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Jazz articulation – 4 ways to practise great articulation

Jazz articulation – practise this – sound like a pro
4 ways to practise great articulation – examples and how to’s!

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Articulation is one of the most important parts of jazz playing and generally saxophone playing.
When you get your articulation right you get a much more defined and clear jazz language!
With articulation the biggest aspects of jazz playing comes together – timing and phrasing!
Listen to all the great heroes of jazz saxophone
that be from now or from the past, they all have great and clear articulation – which also means impeccable timing and phrasing.

I will get into 4 types of articulation and show you ways to practise this!
Get all the benefits of great articulation – better timing, better phrasing and clear defined jazz improvisation.

Towards the end of the clip I give a played and written example on how to articulate on a common jazz standard.

00:00 Articulation – The most important thing when playing saxophone!
00:37 In this video
00:57 Søren is soloing on the famous original “Solar” – lot’s of articulation.
01:25 The timing of saxophone playing is executed in two places
03:48 How to articulate
04:42 Example 1 – no articulation
06:49 Example 2 – staccato
09:16 Example 3 – potato
11:21 Example 4 – Jazz articulation
13:13 An articulation example on a jazz standard
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3 scale patterns you must know

Scale patterns – 3 scale patterns you must learn
Training your scale patterns is great exercise, but are you training the right scale patterns?
Are you actually using the patterns you are training in your playing?
You do not want to use hours of practice time on something which you can not directly apply to your playing and improvising.
You want to practice the patterns which you actually do use and which sounds the best when playing and using these in your improvisation.

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In this video
I will show you 3 great scale patterns you must know
We will apply these to the major scale
I will show you how to practice these in you daily routine
You will learn how to use the patterns on different chords
At the end of the video I walk through two licks using the scale patterns for you to see how to use these in your playing and improvising.

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00:00 Scale patterns – 3 scale patterns you must learn
00:32 Søren is playing “Like someone in love”
00:53 In this video
01:28 Why do you want to practice patterns?
02:32 The third pattern in the scale
04:43 Apply the third pattern on functial chords
05:30 The 1-3-2-1 pattern
06:34 1-2-3-5 + 5-3-2-1 pattern
07:45 We want to know how to apply the pattern, else the practice is worthless
08:14 Two pattern based II-V-I licks played, analyzed and explained
09:21 2nd pattern based II-V-I lick
10:12 60 scale patterns on functional harmony + 20 II-V-I licks using scale patterns
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Amazing Jazz Lines – Play This Scale Exercise

Amazing Jazz Lines – Play This Scale Exercise
There is one most efficient scale exercise to improve your technique and improve your music!
And it is no secret – it is playing thrills through any scale. 
This exercise will move your technique the most and the fastest. 
I will go through different forms of how to play this exercise and show you how to apply this into your playing. 

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In this tutorial
00:00 Amazing Jazz Lines – Play This Scale Exercise
00:15 The scale exercises
00:58 Thrills in the scale
01:54 Flexibility – Focus on difficult parts
03:27 Thrills with chromatic approach note and encircling
04:45 Coltrane and Rollins play this
05:30 Adding this to your own playing
07:47 The method: from technique to music
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Tenor madness – Coltrane Rollins transcription
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This is how to play music while practicing your scales

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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3 Coltrane Bebop Licks Explained

COLTRANE THE BEST BEBOP
3 Coltrane Bebop Licks Explained
John Coltrane was a young musician caught in the magic of Bebop as played by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in the late 40s.

Coltrane came from a crazy jazz environment where jazz was
invented. 
He was literally living jazz and inventing jazz in his time. 

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00:00 COLTRANE – THE BEST BEBOP
02:18 First bebop lick
06:11 bebop lick turned around
08:29 Sørens Jazz Rule
07:42 2nd bebop lick
10:32 Bebop in three keys
10:51 Third bebop lick
13:19 8 bars of Coltrane Rhythm Changes analysed
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Triads – A Massive Boost To Your Solos

Triads – A Massive Boost To Your Solos
When listening to Chris Potter I get very inspired.
This video is how to add triads to your playing and practice and get a hint of some of the sound Chris Potter is using.
About how to play clearly when playing super advanced music.
Thank you Chris Potter.

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In this tutorial

00:00 Thank you Chris Potter
00:04 Practicing Confirmation
00:42 Playing with clarity
01:39 G major triad lick
02:12 E minor lick
02:29 Db major lick
03:05 How does he do it?
03:28 Triads and guide tone line
04:52 Be Flexible – practice triads in the scale – musically
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Chord note solos – strong melodies with awesome rhythm

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These 5 Tips Will Save You Years of Practice

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
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This is how to connect the scales to the chords

This is how to connect the scales to the chords
Getting from playing rather simple chord note solos using a couple of chord notes to using scales and playing longer lines within the scales is a thing. 
Chord scale relationships are one of the fundamentals in playing jazz. 
You have to know this when playing jazz. 
Connecting the scales to the chords is the way to develop your solos. 

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In this tutorial
Why is chord scale relationship important?
What is chord scale relationship?
Which scales fit where?
Chopping up scales into bite sized chunks
Chopping up more scalesbigger chunks
Less chopping
Show, play and analyse a short solo on “Autumn Leaves” – using chopped up scales
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“The 8 most important chord patterns you need to know”
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”4 scale exercises you must know”
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MASTER THESE techniques ON ANY STANDARD

Here are the technical and melodic tools you should master on any standard
Blue Bossa, Perdido, Autumn Leaves, Blues, Pent up House
Beginning with 5 basic standards is a great way to start improvising.
I have chosen 5 standards which are relatively easy to begin with.
Easy melody and easy chords.
What do you need to know and what tools do you need to master to play a solo on a jazz standard.
On each standard I present one or more technical and/or melodic tools you should work on, to be able to play a good jazz improvisation on each tune.
Get all skills going on each tune and you have the first 5 tunes in the pocket.

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In this tutorial
Why did I choose those 5 standards?
What melodic and technical skills do I need to master on all standards?
Autumn Leaves – learn the melody
Perdido – learn the basic chords
Blue Bossa – play melodic chord note solos
Pent up House – learn the scales
Blues in C play melodic solos using scales
Full solo manuals
Show, play and analyse a short solo on “Autumn Leaves”
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Full solo manual – Autumn Leaves 
Basic melody, chords and scale exercises and how to’s for melodic soloing”
– for both Alto and Tenor saxophone
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“The 8 most important chord patterns you need to know”
https://youtu.be/oWV2LtH7GEw

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

“Chord note solos – Instantly boost your jazz skills using this method”
https://youtu.be/kDRytP4m7jY

“This is how to connect the scales to the chords”
https://youtu.be/tYckTjHszfU

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4 tips on how to play amazing solos on minor chords

4 tips on how to play amazing solos on minor chords 
In jazz music there are so many tunes where you have long stretches of minor chords on which you should solo.
Just playing a Dm7 tends to get a bit tedious after a while.
Getting more vocabulary playing minor chords is both important for one or two bars and on long stretches of minor chords.
I want to show you how to spice the minor chord up melodically and harmonically with 4 great tips. 

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In this tutorial
What are the basic theory, chord and scale material of the minor chord?
Minor 6 
Minor 9
Minor major 7
Dominant b9 
Minor chord solo add on manual
Show, play and analyze a short solo on “Softly as in a morning Sunrise”
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“Add ons for minor chord solos – minor 6, minor 9, minor major, dominant 7(b9)”
Transposed to the common minor keys
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“How to play minor on dominant chords – 3 great minor sounds”
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