How to Shred on Diminished Scales (15 Exercises!)

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How to Shred on Diminished Scales (15 Exercises!)

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For sheet music of all 15 Diminished Scale Exercises applied to both diminished scales in all 12 keys visit: www.jazzlesson...
Chad LB plays Nexus Saxophones, Mouthpieces and Reeds. For more information upon release, visit www.nexussax.com
Tour dates: www.chadlb.com/shows
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

For sheet music of all 15 Diminished Scale Exercises applied to both diminished scales in all 12 keys visit: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/pdf-packages Mouthpiece: use $10 coupon code CHADXSYOS at www.syos.co/en/shop/products/signature-saxophone-mouthpiece/chad-lefkowitz-brown-tenor

@jasonbedford466 4 жыл бұрын

I've been practicing these PDF packages for a few weeks now... Feel like I've had some real practicing breakthroughs for the first time in years! Thanks for all the great content.

@romeubeatotech 4 жыл бұрын

Jason Bedford same here! Incredible!

@iTriguy1 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I had these resources when I was in school in the mid 90s. It would have made such a huge difference in my playing.

@erichuang7524 3 жыл бұрын

Gen Xer, eh?

@haroldtheraypist8774 4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate these tutorials a lot Chad, you are one of the few youtubers who will actually give concise information in one video!

@UkuleleAversion 4 жыл бұрын

So true. An astounding musician AND an excellent teacher.

@user-nd6xf9rp8v Жыл бұрын

@@UkuleleAversion 😥

@user-nd6xf9rp8v Жыл бұрын

@@UkuleleAversion 🎉😥

@user-nd6xf9rp8v Жыл бұрын

@@UkuleleAversion 🔥

@EricPalmerBlog Күн бұрын

Astonishing.

@johnnycash4850 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing. I don't play saxophone, but this is endlessly useful on guitar. I'm writing a metal song that is in the half whole diminished scale alot and I couldn't find an interesting way to solo in it

@glazesax 3 жыл бұрын

I've got your books from your website... This is the really best Jazz Saxophone Lesson. Ever! Thanks.

@davideastlee9983 4 жыл бұрын

This is very excellent Chad. Thank you for ALL your videos, playing and teaching!

@Funk1o1 4 жыл бұрын

Just got this pdf. I have been trying to obtain this sound for years. Thank you!

@eternalrainbow-cj3iu 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Chad, being 35 years a jazz guitarist and now 5 years a pianist, I still can learn a lot of you...Great! I had my first gigs with piano since 11/2 year...and have a teacher for both guitar and piano, I studied classical guitar, and did a lot of Bach, My favourite style is Fusion, Still Warm/Pick Hits live Scofield, Spryo Gyra etc...Joe Henderson I am also very interested in I played with a Dutch drummer who played with Joe henderson...Henk Zomer is his name, his younger brother is a genius saxphone player who invented in the days here in Holland Hybrid Hexatonic...which still is not so much played..because it is rather difficult(creating jsut 6 scale to play a tune...)I had some lessons from him and I am still searching this sound further out still very difficult for me to applie it rightly...

@jamelsaxo6788 4 жыл бұрын

Good morning Teacher . Thank you very much for these valuable lessons. The thing that struck me is the clear and sound pedagogical method. I also hope that all professors follow the same path. Thank you .

@martinlehfeldt5514 Жыл бұрын

Chad, I love your lessons. I've downloaded several, over last couple years. Really helped my playing. Lots of material for the money. Thx

@maumosrecorder 4 жыл бұрын

Great educator and performer!

@newtonlkh Жыл бұрын

Great exercises! They all sounds cool!

@codetta801 2 жыл бұрын

thank you. you are very giving with your knowledge,

@sergej100qca4 4 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@nicholasheide688 4 жыл бұрын

Gold Mine!

@olivierkrug5915 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Chad, your short youtube lessons are great but it would be just perfect to end up the lesson with an actual example of solo using what you just explained. Just over 12 standard bars. It would allow us to decide whether this is what we actually want to practice first. Like "God! this is the stuff I have been hearing that sounds so great. Let's do it."

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Oliver, thanks for the feedback!! That’s actually what we’ve done in the very beginning of the video :)

@olivierkrug5915 4 жыл бұрын

I know you are playing on diminished right at the start of the video but what really makes a difference is to hear it as way out of a stable chord line. As a surprise. I don't know if I make myself clear.

@edthesaxplayer8450 4 жыл бұрын

fabulous thanks

@bryan2ghyss 4 жыл бұрын

You play so beautifully, when is your show (

@johnspiby9793 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your insightful tutorials Chad. For me, it's great to have your lesson 'events' to inspire revisiting neglected directions of practice materials. I also appreciate you paying homage to educators before you such as you have at 1:39, by using the DNA symbol used on the cover of Walt Weiskopf's 'Understanding The Diminished Scale'. Great stuff, and I do, without sarcasm, anxiously look forward to future tutorials.

@davidsmusic 4 жыл бұрын

Such a great video Chad!

@fernandof.8248 4 жыл бұрын

Very good

@JJ_Photo 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! And also a study on how you shape your tone. You bend your tone with a sligth fall, especially when going up to the next higher tone. Just a sligth bend, that (among many other things) creates your unique sound. Listen for example to 7:12 Interesting.

@jonathanstewart5269 4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the pattern you are playing at 9:23 doesn't match what you are showing on the staff. It's actually the next pattern you play.

@azzafadaly 4 жыл бұрын

Great

@emperorpilaf3030 4 жыл бұрын

There is a mistake. At 9:24, you play the descendant diminished H/W Diatonic Exercice 1 and we see the score of the descendant dimished H/W diatonic exercice 2. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO PRACTICE HERE? (and not buying the pdf lol) thanks Chad, you're the best!

@JeffLewisTrumpet 4 жыл бұрын

Well done Chad!

@paracletusrevelation4080 4 жыл бұрын

That's science!

@rafaelortsespadero4870 4 жыл бұрын

Muchas Gracias !

@sylwestersosniak220 Жыл бұрын

♥♥♥

@melvinwburks3936 3 жыл бұрын

Oh I thought I could buy the 15 diminished excercises seperately I see now that it is within a package

@charlesmungai1281 4 жыл бұрын

Hello sir, What are the 3 key centers of the diminished scale (at key of c) that you were talking about?

@fernandof.8248 4 жыл бұрын

Muito bom chad

@7deepbreaths.sounds 3 жыл бұрын

The exercise at 9:24 is written differently than what is being played. What you're playing sounds hipper.

@jaquesdouglas94 10 ай бұрын

Meu irmão como eu faço pra adquirir seus estudos em PDF.

@Darrylbpoagent 3 жыл бұрын

Great content. I have been hearing this sound and could not get it for years. Which PDF package on your site has the exercises from this video?

@esdrasbrandao4247 3 жыл бұрын

Muito bom

@user-uw5bb8ry7l 4 жыл бұрын

Wow very thank you 😍😅😍😎😭😭

@carlinhosguita Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏

@philipbrown2225 2 жыл бұрын

the descending of diatonic ex 1 and diatonic ex 2 is exactly the same notation

@LarryJazzLouis 2 жыл бұрын

👍🏾

@crazysoccer6178 4 жыл бұрын

One question: if if I want to use a T-ST scale, does the first note has to be an half-step ahead? For example, I've an Fdim7, if I want to use the T-ST, have I to start from F#? Maybe I'm making too much confusion

@Osnosis 4 жыл бұрын

New digs! LIC high rise?

@joaovicenteribeiro1468 4 жыл бұрын

just one small note: 2:02 diminished chords don`t have major 7ths as tensions, its actually a diminished 8th.

@mrgabifour4 4 жыл бұрын

A diminished WH scale is 1 2 b3 4 b5 b6 6 7. A diminished 8th would be a b7 (bb8) and even that doesnt make any sense to me. Ive never seen that anywhere. Care to elaborate?

@DaMonster 4 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Červeňák Since the 8th is a perfect interval a diminished eighth is technically a major seven, but I’ve never seen that written before. I bet there’s some theoretical reason dim8th makes more sense, but I’ve never seen it

@joaovicenteribeiro1468 4 жыл бұрын

@@DaMonster If you analyze classical composers from the modern period, you`ll notice they wrote diminished chords with major sevenths as diminished chords with diminished 8ths. the intervallic order maker more sense and you`ll notice the b8th always takes the place of the diminished 7th. Also, having a major interval inside the formation of a diminished chord has no logical sense. Hope this clarified the the question.

@DaMonster 4 жыл бұрын

@@joaovicenteribeiro1468 That's cool! I guess since the symmetrical diminished scales can be built by combining two of the three diminished sevenths all of the tensions on a diminished chord would be explained along that sort of line as well - just goes to show how many cool sounds there are out there worth exploring

@davek3200 4 жыл бұрын

With Half diminished shouldn't I have to use the half diminished scale (C C# D#E F#G A A#) instead of Locrain/Locrian Natural 9?

@ChadLefkowitzBrown 4 жыл бұрын

The scale you outlined above is actually a half/whole diminished scale, not a half diminished scale. A half diminished scale is the same as locrian natural 2 (C D Eb F Gb Ab Bb). Most people just refer to it as locrian natural 2 to avoid confusion.

@davek3200 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChadLefkowitzBrown ohh got it thanks! Just to take more informations, should I have to superimpose a Half/whole diminished scale over a m7 chord or a Whole/Half diminished scale? Thank you so much

@mannytuzman3461 4 жыл бұрын

Question wihe Use of bis key in these chromatic lines. Do you use bis much more than the side Bb key and is B-Bb bis a no no sometimes???? Thanks

@DaDarkGuy 4 жыл бұрын

My two cents: using bis anytime you're ascending on the horn is ok. Never use it to go a half step down from Bb to A, in some cases you can get away going Bb to B with it.

@MrBoybergs 4 жыл бұрын

Imo, use whatever feels more natural, comfortable and fluid for you. I prefer bis most of the time as it requires only very subtle movements when going up or down a scale. I tend to use side Bb mostly for trills, altissimo or tonal harmonic effects. Any tone quality differences between bis and side Bb can be minimised/eradicated by practicing long tone transitions from one to the other.

@Jtibbssax 4 жыл бұрын

Learn to use both. Everything is situational and it’s good to be able to use both on any scale .

@MrBoybergs 4 жыл бұрын

@@Jtibbssax Sound advice