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Yet again a great master class on music theory ,and may I add so helpful,so clear and comprehensible , all put in the correct context Scott .taking away the mystic off chords .that us novices can become so confused about .yes the theory is in all the books 📚,but you make it so much clearer.nice one ☝️

Thanks Paul! I've found that chords are so much easier to understand if you just make one change to get to the next one. So you build off of them. I don't know why most people don't teach it like that.

Yes it is good when someone thinks of us beginners - Its all clear except i was wondering what was meant at 15:14 when Scott says 'i would start with 4 sharps'? where does THAT come from :-o

Thx for expressing clearly Scott 🙏

Seriously. Astounding that he is the only one explaining for horns.

Hey! Glad I could help. It's not nearly as difficult as it seems when it's broken down into simple steps. Now, being able to play them on command.... that takes some work :-)

Thanks Mark! Check out the video I just uploaded about Chord Tone Breakdown - that will help even more put it all into perspective.

Mark Olson Do watch that video!! I just did, and it helps...dovetails this video perfectly.

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Thanks, yeah, it's a whole different way of looking at it!

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Thanks Alice!

That's definitely the way guitars and keyboard players think of it. Because we can't see our fingers as sax players, we don't think in half and whole steps quite as easily.

@@ScottPaddock I remember my scout master checking out the knot I tied. He said that the knot was right but the way I tied it was unique. Having taught myself, there are a whole lot of things I do differently. When I play my flute I hardly think about what scale/key I'm in. I've played the flute a very long time. That's not to say I played it well for most of the time, as I was totally illiterate musically. I do have a good ear though. I always told myself that one day I'd hunker down and learn something. When I retired I figured it's now or never.

Glad it was helpful!!

Thank you! I've been teaching for a long time :-)

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I'm going to do another video on chord progressions in the near future that hopefully will clear things up even more.

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Thanks Richard!! That was my plan, to show how easy figuring out chords can be if you just take it one step at a time. Glad you found it helpful!

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Thanks Charles!! I tried to make them super easy to follow and straight to the point.

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Hey Ezekiel! Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, I try to really break the info down and make it easy to understand.

Glad it was helpful!

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Thanks Paul! Yeah, I tried to break it down into really simple steps so you could see how each chord was built. Next up is an improv over chords video.

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Hey Grim! Yeah, jazz and especially improv can be overwhelming if not broken down into small steps. If you want to dive deeper into it, check out my Sax School : www.scottpaddocksaxschool.com

Thanks! Stick with it. Just work on the basics and keep growing.

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Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks.

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Awesome! Yeah, us single note players look at chords very differently. I'll be doing some song specific improv videos in the near future.

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Glad you understand it now. I'm doing one on MODES tomorrow that will accompany this one.

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Thanks! Most teachers don't teach it like this. But I find that if you show how you change one note in a chord it becomes another chord it makes it way easier to see how you get from Major to Dominant to Minor to Diminished. This concept doesn't work as well with kids because of their abilities with logic, but with adults they pick it up really quick.

You're spot on, Scott! It is imprudent to assume you can teach a child music the same way you would teach an adult. It's a BIG mistake!

Glad it helped!

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Thanks Byron! My tutorials are fairly new. I'm trying to do 2-3 a week.

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Hi dear Scott, As a rookie saxophone player back in China, I've ever searched ANY saxophone lesson all over the internet, your channel on KZfaq is THE best i've ever seen. Alway simple, always essential, always understandable and always nice to look at. Hey man, here's a very sincere suggestion. As you konw, that we do not have access to youtube here in China. While we have what, maybe tens of millions of teenagers in China who have potential interest of saxophone, why not you, Scott Paddock, to have and maintain a synchronise channel here in China, say, Bilibili, which is both enlisted in HK and the States. Many well known music players have already done that. That channel, I believe, will definitely promote your passion, your skill and your brand Scott Paddock Saxoschool itself, to all those young guys in China. Nothing more than a personal advice. Think about it, man. At least for me, I won't soo~~bother all the way around to transfer and download your lessons via HK to learn from you. My very best, from Beijing, China

@@HaoMiao-qq5qh Hey! Thanks for the info. I just looked up Billibilli but it's not in English, so I wouldn't even know where to start.

@@ScottPaddock Hey man, what a quick reply here. It seems pretty pretty wired that Bilibili don't have an English version anymore. I've no idea why. As far as I'm concerned, any your student from China or at least who can read Chinese can easily transfer your video from KZfaq to Bilibili. Pretty frankly, the first time I've seen a clip, hey man, a clip, of your lesson is from someone who downloaded, tranferred and uploaded that from KZfaq, maybe. And that's the very reason I'm committed to go all the way round and learn directly from and write to you finally. Any official, authorized, qualified and up-to-date distribution of your lesson will definitely super-exceed those scattered clips where "subscribe via KZfaq" are bannered in videos in Bilibili. Again my best, and I'm sincerely looking forward to having you officially on Bilibili or any platforms in China with authorization.

Thanks Bonny!

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I can't believe that you reply sir. Thanks you so much 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks Mert! Yeah, a lot of music tutorials go off on tangents and talk about a ton of unrelated stuff. I just tell you the info you clicked for 😁

I did a video on altered chords. Check it out.

Hey Patrick, this is definitely a reference video for a future video about soloing over chord changes. I'll do it probably within the next month or so. Thanks for the support!

Hey Kerry, I've got a whole course related to it in my Sax School! Check it out: www.scottpaddocksaxschool.com

Hey! Glad you liked it. I've found that breaking it down like this and only changing one note at a time makes the chords way easier to figure out!

Thank you so much & i would like to have your email so that i can send my questions & prepare to have some lessons from you.

Thanks mate,I have been playing sax for years and didn't have a clue about chords.it was just hit and mis now I get it.thanks again.

Thanks Daniel! Yeah, I'll put that on the list!

thanks Scott, let me buy you coffee.

Thanks! This combined with the modes video covers a ton of music theory!

Modes was the video that really (finally) helped me understand chords. Just your accent when you say "modes" 😂