J&J on Jazz: "Internalizing Licks"

[@TATSEL6]

Such a great exercise. ❤

[@REX-007]

Such a practical approach!!! I'm so glad this vid came up on my notification list. Liked & Subscribed. 🍻🎷

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

Great to have you with us.. And hey, if you haven't already, please jump in to a Free 30 Day Limited access to JazzWire. I would love to work together with you in a more meaningful (and not too expensive) way. With the Free 30 Day Trial, you’ll see what we're doing behind the wall! You'll be inside in about 20 seconds, no credit card required. www.jazzwire.net/free-trial/. These videos are great, but they are a SHADOW compared to the real work and we can do together!

[@oleorigz5825]

Thank you sir.

[@tagskinner778]

This is one of the best lessons on the internet. This turned my playing around 20 years ago. Amazing how rarely this is talked about and taught.

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

Fantastic! Thanks for tuning in. Please subscribe if you haven't yet. There is MUCH more good stuff coming. And hey, if you haven't already, please jump in to a Free 30 Day Limited access to JazzWire. I would love to work together with you in a more meaningful (and not too expensive) way. With the Free 30 Day Trial, you’ll see what we're doing behind the wall! You'll be inside in about 20 seconds, no credit card required. www.jazzwire.net/free-trial/. These videos are great, but they are a SHADOW compared to the real work and we can do together!

[@AshmanFluffer]

You mentioned that you wish you would have discovered this technique years ago...yeah! As I've gotten older, I stumble across this issue often. As a result, I try to learn new techniques (to me) and hand them down to my students. Nice work!

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

Yup, we learn a lot as old-adjacent guys, don't we! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@sac7575]

Thank you! This is exactly the information I need!🎉

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

Wonderful! Please subscribe if you haven't yet. There is MUCH more good stuff coming. And hey, if you haven't already, please jump in to a Free 30 Day Limited access to JazzWire. I would love to work together with you in a more meaningful (and not too expensive) way. With the Free 30 Day Trial, you’ll see what we're doing behind the wall! You'll be inside in about 20 seconds, no credit card required. www.jazzwire.net/free-trial/. These videos are great, but they are a SHADOW compared to the real work and we can do together!

[@ericgrum]

Excellent advice, Jeff. By the way, I picked your lick out😊

[@ericgrum]

...but I'm afraid that's my best trick!

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

@@ericgrum Hey, ONE good trick is a lot of the way to having TWO good tricks. The rest is easy.

[@ericgrum]

@@JeffAntoniukEducator true enough!

[@juergenreichenbach643]

Excellent tutorial - many thanks 👍 nailing it down to the essence

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

THAT is the way to practice and get good . . . distilling things down. Not dumbing them down, but distilling. I'm so happy that you are enjoying these videos. Please subscribe if you haven't yet. There is MUCH more good stuff coming. And hey, if you haven't already, please jump in to a Free 30 Day Limited access to JazzWire. I would love to work together with you in a more meaningful (and not too expensive) way. With the Free 30 Day Trial, you’ll see what we're doing behind the wall! You'll be inside in about 20 seconds, no credit card required. www.jazzwire.net/free-trial/. These videos are great, but they are a SHADOW compared to the real work and we can do together!

[@Areskyb]

I love this content! Thanks for this Jeff, any chance you could do a guide listening on art pepper?

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

Oh, that is a GREAT idea. Will do. In a week or two for sure. Thanks for listening and subscribing.

[@Areskyb]

@@JeffAntoniukEducator amazing thank youy so much Jeff!! greetings from Scotland

[@owennovenski4794]

I hate to ever sound harsh when speaking of music, but I’ve always been inclined to say learn to love the journey otherwise you’ll likely never arrive at your destination, especially instrumentalist who treat their instrument like a foe to be conquered as apposed to a friend you’d like to get to known intimately. Thanks for the good advice. And I’m jealous you met Mike Brecker. Never really liked his playing as much as other horn players, until I a bothered to actually listen, which soon became many humbling moments.

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

I love your first point about loving the journey. SO important. But I'll just add you'll love it a heck of a lot more if you are noticeably improved every week, week in and week out. That's what we do at JazzWire, and I can guarantee, folks are loving the journey!! If you haven't already, please jump in to a Free 30 Day Limited access to JazzWire. I would love to work together with you in a more meaningful (and not too expensive) way. With the Free 30 Day Trial, you’ll see what we're doing behind the wall! You'll be inside in about 20 seconds, no credit card required. www.jazzwire.net/free-trial/. These videos are great, but they are a SHADOW compared to the real work and we can do together!

[@classace78]

Wow! You took a lesson with Michael Brecker? Awesome! MB is one of my favorite saxophone players. Such a loss when he passed. I like this episode. This is what I’m working on now. Internalizing licks and music phrases. And yes it is taking some time to get these licks to be accomplished on cue ‘all the time’. But it’s fun. Thanks for your teaching. Will be back to JBM in a few months.

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

I didn't have a lesson with him in an official manner, but was in the same room for a bit. THAT is a lesson! And YES, let's get you back in Jazz Band Masterclass. Shoot me an email now and we can plan ahead. I want to save you a spot now if I can.

[@aljerones99]

Happy new year Jeff! This is an excellent tutorial! I've been spending my time learning standards and pop songs (and associated solos) to widen my repertoire. I've don this largely by ear but not completed much work transposing the vocabulary for use in the same or other songs to get it into my playing (despite having done some modest transposition of the licks and harmonic analysis of the songs). It think the frustration of not getting the vocabulary into my playing is a case of trying to swallow an elephant instead of eating it one bite at a time. This tutorial is, likely, the key to doing so constructively. I know many songs that I can play from memory but they're strictly canned performances. Your presentation should help me recycle the data have in my head to make coherent informed improvised solos without crashing the hard drive of my brain.

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

I'm so happy that you are enjoying these videos. Please subscribe if you haven't yet. Yes, the real power here is FOCUS. One small thing in one small place in the form. Focus is how we get good at anything, and internalizing language is the same. If you haven't already, please jump in to a Free 30 Day Limited access to JazzWire. I would love to work together with you in a more meaningful (and not too expensive) way. With the Free 30 Day Trial, you’ll see what we're doing behind the wall! You'll be inside in about 20 seconds, no credit card required. www.jazzwire.net/free-trial/. These videos are great, but they are a SHADOW compared to the real work and we can do together!

[@michaelbruce1847]

Awesome . . . I'll give it a whirl . . on the piano but it all applies. . .

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

Yes, this is just a good practice technique, unrelated to the instrument. Comment again in a week and let me know how it worked for you. And, please subscribe if you haven't yet. There is MUCH more good stuff coming.

[@blindcanseemusic]

sorry to ask unrelated stuff, but what is your sax and mouthpiece?

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

An Eastman 852, their new-ish horn. It's really fantastic. And a Ted Klum "Florida" 8. The Rovner "Van Gogh" ligature is really a good size part of the setup too. Hope you like it!

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

Licks suck. Play.

[@JeffAntoniukEducator]

Well . . . . you are wrong. Your very thoughtful comment here used three words, and I got your point very easily and quickly. You are a very effective communicator. That said, you didn't invent a new language, did you? No. You didn't ignore syntax and grammar and the historical meaning of words, did you? No, you used language, and you used it effectively. Why would someone try to communicate without using language? A bad idea, and a great way to sound unconvincing, disorganized and meandering. Use words and sentences, and people will know what you are trying to say.

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

@@JeffAntoniukEducator Phrasing can come from places other than repetition of sentences previous vocalised by others. We absorb the language without needing to repeat specific phrases over and over. One place phrasing can come from is to sing lines, forcing you to breath in between statements. Yes the language and the dialects are important, but we know those already having heard them 100s of times. Hearing can be as good as rote learning so long as your fundamentals are strong and you're able to audiate. Licks can play a role in developing that skill but aren't necacery for the duration. When players repeat licks for years on end, endlessly transcribing others work it shows in their playing. There are plenty of accomplished players who don't practice licks and these are often those players lick practising people will attempt to mimic.