Surround Tones | Pentatonic Scale Lesson

Dr. Wally shows how to use surround tones to spice up the pentatonic scale!
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[@brianmyers8350]

Loving it my dude, got a bunch of young students working on enclosures, the next generation is going to be ridiculous [the good way], the amount of info available is so huge now. Wishing you the best.

[@drwallysax]

Thanks Brian! Wishing you and your students the best as well. Also, I agree, our students are going to kick our butts - and that's awesome :)

[@aaronkarlin3241]

Such a joy to work with these. TY, Dr. Wallace!

[@drwallysax]

MOST welcome, Aaron. Happy practicing and have a great week!

[@tommyesposito606]

i like the way you teach

[@drwallysax]

Thanks Tommy, much appreciated!

[@KadrianThomas]

Dr. Wally, I swear you were looking through a crystal ball at me some years ago when you mentioned that joke about the neighbors who fight and tumble late at night 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know exactly the types. Great video! Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us.

[@drwallysax]

Hey Kadrian, thanks my friend! Hope you have a great week!

[@F15774137842]

Thank you, you really are a master in didactics ! The video again is highly useful for me, as you combine pragmatic and non orthodoxic education, which is easily understandable also for beginners - in a perfect proportion with examples, with listen and repeat. It is perfect to have the sheet music in the video, too! And it is fun to follow you, as always. Thanks again. Frank

[@drwallysax]

Thank you Frank, much appreciated my friend!

[@vladimirlopez7840]

Wow I love your tone on tenor!

[@djmileski]

Thank u! Yes not always in the beat 5:36

[@monkeyrater]

This is a very revealing video on how jazz works. Ive given up on watching youtube channels about jazz because they go out of their way to be as vague and nondescriptive as possible about famous jazz music. It would be really good if you would make a video series that would go through great solos by Trane and Bird so people like myself can figure out what is going on melodically and harmonically.

[@javierm_uk1588]

Another great piece of the puzzle for us, sax illiterates, trying to build up our chops. Thanks Wally! Your podcast is also the perfect companion for my daily walk.

[@drwallysax]

Happy to help, and thanks for listening!

[@astarothgr]

Dr. Wally delivers the goods, yet again!

[@SaxSpy]

fantastic video, Wally! Very clear way to expand vocabulary. I shan't be using this with some students soon

[@drwallysax]

Hey Derek, sorry I missed this! I shan't myself this morning!

[@couchphotography8861]

hope you shall!

[@ronaldmcaulay4346]

Hi, I love these exercises, they help you connect how you really want to with your sax, brilliant 👏

[@drwallysax]

Ronald that makes me incredibly happy, thanks my friend!

[@tomwoolsey1089]

This guy rules

[@drwallysax]

What guy!? Me!? Awwww, YOU RULE Tom. Have a great week and happy practicing my friend!

[@ntxmt]

Thanks for another great lesson!

[@drwallysax]

Absolutely most welcome my friend. Happy practicing!

[@smudgecook3078]

Great video and exercises. Many thanks from Jersey

[@drwallysax]

Happy Monday from Sunny North Carolina!

[@robstevens9590]

Thank you for these call and response phrases! I just started playing soprano (as a second instrument) So I can use the phrases for alto & tenor!

[@drwallysax]

Hey Rob, glad you're playing soprano - its such a fun instrument! Who's your favorite soprano player?

[@robstevens9590]

@@drwallysax I don't really have a favorite soprano player. It depends more on the particular piece, I guess. But Coltrane, Oliver Nelson, James Carter, Dave Koz and Kenny G are on the list.

[@lindagerard4723]

Hi , Dr. WALLY . Just wanted to express my appreciation for all your helpful tips. I come from the classical clarinet side of the fence. This is like, the opposite. Mozart and Copland were really the only clarinet pieces I enjoyed. At age 64 I am learning jazz on tenor in a stage band. But, I am so in my head trying to analyze. Ugh. Taking your advice trying to create a melody and to listen. I write all your chord progression samples out. I mean I taught elementary music for 30 years, and this is new knowledge!! Is it bad to admit that? Where would my life be if I had taken this jazz road? I've watched so many of your videos. Thank you. I am inspired by your technique and humorous approach. Do ya get what I'm putting down?

[@drwallysax]

I'm rolling up what you're laying out, Linda. Thank you, and happy practicing!

[@Osnosis]

Try to find key centers first; don’t get too microscopic until you have that.

[@dnee18]

Thanks, great teaching. If I were to learn these lines without your lesson I would be thinking about them in terms of little bits of different scales, but in general when playing are you thinking of the pentatonic as the core structure with surround notes rather than thinking about other scales?

[@WKFSaxPlayer]

Fantastic content, which has put a lot into context for me. Any chance you can link the PDF for this lesson. TIA 🎷🎷

[@drwallysax]

Thanks Watson! I don't have the pdf available, sorry.

[@jacquelamontharenberg]

Like your tone with the new mouthpiece on both horns Dr. Walley. Nice simple exercises to play with.

[@drwallysax]

Thanks Jacque, I appreciate the kind words. Happy practicing and have a fantastic week my friend!

[@TIGUFSUPMET]

Another great video! Would I be right in thinking the new alto mp has more of a modern jazz sound?

[@dynoroad]

@@TIGUFSUPMET Define "modern". If that means the sound of 80's and 90's session cats, then I'd say the 56 is not "modern" sounding. So what kind of "modern" sound are you thinking of?

[@TIGUFSUPMET]

@@dynoroad Perhaps ‘modern’ was not the best word! I have one of the mk 1 56s and it is a lovely mp. I just meant that Dr. Wally sounded rather more bright than his usual rounded tone and wondered if this was a feature of the mk II mp.

[@dynoroad]

@@TIGUFSUPMET I think it is! Higher and longer roll over baffle I think! :)

[@waynegram8907]

Surround notes means only upper neighbors and lower neighbors notes? Or what other types of surrounding notes can you have? More examples

[@alisaam1]

Great!!! Very HELPFULL. Thank you so much

[@drwallysax]

Most welcome, happy practicing!

[@erichuang7524]

Hey may you please do a video on Michael Brecker’s harmonic devices in his soloing? Or it can be other artists, but I’m particularly interested in Brecker

[@johndodd7931]

I love your stuff! Can I buy you a coffee for your efforts? Is it possible to include an MP3 of the call and response experience? I find MP3s very easy to set up as loops so I can easily repeatedly play them. Thank again!

[@crrushing]

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[@johndodd7931]

Thanks...

[@shipsahoy1793]

Dr. Wally, nice video. Will try this tomorrow.. Liking the thinking and the “approach” here… see what I did there😉. Btw, I am now torn between getting a WCW 56 mk2 or a JJ HR* for my alto 😩. Cannot decide🤔

[@shipsahoy1793]

😮Man, I guess if that comment couldn’t get a rise out of anybody, everybody must be in deep sleep … or practicing 🥳

[@lindagerard4723]

@@shipsahoy1793 we are practicing! DR. WALLY says to practice! Hehe

[@shipsahoy1793]

Well someone liked this reply after all this time, so I’ll just give an update here and say that I tried the WCW #56 Mk II, but it wasn’t for me .. I ended up scrapping the idea of upgrading (sorry Jody) and I’m just sticking with my (~15 yr old) Cannonball CAM #5, which is about the same in most respects as the #56, but not quite as dark. It seems I had an adequate alto mpc all along. Btw, was a gift from Sheryl Lakaut herself ! You may want to check out the Cannonball saxes, very nice caring lady, as I recall.

[@shipsahoy1793]

@@lindagerard4723 Yes, Linda, we have to avoid the wrath of Dr. Wally, should we not practice!😉. 👉Have fun!🥳

[@lindagerard4723]

@@shipsahoy1793 good to know, Ships Ahoy. I ordered an Otto Link Tone Edge and a D7m Select Jazz. I really love my selmer c*80 after this.

[@apistosig4173]

Still the best Sax Channel on Ewe-Toob.

[@drwallysax]

D'awwwwww....thanks Apistosig!

[@alanhowell3646]

I agree, no doubt

[@DJsilversax]

Hi Dr Wally, is the no more Sax Academy? no uploads for August?

[@MichaIsraelKovler]

Thanks the good Dr. this is great. DO you suggest learning the response by ear?

[@drwallysax]

If you can, that's would be fantastic!

[@Saxmanjoe]

Absolutely awesome!!!

[@drwallysax]

Hey, thanks Saxmanjoe! Can I just call you Joe? Hope you're having a great weekend and happy practicing!

[@Saxmanjoe]

@@drwallysax Joe is great! And you have a great weekend as well!

[@borisaranchuk2279]

Where I can buy the book with the audio track what you are playing? Thank you.

[@drwallysax]

Not available I'm afraid! But thanks for asking!

[@tobijacobs5016]

Hi I'm Tobi I'm playing the alto saxophone and I hope u post more vids to help me improve n thanks for all your vids and help

[@drwallysax]

I'll keep making them if you keep watching them,! Glad it's helping, happy practicing - and nice to meet you Tobi!

[@tobijacobs5016]

@@drwallysax 😊❤️❤️ Thanks

[@victorrusin7602]

Dr. Wally. Do you sing or do the scat to get a start on your melody?

[@drwallysax]

I don't sing. Divorce attorneys are expensive!

[@saxman7131]

Ahh! The Gin & Tonic scale.

[@drwallysax]

I quit drinking, but not my scales. Same hangover, unfortunately.

[@swibal1]

Just missing a soprano... I practice the previous and love it.

[@F15774137842]

But we can play it with the tenor, can t we?

[@swibal1]

@@F15774137842 Of course we can. It is just we see the tenor and alto all the time. I'm sure that Dr Wallace can show his skill on soprano.

[@drwallysax]

Send a fingering chart and I'll try out the soprano!

[@swibal1]

@@drwallysax Soprano and tenor has the same fingering... well suppose to.

[@reuven8815]

More Awesome Awesomeness 🎷

[@drwallysax]

You're Awessome, Reuven. Thanks for making my afternoon :)

[@saxfish]

< ¿ Is your Tenor a Yamaha?...which model, please...Thank You >

[@drwallysax]

Yes, it's the Yamaha 62! It's not an original "purple" stamp, but before the 62ii.

[@coin777]

3:45 Rough neighbor. You mean a saxophone player. ;)

[@drwallysax]

They're the worst. I pity my wife!

[@saxfish]

< ! Tasty Sound ¡ and the price of the MP is not up in heaven ¡ >

[@Advocates4SpecialNeeds]

Great

[@drwallysax]

Thanks! Happy practicing and have a wonderful week my friend!

[@joamon559]

I'm sorry the bailiffs came and took all your furniture. Great lesson though. Thank you very much.

[@drwallysax]

I ordered the acoustic treatments AGES ago, but alas, covid shipping delays :(