This is the Alvin batiste root progression sequence. He was the first to popularize it. It’s so useful

I had a professor recommend something like this to me, but the order is: 1.) Tritone away 2.) Down a half-step. It mimics the root motion in tritone subs and also it gets you all the way around all twelve keys TWICE ;)

I studied with someone who was with Michael Brecker at Indiana University, long, long ago. He said that one thing Michael Brecker would do is spend extended periods of time trying to capture the sound one of his heroes on saxophone. Then he would switch to another player, and then another, etc.

Really cool ...another 10 years work

8:41 “The simpler the idea, the better it’s actually going to sound.” This is definitely something I struggle with when improvising. I get so busy pulling out everything in my arsenal and thinking about where to go just to get lost in ideas. This could definitely be useful. I currently go through “patterns for jazz” which uses some of the same concepts you introduced through Brecker’s book, yet this sounds much more aligned with developing my fingers in the horn! Let’s hit the practice room!!!

Brecker was meticulous about practice and that was the source of his staggering proficiency. Great video! 🎷

Lovely! Thank you!

Good Stuff! Great to know.

Thank You!!🙏🏼

Great hear training too❤!

Good practice idea!!!! Thank you!!!!

Outstanding teaching! Very clear and applicable!

Really cool - thanks for this. Makes “Giant Steps’ just that little bit more approachable.

Ho yes! Major third sounds so cool. And in a blues that should sound great. Noted for my tomorrow exercices. Thanks for the video

Many thanks 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thanks

Bravo grazie souds good

Good morning. Very informative. Thanks. Jazz guitarist.

I think it was also important to do it thinking, not reading. Great vid!

Dope!!!

As ever, superbly explained and so usable! Love your work Nick, thank you for sharing

Awesome video! As I watched I was thinking the ideas were very similar to a book I did with my teacher about 15 years ago, Patterns for Jazz. I found my copy, lo and behold Gary Campbell is one of the authors. I'm an awful practicer and usually end up "playing" more than practicing, but I'm inspired to go through that book again now, thanks for sharing these tips!!

Patterns for jazz, too. Gives you the first 3 keys in an exercise then you have to do the rest in Your head.

Thank you, you're a great teacher 😊!

Excelentissimo ❤😂🎉

Love this!!! ❤

Yessssss!!! Chromatic Scale Work = 💖. Thanks for the video, Nick!

Hey thank you so much for this video! What a hidden gem!

Also neat to use a pair of intervals, like ma2 + mi3, etc. , so up2+ up3, then start down 1, up2+up3, then down1, up2+up3, and so on. So many variations possible!!

This is exactly what it is contained in the great book "jazz pattern" by G Cambell and al.

Thanks!

I love ur play Sir

Dan Zinn’s saxophone books include this type of interval training for patterns. Very good stuff nick.

Hey Nick. Thanks so much for this gem of practice thought. I’ve followed you for a long time and appreciate your cool ideas. Keep up the good work friend. Love and much respect. Cy in Salt Lake City Utah, USA. ❤️😎🎷

Nice! Aldana teach me that method, and Ive loved so much! But I recommend to do it in augmented fourth too, that wouldn’t do any damage to your playing haha

Cool way to practice. I definitely used to struggle with motivating myself to practice in all 12, largely because of the looming question of what order to practice it in. Now I hardly play my horn, but as I get into the shed, it's more and more important to me that the time I spend is focused so I can get the most out of it. I'll definitely be giving this a whirl. Thanks, Nick!

Thanks for the incite, application, and share, hope to try this today Would you identify a lick I just transcribed from a guitar solo on track 2 of Jimmy Smith’s Prayer Meetin at 7:35 or 7:45 depending on the format? I also heard a tenor play the idea on another Smith album 3,5,6,5,6,1,3 - eighth triplet, quarter, quarter, dotted quarter, eighth Maybe the first the first five notes would work for the Cambell method?

Nice Tone man!! 🍺🍺

Jeff Ellwood propose Root Progressions pdf document which is essentially an all inclusive Alvin Baptiste Approach. It is a must have. It includes scales, arpeggios, 24 4notes patterns in 4 shapes (up, Down, Up % down, Down and Up)

Hi Nick, thanks for the great video. Where can I download the pdf's with the practice idea's you showed in this video?

Hi Nick. Great video and now you have one subscriber more. Just being courious how to transfer this materiale to a standard tune? Mayby a topic for another video :)

Thanks for giving me 10,000 hours worth of stuff to practice

Great video! So wouldn’t it provide a different sound moving in M6 as opposed to m3? I understand they are inversions of one another, but would the bigger interval not provide a new sound? Guess I have to play it. Maybe I’m just not hearing it in my head.

Does your "love" of the major 3rd interval have anything to do with Trane (and Slonimsky)? Anyway, nice if you to share all of this. Peace

The first note of each set sounds longer and accented to me. Is that part of the idea or should one stick with evenness duration throughout?

HI. How can I apply this wonderful exercise while playing a jazz standard? for example: if I made a minor triad on its relative shortening, can I then move with the various intervals even when the chord changes? or should I do the same thing and move to the next chord like this? for example a major chord?

i thought i invented this system.. this happens to me all the time, since youtube has blown up with music ed stuff.

All this stuff is an old story, you find it on slonimsky book « thesaurus of scale « one hundred years ago ! (worked by Coltrane etc …)

I think this is a very smart way to practice, but does it help incorporate an idea into a tune? Or is that not the point?

You forgot step #1: be a genius.

Maybe start in a different place too.

The SOURCE IS CHARLIE P. JOHN COLTRANE....

DONT PRACTICE LIKE ANYONE ELSE...OTHER WISE YOU WILL DOUND( IMITATING SOMEONE ELSE!)

Mike Brecker was a KING of saxophone, but this video? 😴😴😴😴😴

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Dan Zinn’s saxophone books include this type of interval training for patterns. Very good stuff nick.

Thanks!