4 Tips For Practicing Scales

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Chad LB is an international recording artist who has toured globally as a bandleader, and with superstars ranging from Chris Botti to Taylor Swift. He has been a featured soloist with premiere ensembles like the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and was formerly a member of the multi GRAMMY winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Despite his demanding tour schedule, Chad is on faculty as a visiting artist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for their new Roots, Jazz and American Music degree program.
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@ChadLefkowitzBrown 3 жыл бұрын

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@MikeL-7 10 күн бұрын

Chad always looks like he’s burnt one before doing these vids. He’s my hero.

@Saxologic 4 жыл бұрын

This is literally everything we need. And, your choice of which notes to ghost is really interesting! I am going to try that out

@paulgrass4855 4 жыл бұрын

Saxologic!?!! What are you doing here!!? Also hi!

@SatnamSingh-pd3yh 4 жыл бұрын

Lol but your sax broke

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching man! :)

@sadiqmuhammad396 4 жыл бұрын

SaxLogic and CLB combo piece in the works?? Please!

@vigilancebrandon3888 4 жыл бұрын

RIP ur sax bro. Cool to see u here tho :-)

@blapis89 2 жыл бұрын

Im a drummer and I also started alto sax about one year ago. Another great metronome trick that I brought from my drum practice is something it develops a lot your internal time: use your metronome with no fancy accents or pitches, every beat sounding the same, and try to feel the beat on 2 and 4. Its gonna be hard at first. After some time you start to feel good and can do harder stuff, the beat on offbeat 8th notes, 16ths, 2nd triplet etc. This develops your time and feel a lot, believe me.

@leobird8756 4 жыл бұрын

Chad got the real “jazz eyes” going here

@mqblues 4 жыл бұрын

Exercise at 4:47> reminds me of my Irish grandfather tapping foot while playing Old Country Irish folk songs on his "Tin Whistle".Miss him.

@user-xm4uz6eu8k Жыл бұрын

Большое спасибо!

@OrganicFaithFactory 10 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@Jamsville 4 жыл бұрын

I love how you immediately get in to some rhythmic variations. It’s so easy to fall in to the trap of ignoring the rhythmic possibilities that are available when practicing scales. Also using the metronome only on beat 1 every 2 or 4 bars is one of the best things you can do for your time. The best thing is you can just combine it with anything else you’re practicing.

@RockRabot007 2 жыл бұрын

Your scales book is amazing. Particularly good for mode practice.

@TheAndreas1008 4 жыл бұрын

Just finished my daily sax scale practice and thought for myself: "There must be something I can do to get a more diverse and creative practice routine." Then this popped up. What an eye opener, thanks a lot Chad!

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Andreas! So glad you’re enjoying the content. Happy shedding!

@garyleemusic 4 жыл бұрын

Super helpful. As a guitarist the articulation tip is really interesting (since there are about a dozen ways to play a scale) and helpful.

@tehenga38nz 4 жыл бұрын

You should break down one or more of the Parker book solos in terms of articulation. That would be instructive too. Thanks Chad for a great lesson!

@peterlehel-finetonemusic 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your great exercises and inspiration. Bravo!

@juandavidmata6309 4 жыл бұрын

Nice exercises, I will try that out!!! It would be interesting if there is a video of you showing your sax collection

@Saxoswing 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome exercises, thank you por the post. These scale exercises Will make your fingers to fly with time.

@christophercalabrese9257 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff man!!

@user-wg9fw4lu3d 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for gratest tips! Video is amazing.

@DaveSalvator 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. Lots of good stuff to work on. I have struggled for some time to get "doo-den" tonguing into my playing. Would be great if you could do a video on that topic.

@jamesategoh9184 4 жыл бұрын

Nice one, I love you and your style of play.

@patrickrousset2612 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Shad, I m a new follower and I really love your courses. I play for 4years ago and I remember at the begining, it was quite impossible to follow you. Now i m more relax and I know more everydays my instrument: practice, practice practice....he said! Happy to meet you on the web. hope to see you in a concert. good luck and take care

@ricknelsteel 4 жыл бұрын

Great lesson, many thanks.

@derycktrahair8108 3 жыл бұрын

Great SOUND & Great Teaching. You've improved my flexibility on Clarinet (where fingering can be a nightmare). Thanks for sharing your ideas.

@gorfgarf9735 3 жыл бұрын

thank you. a very helpful and funny video. great work

@jamessingleton4856 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Very, very useful!!!!!!!!!!

@yehudalichtenstein574 4 жыл бұрын

Great videos and awesome tips! Thanks alot!! By rhe way it's also great to tune the metronome on beats 2 and 4, or on bars 2 and 4.

@kerryj.burkhart468 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks again, Chad! I'm always taking away lots of new tricks from your videos!

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Kerry!

@judygarcia5181 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing video!

@brittanyatterberry 3 жыл бұрын

This is GOLDDDD

@KMerrells 4 жыл бұрын

I love these videos - great resource (especially the ones that accompany the PDFs). Also, Chad's videos really make me grateful for KZfaq's feature of being able to slow down the video speed, lol

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!

@MrRezillo 3 жыл бұрын

To get even more desterity, you could reverse the exercise: start on the G: G, F, E, D, C, D, E, G, then A, etc.

@jackdolphy8965 4 жыл бұрын

Ever many thanks Chad. I’ve had the pdf set for a few weeks now and love the patterns. But this video tutorial takes the work to a totally more fun and useful plane (duh!). Invaluable!!! Wind at your back 🖖🏼

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Jack!! Enjoy the PDF content! Happy shedding!

@robertstatum7523 3 жыл бұрын

👍🏿 Great lesson!

@rondinaldosoarespereira2076 4 жыл бұрын

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 excelente!

@albertob.932 4 жыл бұрын

That's amazing. Thanks!

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Alberto!! Glad you’re enjoying the content!

@naughtyboy7997 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks sir

@reuven8815 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to get back to basics, Good Shabbes

@sundaysax 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks I go practice tiss

@MARKLINMAN1 4 жыл бұрын

Freakin EXCELLENT Chad......Thank a million.

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man :)

@jorgeibarra-ri9yv Жыл бұрын

nice video i love it.

@Gabriel-wp7qk 4 жыл бұрын

really helpful, thanks a lot man

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Gabriel! So glad you found this useful.

@jans8926 2 ай бұрын

Bedankt

@EdgarByars 4 жыл бұрын

Very reminiscent of the Hanon piano excercises.

@garymeroff3297 3 жыл бұрын

Great Video Chadd !!! Hello from San Francisco. Thanks Chad for sharing your knowledge with us. I do want to get some of your books. You videos are all gems and I love all your videos. I was wondering what part of the reed do you put your tongue to mute it, the left, right or in the middle ? Thanks I am off to work on this : ) I saw you last year at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Chris Botti. You sounded great ! Looking forward to hear you live again in hopefully the near future. : )

@AyoSolanke 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chad. This is incredible. Please how do I improve and BIG sound on my low notes LOW C, LOW B & Low Bb?. Thank you so much for all the lessons.

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!! I hope to do a video on low notes soon :) Make sure you're supporting your air with your diaphragm to start!

@garymeroff3297 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chad I love all your video I have seen. I was wondering what part of the reed do you put your tongue to mute it, the left, right or in the middle ? Thanks I am off to work on this : ) I saw you last year at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Chris Botti. You sounded great !

@haydenabrahams4074 4 жыл бұрын

I am definitely going to try this. Are there any other scales besides major scales that would be good for this exercise?

@matthewn.5614 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful stuff my man! I have a question. How do you differentiate between using bis Bb and side Bb when playing? I have the same question for both fingerings for f# and using palm E/F versus fork E/F.

@chrisdecarlo9974 4 жыл бұрын

Can you possibly do a video on going into depth about the Dood n tonguing? I’ve watched Saxologic’s video on this and found it very helpful, but I’m curious to see how youd explain it as well

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Totally will try to do more on that soon!!

@birdy808 3 жыл бұрын

That mouthpiece sounds pretty free blowing 👍🏽

@jonasebenezerdossantos8333 2 жыл бұрын

Podia lançar vídeos com legendas em português,trabalho muito bom!

@alexjardim9431 Жыл бұрын

Você pode colocar legenda, vá em configurações depois em sub Titr e depois ative a tradução automática, após ativá-la você pode escolher a língua que aparecerá na legenda.

@eduardopizarro1961 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chad for always sharing your pro tips! Honestly I had to watch the video several times to get the doo - den articulation thing... Great advise on metronome use. For instance, I set my metronome on 50bpm to mark beats 1 and 3, so I play at 100 bmp filling up the 2 and 4. Very challenging indeed!

@eduardopizarro1961 4 жыл бұрын

And you played the examples on D instead of C? Or my intonation is really bad?

@mathrmc 3 жыл бұрын

@@eduardopizarro1961 He did

@joannebarszcz8108 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Chad, as a singer, it would be helpful for me to have a track for every exercise with an instrument playing it chromatically in every tonality. I already do some vocal workouts and warmups from youtube, but there don't seem to be jazz vocal workouts. I don't know if there would be other singers who would be interested in doing such exercises, but it would be very helpful, thank you, Joanne

@johnnywhyayou 4 жыл бұрын

thank you for the great tips! I am a guitar player and I am trying these ideas on guitar also. could you expand a little more on the articulation of the phrases? thank you!!

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

For sure hope to do a more in depth video on phrasing soon!!

@johnnywhyayou 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChadLefkowitzBrown thank u!!!!

@sergej100qca4 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! I have a question about improvisation (maybe it can be a video). How do get the most out of a transcription? For example, I transcribed Stitts solo on "Scrapple from the Apple" but I don't know what to do next. Thanks in advance

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Great question! I’ll try to do a video on the transcription process soon :)

@EricZabalaVibes 3 жыл бұрын

Do you recommend sticking with specific scale exercises to do every day and gradually increase the met? Or constantly trying different ones out? Maybe a combination of both? Thanks for the tips.

@markshaffer4514 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Chad. Great content and since I'm picking up the instrument again 40 years after I played in high school and college this is fantastic. One question though is that I have your Technique package from earlier this year and I don't find the exercise about Dood-en articulation shown at the 7:35 location in your video. Can you tell me which pdf package you are referencing. My download at the time did not include the Melodic Cell exercises. Is that where this exercise is located? Best Regards !!

@memunns 4 жыл бұрын

you're a beast

@mathewseyi9747 4 жыл бұрын

Pls i want you give tips on how to play my circle of forth on the saxophone...?

@sergej100qca4 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Chad! I am in a weird situation saxophone wise, and I would appreciate your insight. I have been playing the sax without a teacher for about 1 year. Before that, I played jazz guitar and piano so I know theory and I have a style in my head, but I can't execute it on my instrument. My sound is ok (the best way I can describe it is if the Cannonballs sound was on a Keto diet). I have a jazz teacher (who plays bass) but I only learn standards with him, not language or how to play what I hear. Any suggestions on what should I practice? Thanks in advance.

@patg3424 3 жыл бұрын

I bought all your books Chad, so now I have enough practice material for the next 20 years. If I could only practice 14 hours a day like Parker did I would be pretty good in a few years. It seems like your on auto pilot when playing. I bet you carved out a mountain of woodshed chips in your younger days.

@IlyaShubin Жыл бұрын

БЛАГОДАРЮ ЗА ИНФОРМАЦИЮ

@SimonAJones 3 жыл бұрын

I assume these excercices would also be good for piano?

@willbrinkert0032 4 жыл бұрын

Hey chad, great video! Gonna shed this later, but I have a question - is there a way to go through all 12 keys continuously with this exercise, or should I just start on C# for example and go from there?

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Will, thanks for watching! I would practice this exercise ascending and descending individually in each key.

@willbrinkert0032 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChadLefkowitzBrown okay thanks for the input!

@steinnos 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. I'd like to see a "how to use your PDFs?" I have a few but I'm not sure if I'm using them correctly. E.g. The tune learning PDF. Do I memorize the exercises? Do I learn it in different keys? How will I know if it's really internalized?

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Steinnos, thanks for downloading some of the PDFs and hope you’re enjoying the content so far! With that PDF, try memorizing an exercise or part of an exercise (say 8 bars) then try improvising within that exercise method on your own, keeping in mind the approach that I took to construct the written examples. Hope that helps for now!! :) Will try to hit a more elaborate video on application soon!

@elnauta9525 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Sir. This material comes with backing tracks or any audio support? Thanks in advance!!

@jazzmac4564 4 жыл бұрын

Hola Chad, disculpa la pregunta, no se muy bien Ingles y para peor no lo domino, estos manuales en pdf me servirán si no se muy bien el idioma, disculpa la pregunta pude que sea muy absurda, es que me interesa la verdad.

@gersonlaude4890 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks chaddd

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!

3 жыл бұрын

Great lesson Chad! I wondered how to approach enclosures systematically an this is a hreat pattern for that. Though I would like to point Its seems to me that the sixteenth-dotted eighth rhythm sounds a little off as you play it, I hear you fall with the second note in the downbeat, shoulnt the first note, the sixteenth fall in the downbeat?

@Atomicman52 3 жыл бұрын

Is there are reason everything is written in concert key instead of for Bb instruments?

@5saxman7 3 жыл бұрын

What mouthpiece are you using.

@jamesategoh9184 4 жыл бұрын

Please, can you answer this question for me? Why do you and other teachers do not teach in solfa notations? I mean d r m ...

@stegbar 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the notes are written in concert keys?

@avuolo 3 жыл бұрын

Yes they are

@ssully150 4 жыл бұрын

For good metronome internalization, it’s also a good idea to try putting it on beat 2 and 4. I’ve found you can swing harder, and it translates better when you’re playing with a drummer, since they typically put the hi-hat on 2 and 4 (at least in a swing context, obviously other styles have their own traditions and nuances)

@benjaminkaggwa5481 2 жыл бұрын

Your things are complicated bro 😎 But I’m trying to grasp something from it.

@patg3424 3 жыл бұрын

How does George Garzone play so fast with his fingers 6 inches from the keys is the question.

@marktyler3381 4 жыл бұрын

Good to see you not advocating side C for speed. Never saw the point of that personally.

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Haha yes I’ve never used side C!

@JudahDaniels 4 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with the side C? Doesnt it just make things easier moving to and from B?

@coin777 3 жыл бұрын

0:55 You sure, You are playing what is written?

@michaelvogt-gitarre9096 3 жыл бұрын

On guitar is that right ;-)

@ry9nbloom 3 жыл бұрын

All of the written transcriptions in his videos are in concert pitch i think

@dagadbm Жыл бұрын

sounds like hannon

@scootermcscoot272 3 жыл бұрын

Why is this in concert pitch

@musikerman52 4 жыл бұрын

Great! You just invented Hanon Scale exercises from 19th century again! (every classical pianist knows)

@musikerman52 3 жыл бұрын

@Probably a human how did you guess...?!

@igorjazz2157 3 жыл бұрын

Dear Chad, The second part of tip 1 is wrongly notated rhythmically, a sixteenth note should be upbeat.

@alwalw3692 3 жыл бұрын

like your clips please eliminate the heavy bass of your voice recording

@user-gi7ky1rf4i 3 жыл бұрын

this guy sounds exactly like casey affleck, and looks a little like him too

@stegbar 3 жыл бұрын

You are an amazing sax player, but you are extremely fast to catch up, can you slow down when you speak