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@A423-f9o4 жыл бұрын
You give away a lot of "jazz-secrets" in your lessons. Thank you VERY MUCH!
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! I’m happy to share what I’ve learned and continue to learn :)
@ryandigiovanni27244 жыл бұрын
this is why music is life. a melodic cell is nothing but a short phrase of musical language, and when you put together a bunch of small musical phrases that make sense in context you get a sentence. and so just like human beings, when you put a bunch of cells together that cooperate you get a whole person or a song.
@p1berg594 жыл бұрын
I am 60 years old and a pretty good player considering that I made my living over the years. I wish I had seen some of the stuff 40 years ago. You have given my practice sessions a whole new meaning thank you very much
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Philip! That means a lot to me. I’m glad you’re enjoying the content!
@lisetteelbers3654 жыл бұрын
Wow, Philip, this s exactly my comment, apart from that I am 61 years old ;) of course there has been Patterns For Jazz, but learning through video is much more fun!! so again, thank you for sharing Chad!
@normanlovesirsaxalot29912 жыл бұрын
Ha! The same here! Great you kept it up.Peace.
@eapeartree Жыл бұрын
Same … ‘Cept I’m 49
@TheDesertRat314 жыл бұрын
The shapes should also be played in major 2nds, minor 3rds, major 3rds, and 4ths That's how my last teacher had me practice licks, etc. That essentially covers all the common chord movements and helps develop dexterity.
@leobird87563 жыл бұрын
Practice everything that one day you would like to use
@asissasingbox15862 жыл бұрын
You are the best teacher.from your video i have improve a lot. May gld bless you till heaven
@kathleenegbert19893 жыл бұрын
Finally someone who talks some sense.
@derekplavin55964 жыл бұрын
This is a great concept. I think the most misunderstood part is the importance of moving the cell up/down in half/ whole steps. I think many of us were taught to practice things in all keys through the circle of 4ths/5ths, and I wouldn’t necessarily say that is a bad thing to do, but as far as getting things in the hands and improving you’re technique, you are absolutely right about this.
@inakizudaire52602 жыл бұрын
Thank you man!
@qiitxxsmitj34914 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making Jazz so complicated
@jashajazz8646 Жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC!
@blacklonggadogg4 жыл бұрын
I forgot to thank you sooner, Chad. I've been watching your lessons on Melodic Cells in the past, and ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I took the Jazz Improvisation Course with Gary Burton at Berklee Online, and I am happy to say that this helped me with my assignments, especially the songs that involved fast chord changes. Thank you!
@albertmueller8705 Жыл бұрын
This is really great stuff. Thank you.
@jashajazz8646 Жыл бұрын
Nothing to say! Fantastic, thanks a lot!
@marciosaxs4 жыл бұрын
Great material! A video with samples of melodic cells applied on Jazz Standards would be great.
@joloyschannel25113 жыл бұрын
Thank you Chad.! So much information!
@joshuahill42634 жыл бұрын
Honestly thank you for always making tutorials and making them simple and easy. Ever since i found this channel ive learned so much concepts and skills to develop as a musician. I appreciate it.
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Joshua! So glad you’re enjoying the content!
@marcelloestemiele4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Chad
@andrefoote10953 жыл бұрын
Thanks Chad. Can't tell you how helpful these videos are!
@carlossimancas63894 жыл бұрын
Espectacular! Thanks Chad!
@jaquesdouglas94 Жыл бұрын
Sou teu fã meu querido,teu som é top👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@model-tube39174 жыл бұрын
Chad - thanks for the great information. I have been "woodshedding" on my technique - this is fantastic.
@dsiuhf1874 жыл бұрын
0:08 that’s a familiar bass player
@sivertsvendsenstette23724 жыл бұрын
My main man Adam❤️
@yaronsemiat40483 жыл бұрын
Fantastic ! I just got the Melodic Cell combo and I'm so eager to start working ! I've been working the last year on the 20 Standard excercises with Approaches techniques and that's just fabelous. Very happy to learn from Chad, excellent musician AND excellent teacher.
@MrRezillo4 жыл бұрын
HI, Chad, this new PDF book sounds exciting. 64 exercises; does that mean 64 different patterns? I'll probably buy it. Thanks
@michaelswiader4 жыл бұрын
An exquisite lesson! Such a simple yet refreshing concept! Thank you so much!
@jaquesdouglas94 Жыл бұрын
Tenho vc como referência de som é técnica, meu querido Deus continue te abençoando.
@harveymillstone47705 ай бұрын
The diatonic cell at 8:36 is diatonic to what scale or chord?
@davidnash591 Жыл бұрын
Seems very similar to the triad concept, with an extra note of course. Any differences otherwise? Love your videos, Chad, keep them coming.
@rogersalles2004 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the lesson Chad, I need something like this to break some of my bad habits I have developed and it is working well.
@marcogue_4 жыл бұрын
You’re the best of the best, AMAZING TEACHER, killin man,
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Marco! That means a lot!!
@jean-luc19474 жыл бұрын
Hello Chad ! This video and your explanations are very clear and wonderful. I think that you have to do the same with the pentatonic shifting concept because you explained this concept but without visual . i think that it would be better to memorize and to study for us. Thanks and most of all continue your channel. !!!
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Jean-Luc! I hope to get to that soon while I’m off tour :)
@eternalrainbow-cj3iu4 жыл бұрын
studying piano you're one of the most interesting eachers+ players for me!!!!!Great compliment the basics + how to go outside...
@ZDPresents4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Chad, huge help as always!
@bsorryrthatsit7055 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting,thank you.
@GetYourSaxTogether4 жыл бұрын
Wicked man. Nice concept. First thing that springs to mind, apart from Trane of course, is Lieb and Grossman Live At The Lighthouse with Elvin. A galaxy of four note melodic cell building exactly as you describe! 🤛🏻
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Love that album!
@sharatssaxophone2 жыл бұрын
I'm late to the game. Great lesson.. Thank you!
@HocWeng4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Chad. One of the questions that's been on my mind for awhile: what is the road leading up to double time? Does one approach it by spending enough time at slower tempo and gradually raise it to uptempo? Or does one have to separately, deliberately tackle the faster tempo before they feel "ready?"
@calmdestroyerh78164 жыл бұрын
Learn to walk before you run
@louisthompson10203 жыл бұрын
Great video , this will take many to the next level, thanks!
@saxycat4 жыл бұрын
Love watching your videos Chad, I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and the way you make it accessible. I was wondering, why cant we just download and keep the classes coming up soon? I would just like to study and digest with time instead of having a 2 week cap. I dont mind paying at all I would just like to have them for my own studies and take my time with them. Either way thanks for the video! Learned a lot
@unclesam6985 Жыл бұрын
Hi Chad, your videos are the best on YT for a jazzman who wants to improve his melodic lines. I was wondering if you use different fingering for Bb when improvise; there's 3 different ones, but I noticed when I play an improvised solo, I always use the same one with a side key
@jacquelamontharenberg4 жыл бұрын
Great info Chad.... much appreciated. I am currently working on minor 7th chord tones chromatically and in various combinations. As I am internalizing, I am finding that these cells are making their way into my thoughts and soloing. Hours of practicing at 60 bpm, then increasing tempo gradually making sure there are no mistakes. It is paying off. I also play Major 7th chord tones 1-3-5-7, 2-4-6-1, 3-5-7-2, etc in all keys daily along with long tones. The melodic cell exercises you present is something I want/need to work on. Will be purchasing. Thanks for your help. You are blessed with a great talent of teaching and playing/ performing. Much appreciated. Thanks
@lidinzx4 жыл бұрын
This videos really help me to understand about how study improv, thanks!
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! So glad you’re enjoying the content!
@SharadShakya4 жыл бұрын
Great lesson. Very very useful. Thank you.
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@Jim-le3om6 ай бұрын
Thanks Chad..nice concepts
@yosukesato31522 жыл бұрын
Feeling like I'm getting formal education. Thank you so much Chad for your generosity and good music.
@marioborg49524 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!!
@leandroprevisdomini53454 жыл бұрын
Wanderfull lesson I’ve buy the pdf, now i have to work a lot to Internalize. I have discover your channel by accident few time ago and now is My favorite. Thank you Chad for spread music colture all over the world in a so clear and simply way, this is a great thing. Hope to listen you in Italy.
@isaiahd99474 жыл бұрын
I have the same lamp in the background haha Great video
@stangetz5343 жыл бұрын
Hi Chad I have been studying your 2 above one below enclosures for the past several months. Can you do a video on how to start using them over a tune? Does this make sense?
@Subharaj_Ghosh_Guitar Жыл бұрын
Great lesson!
@davidwilliams75524 жыл бұрын
Great video. I do a lot of live improvising and I learnt a few good ideas, thanks.
@ФеликсРаспердяев4 жыл бұрын
From Russia with love) Thanks a lot!
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Hope to be back in Russia soon!
@alainhalimi38214 жыл бұрын
I am bad at reading. If you would add beside the backing track, you playing it , meaning i could also play with you and make sure i read right, I would buy it :) It stopped me to buy on you site before. Thank you for your work hough. Regards
@ernoe3034 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Might just be the push I needed!
@richardbruhn66904 жыл бұрын
Love it! Thanks!
@alexandervanrose87244 жыл бұрын
Best exposition of cells I've seen
@solomonyoung71524 жыл бұрын
this is awesome Chad!
@juancasaxmusic4 жыл бұрын
Come to Perú soon! hugs from Lima!
@eshaylord39504 жыл бұрын
I love you chad
@rogerdominguez57214 жыл бұрын
Do you have any videos on jazz articulation? That would be so helpful because I'm more of a classical player learning jazz.
@connorprimtrumpet21974 жыл бұрын
One thing that's really helped me is slurring from the offbeat to the downbeat and thinking less of a triplet feel and more of just letting the back accent do the work
@rogerdominguez57214 жыл бұрын
@@connorprimtrumpet2197 thank you!
@franciscomorarevelo31364 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the video, I would like see a video about care you hands because when I practice some scales in fast time, after I am feeling really pain, can you give us some councils for this ?
@stangetz5342 жыл бұрын
Over the past number of months I have got the 2 over one under enclosure pattern down fairly fast in all keys. Feels pretty natural. Now how do I use it? Barry Harris chromatic scales in all keys is coming out better in playing in an easier way. I know it will pay off but just asking once you get the enclosures under your fingers how do you use them?
@suehepworth42784 жыл бұрын
Your tips are very clearly expressed and very helpful and I am grateful. The cartoons at the side of the video are hugely distracting, though. I have to cover the screen to exclude them from vision or I can’t concentrate on what you are saying. Are they strictly necessary? I wonder if other people feel the same way as me.
@robinreidmusic4 жыл бұрын
Awesome again Chad. Great information and you explain it so well, and being able to hear you perform it shows how amazing it can sound once one gets a handle on it. Thanks for doing these videos. I have purchased a few of your pdf books and always enjoy listening to you explain and demonstrate. Regards
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, Robin! So glad you’re enjoying the content!
@m.j.hoodmusic87894 жыл бұрын
Really great video. I've been looking for another element to add into my practice sessions. This is it. Thank you!
@robstevens95904 жыл бұрын
Very helpful -- and attainable!
@ApaiProduction-ApaiSax4 жыл бұрын
Tq Chad my 'Sifu'. i hv learn alot from your channel. i wish you can come at my town, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Malaysia to do jazz workshop.
@yvesmorency43824 жыл бұрын
Thanks Chad for removing the mystery out of this. You clearly broke it down
@tanguy054 жыл бұрын
Excellent Chad, love your lessons and pdfs!
@carloiafrate54074 жыл бұрын
Grazie amico per i tuoi video , sono utilissimi e tu sei un grande ciao ........e grazie per i futuri video
@shapvids20104 жыл бұрын
Chad on your Non Diatonic Cell C minor vamp, I got a little confused because you're not playing the exercise exactly as written. No big deal but I think it would be easier if you insert a bar after m. 7 and put a whole note C tied across. Same thing with the last note, add a bar with whole note C tied across there as well. let me know what you think.
@ApaiProduction-ApaiSax4 жыл бұрын
tq Chad, very good lesson.
@hughsmithau334 жыл бұрын
yeah so good!
@nicholaswise58184 жыл бұрын
When do you suggest learning cells? Should I learn them if I'm still working on scales and scale patterns?
@robinbalean9584 жыл бұрын
Years ago a teacher helped me learn my major scales by pointing out that you can break a major scale up the melodic cell 1 2 3 4 starting on the root and then on the fifth. e.g. the C major scale is just the first 4 notes of the C scale followed by the first 4 notes of the G scale. At the time this helped me a lot as suddenly I only had to learn half the notes of my scales! So I think it's never too early to work on cells.
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! I feel strongly that the best way to practice is to always be revolving/cycling through different material. I practice a new set of content every few weeks and typically even practice a few concepts each day.
@jaykay10534 жыл бұрын
@@robinbalean958 Wow! I just thought that through and it about blew my mind! I never, ever thought of a scale that way. I see how it could make things much easier, and it would get my brain thinking in melodic cells. Thanks for posting this. Peace.
@kenkarsh4 жыл бұрын
Chad, your stuff is great! Video could be less choppy. The edits are noticeable. But your excellent playing and content is well presented and very useful!
@miguelcastano32104 жыл бұрын
Cool stuff
@Urraca1224 жыл бұрын
If we can’t do the live workshop, can we access the material later ?? for a fee of course ??
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Yes! You will have private access to stream each masterclass you book access to for 2 weeks after the workshop concludes so you can watch any of the content at your own convenience.
@leobassii4 жыл бұрын
Ok Wow... I'm a bassist and would really love to incorporate this into my playing. I will review and try it out.. thank you for sharing this.
@ChromaticHarp Жыл бұрын
Bass player, please listen to Paul chambers, Sam Jones, Ray brown, Ron Carter, John Pattituchi, etc.
@bluessax50894 жыл бұрын
That’s a slamming video! Great content!!
@hughsmithau334 жыл бұрын
yeah, so good amazing videos chad!
@Sami7.73 жыл бұрын
How are you Chad, I am an immigrant in South Africa and cannot access a bank account online. I want to buy some pdf. Please tell me if there is another way I can deposit the money. Thanks🙏
@shanebaird5433 жыл бұрын
If I was to get one approach note/cell PDF which one should I get?
@Osnosis4 жыл бұрын
Check out the Jerry Bergonzi books, especially Volume 1.
@donl95714 жыл бұрын
Also Coker's book
@coltranius4 жыл бұрын
I’d throw Mike Steinel’s “Building a Jazz Vocabulary” into the mix, too.
@hughsmithau334 жыл бұрын
@@donl9571 yeah those are great charts!!
@sergej100qca44 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Can you make a video about the best way to learn vocabulary?
@yanaellavaly58754 жыл бұрын
Transcribe and sing solos (and your exercices)
@sergej100qca44 жыл бұрын
@@yanaellavaly5875 I gree about transcription, but I am interested in what to do after a transcribed solo.
@kennyr11614 жыл бұрын
Sergej Stokuca you gotta analyze what the player is doing on a harmonic level. Then when you figure out what he is doing and why it works try to add it to your solo. Watch videos of some people analyzing solos.
@echoes6754 жыл бұрын
Hey Chad, I've been working on Mike Steinel's book "Building a Jazz Vocab" recently and this video is exactly what I've been trying to do. The musical examples in your video are great illustrations of this. Thanks for the video!
@manujazz804 жыл бұрын
Great lesson man! There's enough to practice for months 😅
@jgl22224 жыл бұрын
Yes!!!
@mzarmusic4 жыл бұрын
I can't find the pdf to purchase or download. Can you provide a link?
@GianlucaFraccalvieri4 жыл бұрын
Hi Chad, great lesson. The coupon code "CLB5" doesn't work for (Bass Clef) Melodic Cells - 64 Exercises For Building Ultimate Technique... It works only for the pdf in treble clef? Let me know
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Hi Gianluca, thank you man! I just checked into the code issue with the JLV Team and it’s been fixed! Sorry it didn’t work before!
@GianlucaFraccalvieri4 жыл бұрын
@@ChadLefkowitzBrown thank you :)
@guitarguy43724 жыл бұрын
Oh man
@roanmccormick79234 жыл бұрын
Great content :)
@jazzman19544 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, intelligent and concise. Thanks. Question. Is this what used to be called ‘ clusters ?’
@Ginogizio4 жыл бұрын
I Chad, I've just bought this PDF but there was no audio track attached to the file, but only the sheets. Is there any way to get the backing track? Thanks for your training works.
@ChadLefkowitzBrown4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for downloading the PDF Package! The backing track link is in the table of contents of the PDF :) Enjoy!!
@manuelhernandez24304 жыл бұрын
I've heard melodic cells also called digital patterns
@hughsmithau334 жыл бұрын
yeah! i got told that too!
@kurttremoulu25343 жыл бұрын
Woow.. that's an awesome concept I just immediately progressed when i started to work on it You can create your own melodic cell and dude that's sound so powerful it's awesome thx a lot master Chad!!