How to Play the Bluesy Sax Trill (Official Guide)

[@TheJulianmc]

"People are gonna be wondering what I just played at the beginning, so I'll go over that quickly" Jeff, the whole video is about that. Love you tho

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

haha thanks

[@Baboon4215]

I have used the Adderley Trill in Blues I don't know how many times...each and every time I use it, people really connect with it. Trills are just an awesome thing to do in general. I have nothing against contemporary/Smooth Jazz, but there's very few styles of music that can capture people's attention like the Blues....especially when we add Altissimo, growls/flutters, scoops, bending notes, etc.. and we put all these things together into our playing...it's a very 'deadly' combination :) Great stuff Jeff!

[@hmoore76]

Awesome, very practical and well taught! Love this one!

[@newbaca]

Thanks Jeff. Always great vids. Extra schmaltz and flurries nice.

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Thank you, Mark!

[@deadboss1193]

I've been trying to figure this out for about a week now, I've always heard Joey Cavaseno and Cannonball Adderley and such do it. Almost had it right, just was hitting the wrong key for the trill. Thanks Jeff!

[@altena011]

You have such a really smooth and cool sound. I've been working really hard to improve my tone.

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Keep working on sound. It's so important! You'll get there. My sound used to suck. Good luck!

[@cedricburrell3656]

That's one sick lick! New subscriber

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Thanks!!!!

[@benop_]

Thanks so much for this video always wanted to know how to do this. Keep it up!!!

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Glad you liked it, Ben! Thanks for watching.

[@sciarro94]

that intro was sick!

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

haha thanks!!

[@griffgriffiths7778]

Great stuff.

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Thanks!!

[@denisivanov2522]

Jeff, thanks for blues lesson!!! Sax blues is awesome stuff. Please, post more blues phrases. )

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Will do, Denis. Thanks for watching!

[@brinleyjohn6432]

Thanks Jeff can t wait to practise,Wales u.k.

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Have fun, John!

[@Mikedr55]

Great but quite a job for me to follow the last part of the riff. Any chance of having notes again? Cheer Jeff. Keep up the great videos

[@sanglee3686]

I wish you live in same town where I live, so I can take a lesson. Thank you for the a lot of good tips.

[@troysmithfr]

Skype, dude

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Skype indeed! Shoot me an email at [e-mail]

[@hersheyskwertz9315]

Jazz, the only place where plagiarism is encouraged. Keep 'em coming!

[@yonahweiner]

can't get enough of that schmaltz

[@aaclar]

Love the alto videos any more coming soon?

[@blueeyedsoulman]

Do you know how to trill from middle or 2nd octave Bb/bis to C? Using the side C when the bis key is down results in a flat C. I tried using both the side Bb and side C keys together and it's a little sharper but still not quite a C. So what's the easiest fingering from Bb to C when in say... the key of C#?

[@IWario1]

This obviously wouldn't work on the soprano saxophone if I transpose from alto B to soprano F# right ? so I would just have to practice this on soprano B alto E Thanks man I'm new at this and your videos are helping me so much 👍

[@Poochi]

i think my favorite thing about jeff is that he put his hair product in his description

[@charlesm.franco1830]

hello buddy! could you tell me what kind of tag and number the mouthpeace you used to do this video please? thank you!

[@1983Anubis]

How about the trill that Bob Berg uses at the Friday Night at the Cadillac club?

[@fredwell8361]

Hey Jeff, do you comment on every comment, or do I disqualify by asking the obvious? Keep it up!

[@TysonClancy-Jones]

Are you tonguing the quick run? or slurring

[@chatbass2468]

I don't even play sax and this is cool

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

lol glad you like!! thanks for watching!

[@canadianstacker7822]

cool! can you add more videos like this? 😀

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

More to come, Jasper!

[@stevepethel6843]

NICE...

[@davidolahmusic]

Make a lesson on how to do a proper vibrato on saxophone please :)

[@ardiwitjaksono]

thanks for sharing jeff🎷, but what about note below b?

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Thanks, Ardi! This trill doesn't work on all notes, but see what you can do! Might be able to find another combination.

[@hassanhasan5703]

what is 4 & 5

[@nr3rful]

sexy sound

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

haha sexy sax man style

[@abehampster]

It would have been good it you had panned out and we could see your actual fingering. Thanks anyway

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Good point. Will try to remember that for future videos.

[@rozenaxsax5133]

Nice licks and really nice playing. However if I may add a critique of your presentation it's that it is too rushed (as if you had somewhere else to be) and that worked to its detriment. I say that because IMO you confused the explanation of the licks quite a bit by using both the note names and the Number system to do it. Given that you started out using note names to explain the trills---which was totally clear and understandable--just saying D, E, G instead of suddenly switching to saying 5, 6, 1 would have been the simplest and least confusing way to describe what you played before and after. In fact, saying 5, 6, 1 for those notes in this Blues tune is not even correct, as I will explain below. For one thing when blues players refer to numbers for the chart of a tune they are always talking about the chord changes not the notes they play. Of course those are written in Roman numerals but verbally pronounced the same as Arabic numerals so at first it sounds as if you are naming the chords not the notes. I've played blues for years in jams and the only numbers ever mentioned are for the chords and if someone doesn't know the lick they tell you it by naming the notes. (Here in Europe that's usually in Sofeo names and not letters.) Yes the Nashville number system you've used here vebaly allows people to transpose licks into any key but the problem is that you said that this is a G Blues so how are we to know which scale numbers you're referring to? Which G Blues? The G Minor Blues, the G Major Blues, Plain old G Dorian Minor, or what?? They seem to be for the G Major scale but logically they shouldn't be, should they if this is a Blues. So how are people supposed to know what notes you're naming if you don't name them in a way that is immediately clear and not a ball of confusion? Not to labor the point, but if it's the G Minor blues you're describing with those numbers those Nashville numbers don't work for it. You'd have to use 1, b3, 4, b5, 5, b7 as the numbers and even then you'd be wrong the second you added a non-diatonic note as you did because E, F#, A, & B are not in the scale at all. Instead, Bb, C#, & F are., so what numbers would you have used for those passing tones you played using that system??? (Answer--you couldn't because they're not in the scale.) Again, your playing was great on this (you're far better than an old weekend warrior like me). It's just the explanation is a muddle because what you've done by describing this Blues tune using the number system for the Major scale is create what less edumacated Amerkins like to refer to as "a Morphidite", i.e., something that is neither one thing nor the other. I had a car once many years ago--a Plymouth Valiant-- that a Mechanic described that way and I still remember it. It was basically a mish-mosh of Dodge cars thrown together damn the torpedoes. As you mentioned, a bit of Schmaltz is okay in small amounts but a mish-mosh will cause indigestion regardless of good intentions, so don't put mayonnaise on a pastrami sandwich cause it's not Kosher. To sum up, basically the only way you can verbally tell people what you played here rather than adding the licks in written notational form down below is to use the note names. Save the numbers for non-altered scales