This might've been the best sax lesson on youtube. Thank you, Doc!

Wait…scales are useful??

I’m an aged beginner and these videos are by far my favourites. Dr Wally, you are the most useful teacher I have found. Thank you, sir.

I glued wings on my d major scale. Now I have a pissed off d major scale. But seriously, thanks so much for making this video! I love how you keep it simple for us hobby musicians.

As an adult learner, I have played for 8 years now, and Dr. Wallace's advice, concepts, and insights are golden, and keeping it simple is the best. Practicing any variation of a major scale with offbeat accents that make your ear and fingers go where they don't want to go is progress. Thoughtful repetition in time is the gateway to advancing skills. I doubt I would have taken this advice in the beginning, but it's good to come to this realization at some place in the journey.

I just stumbled across Dr.Wally content. His content is the easiest to understand and more enjoyable compared to many other talented jazz teachers on this platform.Thanks Dr.Wally.

This Guy can Play. What a beautiful tone.

You've just added a lot lot of fun back into my sax playing! Great content and motivation. Thanks

Thank you, Dr. Wally! I have watched and listened to so many ideas on how to practice and how to improvise. They all had some parts that made sense, but were still frustrating to figure out the rest of the parts. Now I have found your site, with you some melodic -- and straight forward -- ways to make music while at the same time learn riffs and techniques and how jazz feels. Yay!

You are the best you simplify things , and make easier for us . Thank you 🎷

Thank you so much for your valuable information, drills and tips. This is just great!!

Thanks. Just starting out learning. This has opened up some doors for me. Have fun while learning...even when learning scales! Thanks

Excellent, informative, practical video (as always). It connects the dots. Thanks again.

I’ve also just found Dr Wally’s channel and what a breath of fresh air (pardon the pun) he is! Thoroughly enjoying the content, free downloads and comprehensive yet humorous style of delivery. Well done Wally😋

Great to see you back again, Dr Wally.

I always get genuinely excited to practice when Dr. Wally puts out a video! Its like a Pavlovian response hehe

Absolutely brilliant lesson cheers

Lovely stuff, what a great tone. Love the break down if the theory too. It’s how I use to think I about scales, as just major minor and ‘other’ colors or passing tones. Eventually I came to think of all music as simply tension and release, as long as you knew where the resolution was and could hear the tension points, you were free to move outside the key wherever you wanted to go.

Thank you sir. I love to practise your lessons/teachings. Be blessed!.

Thanks, Wally. Another great Sax Academy video. I see the proper dress code has returned. Sounding good and looking sharp!

Thanks doc! Costs a lot of time , but with your humor in between its no problem at all .

Thanks!!! This is making the Bop language much easier to understand. This is an excellent way to learn without being thrown immediately into the deep end! Still not my cup o Joe, but you're helping me develop an informed appreciation of the style. Thanks again Doc!!!

Super easy to understand sir...omg...this is real teacher who are really understand how struggle tje beginer to learn..thank you ..god bless kind people💚💚💚💚💚✅🙂

Thanks Dr Wallace, great tips. I've isolated my problems on the scale practices, focusing on them, fixing the problem zones, then completing the scale practices 👍🏾

You are a world class player and instructor. Very positive and creative,have my respects and admiration

This is awesome. I have been learning saxophone for 2 years. But i feel like i'm stuck. This practice really helpful for my fingering

You are so awesome, please don’t ever stop making videos… you make things so clear and to the point. Love it !

Namaste guru..... Great to see you again.....

Like that theory of tones are in the scales and play full range. Good talk. Thank you

Brilliantly taught as always - thanks!

Your one of the best teachers

Nice looking cover on the fundamentals pdf!

Love your sound, and your jacket

Thanks for this Doctor Wally! I'm practicing with clarinet but it really helps with "sticky spots" in some of the the fingering, particularly on the break...

Thanks Dr Wally! Great to see you’re back!

Excellent. Finally an upscale video ;) I always love your video content. Thank you Doc.

i really like the importance you've given full range scales, and I've solved a lot of issues I've had with my horn so far as range goes. My biggest issue now is going from low c# to low b. I often feel as though my hand is kind of blocked from going down and back up. Any tips?

Thanks, this is very helpful!

Hi Dr Wally. In case you didn't know, some (most) of your replies are hidden, also the same on the whole tone video and diminished. This is such a great resource and so well done. Thanks

Thank you for what you do!

I love your QR codes 😉

Great lesson again Dr Wally

You're the best.

Excellent stuff as ever!!

thanks doc!

Muchas gracias Maestro ... Muy buen material

Thanks for this great video. I don’t know what’s more helpful - your amazing humor, the great examples and exercises, your clear explanations, or just listening to your beautiful tone. Thank you!

Excellent

Excellent, thank you.

Amazing, thank you.

I found that jazz teachers tend to make improvising this mythical state that can only be achieved through very poorly explained examples and then just transcribe everything then you visit some troll in a Himalayan cave that nobody tells you how to locate and this troll and only this troll will give you a key. That key of course is the only way to find great examples and of course this is located in the heart of some amazon jungle. Then once you have reached that point you know the point at which your feet no longer touch the ground when you walked then and only then have you reached your infancy in jazz improv. Thank you Dr Wallace ( The best dressed sax teacher on KZfaq) for breaking down these things in small bits that really help to drive the points home.

The best.. as usual!

악보 고맙슴니다 열심히 불어보겠음니다 늘건강하세요

Dr Wally! That's my best free form bit... @ 2:53

Dr Wally great instruction and information, all this can be applied to the Soprano as well correct ?

Great stuff, really useful

great video...thank you so much!

Super ! Merci ! :)

11:46 Doc giving me the thumbs out as he just watched me miss 8 notes in a row

I always like your content Dr W. I'm learning trumpet, but it's all applicable. Thanks.

Great lesson in learning jazz, will you be updating the Saxophone Fundamentals course

Thanks for another great exercise Dr.Wally. Can we expect the return of the podcast anytime soon, or are you both way too busy for it right now?

Absolutely love these lessons. I learn something and have a laugh at the same time. Where can we get the mentioned play a longs please?

Thanks for the video Dr. Wally! This video starts with regular full range scales but by the end we're playing pretty melodic stuff and even starting to improvise. At one point should we switch from straight eighths to swung eighths? For example, on exercise 5 (7:49) I couldn't tell if you were swinging your eighths or just playing straight but with jazz articulation.

Thanks Dr. Wallace. I try to practice this following the circle of forth. Going to keep me busy for months!!

Dr. Wally in The Zone!!!!! (as long as it's a Jazz Cat!)

Thanks for this video dr Wally and the good advices. Can I ask you where is the video in which you explain why it is better to specifically practice the HARMONIC minor scale?

Can you do scales on bari? that's what I have and I would some good advice on where to start, warmup and all the good stuff you can throw at us.

Thank you! Very cool! BTW, have you heard your voice at 1/2 speed??? I forgot to change it to regular speed at the end…LOL!

Good way

Thanks Wally! Interesting idea of simplifying scales. I like your room. Are the black & white "art objects" on the walls also for sound-proofing?

By the way Dr. Wally.. I’m restarting my sax playing education based on your leaning technique.. Why? Because you’ve filled in the gaps where most of my lessons haven’t. My first instructor had me play scales but never told me what I should sound like.. or emphasized what I should be listening to.. Breathing, air control , sounding choppy…. Just at a point where I need a fresh start..

Set up shop here in Dallas Texas

Hi Doc, thanks for another really helpful video! Where can we get the backing track that you use to play these exercises with?

Nice Sir!

Nice trick! When you play your alto becomes a shinny tenor!

I'm learning saprano is there any tips I can be doing most the time I'm doing long tones and practising wit drones for intonation is this a good approach I love your approach to the lessons thank you 👍

What mouthpiece on tenor and alto?

"They are inside the scales!"

Please. What is the easiest way or best way to remember how to play chords in each key. How do we learn those patterns. I am a guitar player and in the guitar you can use the same pattern for every note on a string but it gets more difficult with a piano for example because they are not the same on every key, and now the saxophone which even more difficult remembering every pattern. Can you please shade some light on that? Thank you

Dr. Wally, please tell me your setup in this video.

Dr. Wally! I got the lead alto, lead tenor and bari positions in the district jazz band after auditions yesterday! I picked lead alto. Do you think that was a good idea? And also, do you do virtual lessons?

Dr Wally. I find that stopping the video so I can practice the lick makes it easier to learn (I know I could get the pdf but) just following along with the video is great. However, when I pause a KZfaq video, there is a red bar right through the staff at the bottom of the screen. How easy is it to put the music staff at the top? It will remain visible when I hit pause...

Ond faço o download do material por gentileza?

After have practised this video last 80 hours

I love it .

Can you link me to the video that justifies practicing the harmonic minor???

Back for another episode of the classier sax adam neely

7:51

wally what about the notes that u added that are not in the scale ?

I like you on tenor!

Also the link isn't to a pdf of these phrases, it is to the scales and book.

I have one areas I struggle with.. Efficient fingering. Also, when I hear you demonstrate your scales I hear the duh dah articulated.. When I slur my scales I do not..

6:56

Any chance of updating the sadly neglected Sax Academy? :(

I AM pouring a cup of coffee!!

Sir, how to read that? I dont know to read partitur.

Hi I am not really at beginner but then. I have been a lazy man who has never really cares about scales and such. But I I feel I should do that. You mention that you have playalong exercises for tenorsaxophone. Where do I find them?

At min @: Dou you tongue the g AND the a? (I mean in the second bar :-) )

Heres a screen shot showing your preplies are blank, the bottom one will show the same when the arrow is clicked.