Thanks once again , Dr Wally. It's refreshing to hear a pro be realistic about the whole 12 keys thing.

Love all your vids. You do a great job with them and I especially like your humor. We’re all very thankful for guys like you helping us novice players get better. There’s never been a better time to learn the sax.

I find that mere act of singing these phrases out alongside the playalongs helps to sharpen my listening. And that helps when I’m trying to form that phrase in my head, so that when I play it back on the sax, it is as accurate as it gets and there is that link between what I see in my brain and what comes out on the saxophone. It helps me not to play gibberish but aids my formation of melodies. Hope that makes sense hahah 😅

My favorite bebop player: Oscar Peterson by a long shot, then Bird, and Sonny Stitt. I love the way Stitt switched between alto and tenor WITHIN each track on New York Jazz - like it's no thing.

Favorite Bebop Musicians outside of Charlie Parker: Cecil Payne, Pat Patrick, Nick Brignola, Ronnie Cuber, Sonny Stitt, Phil Woods, Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie to name just the beginning of my long list of Bebop Greats.

Excellent video on the bebop scale !! I particularly like the way you worked in the flat 9th. Very important note in bebop. Thank you Dr. Wally!

Dr. Wally Wallace back at it once more!

Dr. Wally your content is golden! Best channel for actually improving on technique as well as theory that there is on KZfaq.

Awesome series Wally! Thanks for posting a new video! Great material to practice and learn the language of jazz. Someone says that if you play jazz and you don’t sound like Charlie Parker, probably you’re doing something wrong… so, putting Bird aside, my favorite bebop player is Dexter Gordon, closely followed by Coleman Hawkins, both Sonnys (Rollins and Stitt), Joe Henderson…. man, I could go on forever….

Thank you your lessons have helped me to hear and read better also to have more focus on tone and air . I love Cannon Ball andJackie Mac but Bird John Sonny Dexter and every body who try to express them selves .

Sooo good and helpful for right where I'm at (tryin my darnedest to make better jazz sentences, but often not knowing how or where new to go). Thanks Dr. Wally, bigtime!

Thank you Dr. Wallace for this video. My favourite Bebop saxophonist is Sonny Stitt. But one must not omit Sonny Rollins, he's one of the greats.

Good stuff. You help make it simpler to understand and makes more sense to me the more I watch your videos.. I appreciate that you did this on tenor as I do like to practice with both alto & tenor saxes. Thank you and much love and blessings go out to you Dr. Wally Wallace... and may you get a million subscribers too :)

Thanks for your videos - inspiring without being overwhelming (I was always told to learn everything in 12 keys).

Im a bassist turning into a saxophone player. Im so glad for this channel. This is absolute gold and i cant wait to use this on my journey through life.

Canonball Adderley, my all time favorite bebop player.

Thanks Dr. Wally, i like that you play the Tenor also..love my Tenor

I've watched this back a few times now (not made it to my horn yet...work/four year old!!). Anyway, I love the fact that each repeat play over is ever so slightly different in interpretation. Just shows how just a handful of notes can allow for so much expression.

Thank you Dr. Wally! I am learning a lot with you!

Thank you very much for the video, very useful, I'm going to practice now.👍🎷👍

Yes! Wally on tenor! Nice tone 👌🏻

Brilliant lesson. Thanks for the music. Cheers

Thank you again, what you are doing here makes sense to me.

Thanks for this lesson. Years ago, when trying to conceptualize & thinking about playing jazz I also asked the question, "What scale do I use?" (That was long before the days of internet, so I never got a simple answer. And it took years to realize there are no shortcuts to learning jazz.) Some of my favorite sax players (mostly within the bebop realm): Charlie Rouse, Cannonball Adderley, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Paul Desmond, Michael Brecker -- and the one who inspired me to start playing sax: John Coltrane.

This is some good material to study with, thank you so much 🙏

I'm not a lover of beebop but this video tutorial certainly made me feel far more receptive to it than any other video I've watched. This was beautifully explained and presented. Just to let you know Dr. Wally, I bought your mouthpiece (your sound is absolutely wonderful) and I have to say that I could not be more pleased with the power, warmth and fullness it produces on my alto. I have a preference for tenor because it feels more comfortable (ergonomically) while I play but I've recently been making the effort to play on my alto more. This mouthpiece certainly makes me look forward to play on it more. It is now one of my top two mouthpieces I use for the alto. 😁

This lesson makes sense. Clear and well-played. I think I'll buy you a cuppa Joe!

Favourite bebop player, Jean Luc Ponty violin.

Thanks Dr Wally. During your entire explanation all I understood was BeBop. Once you started playing I thought ‘oh, why did you say that in the first place. Good stuff. Now I’ll, “Go Practice. “

How do you make such a simple set of note just sound so good. I’ve watched/play to last weeks a load of times and I don’t get anywhere near the the silky sound you produce! (I’ve only been plays for a year but your videos are inspirational) Looking forward to this weeks lesson...

6:46 hahahaha! Perfect!! Loved your vid. Will look further into your stuff now. Thank you :-)

These are so great thank you so much!

Wally thank u so much!! It really helps me you must be a good teacher !!i think~~~ have a great day!!

Thank you for another informative and helpful video Dr. Wally Wallace (a.k.a. Saint of the Saxophone), they are always helpful, entertaining, and inspiring. Now if I can just get that same tone on my tenor :)

GREAT content and melodic lines. Nice to see you on the tenor, fantastic tone! More tenor in future videos? :)

Buenisimo Dr Wally!!! Muy didáctico!!! Gracias Amigo!!!

Digging the tutorial my friend. Favorite soloists? Fats Navarro at the top followed by in no particular order: bird 🐦, Mr Gillespie, Bud Powell, both of the Sonny's, Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan.

Hi Dr Wally. Love your instruction and humour. So many other teachers out there bang on about learning all scales and kicks in all keys - I like your 1940s remark, but if you take a different view could you expand on why you think it’s not necessary.

Thank you 🙏

Thank you Sir

These call and response exercises are fun Dr.Wally. I'm still destroying music with my lines, but I know I will get better at it at some point. I will...no, seriously.

Because of you I love playing again

Favourite bebop players...apart from Bird...Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro...OK - only one sax player so lets add Wardell Grey, Leo Parker, Sonny Stitt and Sonny Criss

I love to applicate Bebop scales on my solos, but it’s always good to learn new things. I’ve never introduced that chromatism from minor 7th - mayor 7th - tonic... I will use it 👍

Great riffs!

Plz Doc, more videos with the call and response stuff. Incredibly helpful. Although you could play with your eyebrows a little harder in the process, it is very motivating.

First time here. Good video and nice tone!

How someone ( a few of the commenters here) can say they love BeBop, Jazz, Sax etc., and name 15 artist and leave out a name that on any list should be #1 or #2 is amazing to me. The all time greatest BeBopper ever in the universe, Dexter Gordon. You really got my attention when you mentioned not knowing everything a musician plays be done in all keys. I've been around Tenor Sax from the time of having to know Yakety Sax or you weren't considered a real musician if you played Tenor until I've gotten too old to be much interested anymore especially since I lost my Son 6 years ago. I also might add that I have never heard any sax player record a blues in (concert key) E, A, B, D, Db, Gb and the list goes on. It's mostly Bb, C, F, Eb, G. I will bookmark you and check out more of your videos Sir. Now I'm off to take my Gemma for a ride. She's an 8 year old English Bulldog. More like my Grand Daughter. Where were you 65 years ago when I started playing Fats Domino tunes with Tenor solos. Haha. Back then if some had said, "hey learn this Dexter Gordon tune," I would have died on the spot. Easy three chord R&R got me going. Thank you for your honest and common sense approach to improvisation. I really appreciate it.

Bravo! Favourite Bebop players :well, they change the further I look into it. But, currently, I would say Chet Baker because his Bebop lines are not so superspeed. Therefore they are easier to decipher. They are also good proof that the beauty of Bebop ain't reliant on speed, but on feel, and choice of notes and phrasing.

Hey, Nice tenor playing man!!!

Gracias maestro!

Thanks again for the ABSOTOOTLY best stuff ever !!!

he has an alto and a tenor... but a bari???? and its so wholesome that he responds to every comment I think that shows he really cares and that's what keeps me watching.

Great stuff! I'm a big Phil Woods fan 🎷👍

Exellent thanks very much.

hi Dr Wally, again, thank you for a clear teaching. Must mention that the black T shirt suits you. :) i like Sonny Stitt as a bebop artist.

Favs: Cannonball, art pepper, lee konitz, Desmond, mulligan, hank Mobley, rollins, brecker

You should study Barry Harris's harmony. The significance of the b9, b6 etc. is that they allow access to the relative diminished family, which is how you stop thinking about individual chords and begin thinking about tonal centers. In a 2/5/1 in the key of D maj, all one needs to do is focus on the 5/1 relationship, and the major bebop produces Bb/Db/E/G fully diminished which is what replaces A7. This allows you to access other shapes and triads like C Lydian dominant, Eb Lydian dominant, and their relative minors, Gmin, Bbmin, etc., all over A7 (or Dmaj more generally). The point is not the individual notes, it's the triads/chords that those added notes produce. All the best.

Art pepper probably my favorite alto sax player besides bird !

That was so cool. Another great video! By any chance, will you be creating a video on what exercises to do to improve timing. I seem to learn a technical song but will lose my place in the music.

Great content Dr. Wally Wallace. 5***** and I don't even play the sax. Thanks!

es todo maestro

Hey Dr Wally W, loving this vid. Tight! Where can we grab that magnificent backing track to 'Go Practice' these licks please? PS: Love CP, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rolllins and (more funk than Bebop) Maceo Parker.

Scott Hamilton *Change My Mind*

Thank you Doctor. I am feeling much better now. Q> How do you play at Bebop speeds on tenor sax?

Hi, Dr Wally. I've practice all the melodies in "Jazz Improvisation Lesson - Play the sax by ear", really by ears! Then I'm going to continue with this video. But now I wonder should I follow your bebop melodies only by ears, too? I really want to earn the ability of improvisation.

Hello.!! thank you for the video...i have a question ...why i feel that I have more control if i put something in the bell....some clothes...tanku

Wally, what is the intro song and how can I get the sheet music if you have it or if it is recorded i just think its super catchy and it is really good sounding.

Call and return ist really fun. Currently i have issues to schedule my practice, as cycliing season started. So i think i don"t buy you any Coffee for the moment als you get too productive ;-). I wish my old teacher would have been a bit like you.

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this is great i like bird the most

Dear Dr Wally, let me ask a few questions! For the dorian scale you mention it could sound wonderfully on both major and minor chords. So talking about a G Dorian bebop scale, do you mean it could be used over G - 7 and the major parallel Bb Maj ? While talking about the dominant bebop scale, you meant it could be both used for G7 as well as GMaj, am I right? In your call response examples, which harmonic context did you use? You used b3, b9, b6 and b7 over the same chord backing track... that confuses me a little. So that was the part where you'd just "forget about everything"? One of the first things I got to learn about bebop scales was that I never ever should play a passing tone on a downbeat. I guess that makes sense, but I shouldn't worry about it too much, right? Thank you so much for your videos. You make practising music feel more alive and musical! Kind regards, Sandra

Hello Dr. Wallace, fantastic video. I was just curious, I’m in the market for a new sax and was wondering the difference between the YAS-62, the 875 Custom EX, and the 82Z. Could you provide some clarification and which would be the best choice?

I love John Coltrane! 🎷

Great widows peak

I'm just a bit confused about the chords you are playing over in the exercise examples is it just 2 bars of G major 7? thanks

Hard bop, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, George Coleman

What software or tools are you using to generate the rhythm sections for your exercises?

wally have you heard of plays mulligan three baritone band before I think they are good and I was just wondering about your opinion but have a nice day p.s. if you haven't heard them you should listen to them I play bari and they are the most skilled bari band I've ever seen.

Flat nines are great for break solos. I actually have to remind myself not to overuse them on every break I play.

I'm a keyboardist, but I played along!

Nice stuff but wonder if the examples would benefit from showing the chords you are playing over to help us understand context.

Could you tell us the tenor mouthpiece you are using?

What's your favorite brand of coffee Dr Wallace?

I have never been a big fan of bebop scales, enclosures and approach notes feel more essential to me than be able play a bebop scale. As you said it does look like someone trying to put a name on some of the common chromaticisms. But it misses the point : chromaticism are used usually to approach a target note. Learning bebop won't make you anticipate the target note and approach it properly. Anyway, I'm glad you don't like bebop scales.

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Sonny Stitt

Daddy-O hits the tenor for Bebop! Oh yeah!! Sonny Stitt, Don Byas and the usual suspects.

Yo, seriously, this is fantastic content, makes me wanna practice more! Here's my theory-challenged tl;dr: flat3, flat6, flat7, all are used as passing notes and they "blur" the usual major/minor distinction and that's what provides the bebop color. flat2 I'd guess comes from phrygian, but that's not important; what's important is that it sounds *good*! So, if we get a feel of how to use these as passing tones in phrases we're getting closer to bebop, right? And then there's the rhythm ...

I'm not 100% sure that G Dorion has an F#.

Hey Wally, i bought my mom a burger.

Do you have a PhD in music?

Great clarity of explanation. Hard to find amidst all the confusing, superficial gobbledygook online