour and playing one chorus in concert Eb, one in E, one in F, and so on. No metronome just internal time like George Coleman. Old school workouts. ;)

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

@@marike1100 Its pretty amazing. Theres so much information in each tune its time very well spent - tunes are key!

[@JohnLakeJazz]

Yeaaa man

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

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[@joshuaadelaja9996]

I want to follow along so bad but I'm quite confused by the way you're phrasing/accenting these 16th notes, what's going on? also how are you hearing the metronome?

[@SaxophoneSteveKortyka]

Hey! This is a little more of an advance rhythmic concept but depending on what is being played i'm grouping things together as 3s, 4s, 5s or 6s. Have a look at the pdf here: www.stevekortyka.com/free and play around with some of the ideas while tapping your foot to the quarter note. That will hopefully provide some insight on what the different groupings feel like :)