I can simply admit that I learned most of my jazz saxophones from books and I always struggled to read or play double time thanks to Dr Wally for showing how it's done. I'll be over grateful because he's a brilliant and unselfish teacher.
Dr. Wallace, thank you very much for all the material that you have given in pdf and your videos. I am from Costa Rica. Where there are no Jazz schools or higher Jazz studies accessible to all. Your desire to share your knowledge is admirable. I hope that one day you will come to Costa Rica to give us a master class. Thank you. Greetings from Costa Rica
Been playing for 6 years and never even knew those shortcuts, I'm really loving your videos! Such a great teacher and I can see myself improving just from your vids!
Thanks so much for putting this out! I’ve been trying to tackle some fast licks recently, and you’d be surprised how few videos detail how to practice fast licks. This came out at just the right time!
I've used that D fingering before with and without the octave key. But, thank you so much for that C# fingering. It's great. And thanks for another great lesson. Now I GO PRACTICE.
I'm always amazed by the range of alternate fingerings the sax has to offer. As a clarinetist (originally) I'm still stuck on side Bb though. My old horn also has the G# trill key which is quite cool
Dr. Wally... you've knocked another lesson out of the park...Kudos... dude, you're sounding like Bird! I wish someone, maybe you, will some fine day, put together a booklet of all the hilarious sentences you've uttered since your channel began... I will be the first in line to purchase it, and cannot wait to floozle someone at my next dinner party with "Enharmonic"... thanks for all you do for the aspiring young players and we aging Beatniks. Peace out from Texas.
Hey Dr. Wallace! Excellent videos, and I love your teaching approach. Being an elementary music teacher, there is nothing more refreshing than having a teacher whose jokes and humor compliment their credentials as a player and as an instructor. I’m enjoying learning the double time licks and was wondering about the dood in tonguing or half or ghost tonguing technique. I know that the greats used this technique especially when they let loose on these kinds of burning phrases. Have you done a video on this concept and if not could you? Thanks again for all you’re doing for us saxophonists and musicians alike! God bless!
Very nice Dr. Wally. I am a strong believer and cult follower of the SSS religion. You should add a P after the SSS for Patience. After 50 plus years of playing I will now start to implement some of your alternate fingerings into my playing ( muscle memory at this stage is hard ro break!). Was not aware of the C# and the Eb alt fingerings. Nice licks. Great tutorial. Would like to hear you play the double time over the complete II V7 I. Was waiting for your licks to resolve. Here's one for you. If your playing in a key that includes low C# and low G# (inharmonic Db and Ab), hold down the left hand little finger low C# key and keep it depressed for the low G#. It avoids trying to slide your little finger across from C# to G#. The C# key interlock allows you to play low D, E, F# and G#. Works on my Keilwerth SX90R. Might be helpful.
This series has been exceptionally helpful. Are there pdfs for the previous blues lessons? Thanks again Doc! Your lessons have been instrumental in building my appreciation and understanding of bebop theory and technique! (pun intended)
@@drwallysax PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. we love you and ALL your content so much Doc but if I can find the balls to ask u for this one last favor, a summer packet full of past PDFs would be what we all want 🤭😉🎷
My favorite double time lick is from "How High the Moon" by Ella Fitzgerald live in Berlin. She quotes Ornithology in her solo. While technically it's not a lick, it still knocks my socks off!!!
Super content again, Dr WW! I am always happy to be reminded of alternative fingerings on sax... I trained as a clarinettist and learned sax mostly myself afterwards. Despite playing and teaching both instruments for yonks thinking I have learned/found most tricks, there is always at least more D# fingering out there. ;) Just a teaching and learning point I use with such rapid passages is to outline the first note of each 16th note group to get a map of where I am (or my student) is going. Rather like your landing there each time on the strong beats with the leading phrase first, it can help to play just the strong beats to get an outline and then fill the gaps... Then analyse what the potential relationship in these outline notes to aid memorising - e.g. is it moving by step upwards, outlining a chromatic line or an arpeggio etc. I really like the 4 Ss pnemonic. You really are the thinking teacher's kind of teacher. :) /Christina
@@drwallysax thanks Wally, well remembered! Thanks, yes all is beginning to feel like spring in Stockholm! 🐦 How is the climate down South? Not too hot and humid yet, I hope? I'm just getting over a knock-out heavy cold/flu thing so slowly brought myself to life watching your video today, yearning to pick up my sax. I got sick after playing clarinet at a symphony gig last weekend... I have orchestra Tuesday playing Swedish national romantic repertoire (playing alto) and hope I make that plus Weds conducting my wind orchestra of intermediate/still learning adult players... I can't wait to "go practise!" and you definitely give the extra inspiration! Keep it coming, it's appreciated! Thanks, Christina 🙏🎵🎷
Okay, you've got me in a senior moment. You mentioned some of these were borrowed licks. Care to reveal the steel? That's not a spelling error, these are hard, solid, and smooth!
These are not directly "borrowed" but adaptations of nearly ubiquitous Cannonball and Parker lines. Chris Peebles, editor and composer for my Private Studio compiled these!
hey Dr Wally, thanks for all the lessons mate! I'm a returning player after 27 years ish of not playing. I started off on a Selmer Bundy II during school 10-17yo, then stopped. I've just picked up a new Sax to start learning again and am finding these absolutely magnificent! so thank you very much for sharing your content. for those alternate fingerings, i was finding it hard to see which keys are down and which are up... do you have a sheet that articulates this by chance? (if not, i'll just do the rewind method more... I'm really grateful for the content - you are much better than my old Sax teacher.)
Hi Dr Wally! Great lesson with the 4 S's concept for practicing. THANK YOU!! When one gets a 16th note line down solid to tempo (slurring the whole thing) do most pro sax players slur the whole line in performance, do they articulate every other note (like the 8th swinging thing) or do they do something else when they are playing fast 16th lines?
Hey David, great question. In general, double time is tongued on the beats and a few select offbeats (generally at a direction change in the phrase). It's a big topic - and best learned by listening!
@@TerryAndHerSax A quasi-decent rule: tongue on the downbeats (grouping the beat of 16ths together). There's plenty of exceptions - often when there's a "peak" in the line, or change of direction on the off-beat. Also, different players do it differently! Konitz did double time differently than Adderly - but both sound ahhhhmazing!
Hey Michael, it's the Jean Paul AS-860. I reviewed it last year and made a promise to play it for a year (to check out the quality/longevity of the parts). Believe it or not, it's my favorite horn now....it's $1,300. I'll be making an update video in a few months.
Excellent video, sir! What horn are you using? I am looking to purchase a relatively inexpensive pro alto. Do you have anything coming down your "pipeline" or would currently recommend? Thanks.
Hey Bruce, happy Friday my friend:) I've got an alto in the pipeline! I'm working with Jean Paul (one I'm playing in this video) to make the pro line even better. I feel VERY confident it will be just about the best playing, most beautiful horn any where NEAR the price point. Thanks for asking, and stay tuned! How's the weather up there? It's ammmaaaazing down here in North Carolina - though a woodpecker outside my office is driving me nuts.
< I thought the Eb 2 finger thing...and other twisted procedures...were sanctioned and held in despise by the Saxquisition...uffff...What a relief¡> ( chEErs)
Though subject to change, my favourite double-time lick is from Patric Bartley's solo on After You've Gone from the Live From Emmet's Place live stream -- czcams.com/video/984ksjle4YA/video.html On a side note for when I get to working on double time licks myself (I still need to straighten out some of my foundations before I start throwing that level of complexity into my practice), and in general really, what would an optimal be for F# if playing on a horn without a side F# key?
While you're less likely to see alternative used to mean "succeeding by turns" in American English, alternate is frequently used to mean "offering or expressing a choice." There are established uses for both that we regularly encounter: a director's cut of a film may feature an alternate ending; a traffic update warns motorists to seek an alternate route.
@@drwallysax That is a very comprehensive response, just like the comprehensive nature of your videos (which is why I am a fan). Nonetheless, "alternate" is not and alternative for "alternative". Just because American (and now Australia) does it doesn't mean it is correct. We embarrassingly use it on road signs too. Thank you for your response. Don't change the style of your tutorial videos - I am a big fan of the ALTERNATION between "your turn" and "my turn" playing 3 and 4 bar phrases.
Thanks Wally for being the most awesomest sax teacher of all the internet!!😊👍
Art Pepper breaks out some great double time phrases even on his ballads. Beautiful.
I can simply admit that I learned most of my jazz saxophones from books and I always struggled to read or play double time thanks to Dr Wally for showing how it's done. I'll be over grateful because he's a brilliant and unselfish teacher.
Dr. Wallace, thank you very much for all the material that you have given in pdf and your videos. I am from Costa Rica. Where there are no Jazz schools or higher Jazz studies accessible to all. Your desire to share your knowledge is admirable. I hope that one day you will come to Costa Rica to give us a master class. Thank you. Greetings from Costa Rica
Been playing for 6 years and never even knew those shortcuts, I'm really loving your videos! Such a great teacher and I can see myself improving just from your vids!
Thanks so much for putting this out! I’ve been trying to tackle some fast licks recently, and you’d be surprised how few videos detail how to practice fast licks. This came out at just the right time!
This makes me VERY happy, thanks Benjamin!
Dr Wally Wallace this is awesome! Thank you for making these videos and putting so much time and effort into these
My absolute pleasure, so glad they're helpful!
I've used that D fingering before with and without the octave key. But, thank you so much for that C# fingering. It's great. And thanks for another great lesson. Now I GO PRACTICE.
I'm always amazed by the range of alternate fingerings the sax has to offer. As a clarinetist (originally) I'm still stuck on side Bb though. My old horn also has the G# trill key which is quite cool
Ohhhh, I've owned a couple with the G# grill, they're a hoot!
Dr. Wally... you've knocked another lesson out of the park...Kudos... dude, you're sounding like Bird! I wish someone, maybe you, will some fine day, put together a booklet of all the hilarious sentences you've uttered since your channel began... I will be the first in line to purchase it, and cannot wait to floozle someone at my next dinner party with "Enharmonic"... thanks for all you do for the aspiring young players and we aging Beatniks. Peace out from Texas.
Absolutely brilliant! I love the breakdown of how to practice fast lines. Thanks doc.
Hey Kadrian! Happy Friday my friend. What are you practicing this weekend? Whatcha workin' on?
@@drwallysax Thanks, Doc. Happy Friday! Working on this weekend? I'm memorizing some short minor 7 chord phrases through the keys.
Dr Wallace your advice has helped me in my study of Charlie Parker's Omnibook very much. Thank you. Greetings from Costa Rica
Hey Dr. Wallace! Excellent videos, and I love your teaching approach. Being an elementary music teacher, there is nothing more refreshing than having a teacher whose jokes and humor compliment their credentials as a player and as an instructor. I’m enjoying learning the double time licks and was wondering about the dood in tonguing or half or ghost tonguing technique. I know that the greats used this technique especially when they let loose on these kinds of burning phrases. Have you done a video on this concept and if not could you? Thanks again for all you’re doing for us saxophonists and musicians alike!
God bless!
Very nice Dr. Wally. I am a strong believer and cult follower of the SSS religion. You should add a P after the SSS for Patience. After 50 plus years of playing I will now start to implement some of your alternate fingerings into my playing ( muscle memory at this stage is hard ro break!). Was not aware of the C# and the Eb alt fingerings. Nice licks. Great tutorial. Would like to hear you play the double time over the complete II V7 I. Was waiting for your licks to resolve. Here's one for you. If your playing in a key that includes low C# and low G# (inharmonic Db and Ab), hold down the left hand little finger low C# key and keep it depressed for the low G#. It avoids trying to slide your little finger across from C# to G#. The C# key interlock allows you to play low D, E, F# and G#. Works on my Keilwerth SX90R. Might be helpful.
Hello Mr Wally , have a good&nice week-end
You as well!
This series has been exceptionally helpful. Are there pdfs for the previous blues lessons? Thanks again Doc! Your lessons have been instrumental in building my appreciation and understanding of bebop theory and technique! (pun intended)
Not yet! I miiiight do a summer packet with all the previous .pdfs - not sure yet!
@@drwallysax Yes please and thank you!
@@drwallysax PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. we love you and ALL your content so much Doc but if I can find the balls to ask u for this one last favor, a summer packet full of past PDFs would be what we all want 🤭😉🎷
What's the double time lick that makes your heart double time? Happy Friday my friends, hit me up with questions!
My favorite double time lick is from "How High the Moon" by Ella Fitzgerald live in Berlin. She quotes Ornithology in her solo. While technically it's not a lick, it still knocks my socks off!!!
@@lion037 She's amazing. When I'm learning a standard, she's the first stop!
I go with the classic "night in tunisia charlie parker break" but sonny stitt on All of Me plays a ton of super great double time licks!
thankyou dr W! am really enjoying these tunes!
Wonderful, happy practicing!
it helps to pause the music then write the notes out yourself!
Alternate fingering. And slow down the practice. Great advice. Thankyou. Now go practice.
Happy Friday, Victor!
Super content again, Dr WW! I am always happy to be reminded of alternative fingerings on sax... I trained as a clarinettist and learned sax mostly myself afterwards. Despite playing and teaching both instruments for yonks thinking I have learned/found most tricks, there is always at least more D# fingering out there. ;) Just a teaching and learning point I use with such rapid passages is to outline the first note of each 16th note group to get a map of where I am (or my student) is going. Rather like your landing there each time on the strong beats with the leading phrase first, it can help to play just the strong beats to get an outline and then fill the gaps... Then analyse what the potential relationship in these outline notes to aid memorising - e.g. is it moving by step upwards, outlining a chromatic line or an arpeggio etc. I really like the 4 Ss pnemonic. You really are the thinking teacher's kind of teacher. :) /Christina
Hey, thanks Christina! Love the concept of the "outline" - seeing what all the passing notes are doing on the macro scale! Hope all's well in Sweden!
@@drwallysax thanks Wally, well remembered! Thanks, yes all is beginning to feel like spring in Stockholm! 🐦 How is the climate down South? Not too hot and humid yet, I hope? I'm just getting over a knock-out heavy cold/flu thing so slowly brought myself to life watching your video today, yearning to pick up my sax. I got sick after playing clarinet at a symphony gig last weekend... I have orchestra Tuesday playing Swedish national romantic repertoire (playing alto) and hope I make that plus Weds conducting my wind orchestra of intermediate/still learning adult players... I can't wait to "go practise!" and you definitely give the extra inspiration! Keep it coming, it's appreciated! Thanks, Christina 🙏🎵🎷
Thank you Dr. Wally, I will try to study "The nearnessof you" by Sonny Stitt after this lesson
Okay, you've got me in a senior moment. You mentioned some of these were borrowed licks. Care to reveal the steel? That's not a spelling error, these are hard, solid, and smooth!
These are not directly "borrowed" but adaptations of nearly ubiquitous Cannonball and Parker lines. Chris Peebles, editor and composer for my Private Studio compiled these!
Love your playing, you sound so good. Have you done a video on mic setup and recording?
Thanks David! Afraid I'm a terrible recording engineer, I would not be the one to make that video. I think Metcalf has one!
you sound awesome on that alto!
Great lesson 👍🙏🏼
Thanks Solo, happy practicing and have a wonderful weekend!
hey Dr Wally, thanks for all the lessons mate! I'm a returning player after 27 years ish of not playing. I started off on a Selmer Bundy II during school 10-17yo, then stopped. I've just picked up a new Sax to start learning again and am finding these absolutely magnificent! so thank you very much for sharing your content.
for those alternate fingerings, i was finding it hard to see which keys are down and which are up... do you have a sheet that articulates this by chance? (if not, i'll just do the rewind method more... I'm really grateful for the content - you are much better than my old Sax teacher.)
Didn't know that E down to C# fingering. Thank you!
I think you're going to love it. Eventually you won't even have to think about it, greatly reduces key noise and really smoothes out lines!
Great lesson, as they all are, thanks
Most welcome, happy practicing Arthur!
Beautiful playing :-D
Would you make a short series on hard bop vs bebop (i.e. Charlie Parker licks vs Cannonball Adderley licks)?
oltre ad essere simpatico sei bravissimo ed io sono un tuo affezionatissimo allievo ho 73 anni
grazie mille amico mio. Sono molto felice di essere al servizio. Buona pratica!
Hi Dr Wally! Great lesson with the 4 S's concept for practicing. THANK YOU!! When one gets a 16th note line down solid to tempo (slurring the whole thing) do most pro sax players slur the whole line in performance, do they articulate every other note (like the 8th swinging thing) or do they do something else when they are playing fast 16th lines?
Hey David, great question. In general, double time is tongued on the beats and a few select offbeats (generally at a direction change in the phrase). It's a big topic - and best learned by listening!
Thanks Dr. Wally!@@drwallysax
Hi Dr Wally, I too would love the answer to David Zeltner's question.Thank you!
@@TerryAndHerSax A quasi-decent rule: tongue on the downbeats (grouping the beat of 16ths together). There's plenty of exceptions - often when there's a "peak" in the line, or change of direction on the off-beat. Also, different players do it differently! Konitz did double time differently than Adderly - but both sound ahhhhmazing!
Thank you, I love your lesson and they're so helpful! Are you do private on line lesson!?
Thanks so much! I don't do private lessons, but run a private online studio that opens a couple times a year.
Big fan. Just curious, but what horn are you playing here? It doesn't look like the alto I've seen you play in other videos.
Hey Michael, it's the Jean Paul AS-860. I reviewed it last year and made a promise to play it for a year (to check out the quality/longevity of the parts). Believe it or not, it's my favorite horn now....it's $1,300. I'll be making an update video in a few months.
I really like that C# figuring, keeping those closed makes it easier from it being too sharp LOL
A supper happy side benefit!
Nice licks!
Thanks Rob, happy Friday my friend!
Is it really ‘bad’ to use the Bb side key instead of the button Bb in the 2nd group of semi quavers?
Side is preferable, go for it! Also, what's a semi quaver?
Excellent video, sir!
What horn are you using?
I am looking to purchase a relatively inexpensive pro alto. Do you have anything coming down your "pipeline" or would currently recommend?
Thanks.
Hey Bruce, happy Friday my friend:) I've got an alto in the pipeline! I'm working with Jean Paul (one I'm playing in this video) to make the pro line even better. I feel VERY confident it will be just about the best playing, most beautiful horn any where NEAR the price point. Thanks for asking, and stay tuned! How's the weather up there? It's ammmaaaazing down here in North Carolina - though a woodpecker outside my office is driving me nuts.
1:17 made my day :)
I mean, it's just so breathtaking when he does it! I always think: how can something so fast swing so hard!?
< I thought the Eb 2 finger thing...and other twisted procedures...were sanctioned and held in despise by the Saxquisition...uffff...What a relief¡> ( chEErs)
The Buescher treaty of 1942 allows for limited usage within the North Atlantic regions.
Dr. W-Burning down the House!
That screeching sound isn't the smoke detector, it's my reed!
@@drwallysax camera, lights, smoke, mirrors Action 🎷💥
Thank you for the lesson! Does the E to C# move also work with F, F#, Eb, and D to C#?
D and Eb absolutely. I think it does for the others, but I can't recall? Give it a try!
Love your practice !
Please dont put too much reverb in your recording... (or no reverb at all !)
I like reverb. You do you. I'll do me :)
Is it Cannonball Adderly from All Blues (Kind of Blue?)
It's a hybrid of one of his common double time phrases - can be heard in All Blues for sure!
Thumbnail looks like Sir Graves Ghastly!
Though subject to change, my favourite double-time lick is from Patric Bartley's solo on After You've Gone from the Live From Emmet's Place live stream -- czcams.com/video/984ksjle4YA/video.html
On a side note for when I get to working on double time licks myself (I still need to straighten out some of my foundations before I start throwing that level of complexity into my practice), and in general really, what would an optimal be for F# if playing on a horn without a side F# key?
"Alternate" is not a synonym for "Alternative".
While you're less likely to see alternative used to mean "succeeding by turns" in American English, alternate is frequently used to mean "offering or expressing a choice." There are established uses for both that we regularly encounter: a director's cut of a film may feature an alternate ending; a traffic update warns motorists to seek an alternate route.
@@drwallysax That is a very comprehensive response, just like the comprehensive nature of your videos (which is why I am a fan). Nonetheless, "alternate" is not and alternative for "alternative". Just because American (and now Australia) does it doesn't mean it is correct. We embarrassingly use it on road signs too.
Thank you for your response. Don't change the style of your tutorial videos - I am a big fan of the ALTERNATION between "your turn" and "my turn" playing 3 and 4 bar phrases.
Lost me on the side F#
It's on your saxophone. Seek, and ye shall find.