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Beginner, Blues, Chord note solos, Chords, Intermediate, Learning methods/inspiration, Patreon Tier 5, Saxophones and mouthpieces

Solo Preparation in 6.35 simple steps

14 October, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

Solo Preparation in 6.35 simple steps
This video is about how to prepare for a solo you play in a band, with a play along, and or in some way performing in front of an audience.
Maybe your first solo or a solo when you are beginning to play solos.
What do you need to prepare and what you absolutely do not need to prepare.
Taking you through all steps on the way there!

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In this tutorial
00:00 Solo Preparation in 6.35 simple steps
00:46 What actually happens in real life
02:19 What do and do you not need to prepare
03:28 Thank you Chad
04:04 Remember these things to the gig
04:48 How do you prepare the music?
09:23 Examples on a simple tune – Cantaloupe Island
12:54 Do not do this!!!!
14:01 Do you like my videos – support me on Patreon
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https://sorenballegaard.dk/product/the-best-way-how-to-visualize-and-silent-practise-saxophone/

8 chord pattern you need to know
https://youtu.be/oWV2LtH7GEw
https://www.patreon.com/posts/41196433
https://sorenballegaard.dk/product/8-chord-patterns-you-need-to-know-these/

4 Scale exercises you must know these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH4BE08wJY4&t=30s
https://www.patreon.com/posts/34302773
https://sorenballegaard.dk/product/full-lesson-transcription-4-scale-exercises-you-must-know-8-step-guide-how-to-speed-up-your-technique/

CHAD LB WARMING UP EXERCISES

https://youtu.be/hOQL9grV7Lw

Cantaloupe Island – Chris Potter
https://youtu.be/PEaWi0pdlFM

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Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate, Patreon Tier 5, Scales, Technique

This is how to play music while practicing your scales

5 October, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

SCALE EXERCISES – DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME
This is how to play music while practicing your scales
We love music, we love to play music, we love to practice music.
So we are really into music, how to play it, how to listen to it, how to perform it.
How much of your time do you spend on practicing music?
You should spend all your time, practicing and playing, working on music and musicality.
This is why our focus always has to be on practicing and playing musically.

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In this video
Why do you need to practice music?
What do you have to include when practicing music
How do you practice your scales musically?
Dynamics, articulation and phrasing
And rhythm
Breaking down a scale exercise – adding music!
Show, play and analyse 2 jazz lines applying musical scale exercises

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“15 musical scale exercises applied to the major scale
+ example licks on how to use”
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“Articulation – 4 ways to practice + played and transcribed jazz solo w/articulation”
https://youtu.be/Styz0fujAjE

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Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate, Learning methods/inspiration, Patreon Tier 5, Technique, Timing

5 Tips To Speed Up Your Playing

24 September, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

5 Tips To Speed Up Your Playing
We are constantly inspired by the great heroes of saxophone.
One of the things that inspires me and I know inspires a lot of saxophone players out there, is the Effortless playing and Unlimited skill.

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In this tutorial
00:00 5 tips to Speed up your playing
00:30 Mirror practice
04:03 Slow things down
08:29 Silent practice
11:48 Ear-training – Hearing in advance
14:04 Learning by heart – overview
15:40 Do you like my videos – support me on Patreon
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Jazz Chords – this is how to learn and remember
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/40697337
https://sorenballegaard.dk/product/jazz-chords-this-is-how-to-learn-and-remember/

The best way how to visualize and silent practise saxophone
https://youtu.be/Y-X-mrTJpd4
https://www.patreon.com/posts/43569123
https://sorenballegaard.dk/product/the-best-way-how-to-visualize-and-silent-practise-saxophone/

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Bebop, Beginner, Blues, Blues scales, Chords, Intermediate, Minor, Patreon Tier 5, Pentatonic scales, Timing, Triads

10 Killer Solo Strategies on Funky Modal Grooves

10 September, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

10 Killer Solo Strategies on Funky Modal Grooves
How to keep your one chord solo funky?
How do you play one chord groove and keep it exciting?
In this video I will work with funky solo strategies and build up from simple to advanced.
We will begin with a simple pentatonic scale and go all the way to adding bebop.

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In this tutorial
10 killer Solo Strategies on Funky Modal Grooves
Play with great timing and rock steady groove
G minor pentatonic scale
Music theory with Albert Einstein
Build up with Candy Dulfer
Repeating patterns in the pentatonic scale
The Dorian minor scale extension
Triads
4 and 5 note chords
Blues scale and bebop
https://www.patreon.com/posts/55988893

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PENTATONIC SCALES HOW TO PRACTICE AND USE IMMEDIATELY
https://youtu.be/ZRs1W9SJ57o

3 great melodic tools to develop strong melodies
https://youtu.be/F8gWYGhOKUs

10 ways to improve your timing
https://youtu.be/2k3NPy0qSPg

Play Amazing Bebop Lines Like This
https://youtu.be/hkEZhgq75cs

The best thing about the Blues and How to Use It
https://youtu.be/EwyfRuIWgAg

Dennis Chambers – Chameleon
https://youtu.be/WtaKRY8wqhA

Candy Dulfer – Lily was here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfSQ3lQmJw

Candy Dulfer – Strasbourg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNx4EbTu10w

Miles davis – “so what”
https://youtu.be/ylXk1LBvIqU

Funky G minor groove
https://youtu.be/MJIMlr8tI2s

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Beginner, Chords, Diatonic approach, Intermediate, Patreon Tier 5, Technique

THE 8 MOST IMPORTANT CHORD PATTERNS

6 September, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

The 8 most important chord patterns
You need to know your chords.
With the chords you also need to know how to play these.
The more ways you can play a certain group of notes the more flexibility you have.
Here are 8 of the most used and played chord patterns in jazz and how to use them.

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Why is it important to learn chord patterns?
What is a chord pattern?
Chord pattern number 1 + example on how to practise.
Chord pattern number 2 + example on how to practise.
Chord pattern number 3 + example on how to practise.
Chord pattern number 4 + example on how to practise.
Chord pattern number 5 + example on how to practise.
Chord pattern number 6 + example on how to practise.
Chord pattern number 7 + example on how to practise.
Chord pattern number 8 + example on how to practise.
Show, play and analyse short a solo on “There will never be another you” using chord patterns
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Advanced, Beginner, Chord note solos, Chords, Diatonic approach, Intermediate, Patreon Tier 5

3 GREAT MELODIC TOOL TO DEVELOP STRONG MELODIES

6 September, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

3 great melodic tools to develop strong melodies
Melody is the most important thing that music has.
If you play a beautiful melody people will listen.

Composers use many hours composing a tune to get it right.
In improvised music you need to be able to come up with the beautiful melody on the spot.

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In this tutorial
Why is it important to play a beautiful melody?
What is a beautiful melody?
What do you need to know?
Repetition is great
Question / answer
Can you sing it?
Show, play and analyse a short solo on “There will never be another you ” using melodic playing.
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“More beautiful melodies”
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Beginner, Chord note solos, Chords, II-V-I, Intermediate, Learning methods/inspiration, Music theory, Patreon Tier 5, Scales, Standards

These 5 Tips Will Save You Years of Practice

27 August, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

These 5 Tips Will Save You Years of Practice
In this video I will go over 5 practice shortcuts I did not have when I started out as a jazz saxophone player.
Follow these leads and get an instant boost in your development.

When I look back thinking about how I started to play saxophone and jazz music, often I think – If I had known that then!

Mostly we did not know that.
But hopefully I can give you what I did not have – exactly that knowledge.

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In this tutorial
00:00 These 5 Tips Will Save You Years of Practice
00:43 Do not start with your scales
01:44 The great tune Blue Bossa
01:04 Learn the chord notes
05:10 Chord notes – crazy eye opener
06:41 Don’t sound like a chord note exercise – practice melodies
07:53 What are melodic structures?
09:47 Do not sound like an exercise – practice melodies
10:02 Connect the dots – play forward
11:15 What is a guide tone line?
13:16 Learn your basic music theory
14:04 What is the key of the tune?https://www.patreon.com/posts/55401202

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Video – Chord note solos
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Advanced, Beginner, Chords, Intermediate, Learning methods/inspiration, Patreon Tier 5, Scales, Technique

Visualize and silent practice – Get the most out of your practise in this way

19 August, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

Visualize and silent practice – Get the most out of your practise in this way
Many saxophone players do not have the possibility to practise at home with sound. This is a huge obstacle in the development of playing and in the pleasure of playing.

I have used visualizing and silent practise for many years. This has given me the possibility to grow whenever I had time to focus on music.
Practise when you travel, in the train or in the car. Practise before you sleep, in front of the tv.

With or without the saxophone, with or without making sound – it is always possible to practise.
In this video I will give you all the ins and outs of visualizing and silent practise.

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In this tutorial
Why do I need to visualize when practising?
Why do I need silent practise?
What is visualizing?
What is silent practising?
How to visualize melody
How to silent practise melody
How to visualize chords
How to silent practise chords
How to visualize scales
How to silent practise scales
Show, play and analyze a short solo on “Perdido”
Full solo manual on Perdido
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“Full solo manual – Perdido
Solo, basic melody, chords and scale exercises and how to’s for melodic soloing”
– for both Alto and Tenor saxophone
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“4 scale exercises you should know”
https://youtu.be/jH4BE08wJY4

“The 8 most important chord patterns you need to know”
https://youtu.be/oWV2LtH7GEw

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Beginner, Blues, Patreon Tier 5, Pentatonic scales

Sound great with one pentatonic scale – Play the blues like this

19 August, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

Sound great with one pentatonic scale – Play the blues like this
When starting to improvise you need something very understandable.
You need something that gives you the basic feel of improvising and which is useful in your further development of your playing.
You need to develop your feel for rhythm and timing.
You also need to develop your motor skills to correspond with your hearing.
In this video I will get you going on all these great skills with a super simple blues and one pentatonic scale.

LINK TO VIDEO

In this tutorial
Why starting with the blues?
The three dominants
One pentatonic scale
Pentatonic scale exercises
The pentatonic scale groups
One bar improvisation
Solo Method “Beginning the blues with one pentatonic scale”
Show, play and analyse a solo on a blues using one pentatonic scale
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Beginning the blues with one pentatonic scale
Solo method in the 6 most common blues keys
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Jazz Blues – this is the way to play jazz and get the blues sound
https://youtu.be/fb5CeaJLdzY

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Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate, Learning methods/inspiration, Patreon Tier 5

How to always practise the most important things in 5 minutes

19 August, 2021 Søren Ballegaard

How to always practise the most important things in 5 minutes
We all have 24 hours per day. No matter what you do you need to use the hours to the fullest.

You need to practise to get better, but maybe more importantly you need to have fun and live your life too.
This video is about how to get a super great 5 min practise, learn very efficiently, having fun and playing music.

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In this tutorial
Have fun and play music
Practise efficiently
Why 5 min of practise modules
How to plan and split up your practise
Practise examples on Take the A-Train
15 sec evaluation of your practise time
Full solo manual on “Take the A-Train”
Show, play and analyse a solo on “Take the A-Train”
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FULL SOLO MANUAL ON TAKE THE A-TRAIN
Transposed for alto and tenor
Patreon:
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How to setup a good practice routine make a practice program
https://youtu.be/1rP2AvDDdjM

The 8 most important chord patterns you need to know
https://youtu.be/oWV2LtH7GEw

4 scale exercises you must know
https://youtu.be/jH4BE08wJY4

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