How to Play Jazz Saxophone Scales

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Summary: Play jazz saxophone scales if you're an advanced jazz sax player; learn how with tips from our expert jazz sax player in this free sax video music lesson.

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By Mitch Kaplan
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Proficient on multiple instruments, Mitch Kaplan has performed and taught music for two decades. He is also a published author of music education books and online articles. Mitch...read more

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on 3/30/2009 wow thats lame and wrong.

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" For Expert Village this is Mitch Kaplan. In this clip we will be talking about how to improvise with scales. Now, if you were to take the scales and you were to figure out and write a scale out then what would happen is you would come out with 1 or 2 different scales that would fit over that. A scale is eight notes basically, it does not have to be, but it can be eight, most of them 90% of them are. There are pentatonic scales, which are made up of five notes and there are blues notes scales too but most major scales and minor scales are made out of eight notes. So usually you would start at one note and go to another. Say G to a G and you would have one sharp, which is F sharp. Here is an example. So basically we are going to take that and we are going to improvise the A minor scale, here we go over the Shades of Blue, so here is the melody. Now, I am going to take that much and just do a scale over and there you have it."

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