"I can't speak Portuguese...Because I'm not practicing it." --- Dr. Wally... Love the channel, Dr. Wallace. Have learned a lot. Thanks again. Peace

When to use alternative fingerings, how to remedy ‘flying fingers’, slurring scales to reveal technique glitches, dividing practice into discrete chunks: there’s so much pure gold dust in this video. Thanks Doc Wally!

I love Wally's totally geeky/nerdy humour. 🤣😄❤️❤️🎶🎶

I’ve often scolded myself for wasting too much time, scrolling through KZfaq…but having it all lead to me finding Wally has validated every spider vs scorpion video I had to watch to somehow get there. Not sure how one led to the other but I will forever be grateful for the algorithm that allowed it. I consider Dr Wally to be a gift that forever keeps giving. Thank you DW!

Best channel. I’ve played my whole life, and your teaching is really furthering my playing and making me aware of many poor technics… I’ve tried many other channels through the years, your way of teaching resonate way more with me. Thx so much for all the amazing content your are putting out, helping out the sax community in an immeasurable way. You are part of the solution… thx

The best lesson I ever had.....

It would help a stack if PDF's were available for all these fantastic exercises. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge.

Good morning Sir. Over the years lve watched you but this is the first time l saw this presentation. I don't ever use the bis key but this is a good exercise. I do something similar. For instance ascend in C then descend in C sharp. Then ascend in D and so on .Very similar but your exercise l am sure would be more fun .Thanks again Sir.

I love this! I'm actually a guitarist but love your channel and approach (is that legal?). Seriously, I've learned more about playing music on the guitar from 'sax therapists' than from guitar players. When guitar students ask me how to player 'better' lines, I tell them to listen to every saxophonist they can, regardless of genre. And for myself, I like to practice from sax studies.That said, I find your no-nonsense approach (and sense of humour) very refreshing. I'm so glad I tripped over your channel while jogging the Interwebs. Cheers!

Great video, I love variations on scale exercises. I practice scales every day, but I've never considered this way. Good idea. I second the guy who asked for pdfs, or at least showing the scores on the screen. I play tenor, and spontaneous transposing isn’t something I'm good at! Getting two scores on the screen for B flat and E flat instruments would be marvellous.

Dear Sensei Dr Wally Wallace, you are the best! Thank you so much for your great patience….❤

Love you videos and your sense of humor! Thank you!!!

Excellent. Most informative. Thanks!

Great video Wally and I really like your pressing and relaxing tip. Awesome.

Just love the way you teach the art of music.

And I thought I knew everthing! One of your more humorous videos- love it!

Awesome video!Once again!Thank you Dr. Wallace!

I love this exercise. Thanks, Dr Wally.

Spot on efficiency. "Press and relax." - what a pearl of wisdom. PS - I like to also say "Bis be flats", which is my short way of recommending the use of Bis when the key signatures fall on the left side of the circle of 5ths.

Dr Wally, your Channel and the Sax Fundamentals pathway, have been a Revelation for me. Every one of your advices are right on the pure crucial matter, de profundis. From the taks/scheudule related things to the most Tone and sound oriented advices. You bring from obscure not only the light, but also the matter and life around it, in a perfectly balance descriptive-but-not-so-much lenguage, much better for me than other obscure terminology. I have discover the Sax in a whole new angle, and your method fits me like nothing else. Really Love the work you are doing here. Every Time I follow your exercises and apply your tips, something clicks inside me. Real deep down thanks. Every one of your Lessons have been a bless for me. Thank you a Lot. My Sax Is breathing now! Also, If you ever have time and feel like it's beneficial for every of us down in the Sax Road, I would love to watch a Lesson on alternative fingerings from the essentials to the ocasional but clutch use. The C# was unknown to me and I feel it's a game changer!

Thank you Dr. Wally

Fantastic, educational, and funny content. Thank you for all your videos. And your tone is a made of pure beauty. Hoping (and practicing) to get something similar myself sometime before I shed this mortal coil. I particularly appreciate that you offer classical saxophone content--in my long-ago high school years, I didn't even know classical saxophone was a thing, let alone that it would be the tone concept that would transform my deep affection for saxophone into pure love. Twenty years and one KZfaq rabbit hole later, and I am living my best saxophone life.

Very good this class. Thanks for teaching so well!.

Great video - and I wish my wall showed the scales I play like yours does! Great work all ascpects of this!

Great stuff! And the way you move your head when you talk reminds me of Thomas Dolby in the "She Blinded Me With Science" video LOL

Great exercise. Thanks Dr Wally. With my scale practice, I move around doing scales ascending chromatically, ascending in 4ths, 5ths and also by a major third twice then a 4th; C to Eb to Ab to Db then F, A, D, F#, Bb, Eb, G, then finally B. This is good to avoid getting locked into muscle memory and auto pilot

I like your sense of humor.

Dr. Wally, you are the bestest taskmaster! I think I will work on a line per week. Slow practice, but I AM practicing!

Thanks doc! Another great vid! 👍🏼

Dr. Wally, thank you for another great video! I am working my way through the saxophone fundamentals course and I have been missing doing all 12 Maj scales daily, but I am trusting my Sensei to go deep on 1 Maj and the accompanying minor each month. Now I have this elegant excercise as well?! The quality of this channel is simply stunning. Ok, enough Johnny-like fanboying, I’m going to go practice.

Great video.

Dear Wally💚 This is a very good teaching method for beginners. Super good .👍🏻🤝 Thank you very much

Cảm ơn tiên sĩ bài học rất bổ ích.

This is amazing...we love you SIR

Best lessons Sir ❤

This video just confirmed something I found out myself. That is, articulation can disguise poor technique. Thank you so much for sharing your vast wealth of knowledge with us ❤️❤️❤️ By the way, that work out was 🔥🔥🔥

Dr. W: this is GOOOD!

Dankeschön von ganzem Herzen ❤️ 🌞🎷

Awesome 🌷🌷🌷

Thanks for the lesson

I love this exercise and the advice on using the bis key. BTW, this is also ex. #34 in Jerry Coker's book, Jazz Patterns. Did you work through this book as a youngster?

love the SOTW shade

I've been doing something similar where instead of moving in fourths I move from one scale to another in half steps. It also gives you a workout in alternate fingerings. Also, it's good for my improvising as I often move from one chord to the next using half steps which is pretty common in jazz. Great video, and yes, flying fingers are a bad habit. those flying fingers also make your horn move which isn't all that good of a thing.

Good Dr Wally very good 👋👋👋👋

I do this with all instrument study. scale use the way with instrument. You are So right nothing to urge here. JBS

nice lesson K

Great exercise!! Where can I download a copy of the music? Thanks!

This is amazing. Your right lapel is invisible. How did you do that? Seriously spot on Dr Wally. A great approach. Lovely sound too. Looks like you have an early VI, mines a '56. I like the retro furniture too;-) It must have been a schlep taking it out and putting it back in again everytime you demonstrated a scale!

Why no chromatic side-C on the C scale and G scale? I find this alternate B to C fingering valuable in many instances as it is adding a key instead of (more awkwardly) replacing a key. Shouldn’t this be a fingering alternative that is incorporated into an exercise such as this in order to help build muscle memory? (Have played 65 years and love your videos!)

Can You please do a lesson with play along excercise with alternative fingering ...❤

super helpful thank you now I'm going to go practice Portuguese

Looking sharp as ever... maybe

All really helpfull content! One question: when playing the C major scale you say "nothing special" when talking about the fingerings, but is it then indeed better to play a normal middle C instead of a C with your right hand knuckle combined with a left hand B?

Thanks Dr. Wally! Are all the alternate fingerings in this video also applicable for tenor?

Hi I have started your fundamentals class, but cannot find recordings for Etudes would you be able to post link or give direction where they are? Thanks😊

I felt completely ashamed, he called me out on the 11 Seconds 😯 I'm doing my best Dr. Wally, practicing with my 🎷daily 👍

Thanks a lot for this video and all the tips inside. However I cannot find the Pdf of the scales?!. Thanks

Dr Wally are you supposed to use these alternative fingerings Upwards and Downwards, or only on the given variations of this excersice?

Great exercise, thanks! There’s something I don’t understand, though: when playing F# major, why end on side F#, though I have started with regular F# and the next scales (B, E, A, D, G) never return to side F#?

Thank Doc. Very helpful. Just wanted to check: F# scale - same fingering for descending? Even if going below the F# note?

Super unterricht

donde where I can find them written that I can read thanks and cheers

I have to say Dr. Wally I don’t think it’s just my imagination that you definitely have a different sound on that Mark VI than on your 875. I think it’s interesting that every time somebody asks about using a different mouthpiece guys always qualify their answer with, “ a different mouthpiece won’t make you sound like player X, you’ll still just sound like yourself.“ But I think the difference in sound between those two horns with you playing both of them is maybe not huge but it’s definitely noticeable. Maybe it’s just me. I’m an old summer cat. I was playing a Mark VI back in the day - 1970s and 80s- but I stopped playing for a long time and sold all my instruments. Now after a 29 year break I have a student level Yamaha 23. It’s an excellent instrument and I like the sound of it- I’m studying jazz now versus classical earlier. But I will always love the “Selmer sound.” And I wonder if having played this Mark VI for a while, you’re feeling a little temptation to make the switch permanent?

Hi DrW This video is ace Is it useful, or just cumbersome, to play Side C when moving C to B or C to Bb, and visa versa?

Maestro grazie❤️. Sottotitoli in italiano please🌹

Hey Doc! Is this exercise in the free book or available as a pdf? Also I need to work on not using the bis key for dang near everything...

Oooh yeah. F# key on Mood Indigo baby! Okay another question Doc: chromatic scale uses F# key, and the sequence side Bb, B, side C, C#... Correct? Same for descending. I love it. Feels so good.

You know Dr. Wally, I am a recording artist and producer. I am in the studio practicing and recording for hours at a time. When I am creating music and improvising, I am really not thinking about fingerings. It just flows. Unfortunately I have some bad habits as far as fingerings. I usually warm up with low Bb exercises, long tones, various scales and arpeggios. I am going to start practicing your scale method with alternate fingerings just to see if I can internalize the new fingerings. It makes sense, but it may be too late for me. Any suggestions?. Thanks. Love and respect bro.

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I play the soprano saxophone. The fingering for soprano is different than the alto can I Still use your classes.

How would you practice this with adding the b6 from the major bebop scale? Would you just do major bebop work and this major scale separately or maybe do it in 9/8?

Great video! (shssss everybody I saw a Selmer logo...)

Dr Wally what saxophone you playing?

Thanks Dr Wally, wheres the yamaha?

I quickly get lost trying to do the transposing stuff. What is the concert key to start in for the tenor so that the fingerings are the same as the alto?

Brilliant and extremely useful. Thank you and thanks for the lion playing saxophone, this lion is the heraldic blazon of my place in France (north). It was the emblem of the old county, before the revolution in 1789, but we still use it. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapeau_de_Flandre The French Gendarmerie still have it on the uniform. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapeau_de_Flandre#/media/Fichier:Gendarmerie_Nord_Pas-de-Calais.svg

Side C on the C scale?

plz make video for 12 bar blues if you can ...

Dr. Wally Wallace? Is that your real name?? Seriously, I know an excellent sax instructor from Texas named Dr. Woody Witt! Great channel !

I'm amazed that by doing this exercise I finally find out who I really am. (Not ideal).

OK, I hit 'subscribe." Now, what is the 13th Major Scale? I demand an answer.

When you say side F# key? Never heard it called that. Always referred to it as the Fork key. Is called side F# in classical study? Also I always use bis key never side Bb. It took a couple years to get used to it. Will never go back. My fingers are always on the pearls. Well worth the time I put in to get it down.

how do I get the sheet music for this exercise?

Cool video. I don't play sax, but you sound like Vsauce.

Do you know what helped me with my "flying fingers"? Back in college, I decided to glue my fingers to the keys. Although the superglue was extremely difficult to remove my fingers from the keys...yes, someone had to help, but hands were glued, it did help considerably. BUT, I would NOT recommend it.

Maybe Paul Deville

Was there a sheet to download with this?

What if I said side b flat is the alternate fingering?

What is the Circle (or Cycle) of 4ths? The Circle of 5ths backwards.

I couldn't figure out what bis means. It's French for alternate.

And don't call me Shirley! 4:33

Stylish, useful, progressive. Go practice!

Goes round in the circle of 4th flats C - n/a F - bizz Bflat Bflat - bizz Bflat Eflat - bizz Bflat Aflat - bizz Bflat Dflat - bizz Bflat + side Fsharp key sharps Fsharp - start on normal Fsharp + side Bflat + finish on side Fsharp B - side Bflat E - n/a A - n/a D - n/a G - n/a

Please your sound here was noticeably different. Please oblige me your set up -Mouthpiece, reed

A great saxophonist for someone who is always dressed as a "Door to door salesman" 😊

I play guitar however Prefer sax sounds ; ❤Bird '

donde where I can find them written that I can read thanks and cheers