Easy Pentatonic Lick for Saxophone

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Jay Metcalf gives a lesson on how to learn this easy pentatonic scale lick on saxophone.
Click the link below to hear Eric Alexander play this exact lick in a solo: • Eric Alexander - Where...
In that same video he plays this killer line that is worth a listen or 5:
• Eric Alexander - Where...
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@markholland6775 6 жыл бұрын

I started with Jay around a year ago maybe longer and use his patterns as a daily warm up.now I have just finished year two playing and although I study in various places Jay's methods have been invaluable and nothing developed tone quicker than The Pentatonic course, I really couldn't recommend this enough, I need to finish Jay's playing by ear as I got side tracked and that works too. Thanks Jay will add this to my routinesKind regardsMark

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Mark Holland, That's great to hear and exactly the sort of thing that inspires me to continue creating content. Thanks.

@williamcook7026 4 жыл бұрын

I am looking forward to taking Jay' courses

@cast390 6 жыл бұрын

Nothing better for a guitar player than to cop sax licks, Thanks.

@craigwalker3541 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Guitarist helping kid saxophonist in other room. Cool instrument

@anacreous3335 4 жыл бұрын

amen

@MisterstereoOso 6 жыл бұрын

At the young age of 71, i have just started to play (alto) ,Jay, you are talking my language !!! I've been listening to funk,soul,jazz & world music since i was a kid & i know i have a good ear,however my brain froze over,every time i opened an Abersold book, total information overload ! Definitely agree with everything you say about the traditional music education hierarchies, praise be that i happened upon your channel & will be signing up to foundation soon,(when i clear a coupla debts)!! BTW, that's a beautiful looking horn you have there & i love your sound on it....will be in touch,keep on keeping on & BIG THANKS !!

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

Tony, you're not the only one with that information overload experience. I'm determined to teach this stuff in a way that doesn't overwhelm students and comes more from the ear than rules about music theory...

@richardcowley7346 4 жыл бұрын

Good luck Tony !

@zumbadancesandy 3 жыл бұрын

You beat me Tony! I was worrying about starting too late after a gap of 15 years :)

@SaberMuslim 3 жыл бұрын

@@zumbadancesandy try a gap of 25 years 😂 that's my time frame from 1995 to 2020!😂💪🎷

@paolocoletti1574 2 жыл бұрын

I'm starting at 58 🙂

@jeffreyvandamme8866 4 ай бұрын

I'm a starter saxophonist and watching your vids from the start. Good thing we have people like you who can shorten my rookie times. Hah Keep rocking hard this way, Enjoy life! Greetings, Jeff

@santielaing939 3 жыл бұрын

Started to learn to play the saxophone now at the age of 52 and I find your videos very helpful. You speak so well and you have a great voice as well!

@EricBlackmonGuitar 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks Better Sax!

@bradenburlison4225 4 жыл бұрын

The start of the video sounds so good😍

@donaldsinta7543 5 жыл бұрын

loved the video....and your playing.....clear-simple-to the point and fun.

@shakazulu365 6 жыл бұрын

great teaching, straight to the point. not a lot of talk. concise and useful! THANKS!

@ekaufman4800 2 жыл бұрын

Jay, you make everything you play sound great. Such a beautiful tone!

@sheilaforde836 4 жыл бұрын

I had a go with the pentatonic scale today together with some improvisation, which I've never done before because I've always been a strictly 'play with sheet music' pianist. I definitely had fun making up my own music with the backing track and the notes of the pentatonic scale (1 octave at the moment).Thank you for your fantastic advice. It's a wonderful freeing feeling being able to play anything you like. The pentatonic scale is so versatile.

@FarrinD12 6 жыл бұрын

This is a very handy lick, thanks for posting this!

@abdullatibtokimin 6 жыл бұрын

You are truly a revelation ...I have now the courage to do some improvisations like never before

@klebergouveia8557 3 жыл бұрын

Direct and useful, as always! Thanks!

@aljerones99 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. You've demonstrated not only the lick but how to use it, also. Awesome!

@mickey1175 4 жыл бұрын

I played the tenor and baritone saxophones for 7 amazing years during my middle and high school years, and now im on my own playing the soprano sax watched a couple of these Better Sax videos and they where pretty good👍. Just found out about the website and i fell in love with the improvisation tutorials! Thanks Jay😁

@ells1 4 жыл бұрын

Jay your help is much appreciated.

@fendonc 6 жыл бұрын

A truly excellent sax video lesson that has opened me up to the all important pentatonic scale on the saxophone. There I was learning and practicing the major, chromatic and blues scales in different keys, completely oblivious to the fact that the pentatonic scale had so much immediate application, especially to the kind of music that I like. I am a beginner alto sax player but it did not take me too long to learn to play the entire solo in this video (okay so I slowed the speed down to 0.75 to make it even easier! Just being honest!). I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and on the back of this lesson I have now subscribed, downloaded the "Pentatonic Patterns for improvisation e-book sample" and the mp3 backing track used in this video (I love soloing to it!) and I have also signed up for the free crash course "Play Sax by ear" and the Pentatonic Foundation Course (currently discounted by 40%). As you can see, I am both inspired and enthused by this video and I thank you for posting this great video. I look forward to rapidly improving my sax solo / improvisational playing and also my enjoyment of this great instrument. Thank you for posting Jay.

@geokaks1 6 жыл бұрын

Best Lesson I've heard on improvisation for a long while. Fantastic. Thank you!!!

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Omagbemi Kakayor Thank You.

@Keyznguitarz 6 жыл бұрын

Great approach. Simply put.

@sarahcooper4251 4 жыл бұрын

You are an AMAZING TEACHER! thank you

@ntxmt 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This video is absolutely great.

@lordtobiasstjames3413 4 жыл бұрын

I gotta say that I've had my Tenor Sax for a minute and haven't really been able to do much but on it. After finding these videos, I am actually making her sing. All of the videos from Better Sax have been such a great help. Now I just need to learn to actually play music , rather than just random notes. 🎷

@javierdiaz8013 2 жыл бұрын

Muy buenos videos, para los que queremos conocer los principios de la improvisación, lo mejor es que están subtitulados en español. Muchas gracias.!!

@NIGELpugh14 6 жыл бұрын

wow what a great tone!

@chulisimo2424 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I saw your video. Your brief and simple way of explaining things is just what I was looking for. I'm convinced that this is the course for me. Invested immediately without hesitation. Thx so much.

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Michael Bryant Thanks and welcome aboard. Glad you signed up!

@UTKajal 3 жыл бұрын

This simple piece sounds so great... Have to learn this....

@joeyhoff2574 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome for solos, I wish I had watched this video a few years earlier so I could have had a lot more fun with solos and impressing my friends!!

@MaceHoroff1 6 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the video and the simplicity of using the pentatonic scale. Thanks for keeping it simple Jay so a guy picking up the sax again after a 40+ year break can have fun doing it. I'll be investing in your pentatonic course.

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

Mace, great to hear you're back to playing the sax!

@jenniferhill2818 3 жыл бұрын

I'm starting back after a 20 year break. It's exciting!

@YESHUAISKINGOFALL 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother....good stuff!!!!.....keep it comin' !!!!

@jimschiltz5343 4 жыл бұрын

Man, I love this little lick!

@BR-zv1kp 4 жыл бұрын

I love listening to your art Jay! I wish you had an album.

@123xyzroger 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Jay. I really enjoyed watching (and listening) to this video. I play clarinet and I know most of my scales, but improvising seems daunting. You are making it less so. Thanks.

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Roger Henderson I'm glad this helped. Thanks!

@jsazparren 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jay, I didn´t know Eric Alexandre!!! Super useful and wonderful video, thank you!!!!

@sergioscavone3047 4 жыл бұрын

Hi from Sicily, thank's for your job! You're great!!!!! Ciao😉

@DuaneParham 6 жыл бұрын

Great Master Teacher, Keep On Teaching!!!!

@peeweekinz8983 6 жыл бұрын

Tried this as soon as I finished the video, so awesome ! Thanks for the video :D

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+PeeWee Kinz Good to hear!

@angelpadilla6763 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the quick lessons. I have a Student Alto sax (a cheep one - lol). Practicing everyday for 1hr. I would love someday to play like you man! Again thank you so much and Merry Christmas!

@frankscapsules6855 6 жыл бұрын

WOW. This is so good! Thanks for the video!

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Frank Chu Thanks!

@sergiovallejo6653 3 жыл бұрын

Exelente video, muchas gracias por hacerlo e ESPAÑOL. gracias BETTER

@niwatwinejunior4423 Жыл бұрын

Wooow its such wonderful improvisation

@pepemantilla4326 3 жыл бұрын

Hello from Peru !! Thanks for this lesson, was great..

@YanickCoderreSaxophone 6 жыл бұрын

Great approach for improvisation!

@aaronkarlin3241 3 жыл бұрын

Okay that's final. I'm enrolling in the pentatonic course! Thanks Jay

@reubenyahsrael346 6 жыл бұрын

I love how relaxed you are while playing! That’s one of the issues I have, I get too animated I guess because of the music

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

Definitely something to work towards Reuben. Try to eliminate all unnecessary movement. Watch your favorite sax players playing live, and they are probably staying very relaxed as well.

@syxziz 2 жыл бұрын

@@bettersax unless my favorite happens to be Leo P xD

@smicmusic-cantecepentrucopii 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson! Thank you!

@vincentgaglio5106 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff love your site. Great stuff

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vinnie!

@dwalkervocalman1 6 жыл бұрын

OUTSTANDING TONE AND SKILL!!

@carlospizzo9603 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson!

@espr7564 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds great thanks 😎

@niwatwinejunior4423 Жыл бұрын

Your such a wonderful teacher

@mazzolfe 5 жыл бұрын

Great !!! thanks for all!!!

@SaberMuslim 3 жыл бұрын

Jay that was nice! Can't wait til I'm off work Wed-Fri to try that out and I am subscribed to your Pentatonics course!💪🎷

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@mickey1175 4 жыл бұрын

The tutorials are🔥🔥🔥

@TheKevoko 4 жыл бұрын

I think your advice is great? I enjoy your lessons, I've been playing for four years on alto saxophone I started on clarinet, which I found really difficult to get anything out of? But perseverance paid off, I found sax a bit easier,with your tutorials , I'll keep watching your lessons and hope to get better, I'll always mention you as someone who helped me in getting "There" thank you.

@tomi-11485 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the translator, good video👍

@michaelkittrell632 5 жыл бұрын

Love its!!

@jmartin7022 6 жыл бұрын

Hi from Uruguay, so good video Im gonna download the pdf now to start to play! thanks.

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@CaptainQueue 5 жыл бұрын

Trumpet player here. Congratulations on your fantastic approach for making practice FUN and meaningful. I was taught the extremely boring practice concept called Arbans-Clarke scales and arpeggios and is still today considered sacred. They are meaningful for discipline of rudiments but are great only if you really want to be a fantastic player of scales. For YEARS I've searched for a concept of practicing these scales/arpegg in all keys played to music backing tracks. Imagine practicing scales and music at the same time, WHY IS THIS NOT TAUGHT WIDELY? And here it is! Fantastic job, complete, well thought out. Thank you.

@bettersax 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. Much appreciated. Glad the information found you well.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, oh I know that too well!

@ayooluwaemmanuel2665 6 жыл бұрын

You are a good teacher

@teeztoyz 6 жыл бұрын

I could listen to that all day long....all day long bro!

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+tzone Yes!

@petesmith8925 6 жыл бұрын

Jay wish you lived near me, all these years looking for a teacher like you who knows what we sax players want to know.

@user-ll8kq2hn9v 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your lessons 🙏🏻Master

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@chriss1152 6 жыл бұрын

Great sound

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+chriss1152 Thanks!

@gunship999 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for video

@monkeenanaz 3 жыл бұрын

I’m in love....with the sax 🎷😊

@finnf.7105 5 жыл бұрын

I like the way you improvised with the triplets

@joecapati1367 6 жыл бұрын

I occasionally replay this video for enjoyment just to get to the lovely solo entrance at 5:55.

@tommysanfaat2918 4 жыл бұрын

Love this

@kevincosnerfacebook8348 5 жыл бұрын

Very good, Man!

@bettersax 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Assis!

@alostabene 6 жыл бұрын

great were helpful. thanks

@guglielmopablo 4 жыл бұрын

muy bueno y esta subtitulado desde Argentina muchas gracias

@tpridgen11 2 жыл бұрын

That sax is flawless man.

@tpridgen11 2 жыл бұрын

I need to get into your better sax courses, I Hage 2 tenors and an alto in which I'm relearning at the same time. Yeah I could use your classes. 👍🏼👍🏼🎷🎷

@bouyant8659 4 жыл бұрын

VERY NICE... THANK YOU

@danderibas2640 6 жыл бұрын

THANKS DAN

@sccheng9444 6 жыл бұрын

i like the sound and the way u play. thank you

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+shawn Cheng Thanks. Nice to hear from you.

@Gay1Guy 5 ай бұрын

Damn best cheat code ever! Would love some more easy lick videos please?

@rillloudmother 6 жыл бұрын

I play guitar, but y'all sax players got lines though.

@STenobtch 4 жыл бұрын

😂 2 years late but yall got lines to fr

@frmcf 4 жыл бұрын

@@STenobtch Feel the love. I play guitar but learning alto sax. It's making much a much better guitarist.

@kayodeajayi1923 2 жыл бұрын

Wow... Thanks for that.

@IvanF3_ 6 жыл бұрын

very good tip! I like to play by ear using what I (barely) listen in chords (1,3,5,7,9...), but I sound boring or lost when I go on adding 'strange' notes all the time. But now those pentatonic scales (or tetratonic! :) ) give me a 'center', a basic skeleton to build up from. I can go away and then come back to them. I realize now that it's better to play a very simple lick first, and then add new notes one by one later. Everyone knows the 'pentatonic sound', it sounds familiar, everyone likes when you come back to it from time to time. But they also like it when you add a new precious 'strange' note to a simple lick, though! :) Is really amazing to realize how many great solos were built using those basic scales. thanks (excuse my bad english)

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Ivan Ferrer exactly!

@laptopm1113 5 жыл бұрын

nice one thanx, even in 2019

@grumpyoldmanracing 3 жыл бұрын

Cool thanks

@mikeoverton2536 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like I'm doing alright and then hear your tone and feel like trash. 🤣 but I'm having fun so whatever. Thanks man. Your vids are super fun, educational, and interesting. Good on you.

@lambaslumbantoruan7799 5 жыл бұрын

thanks

@cesarbustosp 6 жыл бұрын

beautiful sound

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Cesar Bustos Thanks!

@judecelticpod9944 5 жыл бұрын

You're talented sir

@musicman1341 3 жыл бұрын

Jay, you make it look so easy, it’s scary... 👍

@pentatonicschoolofmusic 5 жыл бұрын

Very Nice

@edwardreg3515 3 жыл бұрын

Queee bueno que subtitularon al Español,gracias.

@bluscorpion 2 жыл бұрын

That sounds amazing. I can't believe that was only four notes.

@ulysax1979 6 жыл бұрын

Great!!!

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Uly Sax Thanks!

@EstebanAraque Жыл бұрын

Nice sound my friend

@Arthur5000 5 жыл бұрын

That was dope

@minasesax5442 Жыл бұрын

I have been practicing this pattern for last 4 years

@TCJAZZ-MUSIC 6 жыл бұрын

Great video man - what is your set-up ...... It's got beautiful tone quality ....!

@andrianarisonnjato1667 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks JaY

@HarryNTrainspotting 6 жыл бұрын

Great video! Can you do a video on the Alto sax where you cover most of the altisimo notes?

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+UK Trains thanks for the suggestion. Altissimo is definitely on my list of videos to do.

@baddognobiscuit2 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Old Bones, got you beat! I'm 78 and just getting going!

@singmysong4444 6 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Love your tone, Bro... Please do a separate video on your recording setup. Mic, Eq, DAW... etc. Much magic and juju in getting that golden tone. Thanks, again. Enjoy your vids!

@bettersax 6 жыл бұрын

+Joseph Miller Thanks! I have been trying lots of different stuff lately but do plan on making a video about recording saxophone at home. My room has a terrible natural sound so it's challenging in there...