The Smooth Jazz Lick (it’s not just for Smooth Jazz)

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Jay Metcalf breaks down the smooth jazz lick on saxophone.
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@Asakseesall 3 жыл бұрын

Shoulda opened this with Dave’s smooth version of ur intro lol

@MakAttackMusic 3 жыл бұрын

HAHA!!! YES!!!

@imantss 3 жыл бұрын

missed opportunity smh

@doodcorner5757 3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA i literally just watched that video

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

I honestly thought about that.

@gaigemurillo8673 3 жыл бұрын

@@bettersax when practicing technique, do you ever play etudes or classical literature to better your fingering?

@maryannesopelak1635 3 жыл бұрын

Smooth Jazz is sometimes labeled Contemporary Jazz, fusion...just love it! Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Eric Marienthal, Jeff Kashiwa, Mindi Abair, Vincent Ingala David Sanborn etc..sax players. Thanks Jay for this lick!!

@CrisTc86 3 жыл бұрын

My Better Sax alto just came in and it's AMAZING. Can't wait for a bari version, I can wait for a tenor to come out for now. Practicing this on my new alto. Can't say how much I love it!!!

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that arrived fast! So happy you like the horn! Congrats 🎉

@bxsoup 3 жыл бұрын

How was it shipped ? Who was the carrier ? UPS , FedEx or USPS ? Did you get an email saying it was coming ?Thanks

@CrisTc86 3 жыл бұрын

@@bxsoup Did not receive any notice. It was like Christmas all over again.

@georgeluna5845 3 жыл бұрын

I’d be very interested on honest appraisal.

@CrisTc86 3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeluna5845 If you want an in depth review, wait until any of the sax youtubers put out a review. I have been playing for about a 2 and a half years on a jean baptiste. For me I got slightly better control of the sound for upper register, not super crazy about the finish but i can tolerate it, the case is lacking as my old case is larger and I can hold my sheet music when I go to lessons, has a nice warm tone, indent in the pearls could be a bit wider, kinda miss the palm key F# still can't get used to alt fingering. Didn't bother with the reeds and mouthpiece it came with as I like my Selmer S80 C* with 3.0 vandoren reds.

@kennyboiuwu8897 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t have a Better Sax but I do play alto sax and I love it even tho I’ve been playing for 2 years ur just soo god at it and I love jazz music it SLAYYYS

@HonestSaxSound-unEdited- 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, and great sound!! Many thanks for your licks Jay! Exclent video as usual!

@fortunaa_ 3 жыл бұрын

Okay, so I actually slowed the video down and started marking tally in my transcription notebook. You used the Smooth Jazz Lick approximately 32 times within your solo. My God.

@MakAttackMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Ugh....puttin' some SOUL in da BOWL!!! Fantastic playin' brotha man! Listened to that a few times.

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ericmyrs 3 жыл бұрын

Love the Mercy quotes in the backing track.

@BHound1981 3 жыл бұрын

I got the lick, but was really hoping for the LICC.

@gerardrubiano714 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely Awesome great great job !!! Thanks Sir.

@MusicMediccom 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful playing, Jay!

@laurenhoward2888 3 жыл бұрын

Very nicely constructed solo. Great use of space combined with really nice long phrases. Wow.

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@willhotsax Жыл бұрын

Superb! Awesome! Stunning! Absolutely love your solo. Talk about smooth!! I’ve literally repeated this and listened about 20 times. I love it! Thanks so much Jay. Great work as always

@bettersax Жыл бұрын

Thank you Will!

@bob_dubois 2 жыл бұрын

I liked your solo so much that I'm going to (try to) transcribe it! Nice!

@HarmoChopin Жыл бұрын

What a solo! I could listen to you for hours...

@georgesnge6096 5 ай бұрын

Great solo , love it 👍🏿

@ericsalkin4825 3 жыл бұрын

the "lick" defintely adds flavor-sounded great!

@jasonroach2901 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Gonna use this in some church stuff I have coming up. Will fit well.

@michaelaguilar5480 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@georgea6542 2 жыл бұрын

Loved your improvisation. I want to do that too, but it seems so far to get that good. Your sound and choice of licks were so great and seemed effortless. Ok, you just motivated me to start playing again…I hope to find a better path to learning what you just demonstrated rather than getting pulled into other music that’s not interesting

@keithonhoopmusic 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful tone Love the alto saxophone

@diegorodcz6510 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!!!! From Brazil 🇧🇷

@raseshgandhi6702 3 жыл бұрын

Very lovely information

@ohadvaserman9845 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@manesax06 3 жыл бұрын

excelent. Thank u

@MikeySaxMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Smooth and easy!!!

@caruniananthini48 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@susannakarstens6337 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic lessons Bravo

@bettersax Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@salvatoregiuglianosaxofhon9041 3 жыл бұрын

Eccellente grazie 🤗🤗🎷

@patemblen3644 3 жыл бұрын

That was sweet. Man you can play.

@sergiovallejo6653 3 жыл бұрын

Exelente!

@bobblues1158 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Jay!!

@salrandazzo2434 3 жыл бұрын

Lost track, that was awesome!

@quinnmalone4856 2 жыл бұрын

yessir licks

@jonathanmouck7331 3 жыл бұрын

I counted 6 of the licks I believe Jay. Sounding great!

@dannyadeshina 3 жыл бұрын

Love this!😍💖🔥

@modestkris3485 3 жыл бұрын

you are soooo good, I look up to you

@jeffreymarkpaull6273 3 жыл бұрын

I would definitely be interested in purchasing the transcription of your solo!

@stevetakkinkwan8910 9 ай бұрын

I like Blues and Jazz.

@samuelruiz603 3 жыл бұрын

I can't stand the desire of the better sax being available in Canada (Quebec) to buy it!!!

@samurai_sax 3 жыл бұрын

I see you are embracing the teachings of the Chosen One...

@torvarrisevans3961 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@BlueBird_Tunes 3 жыл бұрын

Man I dig your altissimo 🔥

@bordersw1239 3 жыл бұрын

Only a true pro can pull off those facial expressions at the correct time 😉 excellent!

@johnstephenson8087 3 жыл бұрын

Nice solo. You kept it interesting. Too interesting - I lost count of the "lick" and just enjoyed your playing.

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

thanks

@andrewcranmer9653 3 жыл бұрын

To build on this it would be really great if you could do some tutorials on longer passages, say 8 bars, picked from a performance by a modern player or one of the greats. My piano-playing kid has learnt a lot from Adam Maness doing similar sessions on piano (some of which I pinch for sax)

@geokaks1 Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@bluessax5089 3 жыл бұрын

🤯🤯🤯. Man, I’ve been playing for quite a while, but never thought about playing F maj stuff over D min stuff!!! 😱🤔😱 I began playing sax after seeing Mobetta Blues back in 1990!! 🤯🤯 I messed me up on this one Jay!!! Keep serving up deliciousness 👨🏽‍🍳

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you brother.

@jacobmahlaule3414 3 жыл бұрын

Hy Jay I've been watching your videos for more than a year, its the first time I hear you speaking tonic sol fa. I wish you would teach more on tonic sol fa and reading music. I know you prefer mostly ear training

@raphaelsimard8053 3 жыл бұрын

heyyy, veryyy good, nice!

@joaquinmendoza2306 3 жыл бұрын

Love this as always!!! Question: What are your top 3 favorite mouthpieces? Thank you for the great content your posting. Have a great day!

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Tough question I have so many great pieces now. I am really enjoying switching all the time strangely. I’m trying to get more comfortable on pieces that were outside my comfort zone before and that is opening up new worlds of possibilities.

@joaquinmendoza2306 3 жыл бұрын

@@bettersax Ok. Great to know! Thank you!

@andrepacifico5364 6 ай бұрын

Muito bom….

@kmay3935 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Jay, but I have to be honest my favorite part of the whole video was the look on your face between the example over major. Like you couldn't decide if it was a "too hip", or "too cool"! keep up the great work!

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks

@Ojwhitebeats 3 жыл бұрын

I counted maybe, 25... do you do private lessons? I love how you break info down. (I play by ear). Just recently signed up for some of your pdf material!

@ubizmo 3 жыл бұрын

It's interesting that these two ornaments have been used, diatonically, forever in Celtic Trad music. Hitting the lower neighboring note before the target note is called a "tap" or a "strike" in, for example, tin whistle playing. Hitting the note above is called a "cut". Since I play the tin whistle too, I naturally use this ornament on sax, and I think the tap/strike generally sounds way better than a scoop.

@chrisf4216 3 жыл бұрын

I counted some 8 uses of the actual lick. But there was like 20 semi-licks that started with the same embellishment. Killer playing anyways man, keep it up!

@adeayotunde 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm ade from Nigeria.. you've been so helpful, but I'd like to ask why you seldom use solfa during lessons. I'd be glad if you could use it more often

@hadriangille-collier1828 3 жыл бұрын

Will there be a silver lacquer on the bettersax soon? I think that colour looks the best on alto saxes

@louisalex2984 3 жыл бұрын

can you try a xaphoon in a futur video ?? i'm realy interrested in this instrument like. Thank you

@randyburch9356 3 жыл бұрын

Jay, what mp/ligature comes with the sax? Sounds Great! 😎🎷

@patg3424 3 жыл бұрын

Do you like high baffle mouthpieces Jay. I’m so used to Meyers and my Phil Tone that I’m not sure about going to a metal high baffle mp. Phil tone has a new metal mp in collaboration with Theo Wanne that Im wanting to try out.

@haillordgonk1576 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Jay, any tips for intonation and tone on high notes and stopping them from squeaking on tenor sax? I bent the octave mechanism on the neck and it partly fixed the squeaking but not fully. I play a vandoren v16 hard rubber mouthpiece with strength 3 reeds if that matters.

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Always relax the embouchure for high notes as we have a tendency to bite as we go higher.

@Lutemann 3 жыл бұрын

I think the face you make when you say "smooth jazz" says it all.

@HarmoChopin Жыл бұрын

I ike your sound when you speak. Which mike do you use?

@SModex777 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Jay i counted 6 smooth jazz licks in the song

@torvarrisevans3961 3 жыл бұрын

Can do this on tenorsax plz

@thiagopestana2003 Жыл бұрын

Please film your hands, when you can..i do not read at ALL ..i have played for more than 30 years..... Love your vídeos man!!!! If you can, film your hands .... Best regards from Brazil!!!! It may sound foolishy , but after so many years i can read the hands....is It only me.,.....? I've learned a Lot with you...tks

@dalegregg2700 3 жыл бұрын

Counting until I ran out of fingers! So many good sounds throughout that solo. I don't know whether to go practice ... or take my horn outside and run over it with my truck!

@AjayStLouis 2 жыл бұрын

The truck idea sounds good... lol

@Isdale 3 жыл бұрын

You should check out Roger Manins's smooth jazz tutorials

@edwardadeshina3410 3 жыл бұрын

If you were to continue down to the root of the scale, what would your embellishment note be? Still flat 3rd?

@josiahk33 3 жыл бұрын

I heard the lick played with the chord tones in there six times. But the same form was there like 25+ times just with different notes

@orzanoap 3 жыл бұрын

I see you sometimes using a rovner lig. I’ve played a basic rovner dark lig forever. Do you use/recommend the versa or the Van Gogh?

@joepocockify 3 жыл бұрын

How are we supposed to keep count of how many jazz licks you played!? It was just too awesome to worry about that!!!

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Ha thanks.

@stevetakkinkwan8910 9 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@hupfdohle97 3 жыл бұрын

25 it is!

@rick-fi5wx 3 жыл бұрын

is this the new licc!? well i counted somewhere around 35 smooth jazz licks in there honestly i kind of lost track, but thats what my finger said. nice solo by the way a lot of that lick but niiiceee

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Rick send me an email to claim your prize. You had the closest guess.

@joseph-patrickkwabenantimj8067 3 жыл бұрын

Please I'm a beginner. Can you help me with. I can only play D because it's an alto sax Thank you.

@timcunningham136 2 жыл бұрын

What camera are you using to shoot the video? Looks really nice.

@bettersax 2 жыл бұрын

That’s my old canon 80D

@1silvervespa 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah in the theme of the old show Kreamer

@espr7564 3 жыл бұрын

You don't listen to a lot of smooth jazz?? Well it sure sounds like you do when you play 😉

@wuergha 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jay, what mouthpiece are you using? Thanks.

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Jody Jazz jet 7

@wuergha 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@nic_sax 3 жыл бұрын

I just have a question about adjusting my octave key the actual thumb key seems to move a lot after noticing how little another sax octave key moved. Is there an easy way to fix this?

@robbertzzzzz 3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the octave mechanism. My first sax had the same problem, but there was too much play in the mechanism to really do anything about it without specialised tools and good insurance. You could look if there are adjustable parts; one thing would be the vertical rod the pivots, it sometimes has ends that can be bent using a flathead screwdriver to reduce the amount of play.

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

Best take it to a technician to adjust.

@deefreedom1118 Жыл бұрын

I am signed up on your site and I log in ..... How do I find this PDF?????

@bettersax Жыл бұрын

It's in the Shed course under Licks and Patterns - Smooth Jazz lick

@chrisgrover8888 3 жыл бұрын

I have no idea 🎷😝

@fuzzythoughts666 3 жыл бұрын

No matter how many licks.. smooth jazz will never get you to the center of a tootsie pop...

@danieljbsax 3 жыл бұрын

I counted 25 of the licks

@adenolenti 3 жыл бұрын

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop?

@socomsaxplayer7455 3 жыл бұрын

I counted about 36 but like half of them were like half licks so I wasn’t very sure.

@pepecetina 3 жыл бұрын

@nhr27 3 жыл бұрын

I counted 12

@mattschroeder7374 3 жыл бұрын

Shoot. I dunno. Maybe a hundred, or maybe three. I’m just hoping for a hat! Lol

@tonyr.4778 3 жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't this just be considered as chromatic grace notes? BTW, beautiful solo.

@bettersax 3 жыл бұрын

You can think of them as that too. Whatever works for you.

@mohammadakl2722 3 жыл бұрын

I counted 42. Is that right?

@robstevens9590 3 жыл бұрын

I counted 17.

@jimmyb1133 3 жыл бұрын

I can understand where those grace notes can be a little over done and redundant even though it sounds good ....

@chrisparker5372 3 жыл бұрын

Three Blind Mice never sounded so good!

@stephenwhitney2666 3 жыл бұрын

Ah ha

@jamiedanielus 3 жыл бұрын

I counted 27 and two modified licks for a total of 29.

@kokos7010 3 жыл бұрын

Respect for the Lick.

@davidromanchik6993 3 жыл бұрын

why is Daniel Negreanu teaching me to play saxophone