10 Warmup Exercises Every Jazz Musician Should Know

[@ChadLefkowitzBrown]

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[@JoshHuSaxophone]

Took me 2 hours to play this entire book. Good warm up. I think I will call it a day

[@guenardthomas4250]

In all 12 keys!! you're fast man!! ;-)

[@alejandrotello885]

Flexing

[@filipegoncalves8495]

hahahahaha LMAO

[@chaseclaborn9192]

Wow! This guy is an absolute Chad!

[@Ack_08]

Literally

[@dkevinwalker]

Thanks! I'm an improving musician. I play clarinet and alto sax. Always looking to get better. This certainly helps.

[@stratusphunk]

If you are already a pro player, a born musician or can spend your entire day every day practising saxophone, these will be great warm-up exercises. I’m an adult with adult responsibilities who play can sax at only high school band level, and I can practise for only an hour or a bit more each day. I bought the book and spent a couple of years, on and off, making my way through it. In many cases, unless I was willing to devote my entire practice session to an exercise, it took me a week to learn each exercise, and at only a moderate tempo, by which time I’d half-forgotten how to do the previous exercise. It wasn’t long before I tired of not having time to play anything else, so that’s why it took me so long to get through the book. For amateurs like me, these exercises might be helpful in improving technique, but as warm-up exercises, forget it.

[@stangetz534]

Thanks Chad! I have been practicing 1 and 2 going up and for the last few days and I feel like I have way more to say when looking at some changes. Can't wait to learn more of these exercises.

[@unclesam6985]

wow, even Stan Getz himself digs Chad's stuff

[@joshuamarks1129]

👍👍I love that you're averaging 1 minute for the explanation/demo of each exercise, thank you for the expert concision!

[@GraceKellyMusic]

woooo! awesome.

[@cjgreen4331]

I just got this book on the New Years sale, the entire bundle. I recommend the warm ups book to everyone, especially since it's in every key, for every instrument. It may be 1k+ pages, but it's organized by keys and the topics are well thought out. Thinking of how to articulate the written out line and how to swing help your jazz tone too

[@jasonandrews9058]

Chad thanks so much for connecting these dots. You are a bright light and inspiration for myself. Keep up the great work.

[@bailahie4235]

Apart from being a highly gifted sax player, also definitely one of the coolest sax players around, the sax looks good on you!

[@saxefoner]

If only I had this information 60 years ago! Really good stuff. You are right: awesome exercises. Now all we have to do is do it (too late for me, though). I would have been much better at jazz.

[@daddyjgroove]

If you are still playing it's never too late... enjoy playing the sax!! Learning something new is always good. Don't stop.

[@KarlBonner1982]

Been practicing these on my French Horn every day for a couple weeks now.

[@xyvd]

WHat I like about this is that It can be used on many different scales and modes... thanks Chad...

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

love this guy, humble, real!

[@jaykay1053]

That does it. My mind is now officially blown!

[@marcelpaige4134]

Thanks so much! I've needed a practice routine for so long!

[@sumardyi4824]

Great for exercise.. thanx bro

[@grandmantis]

That's some great articulation you're doing there! Would love to see a separate video on that alone!

[@jonpereira3448]

Chad thanks for sharing this!! This content is gold!

[@miguelcastano3210]

I take the concept! Thank you!

[@demonslayed8895]

Stopped playing sax a long time ago...but you make me want to pick it up. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@atmamanifesta9749]

you got a cool sound. would you mind sharing your equipment like reed, mouthpiece, neck, horn. please ?

[@yardelmmusic4435]

This was really helpful in expanding my vocabulary and helping to prevent repetition in my practicing. Thank you very much for this video!

[@valenzaluc]

Great !Thanks a lot !!

[@rafagxjunglezz]

Thx for all

[@GuitSiva]

Good job Chad👏 Thanks so much 🙏 Warm cheers 😊 God bless 🙏🎸🎶😊

[@KadrianThomas]

This is priceless!!

[@walterholland1251]

You are effing incredible! This is an eye opener to throw in just enough chromatics to spice things up.

[@eliasoliveiradematos8391]

Good!! Bust no entendi nada q ele falou. Só entendi as progressões q tocou !!! Música linguagem universal !!! By

[@daveaustin4538]

Elias Oliveira de Matos ..it is true.. he speaks fast. Just use your ears and copy the exercises. They are excellent, but I think it's best to do them in all keys

[@oranbenavi]

Amazing!!! Thank you so much

[@lakawaithaka3778]

Heko Chad! Haya ni mazoezi bora zaidi! Asante sana kwa mafunzo yako ambayo yanatusaidia kukua sisi kama wanamuziki, haswa wanaocheza 'mdomo wa bata' *I just commented in Swahili so Chad could feel as lost as he's making me feel right now as he just blazes through these exercise so nonchalantly (-_-) :P **Have fun trying to run this though Google Translate :D

[@antoniotraverso6462]

Great, Great, Great.

[@toughtenor]

Right then, I'll be in the shed for quite some time before I got this up to speed.. thanks

[@gerritkuijt5650]

Great sound!!! Love it👍

[@gianlucamandolesi2448]

Grazie degli esercizi, sei bravissimo!

[@mateo-aupitre]

Great warm up thanks for sharing !

[@mateo-aupitre]

Doing all the exercices in all keys seems a tedious work more than a warm up... how would you divide the whole thing in 1 week ?

[@boogiejed5485]

Perfect for building some nice language

[@TIMG128]

Hi. Great tuition here thank you. Could I just ask what your mouthpiece set up is?

[@gabeayala5659]

The sax god himself. CLB. 🎷

[@kristiangreene8401]

Thanks Nintendo Very cool!

[@aljerones99]

Chad, do you propose we learn these exercises by heart or just use the book to guide us? Some are easily to commit to memory but exercise 6 is quite a challenge.

[@unclesam6985]

Yes, learn them by heart, when u improvise, u don't have the excersizes in front of you

[@MrMartinsax]

More please!!!!!

[@mikebotton3200]

Great exercises Chad and like some other listeners, too advanced for me as an intermediate amateur, but very valuable and appreciated nevertheless. One comment though: on exercise 6 Chromatic approach note to each chord tone, wouldn't you play the approach note on the up beat so the chord tone falls on the down beat?

[@pajjakid]

On the contrary, these exercises are perfect for intermediate players… !!!! play them slow and with precision (keep fingers glued to the pearls). It will progress your technical skills significantly. When looking to add speed, consider playing the 8 note phrases a bit faster than you can the whole phrase, with a pause between each grouping ... that will drill the cell for you, then you’ll be able to speed it up strung together. Do the work and reap the rewards :]

[@rovietoses6887]

Brother gracias por esos videos .estoy tomando notas para estudiar Saludos

[@wexthemaster]

Thank you

[@dennis9242]

Great video Chad. Would you recommend doing any of these in minor keys as well? Thanks.

[@ludvigbroman]

Not necessary since the most important thing you get out if this is the enclosure and approach note language, and you already recieve that for every scale degree

[@guillermorojas9379]

This is great thank you

[@paracletusrevelation4080]

It surely takes a lot of practice!

[@kleeblattchen38]

That moment when he can play his WARMUP exercises better then your entire goodness in your music combined...

[@sauloferreira3182]

Muito bom ganhou mais um inscrito .

[@rahinhaider]

Thanks Chad!

[@jgl2222]

Great stuff!

[@rikisax63]

Oh Chad !! You have the sound of the saxophone that I dream of. How to get a sound so beautiful, clear and bright?

[@wiledmanrandall]

Lip out embouchure, brighter reeds, relaxed jaw, higher baffle mouthpieces. Tonal concept listening to bright sounding players over time.

[@sidneylutara9786]

Great stuff! Thank you Chad. ☺

[@johnrothfield6126]

Wow, those simple patterns sounds great on the Sax!!!

[@coffinman5007]

I don't know what your horn is but it sounds great.

[@tristanavakian]

i'm a guitarist so i'm doing these in 2 octaves - that way I'll get across all the strings... see you in a couple of days!

[@pectenmaximus231]

Everyone who wants the exercises slower... 1) you can play as slow as you like if you download the exercises (they're not free, it's a way this guy makes extra income) 2) if you really want to hear them played slowly first, set the video playback speed below normal

[@brandoninu7140]

oi. i picked up the sax about a month n a half ago and i didn't know what to practise. *thank you.*

[@saxwhisper6083]

Burnin! Great examples to help with technique as well as harmonic shapes.

[@maamotteesoot]

Brilliant! Love

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

freak speed mr lb, freak speed!

[@ruby_gleyzes]

Wonderful!

[@rickspyder6159]

Cool i do the same approach with this scale 1 2 b3 3 #4 5 6 b7 and mostly groups of five or seven...20 years of work. ... harmonized open and closed and broken triads starr 1#4b7...2 5 8 then climb up and down ... magical ... i dare anyone to try this ...the point is create your own shapes I call this one popcorn. 83#4b7 6b335 #4b713 etc... cheers

[@jaykay1053]

Cool!

[@jonsax6]

Hey Chad, thanks for this video, super helpful... One question... So I've been working this material, but it takes me some time to get through all 12 key for one exercise. Do you warm up on all exercises in ALL KEYS every day? Or would you suggest going deeper with one key where you do all these warm ups with one key at a time for a practice session? It's just an overwhelming amount of material to get through all these exercises in all keys every day!! Some guidance on how you would go about tackling this material would be super appreciated! Thanks again brother, appreciate it! Also, I've been doing these full range of the horn, top to bottom, all the way up to altissimo F. And of course anyone else reading this, any suggestions on good ways to get this stuff dialed-in, would be appreciated!

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

ya free dude! mix it up. do Dd only for the 9 exercises. put ya metronome on at a pace that easy. do 2 ex. a day do 1 ex. for an hour. mix it up. at present it takes me 10mins or under to get 1 ex. completed. im playing very soft, no tongue, legato. HAVE FUN WITH THIS GREAT MATERIAL!!!

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

Just played ex2 at 60bpm making the each beat a 1 & 3 so the tempo is actually 120bpm. it took 8mins46sec ex 3 took 7mins42sec not much time to do all ten exercises. im playing real soft like garzone says to do, can hardly hear the notes, all legato no tongue. soft reed, small tip opening, throat open, little bit of air in cheeks, just like Don Menza says to do!

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

ex 4 @ 40bpm being the 1&3 beat just took 11mins56secs to complete. mistakes and all!

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

ex5 no metronome, completed in 6mins 5 secs

[@KadrianThomas]

@@saxophonemechanic5454 I like your ideas, any exercise can get up off the page and under one's fingers and in one's brain when it is practiced at a very very slow tempo. 10 minutes max to get the notes off the page, articulation and speed can be worked on over time. Aweome idea here Saxophone Mechanic!

[@rougejazz6313]

THANKS A LOT CHAD THIS CHANGE MY PLAYING SO WELL👌🤛

[@Dionpr1]

Really nice sound. What's that mouthpiece you're using? Brand, lay etc.

[@BlasJohnny]

It’s Great

[@lucasnettomusic4396]

love it man!!

[@lucasnettomusic4396]

What mouthpiece do you play on, i have a otto link 7 star??!

[@Minormayor22]

I have a doubt in number 4 if you do 1,2,3,5,4,#4, 4,flat 3 and land on the third, you are suposed to start the second frase in the second degree, but you land on the third, I hope I explained myself, they are awesome!! Than you

[@jeffhoward5910]

Hi Chad. I bought these exercises and it is very worth the money. Tell me, can most professional cats play theses off the top of their head IN EVERY KEY!?! Even the ones that aren't used frequently? Or are there some keys which get preference for mortals who would have to invest a freaky amount of time to learn it in all keys? Thanks!

[@nomennescio317]

Any piano players have recommendations for what to do with left hand? Play the exercises in unision with right hand? Play chords? Etc.

[@victordeyjr.9137]

Great information! Thanks for sharing!

[@jeffhoward5910]

I am a classical musician who would like to get into jazz improvisation a bit. This video and the exercises are great and I went to the website and would have been happy to purchase the downloads. I was thinking it would be about $10 but would have paid as much as $20. The listed price of $69 a pdf of 15 exercieses is really unfortunate. There are a lot of materials on the market for much less.

[@ChadLefkowitzBrown]

Hi Jeff, the 10 Warmup Exercises PDF is $19.99. You must be looking at the PDF combo package with 4 different ebooks for $69.99.

[@jeffhoward5910]

My apologies! I'll buy it!

[@susanlitchen1455]

I'm just arriving to this lesson and post. Is the pdf still available?

[@Jazz-jg9vo]

Hi there really like your videos. I am a alto player however returning to jazz with a soprano sax. Which would be the best book for me to purchase for practice exercises. I like the look of your 15 approach note enclosure exercises. In addition I was curious about the jazz standard solos but want to make sure they would be good for soprano sax. The reason I ask this is that I have been presented music in the past which calls for notes which do not exist on my instrument such as a very low A.

[@ChadLefkowitzBrown]

All the PDFs (unless specified for other instruments) work work great saxophone range! Happy shedding :)

[@stangetz534]

Hi Can anyone help. I get the first exercise because Chad clearly stated the numbers on the way up the scale. But I got confused on the way down. What is it the scale patter number wise? I don't think Chad said them. thank you

[@w.wonka1305]

1-2-3-4-3-2-1-6 (Ex : C D E F E D C A // B C D E D C B G [..] )

[@apkeeney]

I noticed that too

[@ZEZINHO-w5u]

What the mautpiece you used? Thank you!

[@widiastawan]

Greate guru

[@kevindeibert3369]

Interesting. On the 1st exercise I would normally skip the 4 on the way down, but skipping the 2 sounds good 2 !

[@AntKneeLeafEllipse]

That 6th exercise is slick

[@LUig43]

good stuff!

[@curls6778]

I have a question regarding the triad pair/hexatonics exercise. The way you are playing it it’s basically just triads on each degree of Bb Lydian, right? Shouldn’t one only use the notes of the two triads for it to truly be a triad pair exercise?

[@thinktwice4565]

Those Hank Mobley licks...

[@CarlyWaarly]

you make that look so easy....phew! Sounds terrific though!

[@Manstrual]

What a chad

[@primobosa5176]

How do I get the pdf? Not clear. Thanks

[@shanebaird543]

What kind of horn is that?

[@parisdavis8744]

Been practicing for months stuck on the same plateau i need help. Dont know why im not improving

[@lukejones2929]

What level are you at right now and what are you wanting to be able to do that you aren't currently doing?

[@parisdavis8744]

Luke Jones im at a intermediate level , i want more mental flexibility im cementing in obvious boring paterns

[@lukejones2929]

@@parisdavis8744 If you can afford a good private lessons teacher that would be your best bet by far. If that isn't an option there is a few online courses that I've had the chance to work through and the one that helped me the most in creating interesting musical phrases was Bill Evans "The language of improvisation". Pretty sure it's less than 30 bucks which was great compared to most online courses these days.

[@patrickkyle4601]

2nd part of 1st exercise I was expecting a descending pattern like 1,7, 6 ,5, 4, 5, 6, 1 - 7, 6, 5, 4, 3,4,5,7 - etc (mirror image of ascending) but perhaps this doesn't voice lead as well?

[@boogiejed5485]

Yes that's exactly what he says

[@khalogqubule5412]

Actually doing that voice leads quite nicely. What he was talking about was 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 1, 7 1 2 3 4 3 2 7 wouldn't voice lead nicely

[@yoyothasme123]

Any thoughts on finger numbers on piano in the key of C?

[@ross-harmonica]

Great! Something to work on.

[@markd2797]

subbed

[@waynenolan9222]

Chad, I love the tone of your horn. Can you tell us what it is? I've just recently purchased a vintage Conn 10m that's currently being overhauled and I hope it's going to sound as good as yours.

[@georgebijacu7141]

He plays the lupifaro platinum model

[@joshcharlat850]

Wayne Nolan You are going to LOVE your 10M!!! And they are more than holding their value at this point. Dexter Gordon!!!

[@cesarpinheiro9728]

what is the mouthpiece and brand of this tenor sax you use in this video??. Hug Cesar from Sao Luis, Brazil

[@sandrareed813]

What horn do you play?

[@stangetz534]

thanks, what is your set up btw?

[@brandonreyes5102]

What key is the book written in?

[@rsharp9]

Cool