Thanks Carlo. I make them in random order. haha. Although, after this tour ends I'm going to launch an online sax school that has everything thing in order by topic. Keep an eye out for it in March

Thanks Rosemary! I think the written part drives the point home with something like this.

Yeah, those minor scales can be tricky to figure out which one to use!

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Thanks Rick!! Glad to hear you're enjoying the channel. Thanks for sharing it with your friends.

Yeah, this is definitely a tough one to explain!

Thanks!

You almost never use melodic minor in jazz. It's all over the place in classical, but almost non-existent in jazz. Harmonic minor pops up all the time, you can use it on minor 2 5 1s especially in latin songs. Yeah, diminished can be pretty confusing. I'll put that on the list.

Scott Paddock thanks Scott. I’ve learned a lot from your videos! I am a bit confused because in my head - I feel like someone very good told me to start working on melodic minor now that I’m comfortable with the major scales (patterns/stacks/licks). I wanna say I was told melodic minor scales, stacks, modes where important. Now that I think of it I’m sure I was told melodic minor was very important. Still mot sure exactly why. I had been planning to work on harmonic minor next. I read in Mark Levines book, Jazz Theory that its a misconception to play harmonic minor over minor 251s. At the same time a very famous bass player told me to use harmonic minor over minor 251s 🤭🤔😂. (Bob Magnuson) At the same time Bob suggested Mark’s book. I think it highlights some of the frustration in learning and is a reminder that this is music theory - not music law, so to speak...Maybe I need to focus more time on improving time and transcribing rather than scale work. One other topic on learning I am thinking about is- playing by feel rather than thinking about each beat as you develop a line. It’s a poor habit I started to just play lines and not think about each beat and how the lines fits exactly with each beat- I notice this is why I have poor time and need to address this big time. However sometime playing by feel sounds ok. Its something I’m wondering if you deal with when working with students. For example- often I will out ireal on and just play a line without thinking “ this note is a down beat the next an upbeat- etc. I feel like need to do that more to keep my place better and have better time. Thanks again! And i was wondering who are you influences sound wise.

Yes, but in the beginning it takes awhile to recognize the patterns. I can see them as soon as I look at the tune.

@@ScottPaddock I hope I can train my old brain to learn that skill.

I mis-spoke. It's definitely an E7(b9). I referred to it as an E7 (mixolydian) a couple times, but when I was wrapping it up I accidentally said Eb-7b9

@@ScottPaddock Your important point (that I must not distract from) is that the 2 is flat, although not written. Since you said that I've realized that it is fairly common, and a nuance of jazz, where the context (chords surrounding it) will tell you where an alteration should occur. Your dynamic playing and teaching is inspiring; please continue...

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