Beginner Blues Improvisation Lesson

[@jeffsmith3645]

6:23 people, take this lesson to heart! The emphasis on improvising rhythms, and leaving space, is so incredibly smart.

[@spottyhag]

Hello Jay! I have been enjoying your lessons on KZbin recently. I played in a Big Band for 16 years, and it was the best years of my life. I was a late starter, following in the footsteps of my father, although he had to give up playing in his fifties due to arthritis. I finally learned to play clarinet in my late 50s, followed by a beautiful Yanagisawa alto sax the following year. From there i was lucky enough to join a Big Band which had regular gigs, and I played clarinet leads and solos for them for those 16years. Unfortunately had to leave playing to look after my sick husband, but i still enjoy listening and learning from your marvellous videos. Thankyou for all your splendid videos, i really do get such a lift from following along. Thank-you!!!

[@robertgalardi3731]

although my best days of playing my tenor are over I still enjoy watching you teach people how to improve their saxophone studies . THE WORD IS STUDY !

[@ranthony7180]

I started in 1961 at age 8. Still playing at 71! Same Mark VI tenor my dad bought for me in 1967.

[@ranthony7180]

Jay, I am always appreciative of the great sax techniques that you share and expertly describe to us. You are a valuable asset to sax students of all levels. And, you don't puff your cheeks....my sax teacher from 1961 would be very pleased! Keep up the good work.

[@mattdalton7357]

Thanks for including the Concert notes. Some of us are holding a C Tenor.

[@ADF-fe7fv]

Good stuff, Jay! Nuff said.

[@zacharybharrison]

This is perfect for jazz improv on the violin! I have been looking for this on violin for the longest!!! Good work!

[@mariopare7760]

Great lesson as always...thanks Jay!!

[@paulkazachenko]

I love your videos always getting better and better

[@recreepy]

Well done! You've left me genuinely impressed.

[@jydupuy6485]

Merci pour cette vidéo d'initiation ! Je trouve l'animation visuelle très très pratique. C'est une belle idée qui va m'aider.

[@michaelowens5175]

Great lesson. I also like adding a sharp 4 (flat 5) for a blues scale.

[@jumpbass]

Great video! I teach high school music and I'm gonna send my students a link to this. I use the same technique to get them started improvising, and you explained everything very clearly. It's also nice for them to get the same information from another source. Then they realize that I know what I'm talking about. :^)

[@bettersax]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@alphonsechanekayebone7871]

Beautiful tuto

[@jamiemcgoldrick3350]

Many thanks. Another great lesson

[@stevetakkinkwan8910]

Great to learn, thanks.

[@ilachow]

Excellent lesson.

[@bettersax]

Thanks! 😃

[@lisalowell2545]

Thank you so much for advising to leave space I just bought a sheet of music and it has Veise and I want to fill it in but maybe I just need to leave it alone. Thanks, Jay.

[@raseshgandhi6702]

Thank you so much sir 🎉

[@MarioEchevarriaCruz]

Clases magistral

[@joewelch9585]

Thank you.

[@bettersax]

You're welcome!d

[@edmundogordon7370]

Thanks professor

[@chomolungma7188]

spectacular!

[@josecastrillon4456]

Hello. Mr Jay.. how mch is The cos Of the Mouth pices???? Thankyou

[@Hokkenk]

Interesting. Alto here trying to better learn jazz...from now I will try blues too 😊

[@h0nnybadgr]

I'm glad I found this! My two boys are jamming on their saxes at different levels and I join on what ever I can to have fun. I want to show them this so they can try a bit of what your teaching. I am not too sure how to find the back track - I tried and am not good with computers. I got a link to a web page then what do I do?How do I find it.. Much Appreciated

[@richlarocca3156]

Love your series. How about you think of having cases in your line that actually fit vintage saxes with a bell guard on the left. The only one that fits is the protec xl. You can do better.

[@maxencelang8575]

Hi. I bought your formation blues fondation and I don’t find this improvisation at 6min53 (really cool). I found by ear (in alto) and you play a Bb in penta blues D. But there isn’t Bb in penta blues D so I don’t understand the way. Can you explain please ? Thx a lot and sorry for my english...

[@wisconsinmel]

Hey, I have been looking at various 2 screw tenor ligatures. What one are you using in this video?l

[@bettersax]

That’s a great ligature we’ve been developing that will be available soon!

[@wisconsinmel]

@@bettersax would like your thoughts on how it would work on a SYOS tenor mouthpiece. Some 2 screws tend to slip on the plastic.

[@tubexy2600]

Really great! Chapeau!!! But where (exactly) on the shed is the backingtrack and how is it called? There are so many things to read and listen...

[@bettersax]

It's under the improvisation category and called Blues Improvisation Lesson

[@tubexy2600]

@@bettersax Thanks, found it!!!! But if I enter "Blues Improvisation Lesson" in the search, it gives me "Jay posted a new lesson, Blues Improvisation Lesson" or "Blues Improvisation Lesson "and if I klick one of them it is a 404 ;-( (broken links?)

[@jeffarcher400]

I was trying to teach a friend to play sax and he's already a good musician. I was explaining transposing and his ear was hearing concert pitch so he asked why don't we just name the sax positions "correctly" and we wouldn't need to transpose. Just call a D on alto F and learn it like that. I didn't have a good answer. I guess because the pearly dot notes would sometimes become sharps and flats and the whole notes would be on the little side keys? It certainly is easy the way it's set up going from C to C and that's why I found it easy to learn but transposing is a pain. Which brings up the C melody sax and why it's not more common?

[@inlandexpressbandamato6069]

cool neck strap, where did you get it?

[@00sinders]

Great lesson! Wanted to sign up for the blues course but I take it the coupon isn't working any more? Just bought a new sax and can't afford full price :(

[@bettersax]

Sorry about that, it is working now, please try again.

[@mileswhite4329]

Work it out Jay!

[@martinvo981]

What if I play the Minor pentatonic scale in more than 1 Octave?

[@alfabsc]

Thanks, brother Jay! Always good advice. Beautiful looking new instrument you've got there.

[@music_man_145]

are you gonna release a better sax soprano too or are we chop liver. haha. but seriously there aren't many choices for inexpensive quality sopranos besides the curved jean paul or singers day (although im still weary) there arent many choices for strait soprano & i feel thats what makes it so iconic is having a strait one. right now i have a strait cecelio i picked up at a pawn shop for $100 usd & it plays ok but it seems to fall apart every other time i play it. the reason i bought it was it already had an otto link tone edge which is easily $130 with inflation now days. anyways i think it would be really cool to have a better sax soprano in my saxophone arsenal. lol. It's awesome what you are doing on youtube i love your channel. its really helped me lots.

[@bettersax]

Soprano is in development and coming soon. Will be great.

[@mikeysplace]

Why is concert Bb usually the standard for the beginning of learning the blues?

[@leakdeo]

mainly because trumpet and tenor sax are tuned in Bb and its generally easier for the C instruments and a lil harder for Eb instruments as they would have to play their G scale, but only barely

[@mikeysplace]

@@leakdeo Thank you. So it's mainly for the horn sections, primarily Tenor and trumpet, to be able to play in C. And the rest of the band has to cater to this, at least at the beginning level?

[@leakdeo]

@@mikeysplace yup! glad i could help

[@jerrybrown66]

Is the minor pentatonic another name for 'blues' scale?

[@willhindereeds2590]

Nah blues has the flat 5 as well

[@saxman3336]

Coupon code does not exist for the blues foundation course

[@bettersax]

Sorry, about that. It is working now, please try again.

[@naomymorena7341]

@@bettersax the coupon code is not working for the blues language course

[@saxman7131]

You can’t play the blues till you live the blues.

[@bikesbees9392]

So I have to move to Mississippi? NOWAY,,!

[@saxmaniac6321]

True that! And, boy, have I lived ‘em! 🥹🤩🎷

[@kwootamuckbear9294]

Born under a bad sign……🎼🎵🎶🎵🎷

[@vivaangupta8629]

Hi i am from india how can i buy your products?

[@bettersax]

Thomann will ship to India I believe.

[@wtmqwq]

It's weird to shot without looking at the camera! Or maybe i'm just not used to it

[@lovejazz]

That's a good lesson Jay, go back to basic sort of, for me. Or just keep it simple ( the kiss method )

[@SaxLex1]

For the culture if you can Jay listen el Jincho of Spain... Well i listen every song of the humans and the hip hop say the truth, The firefighter who recently left in front of everyone unfairly knows the truth

[@WallyZ1950]

Nice! I notice you didn't forget to use body language. You have to look like you're in pain to play the blues. 🤣