Answering the MOST ASKED Music Questions!
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00:00 Intro
00:51 FREE Improvisation Masterclass!
01:39 Any commonly shared saxophone advice
that you don’t agree with?
02:11 I’m not the biggest fan of combo jazz,
is this a valid opinion?
02:24 How did you ask for gigs when you were in high school?
03:23 How do I make my solos more melodic instead of basically going up and down the scales and chords???
03:51 What’s the best upgrade from a regular phone mic?
04:53 What are the best first standards to learn?
05:57 I haven’t touched my saxophone in 2 months since I graduated high school. Where should I pick back up?
06:52 Do you have any good methods for phrasing/varying phrase length/utilizing space?
07:51 What’s a mistake you see in a lot of private lesson teachers for saxophone?
08:34 Ever plan on playing in Texas?
08:47 How do I stop being a Scoop Johnson?
09:34 What inspires you to keep progressing in
skill as a musician?
10:12 With a sax goldfish embouchure, should my top teeth be on the top of the mouthpiece?
10:40 How do you remember chord functions and progressions in various jazz standards?
12:11 How often do you change reeds?
12:16 I was wondering if you could give any tips for bari, especially regarding low notes?
13:38 What should a practice session look like?
15:59 How the hell do you manage to put together all these wonderful videos?
16:23 Is there a formula you can suggest for quickly identifying a suitable scale, or scales, which will ‘work’ over a whole sequence of chords?
18:23 How do you become good at playing doubles?
19:56 What’s the best way to develop one’s own natural vibrato?
20:26 Can you please demonstrate how to do a split tone on alto sax?
20:33 Are there downsides of learning how to play with backing tracks, ear training, and no coach?
21:00 Approximately how long should a reed last before I toss it and get a new one?
21:15 What are the sonic characteristics I should be looking for that tell me I need a new reed?
21:38 How can I tell when my mouthpiece might need to be replaced/upgraded?
22:37 Could you provide some guidance to play pop funk style and how to pick backing tracks that go along?
23:44 How do you know which key signature to play over a given chord?
25:59 How do you make altissimo sound more exciting?
26:47 What do you do to keep time and count while doing a solo?
27:27 Do you do private lessons either in person or on zoom?
27:43 Do you have any tips for starting to transcribe, or what are your suggestions for any tunes that you think are good to start with?
29:22 What is your favorite lick? (I would love to learn it)
29:37 What is the best way to get a good, professional tone, while using a cheap beginner sax?
30:21 How can I improve knowing where I am while improvising and begin hearing and identifying chords?
31:16 What was the time in your life when you felt that you were making the most progress on the saxophone?
33:14 Do you have a practical way to count the number of bars while playing?
33:58 How do you work on intonation?
34:58 How do you work on motifs and keep ideas flowing?
35:31 How much time should a high school player be practicing a week?
36:15 How do you create a tasteful melodic solo over a chart that you're seeing for the first time?
37:41 If I have only 15 minutes a day, what should I practice?
38:36 What's something that happened to you with the music that kind of just changed your life or how you approach the music, and who are some of your greatest teachers?
41:11 What can I practice to help me play louder without sacrificing tone and pitch?
42:23 Say you have a tune in D major / relative B minor - what scale(s) could i use over it?
43:48 Are you using Logic Pro? Can you show us your settings with the effects plugins in detail?
45:08 Outro and final thoughts
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I really enjoyed this video, Dave! Regarding the tune in D major, in my own option, both D minor and B minor blues scales work. Although the D minor blues scale defies the harmony of a Dmaj type chord, you are playing a sound, and as long as you resolve it, you can make cool melodies. If you opt yo use the B minor blues scale, you will really just be using the bottom permutation or "mode" of the D major blues scale.
Hooray! Great video as usual!
Thanks so much! 🙏
Great answers. Great tips. In addition to all the things you mentioned about what to consider when improvising a solo, I would suggest thinking about the melody. If you really know the melody, I have found it’s a lot easier to create a melodic solo. Dexter Gordon went one step further by saying you need to learn the lyrics so you understand the story the song is telling. As you said, listen, listen, listen and your solos will be better.
100%! I have a process where I have people learn the melody, then create parts of their own melody, combine with the original, then improvise parts combined with their written solo, then finally play their own solo. Melody is king!
Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge it is super useful!
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very very very helpful and informative.
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Great tips!
Thanks Rob!
Thanks for answering my question Dave (31:18). I’m glad to know that the answer is just practicing and gaining playing experience and not something abstract. I’ll be continuing the journey 🙏
You're welcome - keep at it!!
@DavePollack The question about the "goldfish embouchure" refers to the video "Blow like a goldfish" by Jamie Anderson. That's how he describes a relaxed lip-out embouchure.
Ah gotcha - Jamie is the MAN!
Dave I appreciate your aproach to teaching.You break it down and it helps alot.Keep doing your thing and I love the hang podcast
Thanks for that! I will definitely keep doing my thing 💪
Dave this is an amazing video in so many ways! I already went through picking and choosing questions that were similar to my own. Love that your addressing them so concisely and how you reference longer videos you’ve already made. Also, the split tone demonstration cracked me up.😂 many thanks for the amazing resources you provide!
Thank you so much for checking it out and for the kind words! 🙏
Thank you so much! You are so helpful.
I'm glad to hear that!
Hi Dave ! Many thanks for answering my question.
I really appreciate your clear explanation.
Cheers!
You're welcome! Glad you liked it 🙏
Thanks for answering my question Dave!!
You're welcome!
Great video and very informative!! Lots of questions on the same issue and discussion you and I had on your Saxophone Succes Comunity Masterclass about how to develope rhythms for improvation!!! Great job Dave!! Thanks again
Wayne Pharo
Thanks Wayne! So glad you dug this and so glad to have you in SSC!!
As a Jersey boy myself living north of Atlanta, surprised you are a Phillies fan...LOL....BTW, I have been recording my tenor the last 2 years with a Blue Yeti USB mic using Reaper. Works well for me and sounds great.
Awesome! And why are you surprised? I live 30 minutes from center city!
@@DavePollack LOL. You must be from southern jersey. I am old enough to remember my dad taking me to Yankee Stadium in the mid 60's. Saw Mickey Mantle and all the other greats. I lived 25 miles west of Manhattan in Union Cty. Must get you a Yankees cap though......
Hey Dave! Thanks for making this really great video and for answering our questions! :) Really really helpful answers to my question. BIG THANKS!!
I really appreciate that!!
@@DavePollack And also looking forward to that editing video of yours! I think that's gonna be really helpful for those of us who are thinking of recording ourselves and posting on youtube or something~
Absolutely - look for that one sometime within the next month or so.
Fantasticvideo
Thanks Keith!