Tea for two? Ah yes, the theme that plays after that viral jazz KZfaq video

Dizzy said "I improvise a rhythm and then put notes to it"... Always loved that - great video and great playing!

Thanks again for sharing your wisdom here, Pat. For those of us who don’t get the luxury of 1-on-1 sessions with you, these quick lessons are invaluable and so generous.

Damn, you got a double talent. Not only for being an amasing musician but also for explenation and forming your thoughts in easy to understand but super informative ways. That was great

Changing the rhythm of the phrase is exactly why I love Sonny rollins, my main inspiration these days. He could solo on the same phrase for 20min then mention the original phrase at the end. Amazing

One of the things that got me really thinking of putting phrasing into my playing was listening to Christian McBride play with Cyrille Aimée over a blues. He started with a simple lick for majority of the chorus then played it again with a different rhythm and it was on if the best things I’ve heard. Great vid man love the knowledge you have to share!

What I get out of the Tea For Two demo is that energy, being playful ( no pun intended ), or letting yourself feel a little silly, like a kid. Break through inhibited playing and schmalz it up! Don't feel self conscious about it. I love the way you played this and it made me smile. I think it requires a certain amount of fearlessness and willingness to look absurd as you explore the limits of a performance.

I enjoyed the “In Walked Bud” quote! Thank you Patrick Bartley Jr. for your artistry and inspiration. I wish you health and joy.

i keep coming back to this video. so so SO wise. this needs to be taught to everyone as a baseline. at my university they just shove the altered scale and such into everyone's faces

...um, awkward... this is tea for two. bud, you can't just walk in here and expect to be served! great video!

This is the second time I’ve heard a jazz educator talk about this exact subject. I’ll take it as a sign. Thanks Pat!

hobbyist here, but i love how your advice always pertains to all instruments because more than anything, it speaks on music and musicality.

I don't know if you or your pr agent reads these comments, but as someone from a generation older, I'm fucking glad you're around Pat, it's a relief to know the new generation have a voice of no bs and truth being delivered in words and playing alike. I support you 💯 don't stop.

Thanks for making these videos!

Great Lesson!!

Hank Mobley, simple at times but oh so melodic.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us always Pat!!

Thank you for the extremely helpful advice!

Valuables ideas & insight! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge man! Cheers!

Thank you man!

What a talent for communicating! Please keep all that you do as open as possible.

I actually started learning jazz after learning a lot about hip-hop, and I remember making that same association between solos and verses! Great to see you talk about it, and exploring it way further than I did!

Man love your style.

The more I pay attention to what's interesting in music, the more I notice that it really comes down to tension and relief a lot of times. Like ending a phrase on a non chord tone, then playing the same phrase and ending it on a chord tone. Or having a really syncopated phrase lead to a really straight phrase that lands on the downbeat

Wooo, very great concept！

This is great! Thanks a lot.

I'll think about that when I practice later. Thanks, Pat - really diggin' the new content! 👏👏👏

This was a masterclass in phrasing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Patrick! You are fantastic! Thanks a lot!

You have some great information for us Thanks!

Your tone is lovely. I really appreciate your playing.

I've never heard phrasing explained through rap before. As someone who used to rap, that made a lot of sense to me.

I love your playing! ありがとうございます！！

you are a masterclass! amazing.

Incredibly useful information and your presentation is phenomenal!!

Great perspective. Thanks for the share. You’re a monstah , Man!

Excellent concept. Fresh approach, and entertaining presentation. Thanks

bro you blow horn like the master bird himself, such tone and phrasing and sensitivity! much respect to you sir, that's truly beautiful playing

Another gem. Thank you. That's what jazz education should be speaking about. Not about chords, scales, changes... this is easy stuff. But these topics you have here, once again: PURE GOLD. Thank you.

I have been thinking about this concept for a long time, even went on to use each melody's intervalic structure, taking it from different scale degrees. I think jazz improvisation is when everything literally comes in full circle because not only do you get to hear melodic, harmonic but rhythmic combinations that sound like other genres that have nothing to do with jazz coming into play. Thanks for the video man this profoundly useful!

This video is really impressive and simply awesome!!!

Love this! Never thought about "rhyming" on my instrument before but definitely going to think about it from now on.

It’s amazing how much info you packed in 15 min! Good luck with the new studio! 🚀

Such good stuff. Just two of your videos have been very eye opening! Thanks for sharing

every idea in this video is absolute gold.. you nailed it with "phrasing". It truly is everything in jazz. thank you so much. I've subscribed

Very well explained .

Love your content, very insightful and also fun to watch, thanks for sharing!

Great teaching … thanks for making so simple

Wow, this is extremely valuable and useful for musicians at any level. Thank you for doing this 💜

Thanks Patrick.... very helpful.

Fantastic. Thank you, Mr. Bartley.

Thank you, Sir! Super relevant and pedagogical. Everything you talked about and demonstrated on the horn was really helpful. That’s very generous of you. 🙏

This video was really intuitive. Thank you, Patrick. Keep up the good work.

Great, just great explanation.....thanks from France

You are so enjoyable, accessible, and simply brilliant!! Thank you!

Fantastic video and concepts.. many thanks.. rang home hard for me 🙏 bless

Loving your work man. Makes beautiful sense... now to shed and face the reality :)

Love the Monk quote at the end :) Also this is some of the best concise advice for playing music that can reach people I've ever heard.

Great video. Love your playing. So much language and so well phrased. Thanks!!

Great vid! Looking forward to hear you speak about the construction of lines in bebop

A true genius, in music and in teaching

It’s not about copying other artist but understanding how music works then applying your own personality on it because these modern artists sound the same

Dude, one of my good saxophone friends from back in the day hipped me to your playing and content. I've learned a lot as a sax player myself.

Boutta keep watching this everytime before I practice till I feel it's helping😂

Great video, beautiful explanation and super examples. This is a point I try to get across to my students and I will share this with them. Cheers..!

Exclusivo Excellente , I play by ear , once someone from another band came up to me and said Man you left me nothing to Blow , Nicely done , Respect , oh have a great year coming towards you

Definitely helps, really on any instrument. I’ve found myself using these methods a lot more, and with my basic understanding of improvising, it’s actually shockingly impressive how well this lesson can apply. I do jazz trombone, so I may not be ripping solos a ton, but it’s still common sense that is definitely nice to have. Thanks!

great info, just learning Sax (still playing Clarinet). This is the understanding I needed. Thankyou.

This is awesome

Killin’ B!

I 'm a Bone player from Philly affiliated with the Clef Club of Jazz.I like the way you deliver.

Best tips! Bro @12:30 had me ROLLING! 😂😂🤣🤣😂 yup 😂😂😂😂😂 I felt that

Yeahhhh. Thanks man

Great video

expand the concept expand the concept pleasee (this video is gold btw thank you so much )

Thanks for this Pat. I have heard similar thoughts from others (not to take away from what you're saying). I feel like theory and complex harmony are the flavor du jour in the beginner jazz world today. But good rhythm/phrasing/feel can carry simple harmonic/melodic ideas way further than the opposite.

Patrick. Thanks for making this video.

This was really good😙👌

kewel vid, love ur style

This feels like forbidden knowledge. Wish I had known this before. Thanks Pat!

Great solo, with the In Walked Bud ending ;)

Really cool video. I had this problem the first time I tried to get into playing Jazz but not on my second attempt a couple of years later. The reason is pretty simple I think. In the meantime I started dancing Lindy Hop. Immersing myself in the music in that physical, visceral way for a few years just made the problem a non-issue. I sucked in almost every other way, but not this one. I think there is probably a huge difference in how this problem manifests depending on your connection to this whole tradition. Especially for people who aren't from communities where the broader musical tradition is alive. I mean, I live and grew up in an entirely different country. I really needed to put in a lot of work to connect with the tradition in some way before I could play the music right. Where I'm from there seems to be a lack of understanding of this problem which frustrates me to no end. So many students spend a whole bunch of time learning and playing "jazz" with a great deal of competence but it never sounds right. Something always feels... off. They think they can play swing but if you try to dance to their music it feels wrong. Some of them do end up picking it up along the way but many don't. I'm kinda glad I gave up on the first attempt and ended up going for the self-taught route later. The reason I ended up having another go was cos I was in charge of organising live music for dance parties and it was just simpler to front the band myself. You can get away with being surprisingly bad at improvising so long as you can play the head convincingly, your rhythm is good, and the rest of the band is solid. You solo on the tunes with easy changes or the ones you've practiced and leave the harder ones to the others 😅.

New hero, thanks, Pat. Gold!

Your the Goat!!!

i see u with that In Walked Bud quote at the end

Hip Hop and Jazz solos - that's what i was also thinking when i heared Quincy's "Back on the block" from 1989 with all those great rappers on it. It's the balance of offbeats and downbeats. the development of phrases.

Thank you and God bless

Quizás no me entiendas pero, GRACIAS era el video que necesitaba

I love you Patrick Thank you so much

merci sensei

LOVE your content! 🙌🏽💯 would be great if someone accurately covered the subject of “proper embouchure”. Relaxed jaw, tight on the sides?? No one talks about that stuff

Sh$t… people ask me who I listen to for jazz for years when I do solos. I told him I rarely listen to jazz.I listen to mostly hip-hop, great rock guitar solos, alternative rock, just about anything but. Never made the connection to phrasing, but now I see it.

Yes I listen to Public Enemy...one day I listened to Chuck d on that rap called war at 33/3 and automatically I heard the bebop rhythms as he rapped!!!

ありがとう❤️

7:10 Oh that's what Emmet Cohen uses for his outros

Nice Tea for Two man ❤ 🇩🇪

I've asked 3 different teachers of mine about this during this past semester. I've been trying to find information about phrasing and your insight is amazing as always. You spoke about studying some of the modern players that are masters, and I was wondering who you would recommend listening to on the music scene right now.

Yo this is huge. Your solo on Corridors with Dom is amazing and the melodic content is overflowing. Ill always go for a melodic solo over anything else. IMO Shaun Martin’s solo on Thing of Gold is the best anyone has played in Snarky Puppy.

Great video. One of the ideas that helped me: think of what you just played more than just of what you will play next. Be very aware of the motive you just introduced and then develop it. Don't focus on the next cool thing, focus on the development. And don't be hesitant to repeat the motive. The development will come.