4 Blues scale licks for tenor sax

[@robgreaves6681]

Thanks

[@lyndenblades]

Thank you so much Rob, really appreciated your support 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷

[@davidwhitehead4498]

What a fantastic video, showing the construction of the scales. And great licks too.. Love it.. Thank you

[@lyndenblades]

David thank you so much 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷

[@MrFidelios]

This is a 100% Top lesson!!! Fantastic!!! Thank you very much!

[@lyndenblades]

You’re so welcome, thank you 😎😎🎷🎷🤝🤝

[@philmespel4372]

Hello Lynden, Thank you for your very practical, easy to follow approach to playing the saxophone. I first bought a new Selmar tenor in....1984! I, like you was largely self taught. The scales scared me! So I only played where I could go, very limiting! I sold this sax about 8, 9 years ago. On the day before the first big Lockdown, 2020, in New Zealand, I shot down to the city and bought a soprano. Now, with the technology of KZbin, I bought a cheap tutorial and an App for tuning and metro, TE Tuner. I practiced for at least one hour per day for 40 days. Then we went back to work. Though I liked the soprano, I missed, the tenor. I started to think about what I really wanted, and decided on a used top end Yanagisawa. I rang my shop, really a bunch of skilled instrument technicians, and not a music shop at all. I asked if they ever would get an instrument like this. No, never. But one just came in this week, a deceased estate! I listen to Jamie Anderson, Get Your Sax Together, and he is good. But you have a way of taking down the barriers and making it so anyone who wants can become proficient at playing the sax. I'm 63, and want to be at professional level within two years. I've had my tenor for less that two weeks and can play in all scales, but no that fast. I am for accuracy, knowing that speed will come by itself. So THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. Keep up the good work! All our best wishes from Down Under, In New Zealand, the Land of New Zeal!

[@lyndenblades]

Phil thank you so much for this, I’m so happy that you’re finding my tutorials useful. Your journey sounds amazing 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎

[@artmayer6117]

Another great video, Lynden. Can't wait to try out these licks when I practice this afternoon.

[@lyndenblades]

Art thank you so much, really happy that this is useful for you and thanks too for your support on PayPal 🤝🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎

[@robgreaves6681]

Thank you Lyndon for your enthusiasm and encouragement. Hope to see you again at the Stables next week

[@lyndenblades]

Thank you Rob 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎

[@craig9140]

Wonderful Licks thank you!

[@lyndenblades]

Glad you like them, thank you Craig 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎

[@juanvieira8876]

Hi Lynden I like so much your videos, is like there are a lot of imposible contents of improvisation and jazz, and then there are yours: simple and powerful. Thanks! A little question: I found a bit strange to use G# in the D blues scale, for me the right notation is Ab. Do you can explain why you use G#?

[@lyndenblades]

Hi Juan and thank you for your message. There’s no reason to call it G# and not Ab, it’s just I think of that note as G# that’s all! 🤝🤝🤝😎🎷🎷

[@pontiactransam75]

Hi Lynden, I came across this video by chance, really very interesting, first of all I hope your videos continue, I'm also very interested in your program that you use to create the base, could you tell me what you use? or the name of the program thanks

[@lyndenblades]

Hi there, it’s called SessionBand jazz and it’s excellent 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎

[@stevegibb6421]

Alas 5 quid is over 10 NZ bucks, or I would be buying you a coffee for every vid. Ive been attempting to impro for 10 years on the promise of several on line tutors that the process would be “heaps of “fun”. It hasnt been….. even sold my sax in frustration and took up assembling plastic aeroplanes. Discovered you channel recently….inspired me to purchase another sax …. And it turns out it is “ heaps of fun, with the right tutor…. Lyndon😊 By the way, I think your pen problems may stem from you writing with pen pointing up … I would recommend level or pointing slightly down …. Cant be wasting coffee money on pens😉

[@lyndenblades]

Hi Steve, thanks for this and I’m just so happy to know that my videos are helping you, that’s so cool 😎 You don’t have to buy me a coffee but I’d really appreciate it if you will share my videos on social media anywhere, Facebook or Instagram or sax forums, anywhere really and that would be so helpful for this channel. Would that be possible? 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎

[@stevegibb6421]

@@lyndenblades Absolutely… with pleasure. The least I can do.. plus the odd coffee when the pension allows😉

[@lyndenblades]

Thank you I really appreciate that 🎷🎷😎😎🤝🤝

[@barryyoung8291]

Hi Lynden, just come across your channel and am suitably impressed. I'm interested to understand what backing key/chords were being used here so I know where/when to use it. I thought I heard mention of Bb concert in the video, so does a D blues scale sit appropriately over that or am I tying myself in knots :)

[@lyndenblades]

Hi Barry, you need D minor for tenor sax which is C minor in concert pitch. Look on KZbin for “funk backing track C minor” and you’ll find something that your D blues scale fits over 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷

[@dfmail0103]

Hi, I would like to compliment you on how well you explain and if you can tell me the App you use, thank you

[@lyndenblades]

Thank you so much 🤝🤝 Yes the app I’m using is here: apps.apple.com/gb/app/sessionband-jazz-3/id767578896

[@liamf1463]

How do you create these licks? Is it just by noodling with the scale notes and listening to what sounds good?

[@lyndenblades]

Hi Liam, yes exactly that. Just play up and down the scale and listen to what sounds nice. Isolate a few notes of the scale and repeat them, play around with them and a phrase will pop out. Then repeat and develop the phrase. Does this make sense? 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎

[@liamf1463]

@@lyndenblades thank you so much for your swift response. Yes that makes perfect sense. Because of your guidance I am now beginning to understand the whole concept of how to improvise without sounding awful 👍🎷

[@lyndenblades]

That’s so cool to hear!! 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷

[@lyndenblades]

That’s awesome 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷

[@anthonydupont3694]

How much do you charge for lessons

[@lyndenblades]

Hi Anthony, I charge £50 Uk pounds per hour 🤝🤝😎😎🎷🎷

[@olowatobilobakolawole298]

Hello sir can we also play this on Alto sax too

[@lyndenblades]

Yes you can and here’s the link 🤝🤝🎷🎷 4 Blues scale licks for alto sax kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKiziaycl8qtgaM

[@newscrews11]

Suggestion # whatever - if you want to sell more of your Goldington horns, why don't you do your demos on them? I don't need to know a great horn is great, I need to know you trust your own horns enough to teach on them.

[@lyndenblades]

Hiya, thanks for this. I have made some tutorials using them and I have two that I use regularly. The saxophones I use for gigs are the ones I’ve owned for 30 years and habitually use them for the tutorials but I totally trust Goldington saxophones to both teach, gig and make tutorials on.

[@pontiactransam75]

Hi Lynden, I came across this video by chance, really very interesting, first of all I hope your videos continue, I'm also very interested in your program that you use to create the base, could you tell me what you use? or the name of the program thanks

[@lyndenblades]

Hi there, it’s called SessionBand Jazz, and it’s excellent 🤝🤝🎷🎷😎😎