15 Approach Note and Enclosure Exercises That Every Jazz Musician Should Know
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1. 3:08 Approach Note Exercise 1
2. 4:11 Approach Note Exercise 2
3. 4:56 Approach Note Exercise 3
4. 5:28 Approach Note Exercise 4
5. 6:26 Approach Note Exercise 5
6. 7:23 Approach Note Exercise 6
7. 8:05 Enclosure Exercise 1
8. 8:47 Enclosure Exercise 2
9. 9:54 Enclosure Exercise 3
10. 10:39 Enclosure Exercise 4
11. 11:05 Enclosure Exercise 5
12. 12:13 Enclosure Exercise 6
13. 13:03 Approach Notes With Modal Arpeggios
14. 13:56 Enclosure Cell Moving Chromatically 1
15. 14:58 Enclosure Cell Moving Chromatically 2
Chad Lefkowitz-Brown is a GRAMMY winning member and featured soloist of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. He is a professor of saxophone and ensembles at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and has toured globally as a bandleader, and sideman with artists ranging from Taylor Swift to Arturo O’Farrill.
@ChadLefkowitzBrown 3 жыл бұрын
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@banjobanjo-xn7lq 4 ай бұрын
Please help. I am pulling my hair out. Enclosure example #5 you say the pattern is #6-7-2-b2-7-1-2-3-1. In the second bar outlining the 2nd degree (D) you play Db-E-Eb-Db-D-E-F-Db. I don't think the adjustments for half steps are explained adequately. It seems there is more here than "use the diatonic second degree from the third since we can't have a lowered second". That explains B (the raised 6th) becoming Db but why does the following note become an E (the 2nd) when you say to play the seventh. I understand it is likely because of need to "resolve" but perhaps the half step adjustments need some explanation. Apart from that these are great methods to bebop and progressing from diatonic scalar playing, which is why I would appreciate a little more insight into half step "adjustments" for the enclosures. Thank you
@arnaudparan1419 3 жыл бұрын
1) Approach Note 1 3:50 2) Approach Note 2 4:20 3) Approach Note 3 5:06 5:20 4) Approach Note 4 5:48 6:05 5) Approach Note 5 7:02 6) Approach Note 6 7:36 7) Enclosure 1 8:33 8) Enclosure 2 9:22 9) Enclosure 3 10:13 10) Enclosure 4 10:47 11) Enclosure 5 11:31 12) Enclosure 6 12:46 13) Approach Notes With Modal Arpeggios 11:35 14) Enclosure Cell Moving Chromatically 1 14:27 15) Enclosure Cell Moving Chromatically 2 15:26
@ElliottsBanjoSchool Ай бұрын
I have been enjoying these videos. I just transcribed all these enclosures on my Banjo. This has opened up lots of new pathways on my instrument. Thanks!
@buddyfaya8631 5 жыл бұрын
Your material MAXIMIZES PRACTICE TIME. It’s crazy how smart education trumps years of public school music Ed. Thanks
@rillloudmother 4 жыл бұрын
agreed. but can we stop using that word?
@BrunoNeureiter 4 жыл бұрын
@@rillloudmother what word?
@rillloudmother 4 жыл бұрын
@@BrunoNeureiter trumps...
@BrunoNeureiter 4 жыл бұрын
@@rillloudmother ha!
@xyvd 5 жыл бұрын
really needed this! The timing has never been so perfect! thanks man!
@abrahampaige6331 5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!! Purchased the book. Absolutely great exercises!! Thanks so much!
@Fitzliputzli23 5 жыл бұрын
Thats exactly what makes the difference! Good enclosures make the Parker-sound. Your exercises are worth pure gold, man!
@ericcroissantmusic 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome exercises, I can't wait to try them out! Thanks for the wonderful explanations too, very insightful :)
@keithwins 4 жыл бұрын
Just found this channel, rank beginner, wow. This is fantastic. Such a gift! Thank you!
@minormayor7899 3 жыл бұрын
This vídeo has changed my Life, has opened so many paths...... Thank you so much Chad!
@oceancorea 5 жыл бұрын
I am learning a lot from you. Thank you.
@Polartrucker 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome, I'm still practicing the warm up drills on my bass, can't wait to get going with these as well. This stuff is really opening up cool ways to create interesting lines. I'm transcribing your stuff but I'm very pleased to see that you have transposed this stuff to bass cleff. Thanks for sharing!
@lawrencejones1256 4 жыл бұрын
thank u so much man! internalizing these sounds will be a lot easier now that i am not limited to transcriptions played over specific changes
@saxophonemechanic5454 5 жыл бұрын
Purchased both now!
@marysmusic1557 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@eastonktrumpet 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the videos!!!!!!!!!!!
@robertosion5006 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Chad for your generosity showing so clearly the subject approach notes! And also congratulations for your nice playing! Roberto Sion, saxophonist and teacher, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
@RogelioEscobar 5 жыл бұрын
Man what a great tone!!! Wish I could buy and download that! Thanks for the BeBop know how! Just downloaded your book!
@louisewetterstrom3681 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@mobitdiraineakumcha2302 4 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this video
@marcaskew61 5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic stuff - I wish someone had shown me this systematic approach forty years ago when I was starting on jazz guitar - in the end I stumbled into it piece-meal - btw, all the great bebop guitarists - eg. Jimmy Rainey - tried to emulate sax lines, so it’s approprIate that the best instructor should be a sax player!
@Fitzliputzli23 5 жыл бұрын
Yea, I'm a guitarist, too (and also a big admirer of Jimmy Rainey). When it comes to bebop, I prefer to "steal" my stuff directly from sax players. And Chad is the best one I've found so far on KZfaq.
@emperorpilaf3030 4 жыл бұрын
@@Fitzliputzli23 same for me with the violin
@tristanavakian 4 жыл бұрын
for extra fun, slow this down to half speed... easier to "get", and he looks really high!
@tristanavakian 4 жыл бұрын
also, the eyebrow is a "tell" for approach below!
@katefairliemusic 11 ай бұрын
Wow! I have always wanted to get better at surround technique but always struggled coming up with patterns on the spot. This is so bloody helpful!! Thanks! :)
@gregdebelles 5 жыл бұрын
This is great. Thx so much!!
@saxophonemechanic5454 5 жыл бұрын
2:43 great eg. just got this under my fingers at half speed. you're a champ. this stuff works. Ive started on the exercises. Putting to memory 1 a day over the full range of the horn. 180 days later i will have played every exercise, yeh!
@orionsbassment Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@taylortronic Жыл бұрын
highly actionable info man thanks
@pollacooliva7323 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!!
@johnnynoirman 4 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU BRO!
@SirDLee 5 жыл бұрын
This is GREAT!!!!!! Thanks. I'll be applying this to guitar. 🎼🤘🎶🎷🎧🎸🤩
@saxophonemechanic5454 5 жыл бұрын
That's incredible value, 5 to 10 years of practice for just $19-99 Love ya work Mr Brown, big thank you!
@eustiquiocespedes2095 4 жыл бұрын
thanks a lot
@tomjackson5815 2 жыл бұрын
So cool thanks
@TonyAguirreJazz 5 жыл бұрын
Chad this is really good.
@iloverumi 5 жыл бұрын
awesome, musical exercises!
@nogoogleplus 4 жыл бұрын
Good stuff....ex 1 starts 3:11
@enriqueernesto738 5 жыл бұрын
Very helpfull
@idolewensberg3843 5 жыл бұрын
Love your stuff man, when you play the exercise on the sax or the piano it might be better if your viewers will see you fingers, it's not must to be in slow motion but it could help to improve there understanding and in the end it will benifit you as well:)
@tylerm6597 5 жыл бұрын
Just bought the book thanks man!
@josephshaibuu 5 ай бұрын
Congratulations @100k Subscribers Chad. Well deserved👍
@7deepbreaths.sounds 3 жыл бұрын
Chad L.B. plays some fierce saxophone scrambling while remaining almost perfectly still from the torso on up.
@Nerdboy456 5 жыл бұрын
chad the god
@DekatrinDeneuff 5 жыл бұрын
Dear Chad, thanks a lot for all materials. It is really useful. Could you tell please what mouthpiece do you use at this video?
@enriqueernesto738 5 жыл бұрын
I encountered this kind of exercises at the end of "neue Jazz Harmonielehre" by Frank Sikora , but yours are more elaborate
@janghijselen3651 4 жыл бұрын
It will take me some time to learn it, but this is “gold”. This is one of the great differences between a real master musician and amateurs like me: hours of practice. Tried the first three exercises on diminished and it really rocks, euhmmm... jazzes. Super stuff. Just one minor critique: explanation video is without notes, notes pdf is without explanation. Adding some explanation in the pdf would help. But, anyways: thx!
@Osnosis 3 жыл бұрын
I initially had the same reaction, but the lack of notes forces you into deep thinking mode.
@juansecar2 4 жыл бұрын
Id love to read the comments of those who gave thumbs down... 🤔. Guess you guys should go and watch mickey mouse. This is some advanced cool shit. Im not a sax player, but its so cool to have an insight in how other instrumentalists approach improv, and this is super cool, because all of us look at the same thing in many different ways and you just never stop lesrning new or better ways to teach or learn. Cheers!
@kristinasaer 4 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks for sharing this! Looks like exercises 3 and 4 in “up” motion are the same?
@andycormier2475 5 жыл бұрын
Great video. BTW, You sound a lot like Pete Christleib!
@ChrisTenor 5 жыл бұрын
Very Cool ! Thx ! maybe one thing, In #1 exercise, the logic would be that we also use the descending minor third when chromaticism is not possible, as you proposed for the ascending motiv.
@edgarscott8908 5 жыл бұрын
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!! So will you come out with a pentatonic pattern book as well?
@steinhalvorsen_ 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, yes, yes!
@Jordarr8994 5 жыл бұрын
Jerry Bergonzi has many pentatonic books you should check those out!
@Jose.LP. 2 жыл бұрын
If someone can help me with a question about the 1st example, I will be so grateful. Why it's ascending; "1, chromatic below to 1, 1, chromatic below to 2" then resolves on 2 and become the new 1. And descending it's; "1, diatonic upper 1, 1, chromatic upper 7" and resolves on 7 and become the new 1. Instead of descending as; 1, chromatic upper 1, 1, chromatic upper 7" and then resolve on 7 becoming the new 1? I find the sound of the diatonic upper one more soft and melodic, even I adventure to say more beautiful for me. But, did it not changed the original idea for a different one?
@pacoltrane Жыл бұрын
A mí eso me tuvo dándole vueltas un tiempo, no sé por qué lo hizo así, pero sí, no corresponde la versión ascendente y la descendente.
@renatogoyzuetasaenz 5 жыл бұрын
great!!! when comes to Lima Peru?
@aeropau 5 жыл бұрын
How do you play with such accuracy those quantity of notes? Have you internalized and mechanized the fingerings???
@stephenriley6541 3 жыл бұрын
Bought the package deal this week.. Do you recommend learning say exercise one in all 12 keys or learn in one key then exercise 2 etc.. until the sounds are nailed then move into more keys ?
@coffinman5007 5 жыл бұрын
I just realized recently that David Sanborn can use JUST a single blues scale (with 6th, M3) over a whole tune I think it sounds great. If you could create a resource to get into his "bag" that would be great.
@sfpratt1954 5 жыл бұрын
I would call that a pentatonic scale. A "Blues" scale has b5, b7, b3 and no 6th. Now if you play a C major pentatonic over an A7 chord that's pretty close to an A Blues scale. I like to practice my pentatonics with passing tones between the 2 and 3 and 5 and 6 to even them out. So over a rock tune based on an A7 I would use a C pentatonic of the form C D (D#) E G (G#) A C. You can always "go blues" at any point in any song. The sound is so burnt into our ears that we hear the sound and ignore whatever conflicts it may be creating with the actual chord changes. You might want to check out Ramon Ricker's Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation.
@coffinman5007 5 жыл бұрын
@@sfpratt1954He kind of separates the use them as scales, e.g. he will descend the blues scale down to say the m3 and then hit the M3 and up to the root to put the major sound at the end of the phrase. It's like magic.
@simonleesax4788 5 жыл бұрын
Hey Chad are you making a new video for the new pdf?
@nikolayiliev-trumpettrombo1666 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Chad and guys. I just bought his combo of pdfs...any recommendation on order to work on these or it doesn't matter?
@kidpoker007 4 жыл бұрын
Question for enclosure say the one with 1flat..that would be Fmaj7 ?
@ruby_gleyzes 5 жыл бұрын
***Question*** Is the down pattern of exercise 11 correct? One bar before the last, in concert C: C-E-Eb-C#-D-C-B-Bb shouldn't it be after the pattern, in order to be consistent: C-E-C-C#-D-C-B-Bb ??? I think an important thing is missing here, and that is to explain the algorithm behind every pattern in a more detailed way (e.g. exercise number 11). That would be at least for me more useful than just reading notes. Else, thanks a lot Chad for your educational videos: they go straight to the point and present reach and useful exercises!
@thejohn6040 4 жыл бұрын
This cat needs to make money like all of us, so of course he is not gonna give it all away for free to the lazy man, when he actually wants to sell his books. And in this video he actually shows all the examples from his book, but of course goes through it fast, so the lazy musician will buy the book instead of using his ears 😉 so pay or use your ears, your choice 😜
@ruby_gleyzes 3 жыл бұрын
@@thejohn6040 Pretty entitled, sir.
@olibass6010 4 жыл бұрын
Hi there! Thanks for your excellent work, I’ve just bought the“hole pack“😉 One thing I‘m really missing though are the chord changes for the „15 Approaches“. Without indicating them it‘s guess work to know what your doing or what you‘re actually approaching or enclosing (functionaly). Thanks anyway!
@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Oli! Hope you enjoy the PDFs :) I believe it’s explained in this video that all the exercises function modally, and so just like a scale exercise that moves up each degree and functions modally in it’s harmonic sequence (Cmaj7, D-7, E-7 etc...) the same applies to each exercise in this PDF.
@kevinowen1446 4 жыл бұрын
Hi where can i get this pack Thanks
@olibass6010 4 жыл бұрын
kevin owen you just follow the link in the description of this video to the store to, „package all 4“ is what it‘s labeled, choose your prefered key.
@rillloudmother 4 жыл бұрын
I think you might have to start using 'who's your daddy?' as your theme song.
@skbguitar2416 6 ай бұрын
Thanks boss But how do I use this for greater lines? And still confused 🤦♂️
@vincenzodeianni5044 Жыл бұрын
Pagando in contrassegno è possibile riceverlo in forma cartaceo , grazie 👍🎷
@phanjazm 5 жыл бұрын
Damn good video man!!!!!
@jnaime 4 жыл бұрын
Sorry but I'll ask a very noob question (well I'm a beginner so ... ^^). I bought the whole pack and it wrote in concert key. I play on Alto, so for example the 1st exercice (at 3:14) that begin with a low C, must I play the C key on the mid range of my sax (so just the 3rd finger of my left hand only) or must I transpose the C on the sheet to an A, and transpose all the entire exercice ?
@jnaime 3 жыл бұрын
@Probably a human Thanks ! :)
@anthonyglass118 4 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who finds these exercises so formulaic ?
@SeanRosati 3 жыл бұрын
That’s the point of a musical exercise.
@SickFX1 Жыл бұрын
Chad, does the PDF have tab for guitar?
@dervishcapkiner6679 5 жыл бұрын
Just bought this and it's a lot of great material but I would like to ask please if there was scope for an added page or two explanation of how they break down please. Basically I'm finding myself going round in circles wondering ' is that a semitone up because it's diatonic or is it part of the approach?' or ' is that a stepwise tone below to circle the note or is it the set up for the next note?' etc. Literally just one small paragraph on each exercise would really help please? An explanation of the breakdown of at possible? Ps I understand the patterns change around semitone intervals in the scale for obvious reasons as opposed to the tone intervals.. it's just the other details basically that are confusing me. Please help, thank you!
@sfpratt1954 5 жыл бұрын
An bebop enclosure is usually defined 1/2 step above the target note, to a 1/2 step below the target note, to the target note (with the target note usually landing on beat 1 or 3). For example you might start a descending G7 bebop dominant scale with Ab F# (G F# F E D C B A G). Or both the approach notes could be chord tones. Say F - Eb - E going from an F7 to a C chord. Yes, some of the time one of the enclosure notes may be a scale tone, or a chord tone, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an enclosure. Classical composers used enclosures as well but they were diatonic. So say melody notes of D - B - C going from a G7 to a C chord.
@ulysax1979 4 жыл бұрын
Does anyone knows if along with the pdf’s also we can download the example about how it supposed to sound????
@TheDavidmachin 4 жыл бұрын
I just downloaded it. You would need to use them with the video. It would have been good if the pdf also had some commentary to say exactly what is taking place - what is being enclosed/approached etc. Its just the patterns written out in different keys. I have uses this kind of stuff in my playing already. But Chad is such a great player I wanted to have a look. Patterns on their own can be easy to forget. You would just have to take one example and work on it and use it in a few places in a song you are working on.
@dariolanga 2 жыл бұрын
Sorry but I had a question in exercise 11 - 5 Enclosure in descending form, the writing in the score has a small difference with what is played here in the video and it also makes sense, when the note "G" c
@dariolanga 2 жыл бұрын
When the note "G" as a target!
@Jerieljoy9053 3 жыл бұрын
Can you please demonstrate on a slower ttempo so we can easily get it proper instead of you playing actual tempo
@jameshollis4854 5 жыл бұрын
What mouthpiece, Reed, ligature are you using?
@MARKLINMAN1 5 жыл бұрын
James Hollis the Lig is a Silverstein.
@Saxologic 5 жыл бұрын
The mouthpiece is a Selmer Concept...
@eliwyatt2292 5 жыл бұрын
Since when does Selmer make orange mouthpieces? That's a SYOS custom 3D printed mouthpiece and he uses Lupifaro reeds and saxes. And I think that's a KB Sax redwood neck.
@Saxologic 5 жыл бұрын
Eli Wyatt lmao I just wanted to troll. I had no idea what mouthpiece it was
@eliwyatt2292 5 жыл бұрын
@@Saxologic Ha lol
@kidpoker007 5 жыл бұрын
So these exercises are over Major 7th chords?
@cslprescott9746 5 жыл бұрын
you can play ii-V-I under the exercises
@joer3481 5 жыл бұрын
RED.....???
@freddylebanon 5 жыл бұрын
Syos
@olebirgerpedersen 4 жыл бұрын
Where can I buy your books. I'm very Interessed. Sincerely yours Ole-Birger.
@icecreamforcrowhurst 3 жыл бұрын
Dude, the link is in the description just like he told you in the video
@Gerard_2024 3 жыл бұрын
@@icecreamforcrowhurst.... Just pointing out that English is not his mother-tongue (judging by the name). Hence, he may not have caught that piece of information in the video, due to inablilty to understand a native speaker speaking at natural speed. He also may not have read the description. Something to take into consideration maybe...
@barmeliton 5 жыл бұрын
Genau so sehe ich das auch. Das ganze Transkribieren oder aber auch Abspielen von Transkriptionen bringt überhaupt nichts wenn nicht versteht was harmonisch oder aber auch melodisch passiert!
@nachogaz 5 жыл бұрын
Me mata como queda el saxo volando mientras habla y gesticula con las manos
@banjobanjo-xn7lq 4 ай бұрын
Looking at enclosure exercise#5, starting at the 2nd bar is puzzling. You say the pattern is b6-7-2-b2-7-1-2-3-1 and you notate Db-E-Eb-Db-D-E-F-Db-D. I don't think you explain the accommodations for half steps in any detail, apart from "using the diatonic second degree from the third since we can't have a lowered second."
@user-kn1mv8nr6g 3 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🙏
@maxsegali5588 2 жыл бұрын
I think you can explain faster
@roymusic45 4 жыл бұрын
?
@majtheboss 5 жыл бұрын
Yo!! What kind of mouthpiece is that?
@omip168 5 жыл бұрын
No expert but I think it's a red one. Just kidding they're called syos
@davidolahmusic 5 жыл бұрын
Syos
@benstalnaker5458 5 жыл бұрын
Chad: I bought the exercises but am unable to download them.......suggestion? Ben
@ChadLefkowitzBrown 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for getting the pdf package and sorry to hear about the download issue! Send an email through the contact form at www.chadlb.com or www.jazzlessonvideos.com and it will go directly to our customer service team. Thanks!!
@Philrc 3 жыл бұрын
I think you need to be clearer about what exactly you mean people to do, ex,3 for example "and then moving chromatically" ? I'm sure you know what you mean but I don't
@michael1 22 күн бұрын
15 approach notes? That's quite a lot to fit in before the beat. "7...8....9.....wait for it we're going to resolve soon....10....11......12.....nearly there.....13.....14......15....and now we're at the C"
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