FUNK IMPROV TUTORIAL

www.scottpaddocksaxschool.com - STUDY SAX WITH SCOTT PADDOCK
In this video, Scott explains 3 rules & 8 techniques to make your improv sound funky. Straight eight notes, syncopated lines, and harder articulations are combined with 8 easy to follow techniques will completely transform your funk improv
INSTAGRAM: @scottpaddocksax
www.scottpaddock.com
Scott Plays:
P. Mauriat 67RX Influence alto sax
Barkley Brazil Kustom Pop 7 Blue mouthpiece
Legere Signature 2.5 reeds
BG Silver Duo ligature

[@Nhojjy_]

Great video!! This is exactly what I have been searching a long time for!!

[@ScottPaddock]

Great! Thanks. Let me know if you have any questions.

[@evangilharry5039]

L( look

[@alexjardim9431]

A professor who truly explains the essence of music✌

[@marcelocontreraspizarro5918]

Great! Very clear!

[@42beebop]

Damn, this was great. Will keep this video running on repeat for the next two weeks.

[@juniorvegasblues]

i am a harmonica player,i steal riffs and runs from sax players all the time. this is by far the most useful lesson. i would like to thank you Scott ! junior Vegas

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍👍

[@stevepethel6843]

Same here and Scott this is the BEST explanation and demonstration on playing... Funk.

[@adambrickley1119]

Play flute, but videos like this for flute are rare!

[@ScottPaddock]

Improv is improv so it will work on any instrument :-)

[@eternalpickle1391]

Damn Ben afleck out here teaching to play the sax 😎

[@hecateswolf6007]

Great video again Scott many thanks

[@leoparyna]

your explication is perfect!great job

[@SaxDBA]

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

[@ximenarosas2016]

Great video Scott!! You make it look so easy; thanks for sharing such useful tips!

[@stevecatheystrange6695]

Scott, I always find something that I can immediately use when I listen to one of your KZbin presentations. Thank you.

[@podzemkamusic2912]

С ума сойти можно какие ты выдаешь вещи! Спасибо тебе.

[@ianjohnson4987]

Really excellent video - thanks

[@swisscrossroad5902]

excellent video, starting funky style and it's what I was looking!

[@mikeschouten4732]

Outstanding

[@regparham4793]

Nice...Thank you. Excellent tutorial.

[@MelindalFord]

Grateful for this. I play in a funk/ Gigi band and would get over whelmed with all the ideas in my head. This was so clear. Thank you for being real.

[@SpyneMetal]

Great lesson

[@managementinsight4554]

thanks alot scott

[@carloszafrilla4065]

Great!!! Thank you!!!

[@andrewaraujo191]

man you can rip on that sax like no tommorrow, your dope👍

[@ScottPaddock]

Thank you!

[@rogersalles200]

You are amazing Scott!

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks Roger!

[@dalialex1405]

love this channel very much ,You is my good coach ,I have really improved a lot during this time. Thank a lot of

[@cleverdicky1]

Thanks Scott, great tips, very helpfull,

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!!

[@l.j.2917]

This was exactly what I needed!! Thanks Scott!!

[@ScottPaddock]

Hey! If you like this video, you should check out the Funk Improv course in my Sax School. www.scottpaddocksaxschool.com

[@darrenhill9931]

Brill teacher you are Scott..👍

[@FernandoFerreira-kf6kz]

You are the man. Thanks for posting this.

[@ScottPaddock]

👍

[@youngyatty4285]

love your video

[@SpyneMetal]

Awesome ! Subscribed

[@ByCiceroAudoPoetryandMusic]

Bom demais!!! Show!!!

[@davebailey1582]

Your awesome! Thank you

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks Dave!

[@fe1328]

Yeahhhh👏👏👏👏👏👏 Congratulations, Brasil!!!!

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍👍

[@stevepethel6843]

You are great a playing funk and also a excellent instructor on funk.Got to say I have listened to over 5000 videos cause I love music but. I think this YOU are Great at playing. That Funk style and teaching it so well...Maceo Parker is my other favorite saxophone player... Thank you

[@BigeuleLP]

Thx for this video. It will help me a lot. I am going to try it out right now

[@ScottPaddock]

Glad you're enjoying! Break it down step by step. Let me know if you have any questions.

[@willqc8153]

I very love your sound. Great video!

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!

[@stevepethel6843]

Thank you Scott Paddock.for this great insight...it is just the information i been looking for for years and i love it..thanks and God bless you

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍👍 Glad you found it helpful!

[@SkyBrightAgency]

SUPER helpful and well articulated. Thanks you,.

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!

[@malcolmtopping1]

Man.....I can't overestimate how helpful that video was to me. I have been listening to Maceo for years and trying to work out what makes him so funky and what makes that G and G overtone sound. Thanks Scott, that was brilliant

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks! Yeah, once you understand a few of the techniques, bringing the funk out gets way easier.

[@laivivian184]

thanks for sharing👍👍👍

[@mary.amazonka]

Thank you 🙏

[@adrianduchniak]

Amazing! Practical hints how to improvise without much music theory! Thanks!

[@ScottPaddock]

😁😁

[@rafagxjunglezz]

Wow i dont knew this before thank u so muuuch!!😘 You play soooo gooood

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍👍

[@keithridenhour7033]

this is actually good advice Ksaxman

[@dwilsonsax]

Awesome videos tutorial!🎷🎷🎷

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks! 👍👍

[@carloslopez-hz6id]

Sigo todos tus videos... Muy buen profesor, felicitaciones,, mi problema es el Inglés, hablo español, pero trato de aprender todo lo posible.. Cordiales saludos y gracias por tus tutoriales....

[@wikstik1]

Even though i rarely play my sax because i suck, i still watch your videos as soon as they come out. The content is really great.

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!!

[@GB-fs1my]

Thank you

[@fredfeuerstein9023]

Super Video. Thanks a lot😊

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍

[@lesgoe8908]

another great tutorial -- to the point and performance oriented. check out scott's "summertime" video for a great demo of his funk philosophy.

[@derekakien7379]

Amazing!

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks Derek!

[@TheMyrkiriad]

Amazing video !

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!!

[@JohnsonDabele]

thanks a lot

[@jonviol]

Very clever

[@BBQuick1969]

Thanks Scott

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍

[@francisdegennaro2423]

Very very very cool great playing

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks Francis!

[@manoharachandrasena5367]

Great

[@BurtStnner]

Definitely something to try in a few months (53 starting with this _Sax_ a couple of months ago) when I progress past my book 1,2,3,... Who knows!? But funk is my roots on bass and I had been around (haha) Have to sax lists: tenor sax & lessons to learn. You are btw one of my top free instructors in this media. Thanks for sharing the wealth of knowledge. You make learning encouraging challenging and as mentioned before your progressions are wonderfully explained. I play (own) only Tenor horn but the l Material is equally important for any horn. Keep up the great teachings!

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks Burt!!

[@anthonydupont3694]

BurtStnner keep up the good work never to late im 44 and been playing for almost 2 years

[@timofeygolev]

Man thank you very much! This is so helpful, everyone should subscribe NOW

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!

[@KirklandWilliamsWorkout3000]

Man you just confirmed my whole style, without me evening Knowing what I was doing lol...My wife costantley askes me why do I play choppy? Now I know that Im more of a Funk, Player I know what to work on , as well as switching it up to different stlyes every now and then

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍👍

[@stephenwalker2587]

Great video! Only been playing a few months and what to play a funk style but it has always eluded me. One watch of this video and I'm throwing out some funk riffs! Any recommendations for a backing track to practice over?

[@joer3481]

Thanks for the funk :-)>

[@kristinclarke986]

great lesson! thank you from the bottom of my sax

[@ScottPaddock]

Haha! You're welcome from the top of my altissimo :-)

[@fredfeuerstein9023]

Kristin Clarke /

[@hectormalotru]

Thank you brother. Will try to apply that to the trombone.

[@ScottPaddock]

Check out Fred Wesley.

[@hectormalotru]

@@ScottPaddock I am :) Currently working on the Chicken. You have a great channel. The 2020 Funk improv video is great too.

[@joeplayford1515]

hi scott excellent video youre style of playing is out of this world do you have any on line courses

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks Joe! That is a plan for the near future. Right now, I'm concentrating on building an audience. Once I hit around 10K followers I'm going to start doing specialized courses.

[@BlasJohnny]

Cool

[@gabrielmelodia]

thankx

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍

[@corybrown3275]

This was incredibly helpful! Thanks man! I’ve never played the saxophone & I’m considering getting a bamboo saxophone as an entry into playing in a style like this. Have you had any experience with such an instrument?

[@ScottPaddock]

Hi Cory. No, I've never heard of a bamboo sax. Just recorders.

[@saxophonick6719]

First scale I learned and memorized on my Tenor was D F G Ab A C D I can run up and down it and make it sound cool but I can’t play around with it in the way you’re so easily demonstrating in this video. Pretty cool!

[@ScottPaddock]

Hey Nick, check out the improv section in my Sax School. You'll be improvising with your scales in no time at all! Here's the link if you want to check it out: www.scottpaddocksaxschool.com

[@7deepbreaths.sounds]

Hey SCOTT PADDOCK!! I watched your How To Funk-i-fy your alto sax phrases -- I thought that perhaps you would mention the use of "vibrato" technique in your funk articulation. Don't know if "vibrato" is the correct term in this application...but there is definitely a aspect of vibrato here.

[@davidlesmes2844]

Super

[@ScottPaddock]

Thanks!!

[@floormatoerbongs1294]

great, how do you get the high notes clear, i got peeps notes, maybe my mouthpiece is not so good

[@chetheflin7447]

Very cool, that was insanely good. I always wanted to know how people get that David Sanborn sound. Is it mostly technique, or do you also need a special mouthpiece?

[@ScottPaddock]

95% technique. 5% gear

[@alexsax8409]

❤❤❤

[@DovidSal]

Scott, Great job! Question: Where or how to use pentatonics scales? that was the route I took for improvisacion but I see you use blue scales and the result I would say is better. So how the pentatonics fit in all this? Thank you

[@ScottPaddock]

Hey David, they are similar. The blues scale just sounds cooler because of the b5. Funk style is funk style, so you can use all of the same concepts but just apply them to the pentatonic scale, but because you don't have that tritone (b5) it isn't going to sound as gritty. It will sound more scale-y (if that's a word. haha)

[@peterjonstefan2926]

Man when are you coming out with your on line subscription school as mentioned on your web site!!?!?!?!

[@ScottPaddock]

I just got home from the tour on Tuesday. I'm planning it all out right now. Should be up and running in about 3 months.

[@skippy7288]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@krrcchh]

👌

[@ScottPaddock]

👍🏻 👍🏻👍🏻

[@Craig2760]

Listen and transcribe. Joe Farrell, Stanley Turrentine, Lenny Pickett for starters.

[@ScottPaddock]

Those are great funk players.

[@tempusestiocundum3549]

Could you, please, write what you played? It sounds great 👍

[@ScottPaddock]

It's improv. All made up on the spot. It was never written out.

[@anthonydupont3694]

You have a nice tone whats your setup

[@ScottPaddock]

Hey! All my gear is listed in my description.

[@maxhorowitz-gelb6092]

What's the difference between thinking of it as a flat 5? I always think of a blues scale as having a flat 5 not a sharp 4

[@ScottPaddock]

You can do either. If I'm playing a G blues scaled I would think C# just because I like to think C# more than Db. Same with F# and Gb in the key of C. But you can call it either a #4 or b5.

[@michaelreichardiii5137]

Where did you buy your mouthpiece?

[@ScottPaddock]

Barkley Brazil sent it to me along with a couple others to try. When I played the Kustom Pop 7 I loved it and have been playing it ever since.

[@carlmartinez5234]

What kind of reed and size of mouth pc and brand?

[@ScottPaddock]

Legere Signature 2.25 and Barkley Brazil Kustom Pop 7 blue

[@thedirtybellyband4637]

Hi Scott, great videos. Could you show us a sax alto solo for chain of fool from Aretha. I play sax into a rock band and I would like to impress the audience. Thank you in advance.

[@philcorleone5750]

Hi, what you mean with playing your 8 notes « straight » ?

[@ScottPaddock]

Not swinging them like in a jazz style

[@BackTheBoysInBlue]

I play tenor and the only sound i can get is the one that my bike makes when i hit the brakes. idk what to do at this point

[@ScottPaddock]

Hmmm, sounds like a gear problem to me. Assuming your reed is on correctly (if not, check out my video on that) then something is going on with your sax, is it hard to blow? Could you get a good sound before? Feel free to send me a private message from my website.

[@BackTheBoysInBlue]

@@ScottPaddock alright thanks man. I talked to my band teacher today and I got a new tenor. he says some of his handouts had issues, and this new one that i got sounds a lot better. Still am not that good though hahaha

[@refaldysam575]

Scoot, what is eight notes? Can you explain it?

[@ScottPaddock]

Eighth notes are when you have 2 notes per 1 beat. They are counted: 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &. I think some languages call them semi-quavers.

[@gilbertoperezgarcia1319]

En español. Hay algo para Latinoamérica .

[@ScottPaddock]

👍👍👍

[@danielsilva492]

Coloca legenda em português kkkkk pfv

[@BrunoOliveira-es6mp]

Ele fala de algumas regras básicas para improvisar no funk. Eu sou pianista, não entendi muito bem todas elas, pois talvez sejam específicas do sax. O que achei mais interessante foram as ideias de usar notas sincopadas, repetições constantes de uma ou duas notas e dar saltos entre as oitavas. Apesar de ele não falar sobre isso (ou talvez tenha falado, e passou batido pra mim), é interessante não ligar muito as notas, tocar mais usando staccato.

[@nl1916]

Why don't you live in Holland

[@thomasdegobbidjsax]

Hi Scott, I follow you on Instagram, you're really strong! But will you play something sweet one day? ahhaha joke!

[@ScottPaddock]

Hey! Thanks. Here's a video of Havana I put up a few weeks ago... kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHu6mIWsocd2pdU

[@RaffyMusicTravel]

Are you Antman?

[@tompipps3383]

TOM PIPPS . FOAM - BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA USA . HI HELLO

[@joer3481]

Rule #4 don't live in the upper midwest ;-)

[@ScottPaddock]

hahaha!

[@BlasJohnny]

Great