Why Working On Your Time While Practicing Long Tones is Essential

[@IkechiOnyenaka]

That intro line is so killin

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Thanks!

[@Jamsville]

I was just watching some of your videos and wondering when you were going to upload again. Welcome back!

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Thanks! It's good to be back.

[@marselmusic]

3:45 ofcourse that's so important... especially for your neo-soul time feel! (or that could be a different genre I'm stating but you seem to play in that genre quite a lot!)

[@pepcumba1933]

Welcome back Jeff!!! I'm waiting for neo soul piano video. Thank you very much.

[@jackdolphy8965]

This is Terrific Jeff. I’ve practiced long tones in many ways over the years but always in terms of steady controlled sound attending to breathing embouchure etc. all over the horn, especially with the several overtone series ... but with only simple quarter note counting behind... the good old timey way. Lol lol. Your method here is absolutely Fabulous! Many Thanks!!!

[@dustinpace8446]

Jeff I am working on a Latin chart in my jazz band and I would like to request for you to do a video on Latin jazz and improvisation

[@musiccampwithlumpyandlisa9025]

I play long tones with metronome even on guitar. If you thought convincing students to play LT's on horn was a challenge, imagine suggesting a fretted note, with 17 seconds of focus. There's a lot of attention to the musical rest, in that scenario. Rests are no less important than played notes. Long tones force the student to not "give up the note, somewhere the end" and instead, place the end of the REST in a spot of their choosing. Thanks for putting up all these vids. Your hair is never the same way twice. You start all your opening riffs with an approach note from below..☺ Nice Job Jeff - Lumpy

[@OhioGolfAddict]

Welcome back. Missed your musical insights.

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Thanks, Nathaniel!

[@SteveSam66]

Welcome Back Jeff !! Enjoy the new place !!

[@CaptainCreature]

What tha hell kind of training did you get? For a young guy you know ALOT

[@ianpowell-palm5503]

He practiced. Easy as that.

[@markpearce3063]

Awesome video, I'm focusing on time a lot (after neglecting it for years) so perfect to mix it with long tones! More videos on time/groove would be ace!! thanks for your help!

[@rowanmcnitt327]

Please please please make a video analyzing James Blake's version of "Sound of Silence", some really great chords in there!!

[@tonylancer7367]

Great to see you again Jeff! Hope you will give us a tour of the new place! Great video, waiting on the piano videos. :) P.S. Charlie Puth reminds me of you. 😏

[@sergeymekhonoshin1861]

Thank you very much! great exercise

[@edwardvivenzio5843]

Glad you're back!

[@SuxessHub]

Hi Jeff. I have been studying your playing for weeks now.. Thanks for your free teachings. They are priceless. My question relates to the keyboard though, I always see that you will sometimes skip dominant note (5th note) and your sound still sounds dope. Why is that?

[@raphaelbartolome2265]

IAMNATION You weren't answered and this was a year ago, but the 5th in the context of 1 3 5 for chords is not considered the so called dominant note. The dominant note would be a b7 built like 1 3 5 b7

[@andrevanscheers]

You can also focus on the point you end the long note. Do you know exactly where that is?

[@musiccampwithlumpyandlisa9025]

André van Scheers Bravo! I suggest putting the "End Focus" several predictable beats AFTER the end of the sounded note. That way I can exploit the played note, the stopped or decrescendo note, the rest after the note, and finally the "Release" of the focus. No "Giving Up" the end. Make it very deliberate. The end of any note, phrase, verse, song, performance, is always more important than the start of that same element.

[@thejuggler]

I don't even play sax and I want to watch this.

[@Michael-Oh]

Tommy smith said to me once "why don't you play your favourite standard ultra slow and take out the beats?" It's such a good practice exercise for long tones and time?

[@stanleyifeanyichukwu6350]

Thanks a lot Jeff, your videos are so inspiring, keep it going bro

[@Charlie_He]

This is exactly my confusion. Thanks a lot 谢谢🙏🙏

[@simonstebbings5070]

So Jeff, I understand the Idea that you should keep counting during long notes, but are you also saying that you should punctuate the notes with rhythmic air accents?

[@leviisaac9279]

God Bless you Mr. Schneider✝️🙏

[@sydniwee]

Hi, I'm new to your channel, so I was wondering if you can make a video about how one can properly tongue different types of articulation such as the accents, marcato, legato, tenuto, etc. Because I've been playing the saxophone for over 2 yrs now and I'm still not sure what is the correct way of tonguing these articulations, it would be really helpful for me and the others who are unsure too thank you.

[@RB-kd2tq]

How did the great jazz players back in the 30s-40s practice timing without high tech metronomes? They had great timing to!

[@bubbatynes7583]

Hi Jeff , I really like the metronome that you are using on the long tone and timing video. Can you please let me know if this an app or a machine . Either way I want one . Thank you for all your great videos. Bubba T . From Nova Scotia , Canada

[@jazzdonaby6445]

Help me with this, is a long tone just the way you use vibrato on a whole note? I dont get it, if I did a long tone, would it just mean I'm doing vibrato which would be accenting the time with the vibrato?

[@davepierremusic3974]

Really appreciate the video Jeff. Always wanted to ask you a question though. Whats your view on the hard rubber otto link tone edge straight signature mouthpiece for alto. Do u think its a good mouthpiece for alto? Any recommendations?

[@quinnhumphrey3472]

Hey Jeff, (this comment is about one of the neo-soul piano videos from a while back but I figured a more recent video might get a quicker response). I really want to produce a song around the chord progression/melody that you use in the video, tweaking it slightly. I'm really just checking to make sure I can do that and not face any legal questioning from you. I don't think anything really would face a copyright claim, but Better safe than sorry :) Thanks and keep up the killer stuff!

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

+Quinn Humphrey Hey Quinn, really depends on how similar your track sounds to mine. Feel free to send it my way for a listen.

[@quinnhumphrey3472]

Jeff Schneider where/which email would be a good place to send it?

[@Nirias103683]

We missed you Jeff! Will you be making more Loops of the day?

[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

You bet!

[@mercianoaidama4755]

how can I get high notes? Mister explain please.

[@ziggysway]

How do you get your metronome to be silent on beat 2 and 4. I have several metronomes I can not figure it out. Thanks

[@henryrutty9575]

ziggysway halve your tempo?

[@ThePrimeTimer100]

Loving it

[@JariSatta]

Yahtzee! Nice + A whole note actually has to end exactly on beat 1 ( One two three four (one ) ) If I were to tap the rhythm, it would sound like "Tap tap tap tap tap" (5)

[@comhghallgeraghty3541]

Jari Satta ye dont add the last tap thats the start of the next beat. Jeff knows what hes talkin about I wouldnt question him

[@musiccampwithlumpyandlisa9025]

Actually a whole note (any note) " has to end " exactly where the player deliberately chooses to end it. Rhythmic note values are suggestive guides, not engineering drawings.

[@Kevsmopar429]

@Jari Satta - a whole note has to end on the upswing of the 4th beat: Using your foot, for a 1/4 note, tap down=downswing/raise back up =upswing this completes the 1st beat; then again on the second beat foot raising back up on second full count = 1/2 note and so on till you get to the 4th beat upswing = completed 4th beat or whole note. I studied with Willie Murillo's Father, then Band Director-Ben Murillo at Norwalk HS back in the late 70's thru- early 80's (was a Drum Major) for same School and also was a member of the Norwalk All City Band during that time and the Anaheim Kingsmen Drum & Bugle Corps. during that same time. This old man is getting back to playing the horn after years of inactivity. There's a lot of good tutorials on the web, wish we had (www) this back in my day. Jeff Schneider is a very thorough and easy to understand online teacher, amongst others as well, Thank You all for the refresher trainings/courses bringing back memories.

[@OrgetSadiku]

God bless you champion

[@adamstein7302]

what were you doing in the intro?

[@JHC2565]

yay!

[@rylanvillarreal2696]

Harrison lig?

[@montecardenas-metal1172]

Do what this guy does if you want a baby sound too

[@guitarandhow]

Finally

[@pickinstone]

I want to apply this to guitar because the same happens to me. I love sustaining those Miles notes when In play (the 13th, the 11th, the b5, the b2, etc.). However, when I hold out notes it ruins my phrasing and messes up my time. You can hear the difference in a really good blues guitarist and a really bad one. Both will sustain notes with ornamentation, but BB King knows how to cut those notes off to dance with the rhythm. Joe Schmo guitarist may not. Same with jazz guitar. Listen to Frisell and Sco, they love to sustain notes. But they know how to use those sustained notes be to descriptive of the temporal context of the rhythm section. Still in Bk, or did you finally get enough of that life and join the "rent is too damn high" political party? Remember that guy?

[@杨振宇-d3i]

Why your sound listen not very clean

[@SaxmanTRedd]

杨振宇 I'm guessing he's a "classical palyer" his tone is more suited for something along the lines of jazz

[@sundararajureddi8303]

That looks like a Trump hairstyle.