LAUNCH PAD BLUES LICK

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What's a launch pad lick? It's a lick that can help launch you into an improv solo with a really strong beginning. The idea behind the launch lick is to give you a starting point with your improv. In this video, I show you a 2 measure blues lick that can be used to start a solo or connect phrases during the solo. And of course like every lick I show you, I teach you how to play it in different keys.
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Scott Plays:
P. Mauriat 67RX Influence alto sax
Barkley Brazil Kustom Pop 7 Blue mouthpiece
Legere Signature 2.25 reeds
BG Silver Duo ligature

[@patrickrousset2612]

Hi Scott, I really loved this kind of Tutos. Hope you ll repeat it every week in order to have a pool of phrases to improvise. Thanks a lot and take care of you

[@alansneedii6559]

Breaking this in all 12 keys now. Nice. Easy to learn. Nice lesson. Thanks!

[@a1saxy]

Great to see and hear you playing Tenor Scott. More please! 😊

[@fakrtour2009]

thank you so much scott. finally a exercise for tenor :) more of that for tenor

[@hecateswolf6007]

Great lesson again Scott thank you

[@kwesidjan6063]

Again, I learnt something new! Thank you Scott

[@Ramen_Sensei]

Awesome!!!! Something new and fresh! Thanks Scott! 👍

[@leak1130]

Good and simple explanation. enjoy many of your lessons. Thanks

[@aggeloslampadaridis3123]

Extremely helpful, thanks!

[@JohnSmithessexfiresafety]

Thanks Scott - the visuals help a lot for those of that can't keep up with just the narrative of what you're doing. Cheers

[@krakenlover318]

Thanks man really easy to understand thanks again

[@parkerpolen]

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers style, 😎 classic. Great video!

[@pepecetina]

Grear lick, Scott! Thanks

[@shawnforster1754]

Nice one scott, more blues lick launches please..Great stuff

[@richardolson8651]

Great thanks

[@willschmit]

Useful! Blast off!!!

[@marvkromash6428]

You made it so easy to understand. I’ll look for that lick in some of your You Tube videos. That lick goes so well with your style of improvs... it’s kind of like a Scott Paddock autograph. Do you have a sheet with some of your usual licks?

[@robertnorris8096]

When you were younger and wanted to play your licks in all keys, did you write them out or did you just figure them out like you did in the video?

[@ScottPaddock]

I'd usually write out the scale degrees. So it would look something like this: 5 1 b3 3 4 5 b7 4 Then I would look at it and transpose it into different keys, I never wrote out the lick in different keys. That would actually make for a really good tutorial!

[@robertnorris8096]

Scott Paddock I figured as much. Thanks.!!! Keep the lessons coming!

[@bigcee6114]

Keep those Alto lessons coming. Plenty of Tenor jazz lessons on KZbin.

[@ScottPaddock]

Haha! I get complaints from the tenor people all of the time that I don't do enough tenor. I do about 90% alto, but most of those videos work for any sax.

[@timobatana6705]

Is there a video on tuning? Like how far down the cork does one go? I knkw its different per temperatures

[@lolwtfthisshitscrazy]

Do ear training and use a online tuner that listens to your microphone

[@segovia1894]

May I ask, Scott...are you now playing a SYOS mouthpiece? Could we have your thoughts about it? Thanks in anticipation. DW

[@ScottPaddock]

Hey Don, yes that is my signature Syos MP. I play syos tenor and soprano. I need to do a video on it. I still play a Barkley Brazil on alto.

[@segovia1894]

Scott Paddock Great. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to your SYOS vid. Don

[@spencerkessler9785]

Could someone explain using it on a dominant 7? The minor 7 makes sense to me because the F would be minor third, but would it then be #9 with a dominant 7?

[@ScottPaddock]

You'll hear a minor 3rd over a major 3rd chord all the time when listening/transcribing music. Especially in blues. Even though the b3rd is technically the "wrong" note. It still works and sounds fine. However, you can't do the inverse. You can't play a major 3rd over a minor 3rd chord. When you do that it sounds really bad.

[@mikeciul8599]

Not being a jazz musician, I get really confused seeing swung 8th notes combined with triplets! I tried to sense if there was a difference between the swing and a quarter + eighth triplet rhythm, but I couldn't quite tell. Do you have a guide for that or is it just feel?

[@andrewcranmer9653]

I’m no expert by any stretch, but I think it’s just feel for what sounds good. If it helps seeing as a score, perhaps check out transcriptions by Charles Margarit or Remi Bolduc (on YT). Also very common is a triplet with the first note as a rest.

[@ScottPaddock]

Swing 8ths are mostly a feel thing and they are taught several different ways all trying to get to a similar outcome. When I think swing 8ths I think: doo bah doo bah doo bah (the doo is long and the bah is short). With triplets I literally use the word triplet broken up into 3 syllables = TRI-PL-ET

[@MyMusicEducation]

Audio's a bit low Scott or maybe it's my computer.

[@mikeciul8599]

low for me too