Very, very well explained and illustrated, Scott. This is where the hard work comes in, where, in order to play something nice we have to stop, read, analyze and think before we practice. It's inescapable. Thanks for your assurance that after a while of doing this with a few songs, all this eventually becomes easier and more natural to do. I've learnt quite a few standards and other songs (with solos) to broaden my repertoire but in order to continue on that trajectory, I have to spend a bit more time analyzing and remembering the chord progressions so that I can identify and migrate the accompanying ideas to other songs that use them. Thanks!

You are by far the best at explaining how to Improve than anyone I’ve ever studied with! Wish I had someone of your expertise when I very first started.

I admire your performance, be blessed for making sure you open our minds to learn and performance like you do.

Hi, Mr Paddock. A few months i'm training with your "The Ultimate 2-5-1 Exercise". Yes it's great exercise. I think that video tutorial is a very important to understand how use right the 2-5-1 progression. Very like your lessons. Thank you.

Doesn't take the pain and frustration away from doing the heavy repetitive over and over again practice involving the chords (which for most of us, is the deal breaker)....but got to love the results that come from your step by step template that builds the base up from the ground to improvise over any standard! Think your choice of Autumn Leaves is great too because if you get memory built on the 8 bars, you've got the rest! As always, great things can happen following Scott Paddock!

You are a God Teacher.. the simplest style I heard in my entire life..!❤❤

thank you Scott for sharing this video. Keep on inspiring. God bless

Thanks. Very well done

Great stuff, as usual, Scott!

Good stuff there Scott! Keep-er-goin! Love the content 🎷

I enjoyed your video very much. You are a very good teacher and very informative. I really like your approach to teaching.

This is a great video Scott. Also for me it helped to learn all these chords by heart , all 36 of them!

Nice.

Liked and subscribed.

Grazie.

Another top quality video Scott- always very much appreciated Cheers

Super super helpful- thanks so much for this and all your lessons! RE: voice leading -- Where you show the F# to the G in both measures 2 to 3 and also 3 to 4, you are using the 3rd chord tone to the first, then the 7th to the 5th (versus the 7 to 3 general guideline). Is that because of the recommendation to only move by half step?

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Scott: I’ve been playing sax for many years - and my practices have been erratic to say the least. I’ve come to discover how important it is to understand a chord progression - key centers - and harmonic movement - but I have a heck of a time when I start to put that logic together. Tunes like Four, Softly as a morning sunrise, and meet Miss Jones wack me out and I become so frustrated trying analyze it drives me nuts. When you look at a song that’s unfamiliar - do you do a wide look, key center look, then chords? How will I ever remember chord sequences. Yes, I’m open to take one on one lessons. Neil

Great lesson. Find it hard to hear all the changes.

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