Coltrane: 3 Easy Lessons on Sax

[@donmackay7978]

Great to see you back! You have been missed.

[@drwallysax]

I really appreciate that. You guys keep me motivated :) See you next week?

[@AntBikerMusicMan]

I love the comment about audiation and drowning out those voices “telling you to burn things”, absolutely priceless! I love your sense of humour.

[@drwallysax]

Awww, thanks! Happy practicing and happy new year!

[@AntBikerMusicMan]

@ Thanks Dr Wally, happy new year to you too.

[@matiascampiani9156]

Happy to see you back! Thanks for these great classes Dr Wally!

[@drwallysax]

You are most welcome, it's great to be back with you guys :)

[@yelloroo]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos, and try to practice your concepts. I like the way that you're not give cooking recipes but try to raise our comprehension on what we're listening or playing. Thank you!

[@wouterdesmedt1736]

Love this, the idea of the musical shape, and how you explained and illustrated it made a lot of things click in my brain. Thank you, and welcome back!

[@drwallysax]

Glad it was helpful! Good to be back :)

[@nickmartorano6766]

FANTASTIC lesson Doc! Good to see you again. Thank you for being a fantastic teacher! Amazing tone, as always. 😊

[@drwallysax]

Thanks Nick, made my morning ☺️

[@alanhowell3646]

Such a beautiful line that is gone in a flash at the tempo of Mr P.C. The beauty of slowing these guys down to study. Great lesson, thanks. I’m going to work on this today.

[@drwallysax]

Well said! Happy practicing Alan!

[@ahmedmoustafa8816]

That's an awsome come back. Thank you and Happy New Year.

[@drwallysax]

Happy New Year to you! Thanks for watching :)

[@rlp5]

Doc, love your stuff.. you present it in such a simple way and it sounds so jazzy. Clean and precise!! Thanks.

[@Maler-Kai]

Happy New Year, Dr. Wally! 🎉 I'm happy that you're back. You're not only an exceptional saxophonist but also an amazing teacher. Thank you for sharing your passion and talent with us!🎉🎉🎉

[@drwallysax]

Well you just made my day. Thanks you. Much love to you this new year! See you next week :)

[@jamiemcgoldrick3350]

So glad you're continuing these great video lessons. Happy 2025

[@BruceReid8393]

Great content as usual! Can't wait to dig in.

[@drwallysax]

Thanks Bruce! Happy practicing up there in London Town!

[@tristansmith962]

Such joy. Thank you for always providing a wonderful starting point to explore from. 🙂

[@drwallysax]

Tristan, you're awesome, thanks man. Keep practicing, your submissions are getting better and better my friend. Proud of you.

[@tristansmith962]

@@drwallysax Thank you - I heard loud and clear about the short two bar phrases, and then the getting stuck at 4 bar phrases. I will be mindful of that in the next submission. 🙂 Love your work, love the Academy - and if that coffee ever becomes available to Australians, I am sure I would love that too.

[@peterd3218]

Very well done! You bring us the jazz.

[@drwallysax]

Served up cool and swingin' hopefully, happy practicing!

[@BrianBurgess-jg6bs]

Great content Dr Wally as ever; good to have you back cheers

[@drwallysax]

Thanks Brian, hope you're having a great new year!

[@SharpElevenMusic]

"Less but better" is such a great mantra for studying, love it Wally! Great lines and sequences to study. Happy new year! Hopefully 2025 can be finally the year that we can pull of a nice collab By the way, love you bring up audiation, such an important tool. Just one sidenote from my point of view, an avid terrible singer. After trying to use my voice to consolidate what I'm hearing, it has proven to be more of a liability than a help. I can often literally think a note clearly, try to sing it and hear myself making a awful noise nothing like that pitch. So I'll still try it from time to time and when I succeed its an extra plus, but if I don't I stopped berating myself a long time ago for my lack of vocal control. It just ain' t really happening anymore for me (no joke, I had quite some years even obligated vocal lessons as part of a music program from 2 different teachers. I've never seen people get grey hair so fast ) My motivational quote for 2025: It's totally possible to sing worse than an angry duck on steroids and pump out over 200 solo transcriptions.

[@drwallysax]

Luckily, your alto sings for you!! 200 solo transcriptions in NUTS!!! I really hope we can collab this year - I commissioned an arrangement for us, but my friend suddenly got pulled away to arrange for the new Branford Marsalis broadway show (tough life). I'm going to make it happen this year. I think we have very similar taste in musical aesthetics, we need to play together for sure!

[@SharpElevenMusic]

@@drwallysax Yikes, a Braford Marsalis broadway show? That sounds like such an amazing concept. Nice! It sounds like a great idea, very excited about that!And, exactly, we do have very much similar tastes. Not sure what I'll do on the channel this year, (too many ideas) but when the opportunity presents itself I'll contact you if I have a cool idea as well. Thanks for your great content (and hilarious delivery) Cheers, Jorre

[@ailishbethd4033]

Happy New Year Dr. Wally. Thank you for this great lesson. Very helpful🎉

[@drwallysax]

Happy new year! So glad you found it helpful!

[@bilbostoy]

Thanks so much Doctor! I have been pondering this pattern ever since you introduced it in the June lesson and the next months Summertime featuring Sonny Stitt playing a similar pattern. Now you have given me structure in my exploration.

[@drwallysax]

Yes! The Stitt shape is a bit different but equally cool. Slow and steady, hear it - play it. See you at the zoom next week?

[@bilbostoy]

@@drwallysax I try, the time doesn't always fit with my West coast schedule and time my wife and I go hiking.

[@aterr]

happy new year dr wally, excited to see what this year brings

[@drwallysax]

Great to see you, we're going to have some fun! Happiest of new years to you as well!

[@creativestudios5562]

He’s back!

[@drwallysax]

Hey, happy New Year!

[@clairegoguen622]

So pleasant to listen to you Dr. Wally :-). Your talents in creating melodic short and beautiful improvised lines are stunning, as well as your popularizing skills. Happy new year and all the best in 2025.

[@drwallysax]

That is so incredibly kind, thank you Claire. Hope you hare having a MOST wonderful new year. See you next week!

[@michelmalts9053]

Salve, Dr! From Brasil. And i will apply these concepts on my samba jazz licks

[@thomaskoehler5386]

So happy to see that you haven't given up the KZbin thing (very understandable if you decided to though). Your Exercise Zero and overtone drills alone have improved my sound and your blues improv series helped me more than anything else I've looked at. Looking forward to more great material!

[@drwallysax]

Thanks for your kind words. I appreciate you watching!

[@ZoePool-PhD]

Happy New Year 🎉 & Thank you Dr W - 🎷fantastic lesson - very clear - looking forward to this year’s curriculum 😊‼️

[@drwallysax]

Happy new year! It's going to be a fun filled curriculum this year, buckle up!

[@dianashantirosewilks8725]

Happy New Year Dr Wally, I'm still working through the fundamentals book and slurring the scales ... with the metronome on ... but love watching your jazz vids, something to aim for, thank you

[@kimheath3536]

Wow! Good Dr this is one of your best lessons yet…I love the approach and it really helps to see and understand what is going on and how to take forward. Shanti : )

[@drwallysax]

Glad it was helpful! Happy new year!

[@giuseppeboscherini6030]

I loved this! More of it please!

[@drwallysax]

Big year planned, glad to have you here :)

[@williamgregory1848]

Thank goodness you’re back. I was going to have to organize a search for you. Now I have to tell the posse that you’ve been found. (They were looking for a big pay day.)

[@drwallysax]

You'll never bring in the Saxo-kid!!! You'll earn a pine box fer yer troubles....

[@neilripsch6624]

I truly appreciate what you for us.

[@drwallysax]

I really appreciate you watching. Creating videos is lonely work, knowing it might help motivate someone means the world to me. Thanks :)

[@carlpolke5530]

Yay Happy New Year Doc! Just what I need to get back into it all after a cpl of weeks off... 🎷🤘!

[@drwallysax]

Well, let's dust of the cobwebs and swing in the new year my friend! See you next week!

[@reuven8815]

Happy New Year Dr. W!🎷💣🎷

[@drwallysax]

Happy New Year to you, thanks for watching!

[@francistaylor5097]

Great to see you back, Dr Wally. Happy New Year. Hopefully some more podcast episodes are coming too?

[@drwallysax]

Great to be back and see you as well! More podcast very likely! Happy New Year!

[@robstevens9590]

Happy New Year, Wally! As soon as you mentioned the 6th I thought of Lou Donaldson's "Blues Walk". (RIP)

[@drwallysax]

Such a great record, so glad he walked the earth to record as much as he did! Happy new year to you!

[@Evan52247]

Beautiful Coltrane tone. Damn

[@Dr.RolyndDellaSylvan]

@drwallysax Thank you for your artistry and insights. You inspired us with your tone, your playing, your lessons, and your passion. Thank you for a wonderful year of videos (I realize that it’s very time consuming and takes much energy). I wish you health and joy. And, many more rapturous musical moments in 2025 ! ((btw, Harvey Pittel is performing a piece of mine in concert again)) -Dr D

[@drwallysax]

Thank you so much, and great wishes for you in 2025! That's really exciting to hear about the piece, what's it called? Would love to hear it!

[@peterolsson3662]

Great Lesson, Thanks

[@drwallysax]

My pleasure!

[@solomann940]

Thanks for this 🙏🏼💕

[@drwallysax]

You are absolutely most welcome. Hope you're having a fantastic new year! See you next week :)

[@borutrihtarsic4771]

Wishing you all the best in 2025! And thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@drwallysax]

Same to you! It's going to be an amazing year, see you next week?

[@Areskyb]

Yes! Thank you mr saxophone guy!

[@drwallysax]

That's Dr. Saxophone Guy!!!! Kidding aside, thanks for watching. Hope you're having a great new year!

[@kalleberglund5387]

I have a question regarding embouchure. Should I slide my lower lip over my lower teeth? A lot of people say that, but I’ve also heard that you shouldn’t and that it’s better to strengthen your lip to support the embouchure on its own. What do you recommend?

[@xrgiok]

We were miss you Dr Wally! Hope you alright!

[@drwallysax]

I'm great, thanks! Missed you guys as well. Every so often I reassess what I'm doing with my life. After taking some time off, I realized how much I love this community and making educational content. Full steam ahead :)

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Hello Wally

[@KierynKilminster]

Great video! Dr Wally, it's your content that inspired me to take up sax after 30+ years of only clarinet ❤ btw do you have any content about when to change mpc? I bought a yamaha 4C for my granddads sax when i thought id barely play it...

[@drwallysax]

So glad you're picking up the saxophone! the 4C is completely fine for the first few years of playing. It's a great workhorse mouthpiece!

[@KierynKilminster]

​@@drwallysaxgood to know, thanks. I'm likely to buy a YA62 soon as my alto is high-pitch, not sealing and almost 100yo... And even so I was surprised how easy it is to blow, and thought it might be the closed tip mpc.

[@KenioFuke-j2y]

Wow great ...

[@drwallysax]

Thanks! Happy practicing!

[@skylerschwebach6829]

When does the classical library drop?

[@drwallysax]

Bach drops this weekend.

[@amoebacakes]

What are your thoughts on charlie Parker?

[@drwallysax]

Changed jazz and the saxophone forever. There is such a vibrant, explosive joy in his playing. I adore him more each year I listen. It's a shame our recordings of him are from the 1940s and Lo-Fi, not as much fun to listen to. Still, that magic shines through. I think he really elevated jazz to a new form of art-music.

[@amoebacakes]

@@drwallysax Awesome! I just got a book of Charlie Parker solos as I am getting back into playing long removed from high school marching band, never having played jazz. Working on my articulation this morning. Thank you!

[@bradking1536]

Thank you for sharing 🎉I'm a guitar player 🎉 Hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8

[@kwootamuckbear9294]

Hmmm 🤔🎶🎵🎶🎵🎷

[@arnaudstegle5034]

I'am a guitar player, but I promise I"ll stay quiet at the back of the classroom 😁

[@drwallysax]

Nonsense, come grab a seat up front. Just keep your amp volume below 3.

[@arnaudstegle5034]

@@drwallysax Thanx sir ! I won't use my amp, just my ears. Seriously, I rarely hear guitar lines in my head, it's always saxophone (or vocal) lines and it leads me to put an ear on saxophone phrasing lessons.

[@coillplays]

My friend copies my leaks and uses the on the Guitar