MODES - the Ultimate Multi-Tool for Improvising

[@Normantnt]

As a music teacher myself, thank you Jay for a concise and accurate description of modes and how they relate to chords in improvisation. Very clear and all that is needed now is practice to make it real.

[@bettersax]

Thanks

[@richardsteinbergmakingknives]

Oh my goodness! I'm just getting back into it after 40 years and this brings back a lot. Thank you so much!!! I'll be signing up to your classes. Wish I had the internet when I was first learning this instrument. Would have made life so much easier.

[@DrLogical987]

Phew! I'm half way through blues / pentatonic courses... I'm glad I'm not going to run out of this class material anytime soon!

[@bettersax]

haha, this one will keep you busy for a while too!

[@2D2Productions]

I am also in the middle of that one too. I put it down for a while as I shifted to other practice focus, with plans to come back to it. And I will. I need to add this one as well.

[@theminifigmaker4380]

Just wanted to say I just started playing saxophone today and your free tutorials have helped a lot.

[@bettersax]

👍🏼

[@Amavere]

It's been a hot minute since I've done anything with theory. Super awesome to get a refresher on modes.

[@GayestWinston]

You recomended this video in another video and i am so thankfull that you did that. I aboslutely loved this video and it helped me understand modes

[@pipborthwick6313]

You bloody legend! First person to explain it and it immediately sink in! Thank you!

[@enriquedefont4007]

I´ve just purchased my access. Looks fun. I will benig as soon as I finish The Pentatonic Foundation course

[@bettersax]

great! glad you will be taking the new course!

[@lawrievanniekerk9748]

Thanks Jay ... plenty practice ahead ...!!

[@eduardopizarro1961]

Just enrolled! Looking forward to complete it and apply what I learn! Thanks Jay!

[@AltoEcho]

Shoutouts to Locrian mode for being the most 'out-of-box'

[@joeblankenship377]

It wants to resolve so bad, but no!

[@lewisblakley8288]

Do you know Adam Neely has made a whole video based around that one mode.

[@robstevens9590]

Your improv was very helpful, showing the different modes you use to play over the changes (using the same scale but different modes). I just started learning to improvise on "So What" using the D & Eb Dorian modes.

[@KarlBonner1982]

Fun trivia: The video game Secret of Mana has a battlefield song with the same dorian progression as So What. Do a search for "Into The Thick of It " and listen!

[@owentemplin3372]

Jay I appreciate you making this video, I wish I had this when I was first learning about improvisation!

[@RonPorteous]

I made a very broad hint to my family that I wanted this course for Christmas. It went some thing like "I want this course for Christmas" ;-)

[@bettersax]

I hope you’ve been good 😀

[@peterhorah7884]

Oh Jay! What a great video - I am such a dunce! Seeing you demonstrate the mode at the chord change suddenly opened my eyes! It’s taken me years to understand how to apply the mode theory and you have done it in 8 minutes!

[@bettersax]

Glad this helped

[@maxbruner6909]

I didnt know how to use these in improv, and now I do:)

[@brianclausen2344]

As always Jay, you provide concise, clear and entertaining instructional material that is inviting to a wide variety of viewers and players of any level. Having been a music teacher in public and private schools, I wish I had this resource to help my students understand Modal concepts and their uses in improvising.This will be a great addition to my learning library for me to brush up on my skills and hone the rusty spots too. The Music Theory cheat sheet is awesome! I end up usually hand writing something for my students when I was teaching fulltime. I will definitely refer students and players of all abilities and ages to your Instructional Website so they can garner the great knowledge you have put forth! Thanks again and I look forward to seeing where you will take us next on our Musical Journeys!

[@bettersax]

Great to hear!

[@francoiscottaz9213]

Hi Jayn NO doubt i'll catch your course! but have to keep going with the Pentatonic Pattern. I practice everyday 1h and improoved a lot thaks to your courses. Thanks for your material!

[@bettersax]

Glad it is helping you!

[@STICKS-mq1xi]

This is what I needed thank you so much!

[@bettersax]

You're so welcome!

[@2D2Productions]

Really interesting. Modes are in the air. I am currently in the middle of a course (with Trey Gunn of King Crimson ) in modes where we are approaching with solfège. Singing the intervals(I am so far from being a singer). BUT.... OMG..... my saxophone tone is improving exponentially with this! Your coarse looks like the perfect companion to what I am diving into. I am finally comfortable on all Major and minor scales and the practical function of modes is my next target. Intellectually, I know what they are. They are not yet in my fingers or available on the fly while I play. Good timing for me to see this .

[@serzok1]

Thank you for free downloads. By the way, nice set up behind you at around 1:45 The room, the lighting...very homey.

[@apinakapinastorba]

This will be on my todo list for sure. Just finished the blues foundation. Maybe I’ll first go through pentatonic and blues foundations again with more depth first. Next month will be my first ”anniversary” with the saxophone, hopefully I will be healthier and practise more next year. I’m still really pleased how much I have learned so far. Thank you :)

[@bettersax]

Great to hear

[@c.rodlosfortes8432]

Thanks Man! Clear explanations

[@bettersax]

Good to hear it was helpful.

[@Samuel-ge7im]

Amazing video Jay

[@connerfitzsimonds3198]

I love your videos man you encouraged me to start making my own and I just got my first 1000 views and I wanted to say thanks

[@bassofone1]

This sounds great. You do too! Will you have "office hours" or private lesson/Q&A time for your students? How many Masterclasses will you have included?

[@bettersax]

For this course there is an included live masterclass date tba. There is a forum in the members area for questions and discussion.

[@bassofone1]

@@bettersax Sounds great. Thank you!

[@judylam8145]

Thanks for sharing 👏

[@garyreid6165]

I remember when I started playing tenor saxophone, I began learning to play the blues and classic standards. After playing the main tune, I began trying to play the bridges. I simply went with the flow and played. The challenge was to stay in tune and in tempo. Not easy but not a negative experience. How much is the theory program? I don’t have a horn but I do sight reading when I can.

[@joeblankenship377]

For anyone not in the know, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is a great example of modal jazz.

[@nhr27]

purchased course immediately.

[@bettersax]

Thanks Nate!

[@danderibas2640]

I LERN SO MUCH FROM U THANKS DAN ORMOND BEACH FL

[@Aferomusicworks]

Great teacher

[@beanladle]

Dang the improv at the beginning sounded sooo good. (btw, I would really like to see a vid with you playing your yanigisawa bari sax)

[@temesgensaelens4134]

I love your style of playing🎷🎶 🤎

[@bettersax]

Thanks

[@daniellepapin1680]

What is the best saxophone brands? I eventually want to play the alto saxophone and tenor saxophone 😀

[@jefflee2625]

Delightful!

[@floridaguy1955]

Have been playing alto for almost 11 years. I am studying Mark Levine's Jazz Theory Book. Practical with lots of harmony. Nice course you have. How about publishing a chapter by chapter list so that players can see what they are getting into? Sort of like Amazon's "Look Inside".

[@bettersax]

Good suggestion.

[@bensherman1628]

locrian is my favorite

[@bettersax]

yeah locrian rocks.

[@zacharyhudson618]

Wait, where’s the Depeche mode?

[@petersalisbury108]

Curious to know what mouthpiece/ reed combination you’re using on that intro. .. Great sound👍

[@bettersax]

Philtone eclipse 7*

[@petersalisbury108]

Thanks for getting back.

[@amyodov]

1:03 - is it just me nitpicking, or the Chromatic Scale on the PDF is missing G and G♯/A♭?..

[@kappa4965]

Hi. What tenor ligature are you using? And would you recommend buy a better tenor mouthpiece than the yamaha classic mouthpiece ( im playing since 10 month and I'm already far for that time)

[@BernardAmblard]

Merci pour ce partage pouce!!!!!!!!!!j'aime!!!!!!!!!

[@musikerman52]

A clear and somewhat stiff way to adapt these modes. But a clear start, anyway. Just try to advance as soon as possible to find these all beginning with the same note, to make them more independent from the major scale.

[@eddieskarp4799]

What I never seem to learn is how you know what chords to use when playing the certain modes or what notes I can stop on when switching mode. Nobody talks about that in a simplistic way.. do chord notes move away from your Cmaj scale all of a sudden when using a different mode? How can I know this then?

[@123thehulla123]

That was too good to be true

[@alesort6744]

Good video Jeff. 👍🏽 If I go to 2th grade of the scale, I’m I in the Dorian mode of the tonic or it is the Dorian mode of the second grade? Thanks

[@bettersax]

Dorian mode is built on the 2nd scale degree of a major scale. The course explains all this and a lot more in detail.

[@JV-uo5bs]

How much is the Harmonic Foundation Course, I dont see a price?

[@bettersax]

The price is $129 and the launch discount is 40% off of that

[@nikolausscm]

Hi. Im using a Cebulla Neckstrap, sometimes some pain by using neck strap. Would you recommend the saxholder in 2020 and if yes, is there a better version or smth. Would be glad if could awnser or send a link link of this. Thanks in advance!

[@bettersax]

Yes saxholder is best for relieving neck pain and pressure.

[@nikolausscm]

@@bettersax thanks

[@tomebarrios]

classical saxophone video pls :)

[@joelpierson2628]

One question Jay, if we start the Dorian mode with a D note over a 2-5-1, isn't that being root dependent? Or the Lydian mode with an F note over the four chord in a C blues?

[@bettersax]

Not sure I understand what you’re asking Joel. It’s all explained in the course.

[@tonypolizzi713]

your web page won't take my info can't log in.

[@bobblues1158]

Hi Jay-what mouthpiece and reed is that?

[@bettersax]

Bob that is a Phil tone eclipse with a Rigotti wild.

[@markhormusic_ALIEN_GAME_ZONE]

Hi dear sir. Please make video about curved saxophone.

[@enyag1387]

Hey on my new tenor sax I’m having some trouble to get that deep sound it keeps sounding like I’m holding th octave key but I’m not help meeeeee

[@galerijanamar]

More breath, open your throat, like saying "O". Like you are trying to create moist on a glass, that kind of an open throat

[@enyag1387]

@@galerijanamar thank you so much

[@hdwscoot9884]

Fun fact, Star Wars characters are named after modes

[@beanladle]

You should post some improv on your Spotify channel

[@syskeyerror746]

noice

[@jimcurrie]

We were taught that these modes are the 7 church modes.

[@zenscapeUKmedia]

How to improvise behind bars... a contradiction in terms. The enemy of creativity is a framework.

[@bettersax]

All the greats improvised within some sort of framework. I find them to be quite creative.

[@zenscapeUKmedia]

@@bettersax Quite true - you probably need scales to be derivative or to copy others. Formal training can teach you to learn to use a typewriter but not to how write a good story. You need to know more than which keys to press. Sure, it works for some, but for most, it just takes you to a plateau and leaves you there. A sax is a vocal instrument. Few great innovative singers start by learning scales - you learn by listening to music!

[@davidfeldhaus976]

1st dislike let’s go