I’ve been told sax 🎷 nor horns belongs in blues. What about B.B. King oh Albert Collins? I love the horn section. My father comes from the era of swing, so it’s imbedded into my soul. Love your CZcams channel, bud.
Derrick....man great tone and great licks. You obviously understand the theory behind what you do and i dig the way you teach it. I am schooled and play alot and read and can find tons of answers in books and stuff. But man just to see and hear you even teach this stuff even for me is SUPER enlightening. Its the stuff you cant get out of books...."After you play that for 30minutes..." LOL that is legit though you really got to live with the sound of those licks not just play them. Thank you man from a very grateful educator.
I'm definitely bookmarking this video! What an amazing experience it was to listen to how you explained your construction of your solo. I really appreciate the easy-going style you have. I especially appreciate the way you weave your explanations in amongst your demonstrations, showing the fingering of the notes you're playing, too. I actually listened a few times and seemed to get more and more out of what you were saying, the more times I listened. Thank you so much for posting this. You're a very inspiring teacher. If you have time, I would love to see a video of how you bend notes because I notice that you don't pinch to make notes sharper.
I play blues guitar and slide and a fair alto player but tend to try to play my guitar licks on sax ,,this is great inspiration thanks for the lesson,,,we didn't have youtube when we learned back in the day love it...
Good solid stuff a man can use...I like the be-bop scale over dominant chords. Using both maj. and min. 7ths, that symmetrical, 8-note scale, smooths out melodic lines. I got a few performance vids on the Tube...stop by sometimes.
Great video. Love your teaching style - feels very personal and keeps things simple. Thanks for showing me the b5 entry into the IV chord and for stopping me trying to rush too much ( play with the lick for an hour ). I like that your lick isn't using the blues scale, so it sounds fresh. It seems like the blues scale of the relative minor ( F#) without the D. I also play a Conn Underslung. Mine is 1939 vintage - a year newer than yours ! Please make more alto vids. Thanks
It's mostly a matter of practicing on your tone. Cavity, tongue and Larynx are the tools you have to master for achieving a nice and open tone in your sound. Try to exercise these parts for example with Sigurd Raschers' book. Very helpful for that. But as usual, takes a lot of practicing and patience.
Just found you on CZcams and enjoyed it so much I hope there are a few hours of your videos because I don't want all the other technical maestros. I just want some proper player musical inspiration, which you have.
Im inlove with your tone!!! Very rarely on youtube sax videos alto sax sounds so warmy! How can i achieve something like it on a 1700$ instrument? Mine sounds more razory and not so soft and warm. Its a deal only in technical mastery or also in mouthpiece, ligature and reed combination?
I wanna buy a saxophone,I am a guitarist,bassist,drummer ,and I recently discovered Candy Dulfer and realised how good saxophone sounds on rock and blues,beside the jazz part. I believe when I will be able to buy one,I will do. Any tip for a cheap but good or value for money saxo for a beginner? Thank you,you awesome :)
Would mind listing the notes that you are playing in a comment or better yet in subtitles? It is a bit hard to follow as you say them just with the video.
can someone explain why he says here's your A in the beginning but it's actually a C. 1:51 he says A when it's a C, then C but it's a D sharp, C sharp, but it's an E and so on. wtf?
The ALTO(not Tenor) sax is pitched in Eb. That means when he hits an Eb he is playing a "Concert" C. Three steps(keys,frets) down. On a Tenor sax or trumpet playing a C will yield a "Concert" Bb. Hard to fathom for a guitar or piano player pitched in C.
@today is not yesterday i play guitar, which i'm not sure why that matters. But yeah, i'm not wrong when he claims he's playing an a F if i grab my tuner that in fact comes up as a C note.
@@998SBayliss was popping through my old comments for fun. thanks for the response. I still don't understand at all why alto or tenor have anything to do with it. a note should be a note regardless of the instrument.
Possibly the best blues tutorial on here for sax. Huge thanks Derrick Big Walker
Thanks a million. You are a very good teacher and having fun doing it. You make blues scale easier. Thanks SIR.
I’ve been told sax 🎷 nor horns belongs in blues. What about B.B. King oh Albert Collins? I love the horn section. My father comes from the era of swing, so it’s imbedded into my soul. Love your CZcams channel, bud.
Thank you, No maybe what they mean is some horn players don't belong. I use to play for Collins BTW.
I’m a bass player and am attempting to copy sax solos on the bass , this is a big help
Thank you Derrick! I wish I had you as my Sax Teacher back in the 80's. Better late than never? -Scottie
Derrick....man great tone and great licks. You obviously understand the theory behind what you do and i dig the way you teach it.
I am schooled and play alot and read and can find tons of answers in books and stuff. But man just to see and hear you even teach this stuff even for me is SUPER enlightening. Its the stuff you cant get out of books...."After you play that for 30minutes..." LOL that is legit though you really got to live with the sound of those licks not just play them.
Thank you man from a very grateful educator.
I'm definitely bookmarking this video! What an amazing experience it was to listen to how you explained your construction of your solo. I really appreciate the easy-going style you have. I especially appreciate the way you weave your explanations in amongst your demonstrations, showing the fingering of the notes you're playing, too. I actually listened a few times and seemed to get more and more out of what you were saying, the more times I listened. Thank you so much for posting this. You're a very inspiring teacher. If you have time, I would love to see a video of how you bend notes because I notice that you don't pinch to make notes sharper.
I play trumpet, but anyone can benefit from your right on blues riffs!
The lesson is very delighted and useful, such a great master you are.
Please don't stop and thank you
thanks again derrik, I OLWAYS came back to this video, this scale sound like "parkers mod" i now you now this song.blues. good luck!!!!!!
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I play blues guitar and slide and a fair alto player but tend to try to play my guitar licks on sax ,,this is great inspiration thanks for the lesson,,,we didn't have youtube when we learned back in the day love it...
Thanks for making these sax videos. They are awesome Love your tunes and your style. Making music fun, the way it should be.
Thank you for putting this out there!
I am playing better list after listening my third time through... these are so FUN to play!
AWESOME LESSON !..... you are the Blues Angel !
This vid has been a great help to me. Do more of these simplified teachings, and thanx a lot.
Thankyou for taking the time to make this video. It really helped.
So so much cool stuff from so few notes. So grateful fella.
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US ACTUAL NOTES...APPRECIATED DEARLY...
Awesome....do more videos on REAL BLUES sax lessons. I’ll look for your album
The way to learn, your Awesome dude please please keep posting x
Im so glad i found you! thank you for posting
Yo, Derrick! We met when I was wandering around Stockholm with a soprano on my back. Nice video -- nice to see you!
Good solid stuff a man can use...I like the be-bop scale over dominant chords. Using both maj. and min. 7ths, that symmetrical, 8-note scale, smooths out melodic lines. I got a few performance vids on the Tube...stop by sometimes.
Damn!!! nice to meet you master "Bleeding Gums Murphy"
you are one of my favorites!! wath a sound you got on an alto. thanks a lot!!!!!!! i play the alto too. good luck my friend!!!
The lick you talk about at 2:50 is a great one -- it's in the first measure (after the intro) to Parker's Mood
Great video. Love your teaching style - feels very personal and keeps things simple. Thanks for showing me the b5 entry into the IV chord and for stopping me trying to rush too much ( play with the lick for an hour ). I like that your lick isn't using the blues scale, so it sounds fresh. It seems like the blues scale of the relative minor ( F#) without the D. I also play a Conn Underslung. Mine is 1939 vintage - a year newer than yours ! Please make more alto vids. Thanks
im from philippines . ' maraming salamat po ' thank you so much sir.
It's mostly a matter of practicing on your tone. Cavity, tongue and Larynx are the tools you have to master for achieving a nice and open tone in your sound. Try to exercise these parts for example with Sigurd Raschers' book. Very helpful for that. But as usual, takes a lot of practicing and patience.
That was beautiful !!!!
Un Maestro! I love blues
Naked Lady's are my favorite vintage horns.
That lick sounds like blues in F# without the fourth! F# A C C# E
lol i could listen to him talk all day
Very nice!
Very great and very clear....top.
Just found you on CZcams and enjoyed it so much I hope there are a few hours of your videos because I don't want all the other technical maestros. I just want some proper player musical inspiration, which you have.
AWESOME!
YOU ARE AWESOME!
Great video thanks for share!
Great info....read the book The Devils Horn....great sax book. Thanks again
Yes, this book is worth the effort to find. Reads like, "The DaVinci Code".
glad I found you...thanx
thank you. Derrick×!!
you have a beatyfull sound!! thanks!!!!!
Nice video thank you
amigo la verdad que sos un genio, me sirvió mucho ojala hagas mas videos saludos
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL,THANKS
Tyler -Concert pitch is C major - different from written alto Eb music - tenor sax music is written in Bb - that might explain.
Like your Conn underslung alto!
You
Are
my
hero
Thank you sir.
Nice ideas, so helpful ... thanks....
now i get it why it so bad. devil put a hurt on my flat 5! thank you big!
Really good tone.
I like it
you have gd soul thxxx
What's the brand of this sax...? Great video.Very inspiring for sax rookies! Rock on mr Derrick!
Looks like Conn 6m.
Your are amazing Man!!!!
Im inlove with your tone!!! Very rarely on youtube sax videos alto sax sounds so warmy! How can i achieve something like it on a 1700$ instrument? Mine sounds more razory and not so soft and warm. Its a deal only in technical mastery or also in mouthpiece, ligature and reed combination?
Great stuff! Thanks for posting
Brilliant big man
ty men for good lesson nice !!
I’m about to start to learn a saxophone. Excuse my ignorance but is that an alto or a tenor?
Thank you
Great
wtf, you don't even have to talk, we GOT this. just play the damn thing!
that choice is not yours, maybe some people prefer him to explain and if you didn't want him to talk you should know how with out watching the video
thanks for everything!!!
Very Usefull :)
love it ,lets have some more..
Thanks for sharing, I wish you live in Florida so we could jam.
Very helpful. Thanks~!
this man is amazing
I wanna buy a saxophone,I am a guitarist,bassist,drummer ,and I recently discovered Candy Dulfer and realised how good saxophone sounds on rock and blues,beside the jazz part.
I believe when I will be able to buy one,I will do.
Any tip for a cheap but good or value for money saxo for a beginner?
Thank you,you awesome :)
Hi, try to find and old Conn, King or Martin. Alto's could be good to start with and won't cost as much.
thank you!!
grt thanks always helps
I live in Brandon Mississippi
Amazing
amazing look
lick
Great tips! Whats your setup?
Great man.Wich mouthpiece you use?
hahah you play Sax also...nice man :D
High notes F sharp Zeeshan finger
thanks !
He has feel. Would like to jam with this dude 😎.
nice hat
Je debute man
Can you tell me the notes in the sax turn arounds at the end of each verse in the song "C'est la vie, you never can tell" by Chuck Berry?
Would mind listing the notes that you are playing in a comment or better yet in subtitles? It is a bit hard to follow as you say them just with the video.
This cat is just to tight. Damn I can't wait to get my horn back.
Is this a Tenor saxophone?
Nice horn isn't it a conn transisitional alto
I wonder where the Lord sax study, my dream is to be professional and how do I specialize al?
.... or possibly on my augmented 4...
Not quite I think. He has the 3b in there too. 1 3b 3 5 6 8
What saxophone are you playing
it's a 1938 Conn Naked Lady.
WHAT ARE THE NOTES PLS
... he names them repeatedly throughout the vid.
What Saxaphone is that you are playing please?
It's a 1938 Conn Naked Lady! I sold it to a music store in Stockholm. They still have it if you want to buy it.
He mentioned the chords a lot during this video, I don't quite understand how to play them
Alto is my main sax but i play way better on tenor sax.. espically with freestyle solos.
What brand is that horn?
PAMELA TRENT That is a Conn 6m
+ebaylistentomusic Cheers! I noticed the microtuner on the neck & immediately thought: "some kindof Conn" :)
can someone explain why he says here's your A in the beginning but it's actually a C. 1:51 he says A when it's a C, then C but it's a D sharp, C sharp, but it's an E and so on. wtf?
Are you playing tenor?
The ALTO(not Tenor) sax is pitched in Eb. That means when he hits an Eb he is playing a "Concert" C. Three steps(keys,frets) down. On a Tenor sax or trumpet playing a C will yield a "Concert" Bb. Hard to fathom for a guitar or piano player pitched in C.
@today is not yesterday i play guitar, which i'm not sure why that matters. But yeah, i'm not wrong when he claims he's playing an a F if i grab my tuner that in fact comes up as a C note.
@@998SBayliss was popping through my old comments for fun. thanks for the response. I still don't understand at all why alto or tenor have anything to do with it. a note should be a note regardless of the instrument.
1:09 what the name of this song?
MrTrollollol19 12 bar blues background in the Key of A
conn 6m
Why you all tuto always talk so much, just play, and like a kid or baby we will listening to you