Ted Nash Discusses Practice Routines

[@AMMstudios]

"It's not just a scale, it's an opportunity to create music." This is how you should approach everything you play. Excellent words.

[@petesheehan6927]

Been playing my tenor for such a long time. You just made me want to play my alto again! What a sweet sound!

[@JeremyMcCant]

Pete Sheehan Why not play both?

[@singmysong4444]

Like your style... and your tone is tasty as can be.... well done, Sir.

[@MrChady1]

dude your tone is beautiful... thumbs up

[@TownHouseFilms]

Genius!

[@rmoraespinto]

Excellent tips. Actually they work together in a very "philosophical" way -- the intimacy with the instrument thing, for example, is a great approach. Thank you!!!

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

'Tis so instructively educational from beginning to ending. Thanks again, Teddy!

[@MisterstereoOso]

As i begin my alto playing endeavours i've been searching ( thank gawd for You-Tube ) for quality inspiration/education, now this is what i'm talkin about ! Intelligent thoughts and that beautiful tone and facility, totally inspiring ! Many thanks from England,(lord give me strength).....one day at a time........

[@daddywhatchucookin2924]

TONE. Anything sounds good on an alto sax. The simplest phrase just brought to life. I'm a bass player, one could say I have horn envy (horny?)

[@zokimirchovski2968]

I have always liked practicing scales,I used to play them a lot in the past,and they are quite good and useful for our technique,and as an addition we can always improvise with them,they are flexible

[@randyromanmusic]

You mean I can enjoy practicing? I must be a masochist- pounding out all 12 major and minor scales the full range of the horn after a session of long tones. Thanks for the insight. I'm getting out my horn.

[@pleximanic]

If you are not enjoying the practicing you learn nothing! Music is not about results, it's about the process of finding the meaning of you!

[@randyromanmusic]

Thanks. However I have approached it or ignored it, it has always given me hope and a lot of joy.

[@inFAMOUSBlastshards]

+pleximanic Sometimes I enjoy practicing, sometimes it's frustrating, but it's all ways fun.

[@alexandervanrose8724]

I've found it hard during Covid lockdown to motivate myself to practice - there's nothing to practice for. You videos about practice have helped greatly to make practice enjoyable: thanks a million. I love some of aphorisms in particular - "A scale is an opportunity to make music" and "play everything as musically as you can".

[@chrismills5110]

I am in my third week of learning Sax, and I found this invaluable advice. Many thanks

[@jazzman1701]

Great Sound, man!! This help´s all the way!

[@lottierose8668]

wow what a sound

[@ronzi83]

I am new sax player and i am wondering how to learn notes like you did here. You had something in mind and than you put it in sax as notes. But i would spend like 15 min just to find right note for each one hehe

[@MarcKellerSax]

+Gregor Rencelj Once you played each of those intervalls a couple hundred times, you'll recognize their sound at some point and even get them out of your mind/internal ear and play them on your horn. You can practice those intervalls seperatly.

[@thesaxcafe457]

Hi Gregor, visit thesaxcafe.com to learn all the basic notes.

[@julianaceitunouzquiano2427]

Hola porfavor que boquilla y caña toca gracias un saludo.

[@jerryseaton5239]

Wow ! Great playing , great advise .

[@jorgemontes5595]

Chevere man.

[@neildusseault8404]

In the mid-90s I purchased Ted Nash's Studies in High Harmonics for Tenor and alto Saxophone. This book was my bible (and in many ways still is) for the altissimo register. Indeed, as a music educator of 17 years now, I have most definitely referred this manual to many!

[@m8kyn]

Bobby Wellins (uk saxophonist- no longer with us) used to say ‘ don’t just play scales, perform them’.

[@MrSteven2945]

really feeling that intro dude .... what is that?

[@johnpublica2809]

He's improvising on Body & Soul

[@CarlyWaarly]

Still on Tune a day! Arf! XD Lucky enough to have a Baritone and Tenor sax, love em both, so much fun!

[@hamdinger7145]

He is awesome and he makes wine.

[@robertgreen3702]

What great advice! Thank you Mr Nash.🎷👍👍

[@TonyAguirreJazz]

Finally, I can put a face to the book I have had all these years

[@MusicLiberates]

The High Tones book was written by his uncle (much older).

[@christianderneville5827]

thanks bro that the way i developed my own technic startting learning one song with guitar and after sing it with the sax and when i' m familiar with the scale i try to improvise slowly tortured the mélodie

[@albertnemiroff1502]

This discussion is a necklace of pearls.

[@JeremyMcCant]

Does anyone know what mouthpiece he uses???

[@danmcbmusic]

wonderful stuff Ted, thank you so much.

[@SamuMusical-Aprendatocar]

genial their lessons. will be a great help to me

[@ebonyevans25]

Always make music... Sage advice #noted

[@ThomasHutchingsMusic]

Sing it & play it! All day, everyday, 365! YEAH TED!

[@rothschildianum]

The problem is that most people cannot translate what they sing (they can hum a melody line, but they do not know what the notes are).

[@stevepethel6843]

Ted you are unique in your approach to music You are helping. me and many more music fans. Sing play make music...awesome.Thank God for you Ted Nash continued blessings from above for your gift of creative teaching and giving in video instructionals.

[@TheDanSebastian]

Sheesh! that sound... holy molly

[@RUNNOFT71]

Great lesson for any instrument!

[@jamesadams80]

Wow - fantastic for students like me :)

[@BobDoherty]

What kind of horn is that? His website says it's a Vito made by Beaugnier but when I look that up I never see one with the bell keys on the right.

[@ladyelia]

I believe that he is playing a Selmer VI. He purchased it from Don Mensa back in 1977. Great horn. The mouthpiece is a Beechler and he bought that the same year.

[@BobDoherty]

DeEnna Lawson Definitely not a VI. The Bell key guard extends from the Bb to the C# tone holes. VI's don't have that.

[@ladyelia]

Bob Doherty Didn't know that. I played 2nd chair next toTed in the Reseda Jazz Band...high school. I got my VI from Don Menza about a week before Ted did. I could ask him. Just saw him in Lincoln NE for a concert last Friday. Cheers

[@robertunderhill9409]

Thanks. Great lesson Ted

[@ninjalightning2631]

Best reverb I have ever heard

[@Joltwise]

#tednash

[@lottierose8668]

beutiful sound

[@marioburgos3652]

thanks

[@nr3rful]

sweet

[@espr7564]

Great player but just rambles on, never really said anything ?🤔 teach something !!!!!!!!

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

First recommendation: Have perfect pitch.

[@nataliethistime]

Nope. You don't need perfect pitch to do what Ted's doing here. Once you got the sound of any note in your head, you can remember what other notes sound like relative to the first one. It's called relative pitch and it's essential for improvising musicians.

[@MrDragonbreath135]

Thanks god he's a saxophonist not a singer

[@RAevenman]

Ted, please keep posting these. It reaches me and a lot of others who need it.